Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-03-04
Condensed News.

tnat convention or anarchists Is
soon to be held in Paris.
John d. Rockefeller, Jr., and
his wife were guests Of Booker T.
Washington at Tuskegee, Ala, last
week.
The House of Representatives
of North Carolina have passed
bill appropriating 100000 for
pensions to Confederate soldiers.
Richmond is planning for a
festivoi that will out shine the
Mardi Gras in New Orleans. 1t is
proposed to spend $50, 900 on the
celebration.
Salem, Va, has, perhaps, as
many wealthy citizens for her
size as any town in the country.
There are number who have
annual incomes of from $40, 900 to
$40, 600 year.
Ten striking miners are dead
and twelve are fatally wounded at
Atkinsville, w. Va, a mining
town, as a result of an attempt to
serve blanket injunction issued
by the Federal authorities.
King Edward will send the late
Queen Victoria's priceless collec-
ton of jubilee presents for exhiblg
ton at the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition at st. Louis as his
personal contribution towards the
success OF the exposition.
A sensation was created at Old
Point Comfort last Wednesday by
the appearance of whale just off
the shore. Large whales can
frequently be seen about Capes
Charles and Henry, but it is rare
thing for them to come into Hamp.
ton roads.
Fifteen minutes after his decree
of divorce was entered in the
county clerks office in New York
on Tuesday, MOrdecai Pepper. a
manufacturing jeweler, was mar
ried in his lawyers office to his
former housekeeper, Elizabeth
Jane Adair.
The prohibition people of the
city of Danville, Va, have pre-
scented a petition to Judge Aiken,
Of the Corporation Court, asking
him to order local option election.
The matter will he under advise,
ment for ten days, and it is
the election will be held
some time in the early part of
April.
While playing William Tell, at
Sherman, Pa, last week John
aged nine years, was
shot in the head by his brother,
Amos, two years older, and badly
wounded. John placed an apple
on his head and his brother shot
at it with a 22-calibre rifle. The
bullet struck the boy on the cheek
and lodged in his head. He will
likely recover.
Negroes all over the State, it is
said, are beginning to purchase
property, in order to acquire the
right to vote. Real estate dealers
say that they are attending land
sales in crowds and seem to be
we'll supplied with money, bidding
high for property. This money,
It is said, comes from Northern
sympathizers, who let them have
It on the most liberal terms.
Some interesting statistics of
The churches of the United States
nave been gathered by the Rev.
DR.. H. X. Carroll for the year
1902, and appeared recently in the
New York Christian Advocate.
The Catholics lead with 1851, 303;
he Methodists come next with
}, 084, 1856; the Baptists next with
|, 500, 487; Lutherans, 1,745, 5SS;
sbyterians, !, 1886, 0l6; Disciples
If Christ, 1,2O7, 977; Protestant
Episcopal, 767, 1884.
At New Edinburg, Ark, while
". T. Atwood, a merchant, was
a tombstone over his child's
,rave, c. r. Kilgore, an old man,
whose two sons were killed last
ear while resisting arrest at the
lands of Atwood and another man,
10Th of whom had been specially
appeared, armed with a
evolver. Atwood ordered him to
.rOp the pistol, but instead of
DING so Kilgore began firing. At
rood then shot and killed him.
William Harris, who was con-
icted for horse stealing at the last
ERIN of the Botetourt County
'ourt and given seventeen years
n the State prison, has made
Onfession, Notwithstanding his
trenuous defense. The jailor
Intercepted a letter he had written
is brother, in which he gave
iagram and directions for finding
he money he had received fer the
tOlen horse. 1t seems that he
ad deposited the money in a
ottle and buried it at the root of
tree, which was blown across
Dad on the farm of Mr.. hurry,
ear Coyner's Springs. Smith
lusson, a highly esteemed farmer
wing four miles north of Fin
astle, had bought the horse,
aging thitty-fve dollars for
i'm.