Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-01-21
CURRENT COMMENT.


Staunton, was fatally burned Fri
day morning. The child's cloth
ing caught fire from the stove whil
it's mother was in another room.
Friday was the seventh anniver
sary of the incorporation of New
port News as Il city. On January
Is, 1895, there were less than 10,
600 people there, and today there
are over 10000.
The home of Rev. E. D. Kindie
together with its entire contents,
was destroyed by fire a few nights
ago. Mr.. Kindig is the proprietor
of the famous Kindig apple or.
chard near Nshersville.
WA. Ryder, a widely known
young man of Roanoke, was cd
judged insane Wednesday. He has
been an inveterate cigarette smoker
for years, and this is said to have
caused the overthrow of his mind.
Five boys whose ages range from
l3 to Is years, while coasting
Thursday night near Bethlehem,
Pa, were struck by train on the
Philadelphia a and ReadingRailway,
and instantly killed, and another
was fatally hurt.
Mr.. N. Gonzales, editor of The
State of Columbia, S. c., was
fatally shot while walking
along the streets of that city Thurs
day morning, by Jas. H. Tillman,
acknowledgement of South Car
DINA. A newspaper criticism was
the cause of the shooting.
The coal situation in Clifton
Forge is becoming serious. The
price of soft coal is $3.50 and 81 90
per ton, while anthracite cannot
be had at any price. The poor of
the town are suffering for want of
fuel, and if the situation does not
soon change desperate measures
will have to be resorted to.
The Roanoke Street Railway was
sold Saturday to Philadelphia cap
italists. The price paid is not Civ
en-. K. d. Apperson was elected
president and f. Fl. Shelton secre-
tary and treasurer. The board of
directors met and reelected Mr.. j.
w. Hancock manager of the line.
The same people own the Lynch
DuIS car llHe.
A Washington coal dealer told the
Senate investigating committee
last week that he he had been SELL
ing coal at $50 ton, of which SIS
was profit; and only few days
before pawn broker was heavily
fined and his license revoked be-
cause he charged borrower per
cent a month interest on a loan,
the law allowing him to exact only |
8 per cent.
The Harrisonburg Chapter of
the Daughters of the Confederacy
have recently adopted resolution
offered by Mrs. Emma Bryan ask
ing that the organization of the
United Daughters of the COnfed-
eracy of each State bestow med
al of value upon the pupil of each
school who shall prepare the best
address or essay upon the Southern
Confederacy, its war, or heroes, to
be delivered on Memorial Day.
Mrs. William Dodson, a married
% years of age, living in
Luray, Va, is the victim of most
remarkably contracted case of
blood poison. On December oath,
Mrs. Dodson was engaged in kill
ng a turkey, the blood from which
zane in contact with small burn
IN her wrist. Blood poisoning de-
Immediately in one of her
arms, and has now spread over her
'ntire body, causing terrible suffer
ng. She is in a critical condition.
Henry f. Youtsey is alleged to
rave confessed to conspiracy to
murder the late Governor William
1oebel of Kentucky. In a general
way it can be stated that YOutsey
aid bare the secrets of deep laid
dot of assassination, reaching from
he highest officials of the State
Town to the actual murderer who
pulled the trigger. Many of those
lccused by Youtsey have left Ken
lucky, thus indicating their guilt
~ their absence. Jim Howard is
declared to have fred the fatal
shot.
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Last weeks issue of the Relig-
Gus Herald, the organ of the Vir-
,inia Baptists, published at Rich
nond, is Il memorial number-be-
timing its 10th wear of continuous