Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1902-09-17
Condensed NcWa.

Justice Horace Gray, of tn
United States Supreme Court, dice
at Nahant Sept. Is. Paralysi
was the cause Of death.
A tract of 5000 acres of Goa
land in Taylor county, West Vir
gini, has been purchased by Jane
NJ. Guffy of Pittsburg, for $72, 900
Miss ElizabethWaddell Edmond
son died at the home of her brother
Col. Ed. L. Edmondson, in Staun
ton, Saturday, aged 70 years
Miss Edmondson had been an in
valid for several years.
Ex-Alderman John M. King o.
Richmond, was found guilty il
police court of accepting brides o.
$3.50 on account of street paving
contracts and Justice CrutchfielC
fined him 500 and sent him t.
Jail for twelve months.
A dispatch from Wilkesbarre,
Pa, on Monday says that violence
continues in the coal field, and two
miners were assaulted and probably
fatally injured near there that day
They were attacked by mob OF
fifty strikers and are not expected
to live.
General Joseph Wheeler, who
has been in Europe, arrived in
New York On Saturday on the
steamer Philadelphia. General
Wheeler's activity interested the
passengers greatly, and during
the voyage he climbed the mast
to the crows nest.
Smoke from the Oregon and
Washington forest fires has settled
down so thickly throughout north
ern and central California as to
completely obscure the sun. Lights
were lit in San Francisco. The
weather bureau states that the
smoke has now reached distance
of 900 miles inland and that it
will travel across the continent.
Charles d. Harrison, member of
the HarrisOnburg bar, appeared
before the supreme court of ap-
oeals in Stanton Monday to
qualify to practice before that
court. When asked to swear to
the constitution of the
state he said he would not, where
IpOn he was informed that he |
0uld not qualify to practice before
he court, and he stood aside. Mr..
harrison was formerly common
Iealth's attorney of Rockingham
Ounty, and appointment in Repub-
can circles.
At the reunion of the Fourth
Minnesota regiment at St. Paul
lst week resolution to return
lie flags captured from the Thirty
fth and Fifty-ninth Mississippi
egiments in the Civil War was
efeated. "The flags are ours"
routed one old man, waving his
ands before face white with
notion. "We bought those flags, ,
I'd we paid price for them. /
0uld rather burn them than re- 1
I'm them" This sentiment pre-
'iled despite the objections of the G
ore conservative. d
+. M. Taylor,a well-known Man
lester, Va, man, who after five 9
,ars' absence from home with
t explanation led his family to q
Durn him as lost, has just re-
rned, and tells thrilling story o
three years Imprisonment by v
nnibals in one of the Samoan
lands. Mr.. Taylor escaped death, d
t several of his companions were v
stantly slain upon capture. His :,
cape is due to the fact that one T
the chiefs daughters became
amored Of him, interceded for h
5 life and was granted the boon >
her father. u
The anniversary of the death of
illiam Mckinley, Sunday, was @
served in. the churches of
mber of cities. In Buffalo, NJ
lere the president met his death, F
ere were elaborate memorial -.
vices. Rev. DR.. Henry Homer 81 y
ashburn, rector Of Christ Epis- nj
pal church, at Oyster Bay, N. Y,
his sermon at the Mckinley Is
mortal services Sunday morning o,
the presence of President 81
osevelt and his family, spoke of II
, danger coming by and ga
'ough the unguarded use of great 10 10
alth concentrated in the hands H
q few" and that circumstances
Heated that Mr.. Roosevelt was wi
ced providentially in the execu- o.
e chair. The Presidents face -
ored and he plainly showed his tn
If the rector's utter W
'es concerning himself, \,
Buffalo Forge. n,
.ette Correspondence. &c..