Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-07-06
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest fer the
Busy Reader

III is annOuHceu tlh' ho specCHee
will be made b. Presid ent Roose.
velt during the coming campaign.
After six months idleness 25,
900 glovemakers have voted to re-
turn to work at Johnstown, n. Y.
President Roosevelt will be form
ally notified Of his nomination
for the Presidency July q at
Oyster Bay.
Dan Emmett, famous as the COM
poser of "Dixie" il dead at his
home at Mount Vernon, Ohio, aged
eighty six years.
The only portrait to be placed
permanently in the Democratic
convention at St. Louis, it is an
nounced, will be that Of jefferson.
The War Department has appor-
toned $l,000,000 among the
militia organizations of the various
States. Virginia gets $3.50 as
her share.
1t has been stated that if Judge
GRAY is nominated for President
at St. Louis, Mr.. Cleveland will
consent to run for Governor OF
New Jersey.
The coroner's jury in the Slocum
disaster inquest rendered verdict
holding that it was due to mis- con-
duct Of the directors Of the steam
boat company ard holding the cap
tains criminally responsible.
The Handley Library Building,
, soon to be erected in Winchester,
: will be one of the handsomest in
the country. 1t will cost over
, $1,000 and will be equipped at
an additional expense of from
$25, 900 to $50, COO.
Former President Grover Cleve-
0 land has had private telephone
n line constructed from Madison,
n N. H., to his summer hone at
= Sandwich, q distance of fifteen
g miles. so he can keep IN close touch
. with the St. Louis Convention.
President Roosevelt has made
= the following changes in his Cab
i met: William II. Moody, Attor-
n ney- General: Paul Morton Of Ill
inois Secretary of the Navy, and
O Victor II. Metcalf of California,
d Secretary of Commerce and Labor.
u With little furniture, and no
e money to buy any, the Virginia
T. Building at st. Louis is a source
J. of regret rather than satisfaction
d to the Worlds Fair Commission.
n Strong efforts are being made to
e raise the money needed to equipit.
Al A toy dealer was fined last week
), $40 in the Police Court in Rich
u mond for selling an ordinary paper
= cap pistol. The ordinance passed
~ after the Christmas lockjaw cpl
ID demic from toy pistols, with its
t. heavy fines, was strictly enforced
~ on the fourth of July.
% strawberry Hill', the fine estate
of DR.. Michael Minor, in King
- George county, is suffering from a
~ visitation of groundhogs. The
y little animals have come down by
!, the hundred, and are doing serious
80 damage to crops. A war of exter-
Vi mination is being waged by DIR.
~ Minor and his neighbors..
~ David Mccain, a white man,
d. was sent to Jail from the Lynch
H. burg Police Court last week for
be brutally beating his four-year-old
daughter. Witnesses testified that
no less than hundred stripes were
I'd laid on the child's back with raw
nv hide, and she is in frightful con-
10. dition. The mother attem pted to
es interfere and she was slapped over.
is. The editor of an English paper
He recently received q fine chicken
ire which he, supposing to be token
H. of appreciation from discrimlna-
lie ting reader, took home and enjoy
of ed for dinner. The following day
of he received this letter: "Deai
lat Editor-Yesterday | sent you Il
Oh chicken in order to settle dispute
NV which has arisen here. Can you
es tell us what the chicken died OFF,
a A most unusual death is report
Ill ed from Appalachia, a mining towr
ST. In Wise county. Mrs. Thomas ).
in, Yakes was rubbing the mouth OF
nd her little year old girl, Lille
IN with live gold fish in an effort t
'ur cure the child from SOLDERING
The having been told that such rem
ter edy would break her of the habit
md when the fish slipped down tn
the child's throat, head first, choking
It her to death before it could be ex
es' tracted.
IN Residents of Woodbury., n. j.
u have adopted a novel Plan of saw
tue ing time for themselves and tn
a,s drivers of tradesmen's deliver.
~, wagons. They hang out sign"
u'' flags designed to bring the desire
'he wagon to the door whenever it ma
oe- be passing, saving the annoyanc
" If having them stop when the,
the are not wanted. A red flag mean
III that ice is wanted, IL white ha
.or' That milk is desired and blue ia
Gus that bread will come in handy.
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to Healthy Mothers
ope Mothers should always keep in goo
off 4. .k.,l