Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-10-19
CONDENSED NEW
Brief Items of Interest for the
BUSY Reader.

William L. Douglas, the shoe
manufacturer Of Brockton: has
been nominated by the Democrats
as Governor of Massachusetts.
tits getting to be regular habit Of
newspaper readers to look first at
the list OF dead in the daily rail
road horror, 10 sec if any friend or
relative is among the victims,
The employment Of negroes as
roustabouts in New Orleans seems
to be doomed because of frequent
strikes. Northern white men
have been substituted.
Emperor Williams gift to the
American people Of Of a bronze
statue of Friedrich the Great will
be unveiled in Washington by the
Baroness Speck Won Sternburg on
November 10.
The State Board of Education
has perfected arrangements for
the opening of school in Charles
City county for the Chickahominy
Indians. 1t will be under the con-
troll of the county board.
Mr.. Bryan is support!g Folk in
Missouri. Unless he is putting
up very different kind of support
from that which he is giving Park
err our sympathy is extended to the
unfortunate recipient, says the
Norfolk Landmark.
After a conttship of week,
Void Berenson, aged 90 years, and
Mrs. Annie M. Goldman, aged 81,
were married Monday night at the
home Of the bride, Worcester,
Mass. Berenson has living seven
children and sixty-three grand
children, seventeen great-grand-
children and one great-great-
grandchild.
A negro sailor, Harry Watkins,
was taken off the Washington
train at Stanton Thursday morn
ing because he refused to ride
in the Jim Crow car. He contend
ed that q government ticket en-
titled him to ride IN first-class
car. He was going from San
francisco to Washington. He
was put in Jail to await instruct
ions from Washington.
The management Of the ST.
Louis Exposition has given out
the figures showing the paid atten-
dance to October /. On the opening
day, it appears, the attendance
was 125,754 During NJ ay
the attendance was 542,02S;
during June, 1882, 1903; during
July, 1,514,75S; during August,
1892, PAS; during September,
Q l4S, 035; total to the LIST Of Oc
tober, 1905, $50. The exposition
closes December /, 1904.
A sensation in society circles at
San Francisco is the breaking Of
the engagement between the beau
t.ful Miss Ruth McNutt and Lieu
tenant Fitzhugh Lee, OF the
United States Army, WAC is now
with his regiment in tie Philip
pines. Lieutenant Fitzhugh Lee
is member of the noted Lee fam
lily, of Virginia, and nephew of
General Fitzhugh Lee. DR.. W. +.
McNutt, in speaking about the
breaking of the engagement said ::
my daughter and Lieutenant
Fitzhugh Lee have agreed to dis
agree; there is nothing more to
say about the affair. 1t was their
own business, and very properly
they have attended to it quietly
and in their own way" Some
remarkable rum ors from the Phil
ippines have been mentioned as
the reason, but are not credited.
1t appears from the report OF
Mr. +. f. Ware, Commissioner of
of Pensions, for the quarter end
lug September 30, 1904, that high
water mark has not yet besn
reached, as the following ex-
cerpts will show. This report
shows that there were on hand
2S5, 523 claims for pensions pend
ing. Since July l, 1900, there
we're received a total of 5, 400 new
applications, and it is estimated
that an average of 700 new claims
are filed each working day. The
death rate, though large, is,
however, exceeded by the new APP
plications sevenfold, the "disap-
pear!pg army" as the Commits
s.oner refers to it, dying at the
rate of 100 day. The mortality
among the soldier pensioners of
all wars and classes last year was
) 3l,72S deaths Of which 80, OIL
were volunteers of the Civil War.
= he Commissioner estimates that
there are still from $50, 900 to,lS0,-
O00.soldiers Of that war not on the
pension rolls. These he desig-
mates as the unknown army"
The mortality for the present year
it is estimated, will approximate
AZ, 900, including all classes or
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