Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-11-09
Condensed NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader

Inc boil weeyil is reported to
have spread considerably in North
ern Texas during October.
1t is reported that Great Britain
will ask Admiral Dewey to serve
on the Anglo Russian commission.
The body of ex-President Paul
Kruger has been put on ship at
Rotterdam and will be taken to
South Africa.
Elias Hartz, the veteran "Goose
Bone Prophet" of Reading. Pa.
has made his annual prediction.
He says We are going to have a
very severe winter.
Miss Eva Booth has been ap-
pointed commander of the SALIVA
ton Army in the United States to
succeed Booth-Tucker, who will
return to England.
Ladies of the Norfolk Woman's
Christian Temperance Union visit.
ed the polls in Norfolk on election
day and distributed Prohibition
instruction tickets to the voters.
After two unsuccessful trials
Captain Baldwin's airship was be-
ing tOwed back to the aerial con
course ut the Worlds Fair last
Thursday. when it escaped from
its guardians and disappeared il
the heavens.
A surprise was caused in Lynch
burg last week by the announce
ment of the marriage of Miss
SalIie II. Cosby, principal of Miss
Cosby's School, of that city, to
Mr.. John S. Wright, Boston,
Mass, capitalist.
There is not single thorough.
bred Newfoundland dog on the
island where the strain originated.
declares the American Consul at
st. johns, n. F., all the dogs hay.
ing been crossed with hounds or
other types.
he Richmond branch of the
American Locomotive Works has
to build 90 locomotives
for the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail.
road and five for the Richmond.
Fredericksburg and Potomac.
The trial of persons charged
with responsibility for the anti
Jewish riots at Gomek Russia, in
September, 1903. is attracting
much attention. The government
is trying to show that the dis
orders were anti-Chistian, and MT
anti-Jewlsh.
The Pope has decided to make
December s, the fiftieth anniysr.
sary of the PRONUNCIATION of the
doctrine of the immaculate con-
,eption Of the Virgin, great
festival. An enormous
picture Of the Virgin will be placed
'ver the altar in St. Peters and
dedicated on that day.
The Virginia Bridge and Iron
company of Roanoke, has pur.
hased the plant of the Ca-olina
steel Bridge Construction Com
amy, located at Burlington. n. c.
'he works are n.w, having been
Established only about a year ago.
I'd have capacity If f4om TO-
90 to $4,000 tons Il year. The
rice paid was 100000.
a number of prominent men
rom tie North and West were in
irginia for few days last week
0 look over certain portions of the
tate with Il view to investigat-
NJ mineral lands and in hunt
ngrreserves. The party included:
. A. Rice, mayor of Canton,
j., late Democratic candidate for
Governor; +. j. Hoffman, of the
'me city; +. Hendricks, of Buf
'lo, n. Y, and II. Is. Smith.
In the Circuit Coirt of Fred
'icksburg few days ago John c.
IcKeever was granted a divorce
ON is wife, who resumed her
alden name of Miss Jeretha ORR
DrH. Monday night she was
arried t. John L. Brown, who is
.veral years younger than his
ride. Fifteen minutes after their
a.riage and at the same house
Iiss Laura Brown, the divorced
life of Samuel Braithwaite, and
.erville NJ. Bailey of Davis. W.
H., were married. The contract
g parties are members of we'll
nOwn families Of Frederick coun-
A dispatch from Pittsburg says
lie prices Of all grades of coal
ave been advanced 35 cents ton.
result of the increased de.
and for coal and TIE strike of
'gineers in Illinois, which has
'actically closed all the mines in
at State. The price of run-of-
inc coal was recently advanced
ON $l.O5 a ton to $l.l5 a ton at
e mines. The rates now quoted
r Pittsburg district coal are as
lows; Run-of-mine, $l.50 ton;
ree-quarter inch screen coal.
80; one and one-quarter-inch
reen coal, $l.70, and slack 50
nts n ton.
Healthy Mothers
Mothers should always keep in good
Oily health. They owe It 20 their
ldren. Yet ii is no unusual sight to
} a mother, with babe in arms, cough