Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-11-04
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Brief Items Of Interest for the
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A quarry and mining plant is t,
al be established in Albemarie count,
,e to develop scapstone and coppe
IN deposits.
r The number of matriculates a.
le the Virginia Polytechnic Institrt,
ii at Blacksburg is now nearly sever
E. hundred.
70 United States engineers are in,
! vestigating project to irrigate
;, 1000, 000 acres Of land in Central
u Washington.
: One Of CALIFORNIA; exhibits at
= the st. Louis Exposition will be a
y plank IL feet wide and 90 feet
= long. Application has also been
. made for space for tree eighty
:. feet.
A large number Of BOer family
: Bibles, found during the late war
q by the British officers and men in
e the Transvaal and Orange River
8 Colony, are being returned to their
q rightful owners.
8 The presentation Of the Winnie
t Davis Memorial Hall to the State
: OF Georgia took place last Thurs
5 day. The Hall, which is one of
the most impressive buildings in
+ Athens, Ca, was erected by the
Georgia Daughters of the Con.
2 federacy.
The Mississippi Levee Conven-
, ton, which met in New Orleans
last week, adopted resolutions ask
ing that the government undertake
on a comprehensive scale the work
of preserving the people from de-
structive floods along the Missis-
sippi river.
Extraordinary precautions are
being taken for the safety of the
Gear during his approaching visit
to Emperor William at Wiesbaden.
PRUSSIA. Lines of troops will be
drawn up along the entire route
from the railroad station TO the
Emperor's palace.
News comes from Paris tnat
jacques lie Baudy, "emperor of
Sahara" has made known his
scheme for building up an empire
In Western Africa, where he owns
a large piece of land, and expects
to get large part of his popula-
ton from the negroes of the South
ern United States.
Second Auditor Dew has within
the last few days purchased nearly
100000 Of century and Riddle
berger bonds for the literary fund
OF the State. This brings the total
now held by that fund close I'D to
", 10000 the interest on which
is applied to the support of the
State public school fund.
U. S. Marshal, Morgan Treat,
has just completed arrangements
for the deportation of a carload of
Cinnamon who have slipped into
this country unlawfully. About
fifty of the Celestials will be sent
from Norfolk to San Francisco.
Marshall Treat and four guards
will have charge of the crowd.
A dispatch states that King
Menelik of Abyssinia, has expressed
strong desire to visit the St. Louis
Exposition, accompanied by Queen
raitu One of the conditions on
which the King will make the trip
g that he be taken TO America and
eturned on board an American
and that he be given all
overeign honors.
The trial of John Kennedy, alias
crawford, of Shenandoah county.
harged with wrecking a Norfolk
nd Western train near Greenville.
augusta county, last Decem Der, and
nth the murder of the engineer.
Tho was killed in the wreck, was
at Stanton Wednesday
it'll verdict of murder in the
rst degree. The prisoner pleaded
Utility.
The Augusta Milling and Mer-
Intile Company Of the Messy
reek Leighborhood, Augusta
'unty, has been granted 4 charter
: the corporation commission. the
aximum capital to be $25, 900 and
minimum of SIS, 900, to be divided
to shares of $50 each. 1t will do
general milling business com
ned with general merchandising.
tn wholesale and retail.
ga Run on the Bank" was ad-
rtised at the local theatre last
Eek in Barnsboro, Penn. Foreign
al miners thought it meant a run
the First National Bank, and
ey hurried to get their money
t. A majority took their saw
% to Barnes Il Ticker, coal
orators, for safe keeping. The
orators took il back TO the bank
ain, which saved the instita-
n.
While mourners at the burial of
ew-born baby were taking re-
shments at the village Of Treble
z, Bohemia, recently, an lf-year-
girl stole the corpse. She took
way from the house, dressed i.
a doll, and played with il for
cral days. Meanwhile the rela-
IS searched for the remains.
ally the girl became tired Of her
and threw il on stone heap,
ere it was found.
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