Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-06-22
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= men mas appropriated $1,000, 600
S for public baths.
E Having been Tilted by young
woman who had promised to marry
him, a Pennsylvania swain sues
for $4,000.
!. Rev. DR.. Richard McIlwaine has
resigned the presidency of Hamp-
J den-Sidney College, which he has
held for many years.
r The Virginia Summer School Of
Methods meets at the University
, OF Virginia this year, beginning June
9th and continuing for six weeks.
Jonah Woods, a pious coIored
| deacon in his church, was lynched
last week in Georgia by some
, negroes whom he threatened 20 re-
port to the grand jury for playing
, "crap."
Rush orders from New York, In.
diana and Illinois, according to
the Washington Post, are being
sent to the Pension Bureau. The
old age disability is playing dis
tinguished part in the Presidential
campaign in the doubtful states.
Notice has been received by the
merchants in Richmond of an in
crease in freight rates, effective
July /. The rate will be advanced
to 2 cents hundred for less than
carload lots from Virginia points
south.
A company has been formed
with capital of $500, 900 With Mr..
S. H. Hansbrough of Winchester
as president, to build trolley
line by Berryville and Alexandria
to connect with the Washington
city trolly lines.
In the mayoralty election at Ed
inburg, Shenandoah county, last
week, there was tie between f.
F. Fadely, Democrat, and J. w.
Santmeyers, Republican. They
settled it by drawing straws and
Fadley won.
Lieut.. Gen. Stephen d. Lee Of
Mississippi, was elected at Nash
vile last Wedn ssday, commander
in-chief of the United Confederate
Veterans to succeed the lamented
John B. Gordon. The reunion next
year will be held at Louisville, Ky.
The Shah of Persia has made ap.
plication to the Austrian govern
ment for the dispatch of twelve
competent military officers to SUI
pervise the reorganization of the
Persian army. The Shah wants
Austrian officers because Austria
hae no political aArs 10 grind In
Persia.
Mrs. C. V. Tonzalin of Bristol,
in order to prevent the marriage of
her daughter, Miss Mary Tonzalin,
to young business nan of that
place, took her to DesmOines, Iowa,
to visit friends. The daughter,
a week previously, had married
secretly.
DR.. Edwin A. Alderman. presi-
dent of Tulane University, New
Orleans, has been elected the first
president of the University of Vir-
ginia. 1t is thought he Will ac-
cept. DR.. Alderman is a native
of North Carolina, is 43 years of
age and for years has been promi-
nent in TIE educational movement
in the South.
"Hon. Rufus A. Ayres of South
west Virginia, has announced his
candidacy for Governor. There are
now candidates in tn field as fol-
lows: Messrs. Joseph +. Willard,
Claude A. Swanson, William H.
Mann and Ayres, with William A.
Anderson and Harry Tucker think.
ing it over" says the Stanton
Dispatch.
Rev. j. 5. Sibley has resigned as
pastor of the Presbyterian church
of Winchester, making the fourth
to resign within week, the
others being Rev. Nelson p. Dame
of Christ Protestant Episcopal
church; Rev. j. Ryland Murdoch
of First Baptist church, and Rev.
W. A. McKeefry, of Sacred Heart
Catholic church.
Negroes will have large rep
reservation and play more i'm
portant part in the Republican
National Convention at Chicago
than at any previous gathering of
the party. Fifty-six delegates are
sure of seats already and there
are contests in the Southern del
egation which will ieault in the
seating Of several others
A police justice in Lexington
KY, has revived the ola Whipping
post regime. He sentenced fif-
teen-year-old negro lad to be
whipped in the public square. The
negro had struck small white
boy and the court decreed that the
boys mother take him to the pub
lie square and give him 20 lashes
with buggy whip. The mother.
in the presence of large crowd.
the punishment asdi-
rected.
Healthy Mothers
Mothers should always keep in good
bodily health They owe it 20 their
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