Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1900-12-05
GENERAL NEWS.

| lie dODOkrn M ~ Poiioo n"'O 40
ceived letter telling of an alleged plot
aeainst President Mckinley.
Bishop Potter has declared his with
travail from leadership in the New
| Y TX vice crusade.
| Governor Tyler is in correspondence
with Governor Smi b, of Maryland, in
r. gard to the oyster troubles in the
Potomac.
It is sal hat opposi ion Is growing
an ous Republican membus OF the
House to the Ship Subsidy bill in its
Ipresent form.
The War Departments Army Reoi-
gan zlt;on bill, now beng considered
by the House committee, provides for
maximum OF $4,000 and minimum
of So, 900 men.
A Paris dispatch Gays that France
W IL not take the lead in Intervention
in South Africa, but will join any other
country which begins the efcrt in
proper manner.
Tuere ls said to be disposition upon
! IL @ part OF this and other interested
J governments to take the settlement OF
/ til. Chinese matter out of the hands
, O. the ministers at Pekip and act de
. recly with each other.
The British are uneasy on account
,, OF b err activity in Cape Colony, and
re:nforcemeuts are being demanded by
L I'd Roberts. General DeWet and
Pes dent Steyn are near DeWetsdorp,
preparatory to decent on Cape Colony.
, wins have Just been born to MIR.
AM Mrs. Henry Yeager, Of Syracuse,
4 N. Y. This is the fourth consecutive
q time that twins have appeared at the
= Yeagtr home and the eight children
are alive. Mr.. and Mrs. Yeager have
been married eleven years.
1t is the impression OF Virginia Re-
: publicans that no congressional con-
. tests from this State will be made.
Messrs. Walker and Wise have already
= decided not to contest, and though MIR
: Hubbard has thought about it, he too
A., they believe, will abandon the idea.
% The President has declared mos
q alphabetically to senators and represen
8 tatives who have called upon him tha
% he doe, not want an extra session o.
Is Congrers next spring. He is very aux
10 IS to have all the work outlined fol
the present session finished before tn,
70 4th of next March.
, Hon William Jennings Bryan in al
article pablished in New York maya
~ zine discusses the result Of the recen
n election. He says war feeling, fear o
change and prosperity were factors
70 Enormous power of trusts, he says, ca
70 swing any close political contest. Th
N struggle fer equal rights will continue
e. 1t is reported in Bristol that Ger
James A. Walker, ex-Congressma
i, from the Ninth Virginia district, ate
having been twice defeated for re cleo
os ton to Congress- by Judge W. F. Rhe'
, is candidate to succeed Judge L. n
:. Anderson as United States attorne
= for the Western district of Virginia.
to Miss Sarah E. Combs, pretty, your
b Richmond girl, was married last WEI
is to Sterling sampson, full-bloodt
Indian, 46 years old. The groom b.
longs TO the Pamunkey tribe, and Il
couple will reside in a neat cottaI
which the husband has provided on Il
reservation in King William count
- The marriage ceremony was celebrate
= by Rev. P. E. Throckmorton, pastor
"a the Pamunkey Baptist Church, at Ii
- diantown.
- The United States auxiliary cruis
,ot Yosemite parted her cable OF the be
Dor of San Luis d'Apra, Island
Guam, during terribl typhoon
November 18th, drIfted sixty mill
'le- struck a reef and was wrecked. III
an of the crew were drowned. A coll
ATE rescued the remainder. The Yossm
1t has been the station ship at Guam sir
IN the days of the Spanish war; She "
re- ~ aimed by Is officers and 267 MI
ing She was provided with main bate
of 10 5-lnch rapid-fre guns and
i, secondary battery of 6 6-pounders q
" 2 Colt rifles.