Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-11-16
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Senator Knox of Pennsylvania,
is already mentioned as Mr.. Reese
velt's successor in 1908.
Mexico has expressed willing
ness t. enter into treaty Of arbi-
tration with the United States.
Trust magnates are said to be
afraid that the Presidents i'm
mense plurality may make him
less conservative in dealing with
them.
Colored residents Of Newport
News are badly frightened be-
cause Of the report Of the kidnap-
ping of colored woman by a
medical society.
The friends Of Judge Parker are
almost unanimous in the opinion
that he will soon announce his in
tenll5n of going to New York city
10 practice law.
At fashionable English wed.
ding the organist "cut out" the
Lohengrin and Mendelssohn we'd
ding marches, substituting Flight
the Good Fight"
The Chinese government has in
Portland an agent who has made
liberal offers to some officers of the
Oregon Navigation Guard to go to
China IS drill instructors.
Tie University Of Washington
is investigating the alleged dis
covery of live toad of unusual
size in Seattle coal mine, two
hundred feet below the eursace.
Republican papers OF Maryland
says the move on the pert of the
Democrats Of the State for die
Establishment is doomed in cor.
sequence OF the fesulr in Mary
land.
Five women in Washington. ID.
c., are drawing pensions as widows
Of soldiers of the Revolutionary
War of 1870 years ago, but they
perhaps do not care to speak of
their age.
General Nogi, the japanese
commander before Port Arthur,
has sent letter into the fortress
to the private soldiers Offering
them terma to desert a3d surrender.
The japanese continue to gain
slowly.
Arrangements have been made
for the unwilling of the statue of
Frederick the Great in Washing
ton, which will BE- an imposing
event. President Roosevelt il to
be the principal speaker.
Parker's plurality il the Demo-
cratic States is about 500, 900.
This gives Roos welt an estimated
plurality of 1000, 900, more than
double the plurality Of $40, 100
obtained by Mckinley in 1900.
The Alexandria Gazette says;
Not for years have the Pc pie of
the country had the opp rtunity
of electing t. the presidency such
pure md able man as Judg Par
ker; bit they choose Mr.. Roosevelt
III steal. Trlly there is no ac-
counting fol tastes.
New York il to have hospital
Or treatment of diseases by men
tai suggestion. n place where the
Lame, the lat and the blind may
u and submit themselves to the
hypnotic power of scientific men,
who have demonstrated To their
own satisfaction that hypnotism
;..ires.
Reports from the grain centers
Of Rus ia state that the harvests,
y hich are now ended, show record
viel IS of II very fine quality Of
grain. The farmers are unable 70
find room in viii h to store their
g-aia. Ninety-one thu ussni ear
lnads are stalled at various parts
of the country.
A railroad is being built to
Nisscuri's Marvel Cave, in Stone
county. Neitier the Mammoth
arr any other American cave, it is
>ni !, has I'M auditorium So large,
and the larges. of national or in
ternational convent . could be
held in its vast space and have
ample room.
Eucke's comet, the stellar wan
dcrer which flashes into view as
intervals of three and one-quarter
years and whirh is due for ii re-
turn visit II is autumn. was en- at
Il United States Na,nl Observe
tory IN Wa hington on Sunday
night, and again or Monday night
oi last week.
President Ro sevelt IL quoted
as saying that he had been wholly
misunderstood by the South in
what may be called the Presidents
negro policy" and that at no
time had he wished 10 take posi-
tioa which WAS rnjust or hostile
to ics hest interest--m IRA, social
or commercial--cr, indeed. to the
interest," of any section.