Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-09-07
Condensed NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
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~ IL IL cStlMdteu tnat TIE g0lu pro
le ductiOn of the 1ransvaal this yea
'f will amount to $77, 000, 600.
/ All grades of refined sugar were
l. advanced 5 cents u hundred
o pounds in New York Septembel
j. 1st.
The Prusslan government, fear.
. ing combination of coal n inc
2 owners, is trying to buy mines in
Westphalia.
n General Lee, commanding the
n department of Texas, in his annual
report states that there are ire
o quent assertions from the army.
Orders have been issued for a
8 general strike of butchers all over
q the country as result Of the
1 packing-house trouble in Chicago.
1t is said the World Fair at ST.
Louis is clearing $4,000 a day,
and the 100000 which it was
= intended to borrow will not be need
ed.
A colored girl thief preferring
hoggipg to ajail sentence was
whipped at Fredericksburg. Her
mother stoc d by and saw the stripes
laid on.
According to Lick Observatory
calculators, Alpha Centauri is the
star nearest the earth. Tie corona
OF the sun is estimated to weigh
25,OO0,0O0 tons.
More than 5000 invitations have
been sent out to Democratic editors
to in New York on September 7,
and to go to EsOpus to meet Judge
Parker the day following.
Scientists searching in Wyoming
have discovered the remains of ex.
tinct animals believed to have lived
1000, 900 years ago. The best
specimen obtained was prehis-
toric horse.
Emporia, Greenesvile county.
Va, last Wednesday settled the
temperance question for the next
two years. only eleven votes out
of possible ninc:y-four were cast
for local option.
The speediest divorce ever OBJ
tanned was granted in Chicago last
week in space of twelve min
utes, which is still further evil
dence that the Windy City is the
swiftest town in the country.
Governor Montague has scld his
residence near Danville to Mr.. J. A.
Reagan of that city for $4,000.
This is taken to indicate that the
governor will not return to his old
home at the expiration of his term.
Madrid claims to have the Oldest
woman in the world, Marie Metro.
who has lived in three centuries,
having been born in 1881. She
was twice married and had nine
teen children, all of whom! she sur
wives.
Colonel RE. Withers, of Wythe-
vile will shortly publish his auto
biography, which has been in
preparation for some time. Col
onel Withers's vast experience will
make the volume of great interest
to his readers.
According to story from Chi
cago, the great employers there in
tend to make the end of the stock
yards strike the beginning of war
to break the organized labor domi.
nation of that city so that union
and non-union men alike may
work.
A deficit of nearly seven million
dollars in August, added to the
large deficit of July, makes the
of revenues fer two
$24, 2S2, 1856. The expen-
ditures for the two months were
nearly sixteen million dollars more
han the same two months Of last
year.
A negro man gave the inform
,tion at Norfolk one day last week
hat the Republicans are preparing
10 colonize the negro voters IN New
York and that an agent had been
here to register negroes for work
n the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and
hey will go Oh later to accept the
20 itiOns and to vote.
Alfred Thurston, snake, frog
md glass-eater out of a job, APP ~
,enred in the barroom of the New
York Hotel in Niagara Falls Thurs
la. He had a huge diamond. back
with him in a box. He
ook out tle sns h. and placed its
read in his mouth. The snake
VT him on the tongue and the
nan died seven hours later in
gony.
Messrs. +. ID. Shepard and Com
ANY have purchased of the city
t Lynchburg $750,000 of thirty
ear four per cent bonds at 1927.
fifty thousand worth were also
old to p. A. Krise, of Lynchburg,
t l04. Six hundred thousand of
he bonds are to re used in the con.
traction of n gravity water sys-
EN-, and they will be is iued us the
t. e>sity demands.
\ Continual Strain