Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-03-16
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1t lie announced that Prince and
Princess Arisugawa will represent
the japanese court at the st. Luis
Exposition.
1t is stated within five weeks all
legal details will be arranged for
the beginning of work on the
Panama Canal.
An extensive coal strike among
coal miners in the soft coal regions
of Pennsylvania this spring APP
pears probable.
The japanese government is re-
ceiving through its minister at
Washington numerous offers Of
financial aid from Americans.
General Nelson A. Miles has ex-
pressed the opinion that the war
between Japan and Russia would
be long and cruel one.
The Senate of Glasgow Universe
ty has resolved to confer the honor
airy degree of LII. ID. on Joseph II.
Choate, United States Ambassador
to Great Britain.
Richmond Pearson Hobson, hero
of the Merrimac, has resigned from
the United States Navy and will
enter the race for Congress from
Alabama.
Paul Kruger, former president
of the Transvaal Republic, is in
his last days and greatly depress-
ed. Great Brit in refuses to per-
nit lin lin to return home.
Mrs. Alice Ball. wife CO ReX b.
| f. Ball Of Charles Town, w. Va,
and formerly presiding elder of
the Roanoke District, NJ +. Church,
South, died March LIST.
Mr.. Joshua fowler, Il respected
citizen of Pittsylvf MIA CT unity, who
died recently aged % vars, had
never during his entire life been
attended by physician
The Japs win victory one day
and the Russians win one the next.
SO honors are easy, while the world
listens anXiousl y for sound Of next
gun and report Of next battle.
A great Cutburst of indignation
has been aroused in Berlin by
ministerial decree which has been
issued ordering officers and soldiers
to use their weapons ruthlessly
when civilians affront their mill
tary honor.
Ex-President Cleveland has TAX
ell the first step in Free Masonry.
according to a Trenton dispatch.
which says that Grand Master j.
Holt Apgar has arranged to con.
vene the Grand Lodge in Prince
ton to give Mr.. Cleveland the three
blue lodge degrees at one time.
A marble monument has been
erected by the city of Columbus,
Ca, to the memory Of Bragg Smith,
the negro laborer, who lost his life
last September in heroic but
fruitless effort to rescue City En-
giLeer Robert l.. johnson from
street excavation.
With the aid of powerful cleo
trio light Louis Benton of Paris,
has taken photographs 40 feet
below the surface of the ocean.
With improved apparatus he ex-
poets to take pictures 800 feet be-
low the surface, twice as deep as
the divers go.
The jamestown Exposition is
planning to build ships of the de-
sign of tIrose in which Newport
sailed to this country just as the
Columbian Exposition duplicated
those of Columbus. The ships
will be built by popular subscrip-
ton.
Governor Montague has named
Major Robert w. Hunter Of Win
chester, secretary of Virginia mill
tary records. This is under the
bill drawn by Senator Daniel,
which has just passed the Legis-
lature, appropriating SO, 900 to Sc
cure the names of all Virginia
soldiers who took part in the Civil
War.
The Washington Evening Star
says: Al alliance between W. j.
Bryan and w. X. Hearst with a
view to debating the Democratic
presidential nomination is said to
be a certainty. In fact it is AS
serted by n man very close to Mr..
Hearst himself that the present ar
rangement is that Mr.. Bryan will
present Mr.. Hearst's name to the
st. Louis convention.
Mayor Joel II. Cutchin and City
Councilman J c. Page Of Roanoke,
engaged in personal encounter
last week in which fists and feet
and a heavy walking stick, carried
by the city's chief executive, were
freely used, and as the result OF
which Mayor Cutchin is confined
to his bed with a broken arm, cut
and bruised face. Mr.. Page
emerged from the fight with minor
bruises about the head and face.
The trouble was the outcome of u
vigorous arrangement of the Mayor
by Mr.. Page at a session of che
city council.
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