Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-12-23
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A reduction in wages averaging
II per cent, and affecting 10000
men in the COnnellsville, Pa, coke
regions, was announced last week.
A quarrel over @ cents, the charge
for pool-billiord game, resulted
in the murder Of two persons in
the Italian quarter in Philadelphia
last week.
Gilbert Walden Of Oklahoma,
cowboy, elocutionist, impersonator
and famous rife shot, last week
married Miss Emma f. Wrinkle Of
Mississippi.
Mrs. Daniel Manning Of Albany,
n. Y, has been elected president
of the st. Louis Worlds Fair board
of lady managers, vice Mrs. James
L. Blair, resigned. She was nomi-
mated by Miss Helen Gould.
The Democrats of Boston won a
big victory at their municipal cleo
tion l-st week. Isaac B. Allen, the
colored man who ran on the Re-
publican ticket for Stree. Com
missioner, was defeated by 80, l49
votes.
In the report Of Messrs. Holmes
Conrad and G. J. Bonaparte on the
Tulloch charges 90 fraud in the
postal service there are severe re-
fections on Perry 5. Heath, for.
merly First Assistant Postmaster
General.
Whether church property should
be exempt from taxation or not is
up for discussion in the District Of
Columbia. Such property is now
exempt; if taxed, it would add
$l42, 2l4 to the revenues Of the
District.
Mrs. Susan Stuart Gibson, wife 4
Bishop K. A. Gibson Of the Episco-
pal diocese Of Virginia, and daugh-
ter of the late Hon. A. II. II. Stuart
Of stanton, died last Thursday
morning at DR.. Howard Kelley's
sanitarium, Baltimore, Md.
The Legislature having passed
a bill authorizing the establish
ment of a dispensary at Waverly,
Va, the Town Council of tlat
place has designated Mayor r. W.
Arnold as general manager and
has elected Dispensary Board.
The total number Of typhoid
fever CASES which have developed
in Butler, Pa, up to date is 1851.
and the total number Of deaths
sixty. This is very severe af
fiction for n town which contains
no more tina. about 1900 in
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strongest man the party can name.
The fight next year will undoubt-
edly be made on the trusts and
tariff. regard his nomination as
a foregOne conclusion. As tc bis
election | am not so sure
Rev. A. H. Burroughs of Bristol,
Va, the noted keeper Of the border
mecca for clipping young couples
from Virginia, passed the fourteen
hundred mark last week, when he
four couples in one day.
The parson is vigorous at the age
of seventy-one, ard now fe ls that
he has every assurance Of living to
marry his 1000 couples.
Mr.. Isaac Guitars, one Of the
oldest citizens of Page county,
died near Rileyville, ten miles
north of Luray, last week,
aged eighty-one years. Mr.. Gull
lars WAS the father of seventeen
living children, besides several
dead. He had more than one
hundred and eight grandchildren
ar d great grandchildren.
Just as the Hotel Winchester. at
Winchester, which cost 800, 900.
and the surrounding property, val
ued at fully 800. 900 more, were
about to be sold Wednesday John
L. Richards, one Of the executors
OF the estate of Judge John Hand
ley, had tn, sale stopped by effect
ing an arrangement with the lien.
ors, whereby this property will
be given to tie city CT Winchester
as part of the Handley est ste.
One of the most important bills
yet offered in the Fifty-eighth
Congress, and one which wol Id add
materially in the dissemination Of
information concerning practical
farm ing, was offered few days
ago by Congressman Glass of the
Sixth Virginia district, as was
briefly noted at the time. The bill
provides for the extension # the
ranking privilege to the depart
ments of agriculture of the various
States of the Union.
The LILLY Whites of louisiana
who went over to the Republicans
in the Mckinley elections, but who
are now Disguised with Mr.. Roose-
velt's Southern policy, want to be
Democrats again, and are making
application to be allowed to take
part in the Democratic primary to
be held next month to no innate n
U. S. Senator, Governor and State
officials. Mr.. Roossvelt's action
in the Indianola and Charleston