Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-09-21
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a French professor declares that
oysters cannot tranemit any dis
case to human beings.
Frank j. Gould of New York,
has bought about 1000 acres OF
land in Chesterfield county for
hunting camp.
A class, to show the most mod
ern methods for the cure Of STAN
mering. is col Quoted daily in tho
Palace of Education Mt the Worlds
Fair.
Governor Montague has set ut
rest all doubt az 10 his csdidacy
for renom ination for Governor Of
Virginia. He will make strenu-
Gus fight for the denomination.
The big -four mill Of the Char
lesion Milling and Produce Com
pany at Charleston, w. Va, col
lapsed last Thursday. One mar
was known to be under the wreck
age.
Announcement is made of the
engagement of Colonel James Mac
Gill of Pulaski, and Miss Lucy
Lee Hill, daughter Of Major.Gen-
eral A. p. Hill of the Confederate
Army.
1t is semi-oficially stated in St.
Petersburg that President Roose-
velt's efforts to secure more lib
eral laws for naturalized Jews in
Russia will be of no avail for the
present, at least.
Mrs. Sarah II. Patton of Wash.
ington, Pa, died in terrible agony
from lockjaw caused by "A vicious
hen pecking her on the hand a
week ago, making a slight abra-
sion of the skin and tetanus devel-
oped.
Triplets born to Mrs. Dora Stew
art in Ireland, Ind, Wednesday
will be named Alton Stewart,
Brooks Stewart and Parker Stew
art, after Alton Brooks Parker,
the Democratic candidate for Pres
ident.
For the first time in the history
Of Kentucky negro woman has
been admitted as u member of the
bar and licensed to practice law.
Her name is s. j. :. White and
she lives in Louisville. She is
married.
That Maine Republican victory
WAS not such famous victory
after all. Their plurality was
nearer twenty-five than thirty
thousand, while the Democrats
made gains OF twenty-four per
cent. on their last vote.
Miss Any Wegner of New York,
startled legal circles in Scranton,
Pa. Thursday by entering suit
for $50,000 damages against a
woman because, she alleges, the
husband of that woman, now dead,
failed to carry out Il marriage
A public welcome to DR.. Edwin
A. Alderman as pres idcnt of the
University of Virginia was given
in the public hall Thursday night
IL the presence of the Board of
Visitors and large nssemLlsge
mad Up of professors, students
an a.. visitors.
Detectives are still at work in
vestigating the recent attempt to
derail passenger train n the
ard Ohio Railroad south
Of Winchester. Ii is claimed that
.he coils are Tightening around
man, and an arrest
will soon ! e made.
During terrible wi Il and rain
.icrm which ragged ut Newport
New, last Thursday light, tn,
Chesapeake and Ohio steamer
Louise broke from her moorings at
the shipyard and was blown sew
eral miles out into James river.
Two tugs recovered the vessel.
A bold attempt was made ty an
incendiary to fire Seventh Street
Christian church in Richmond last
week. A well-dreqsed young man
went to the church and informed
the pastor that he had been sent
to make some repairs to the organ,
and was allowed to pass in. Soon
after his departure smoke was dis
covered, and a fire which had re-
Gently been started was extin-
guished.
In Africa, the land of the origin
# the negro, the race question las
broken out, and strange to say, il
is the American negro who has
made the issue. The discrimina-
fion of the existing government of
the Transvaal against the Ameri-
can negroes has been formally
to the attention of the
State Department through a petit
ton transmitted from Pretoria by
Mr.. Profit, the American consul
here, which petition is signed by
about a dozen of resident American
;egrOes. 20.