Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-12-07
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he ranges.
James Lindsay Gordon, assistant
corporation counsel of New York.
who was a native of Virginia, is
dead, after brief illness. M "a.
Representatives Of the churches
holding the Presbyterian faith in
America, at meeting in Pitts
burg, have agreed upon definite
plan OF federation.
The report Of the Commissioner
Of Education, just published, shows
that the former slave States have,
since 1876, spent $40, 100000 for
the education of the negro.
Owing to lack of corn huskers
in. the vicinity of Paris, Ill, Judge
Kimbrouge adjourned court to
give jurors, litigants and witnesses
u chance TO harvest the corn crop.
A statue of the late Senator
John j. Ingalls,, the gift OF the
State of Kansas, has arrived in
the rotunda of the capitol at
Washington and will be erected in
statuary Hall.
While hunting wild turkeys last
Tuesday arrayed in red cap,
Johnny Hoffman aged IA years,
son of j. f. Hoffman of Caremont.
near Richmond, was attacked by
q gobbler and put to flight.
Forty-six bills of exception have
been filed for j. Samuel McCue Of
Charlottesville, sentenced to be
hanged on January Goth, 1905, for
wife murder. The appeal, if grant
ed. will come before the Court of
Appeals in Richmond, January 3.
The drouth in Central Kentucky
is the worst in the history OF the
State. Pasture lands that have
been in grass 20 years will have
to be resown, even the roots being
parched, and it is said the manu-
facture OF whiskey has been re-
stricted.
The fact was brought out at the
meeting of the Prohibition State
Executive Committee of Mary
land that the party vote was 50
small at the recent election ia
Baltimore that the party has lost
it's place on the Official ballot, ex-
cept by petition.
A gigantic scheme TO defraudi
the government out Of large sums
of revenue has been discovered in
list. Louis by officers who have been
secretly investigating the failure
of certain dealers in oleomargarine
to cancel revenue stamps on pack
ages of the commodity.
indianapolis has come to the.
front recently with an inventor who
claims to have outdone Marconi
himself in perfecting the wireless
telegraph. Frank A. Galbreath,
the inventor in question, is now at
Washington having his Inventions
tested by govern~rAs experts for
navel use.
The fgh, being waged for the
lpast several weeks between the
Winchester City Council and
the Winchester Gas and Electric
Light Company, caused by the
compsny's demand for an advance
in the price of street lights, was
settled by compromise wher the
Council entered into one-ysar
contract with the light company.
at the advanced price of $70 PET
Hight.
The better element OF the ne
groes in Lynchburg have begun n.
movement for the establishment q,
an industrial home and orphans
school of domestic science in that
city. They have secured build
] ing in which 10 begin operations
land the school will be opened as
Fso)n as possible. 1t is the intenr
ton of the promoters of the proJ:
ect TO add retormatory To the
home.
The statement that Frank JAY
Gould has purchased Old Domin-
ion Iron and Nail Works OF Rich
mond, has caused furry in bus,
Iness circles. 1t is now reported
that his ultimate object is to erect
an immense cer-building plant
there. The property lies in the
middle of james river on an is
Hand known as Bell Isle. There is
plenty of room for an immense
plant.
One of the fist Presidential
nominations to 60 to the Senate
will be the nomination OF Judge
Adam c. Carson of Riverton War
rem comfy, Va, to be Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court at
Manila. Judge Carson was cap
tain of immunes during the Span
sh-Americn war, and was appoint
ed Judge Of the Court of First
Instance in the Philippines after
hostilities ceased. He is only "a
years old, the son of Samuel Car
SON of Riverton, ard a graduate
of the University of Virginia.