Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-11-02
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
BUSY Reader.

Busy Reader.
Indications in New York seem
to point to heavy exports Of gold
before the end of the year.
The first real snow storm Of the
season occurred during last We'd
nesday night at Malone, N. Y.
About an inch OF snow. felh7
Hon. WI. Bryan is quoted as
saying his Indiana tour has given
hin, confidence in. a Democratic
victory in that State. "
A subscription has been started
in st. Petersburg to aid the fami-
lies of the fishermen killed by the
guns of the Baltic squadron.
The Standard Oil Company
makes sweeping denial that they
have taken part in securing the
nomination of any candidate for
public office.
Notice has been posted at the
Schenectady, N. Y, plant of the
American Locomotive Company
laying off about $500 employees
on account OF lack Of work.
The War Department has sent
to the Treasury Department$l6.2 20
held five years in hopes that the
owner would claim it, the money
having appeared mysteriously.
The general staff of the United
States army proposes to send sur
geons to the japanese and Russian
armies to study the new develop
ments in field hospital service.
1t is claimed thatthe d ference
between the Republican and the
Democratic records is that one is
an asset and the other a liability.
Opinions differ as to which is
which. .lsf.. iI.t go
A dispatch from New York
states that Republican confidence
in the election of Mr., Roosevelt
is based on the possession Of an
immense campaign fund provided
by trusts.
After being struck by an cleo
trio car In Philadelphia Monday
night. Myrtle Douglas, three years
old, was recovered from Il e fem
der where she sat sucking a stick
of candy and uni .jured.
At Petersburg last Wednesday
ground was broken for the diver
sion of the Appomattox River. A
large crowd attended the ceremony.
For this improvement of the river
the Federal government has APP
proprioted 5000, 1000.
A dispatch from St.'Petersburg
says that the reply of France and
Russia to President Rooseveit's
invitation to peace conference IL
a categorical refusal. The pro-
posed conference is said to be
mere electoral dodge, lacking
seriousness.
The Confederate rosters owned
by the Confederate Memorial and
Literary Society will be taken
from Richmond to Washington to
be copied by the government. The
society has ratified the recemmen
dation Of the executive committee,
and the rosters will be turned over
20 Major Robert w. Hunter, the
Virginia military secretary, who
will take them to Washington.
After forty years a marriage
license has been returned to the
clerk of Loudoun County Court.
1t was issued November Is, 1864,
to Edward C. Fitzhugb, Confed-
crate soldier, and Ann +. Grayson,
of Loudoun. George II. Fox, Jr,
who was clerk then, wrote on the
papers margin: ''The minister
can keep this and return to me
after this cruel war is over" 1t
was returned by the Rev. A. G.
Thompson, of Trinity Church,
Portsmouth.
In the presence of distinguish
ed gathering, the submarine tor
pedo boat, the Simon Lake y, was
launched at the Newport News
Shipbuilding Company'sy yards last
Thursday. This boat, which is of
the so-called Lake type of SUBJ
marines, was built to compete for
the $500 appropriated at the
last session of Congress for the
purpose of settling the relative
merits of the different types OF
submarines.
The new rapid transit subway
in New York was formally opened
last week. and the first train
started by Mayor Mcclellan with a
silver controller was sent through
the tunnel with the Mayor and
the specially invited guests. The
subway has cost $50, 900, 900 in its
completed state, and nearly 20, 200
skilled and unskilled workmen
were employed in its construction.
The tunnel is well lighted and the
walls and steel supports are
enamelIed white. The stations
are tiled and are models of neat
ness and beauty. The length OF
che tunnel is % miles.
A Continual Strain
Many men and women are con-
stantly subjected to what they eom'
monty term "a continual strain be-