Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1900-01-03
GENERAL NEWS.

are reported from several points IN the
South.
Aguinaldo has ordered the release Of
all SpaDiards now in possession OF the
insurgents.
1t is reported from Copenhagen that
the Danish West Indies will b sold to
the United States for $4,000, 900.
President Klueger has granted a
r.quest of this Government to allow
an American army officer to accompany
the Boer troops as an obser ier.
Representative Taylor, OF Ohio,
chairman of the special committee
investigating the Roberts case says
thai the case will not csme upfor action
in the Hoase before the middle OF
January.
Thirty thousand fruit trees cOmpris-
ing Ito entire orchards Of D. @. and
G., III, Bacon in Mitchell county, Ga,
| were burned Monday by order OF State
Entomologist Scott, owing to the
| ravages Of tho San Jose scale.
The negotiations opened by Sscre-
tary Hay with the great powers OF
Europe ana with japan toward secur-
ing a common understanding for q
continued open-door policy through
out China have met with most crafty
ing results.
Right Rev. II. NJ. Jackson, Bishep
Coadjutor of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in Alabama, Las forwarded his
resignation 10 Bishop Doane at Albany
N. Y, acting president OF the House OF
Bishops. The Bishop Is Virginlan,
noted for his eloquenc", hospitality and
courtlress.
A special dispatch from Madrid says
it is officially announced there that
negotiations have been opened with
the United States for new treaty OF
commerce; and that the United States
Government has agreed to place Spanish
trade upon an equal footing with that
of America in the Philippines for
decade.
The funeral Of General Henry W.
Lawton who was killed at San Mateo,
December Is, was held at Manila
Saturday with impressive ceremonies.
The remains were conveyed from the
Pace cemetery down to the Luneta, to
Pssig and thence to the transport
Thomas, which sailed Sunday after
noon for the United States.
It is taid that the Pope, after the
recent ceremony OF opening the Holy
Door at st. Peters Cathedral, ad-
dressed his intimate circle and clearly
dsaigpated Cardinal Girolsmo Maria
Gotti, project of the congregation of
indulgences and sacred relics, as LIS
successor. Cardinal Gotti, the famous
Gsnoese monk, il man of great piety
and modesty,
Unless the corner in hemp is broken
the farmers OF the United States will
have to pay more than SAC, 100000
next season for their binder Irvine, an
increase from s10,O00,000 in 1897, all
due to the price advancing eleven cents
q pound. The reason for this is the
closing of Philippine ports, from
which hemp has been exported. Nearly
all the hemp outside Of the Philippine
ports is now in the hands Of specula-
tors.
The American campaign 30 snbdue the
Filipinos south " Manila has begun,
The Mississippi River, at St. Louis, is
frozen over for the first time In many years.
Aguinaldo's wife and sisters have eur
rendered to Major March, OF the United
States Army, at Bontoc, Llzon.
Cheers for President Mckinley and Gov
ornor General Wood were significant Incl
jencs OF New Year procession in Havanat
The New Year reception at the White
House was brilliant function. More than Il
J, 900 persons passed in line before the |
President.
1t 10 said that strong effort will DO made
o create a new department, that OF COM
neIce and labor-as seon as possible after
he reassemblng OF Congress-.
Emperor William Of Germany In speech
o officers Of his army in Berlin said that
lespite all opposition, he would raise the
standard Of the navy to thatofthe army.
The country home Of William Ellis, two
niles west OF Milton, w, Va, was buried at
o'clock Monday morning, and Mr.. Ellis,
lis wife and two children (bOys), aged and
2 years. were cremated.
General French, commanding British |
orce, has defeated the Beers at Colesberg, |
APE Colony, and occupied the town.
An early advance by General Butler In
fatal is still expected.
Among the Democratic Senators who It Is
eported will vote to admit Senator Quay are
lessrs. Rawlings Of Utah and Kinney of
Delaware, for the reason that there are
acaneies In the Senate from both those
tates which the Democratic governor there
will appoint Democrats to fill, 1t is also
eported that the Senators from Virginia
ill vote for Mr.. Quay.