Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1902-05-30
Condensed News.

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prior to the first construction In 1885.
In three years Pension Comu issoner
Evans reduced the number Of pending
claims from 635, 900 to 100000. This is
a record Of work that his successor will
find it difficult to surpass.
The town OF Clover In Halifax county
was nearly destroyed by fire last Friday.
The loss Is estimated at from S175. 900 to
5000, 900. Eleven stores, five tobacco
prize hous IS, four dwellings and hotel
were destroyed.
For corner parcel Of ground Of the
diminutive size of forty square inches,
j. Clarenc' Davis. Bronx broker OF
New York, has just paid $500, or SIS a
square inch. An ordinary city lot IS
feet by 100 feet at this rate would cost
81 800. 900
The Right Honorable Lord Pauncefote.
the Ambassador from Great Britaino the
United Statesdied in Washington Oh Sat
urday from heart disease, aged a. His
most useful work was the framing OF the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty between this coun
try and his AMI which was recently rat
flied by the two governments.
The steel bridge across New river
owned by Colonel George W. Miles. is
to be jointly purchased by Pulaski coun-
ty and the city OF Kadford, and Is to be
free to all. The bridge Is a splendid
structure seventy five feet high and hf-
teen hundred feet long, and was erected
in 1891 at a cost OF 100000 By the two
land companies OF the town.
About two hundred bagg age masters
on the Norfolk and Western were thrown
out Of employment by an agreement be-
tween that road and the express - m
panies, whereby the expiessmen will han
die the baggage. The men thrown out Of
employment will get positions as freight
conductors and brakemen as far as pos
sible.
Sunday at Ben Hill, a quiet hamlet a
short distance from Atlanta. Ga. two
pistol shots were heard and a young z irl
was seen to sink dying, into her father s
arms. Miss Lila Suttles, eighteen years
old, WAS twice shot and almost instantly
killed by Millard Lee, twenty-five years
old. Both are OF good families. The
dee was prompted by jealousy.
At a special m citing of the city coun-
Gil OF Charlottesville. to consider AMI de
termine the salaries OF the officials to be
elected for the term beginning July /,
and to appropriate money for depart
ments now overdrawn, that body de
creased the mayors and police Justices
salaries from $500 to s40O per annum
each
Mrs. G. ,orgs I. Liza; met most hor-
rible death at Roanoke on the 24th. The
neighborhood was aroused by her screams
as she rln throl, h her front yard with
her clothes on fire, The fumes wfre
soon exit lguishcd, but she was 50 badly
burned that after lingering a few hour,
she died, She was mentally unbalanced
and was to have been taken to Johns
Hopkins 70: treatment. Her husband Is
n partner in the Becker Grocery Com.
pany, q wlolcrale concern. She leaves
three children.
Thomas Corbin, young railroad man,
assaulted and be 1t the life out OF John
Nlilln +, a young man about 81 years ODD.
in D"nville, Va. Saturday afternoon.
1t is stated that the assault wts provoked
by Millner speaking to one OF two women
with whor Corbin was walking near thu
race track. Millner it is alleged. assumed
that the women Were common characters
and when the one to whom h spoke fail
ell to make any reply he remarked that
she seemed not to know him. Then Cor
bin struck him. Knocked him down and
beat him until life was extinct. All par
lies are said to have been under tho i'll
iuencc OF intoxicants.
The general conference OF the Meth
,dist Episcopal Church South have ele IT.
I'd Dr. L. f. IIoss OF Tennessee, and DR..
\. Coke Smith Of Virginia, bishops. DR..
loss IS editor OF the official paper Of the
'lethodists published at Nashville, an
)r. Smith was formerly pastor OF the
court street Meth ,di5t church at lynch
'urg Bishops Fitzgerald IIargrove and
were retired from active epis-
opal work The most radical step lken
turing the conference WAS the authorize.
ion of the order OF deaconesses. The
difference was in session at Dallas, Texas
rom May I to May 81. There were in
ttendence about 400 delegates, minister
II and lay, representing a membership in
outhern Methodism OF 500, 900.
Details are acking of the damage done
v storm whos1 course Is known to |
ave been at least three miles long In
and Union counties, s. g..
tie Sunday afternoon. 1t developed az
thunder storm, but ater the wind at
aimed velocity OF a hundred miles an
our, and did great damage to crops an
aused loss of life in the thickly settled
lrming sectio n In Pacolet one man
'as killed and seven injured. In Union