Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-03-23
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troubles and strikes.
James H. Tillman, who killed
Editor Gonzales without warning,
is to run for Congress in South
Carolina.
A heavy hailstorm visited New
Orleans last Thursday and this
was followed by terrible rainfall,
which flooded portions of the city.
About eight hundred negroes,
nOn-union employees Of the Ameri-
can Tobacco Company Of Rich
mond, have struck for higher pay.
A monument to the Saviour erect
ed on the Andes Mountain, at the
Argentine-Chilean boundary, was
dedicated with solemn ceremonies
last Wednesday.
The Stanton News says they
manage things better down at
Asheville, n. c., than in Stanton.
The jailor simply left the door I'M
locked and the murderer walked
out.
DR.. Leopold Morganistern claims
to have discovered a formula which
will convert water into fluid that
will burn, answering the same ends
as coal oil for illuminating pur-
poses.
Judge William Gordon Robertson
of Roanoke, it is said, may enter
the lists against Mr.. Carter Glass
for the Congressional nomination
in the Sixth district. So fer this
is the only talk OF opposition to
the editor-congressman that has
has been heard.
Mr.. Charles p. Jones, rector Of
the board Of visitors Of the Uni
versity of Virginia, has issued a
call for a meeting of the board on
Tuesday, April 10. Rumor has
lit that the question of a president
for the Virginia institution will be
again brought up at this meeting.
Colonel George Wayne Anderson
has issued a statenen indicating
the military who were on duty at
Roanoke. He says that but four
men out of the 720 present were
reported drunk and that the four
were taken into custody by their
officers.
The State Democratic Commit
tee will be called by Chairman
Ellyson to meetas soon after March
80 as possible. The committee is
to fix the date of the State con-
vention and to pass on the contests
of Norfolk city and county. Mr..
Ellyson is waiting for the subcom-
mittee which is investigating the
city contest to get ready to report.
The United States Senate has
passed the joint resolution autho-
rizing the President to negotiate
with the government of Great
Britain to secure review of the
regulations for the catching of fur
bearing seals in Alaska so as to
obtain an abatement of the killing
of female seals, and thus preserve
the seal industry.
1t is thought more than likely
that Virginia will sue the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad in the Federal
Courts under the recent Northern
Securities decision by the Supreme
Court on the ground that in its
control of the Chesapeake and
Ohio and Norfolk and Western it
is discriminating against Virginia
ports in favor of the Pennsylvania
cities.
Mr.. r. j. Miller on Saturday ex-
humed on the farm occupied by
him, near Cave station, Augusta
county, what is thought to be the
remains of mastodon or man.
moth. One of the bones exhibited
is over thirty-seven inches in cir
cumference, and it is thought to
be the tibia, or shin bone, of such
an animal. 1t is nearly three feet
long, and it is not complete.
A rumor has been current in
Richmond for some days that W.
r. Hearst is preparing to enter the
newspaper field in that city, and
that he has already conferred in
New York with parties who can
provide him with facilities to issue
a paper. If Mr.. Hearst should
locate in Richmond it would be
done IN a short time in order to
help along his boom in the State
for the Democratic nomination for
the Presidency.
Representative ii. ID. Flood has
introduced a bill in Congress pro-
viding fol the creation of the
Shenandoah Valley Park Commits
sion to acquire site for memoir
ial park in the Valley of Virginia,
at some point in Augusta county
near Stanton. The commission
would, in accordance with the
terms of the bill, also recommend
plans for the erection of memoir
ial in the park in commemoration
of the great historic events in the
Shenandoah Valley during the
Civil War.