Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1902-10-08
Condensed News.

The Iron cate FURNACE Is running
in full blast, and seems to find no
difficulty in getting full supply
of coal and coke.
Horace Chapman and Jones u
Jewett, have purchased 5, 900 acres
of coal lands three miles west of
Williamson, w. Va.
Field laborers in Spain work IA
hours day for 10 cents, and live
principally on oil, garlic and bread.
About per cent. of them die an
nually.
Mrs. Maria Paul, mother of the
late Judge John Paul, died at her
home at Ottobine, Rockingham
county, October LIST, at the age Of
80 years.
Cholera news from the Philip
pines comes only in occasional
patches. Think of over B, 900 deaths
from the disease in the islands last
Monday.
Washington Post: The Virginia
Republicans have made a set of
congressional nominations which
must appeal strongly TO their sense
Of humOr.
Peabody Fund trustees met in
New York Thursday. DR.. j. L.
M. Curry was reelected general
agent, and was authorized to APP
point an assistant.
New York Democrats have nom-
mated Coler for Governor and
adopted an antitrust platform de-
claring for Government ownership
of anthracite mines.
Fredericksburg Free Lance:
With Lyons on one side and a
Flood on the other, political affairs
in the Tenth district will doubtless
be both ferOcious and wet.
John w. Goss, for more than
ten years member of the Abe
marie County Board of Supervisors,
died suddenly of heart disease
Wednesday afternoon, at his home
near Stony Point, aged SO years.
An Arctic expedition is said TO
be cure for consumption. There
may be some use for those frozen
wastes after all. Is it not possible
that the century will see established
in the interior of Greenland popu:
lous health resnrtsf
While trying to prevent a big,
black negro from entering the
show without paying the price of
admission, Lewis Lutz, foreman of
the Sautelle show, was shot and
fatally injured by the negro last
Thursday in Richmond.
Andrew Carnegie, according to
his own computation, gives away
nearly $45, 900, 600 year. He av-
erages about eight Libraries day,
giving an average of $l5, 900 to
each. Apparently he does not ex-
pect cessation of his daily dona-
tons.
President Merrill of Fisk Uni
versity, says that the well educated
and competent negro doctor has
fine opportunities among the
8,0O0,0 900 of his race in this
country. He knows of II negro
doctors in Nashville, all of whom
are doing well.
A half-starved travelling
member, who professed to be too
poor to pay for shelter and food,
died last week at Stella, railway
station in Patrick county. A tin
box left by him was found to con
tain certificates of deposit for
money in Chattanooga banks
amounting to $S, 900.
w. F. Norton, Jr., wealthy
citizen of Louisville, who, though
he is not member of any church,
entertained high admiration for
the late DR.. John A. Broaddus and IA
profound regard for his memory,
has Just ere tied at his own cost
monument to the great theOlogian
and divine in Cave Hill Cemetery,
Louisville, where his ashes repose.
The chestnut crop in King
George is an immense one this
year, and promises fine profits to
many of tie farmers, as well as to
the children and poorer people,
who are enabled by gathering and
selling chestnuts to clothe them
selves comfortably for the winter,as
we'll as to buy many other neces-
saries with money made in this
way.
An embalming fluid has been
found in milk sold in Richmond.
A chemical analysis of four milk
samples taken from various Sec
tions of the city shows that IN two,
formaldehyde, a violent poison, was
used in small quantities as pre-
sentative. This investigation is
the direct result of the charges
made against local milk dealers BY
the State chemist, DIR. w. H. Tay-
lor.