Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-04-13
Condensed NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader

Mormon Church, has issued state
ment against polygamous mar.
riages.
Richmond negroes threaten to
boycott the street cars if the new
law separating the races is en-
forced.
1t has been arranged that the
signing of the Panama canal con-
tract shall take place at the United
States embassy, which is on Ameri-
can soil.
Using the skin of a twO-mOnths'.
old pig, four physicians of Rich
mond Saturday replaced the cuti-
Gle burned from Mollie Hatum, col.
ored, by a lamps explosion.
The directors of the jamestown
Exposition have presented Mr..
John Temple Graves, the eloquent
Georgia orator and editor of the
Atlanta News, with a silver SER
vice for his efforts in behalf of the
Exposition.
U. S. Senator j. r. Burton of
Kansas, was sentenced at St.
Louis, to six. months imprison-
ment and pay fine of 81, 500 for
using his influence before the Post
Office Department in behalf of a
st. Louis concern.
Police Justice Harris of Trenton,
N. j., in a test case, has rendered
that it is not a criminal offence for
a person to enter hotel or
restaurant, eat generously Of the
best the house affords and then
not pay the bill.
Mr.. John d. Rockefeller of New
York, the multi-millionaire presi-
dent of the Standard Oil Company,
has given $500, 900 to the Johns
Hopkins Hospital of Baltimore, to
make good the less sustained by
the hospital in the great fire.
A colony of bees has taken
possession of the home of the
squirrels in one Of the trees in
Capitol Square, Richmond. The
rodents have taken to other places,
and bees by the hundred are
swarming into the place, the SPUR
rels having beat a retreat.
At Charleston, w. Va, a man
was on trial in the Federal Court
for robbing postoffice safe. While
the jury was out he told thu
marshal he was sorry he had not
pleaded guilty and thrown him
self upon the mercy of the court.
Then the jury came in with
verdict of acqulttal.
Camden, N. j., is considerably
stirred up over the marriage Of
pretty white woman, Miss Sarah
Clark, aged %, to a negro, Harry
Riley, aged 81. The ceremony was
performed by negro preacher.
The brides father has sworn
vengeance and efforts will be made
to have the marriage annulled.
The catch of shad and herring
for the past few days near Onan-
cock has been the largest for years.
A number of the fisherman realized
a thousand dollars each for LAST
weeks work. Very few nets paid
less than fifty dollars. CLANS are
also being caught in large quaint
ties and heavy shipments at pay
ing prices are made daily.
A charter has been granted to
the Staunton Wood Turning Com
pany. The officers are, president,
william H. Hyer; vice-president,
j. A. Glenn; secretary and treas
urer, Edward Runnels. The plant
will be established in Stsunton
and the company will manufacture
axe and Ratchet handles and
numerous small wood articles.
Col. G.. w. Anderson, who was
In charge of the military which
went to Roanoke to protect the
negro Henry Williams during his
trial for assault on Mrs. Shields,
has asked the governor to order a
court-martial to inquire into
charges made by Mayor Cutchin of
Roanoke, that the only disorder on
that occasion was due to drunken
soldiers.
The British steamship Doune
Castle, with the South African
Boer war exhibit for the st. Louis
Exposition, arrived at Newport
News last Wednesday. On board
were the famous Boer ,eteran,
General Cronje, 200 veterans of
his command, 120 British veterans,
80 women and children and about
90 native Zulus, Kafilrs and
Secretary of War Taft has sp-
proved, with a few minor-modifica-
tons, the design submitted by Mr..
Edward b. Valentine of Rich
mend, for the monument to the
memory of Gen. Hugh Mercer,
revolutionary hero, which is to be
erected at Fredericksburg in ac-
cordance with an act Of Congress
appropriating $4,000 for the
monument.