Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-08-24
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader


"Old home week" was cele-
brated in Culpeper county last
week.
The Idaho Democratic convention
at Lewiston passed an anti-Mormon
resolution.
Radium ore is reported to have
been found in several places in the
Cripple Creek region of Colorado.
A catfish nearly 10 inches long
was found in the boiler Of n steam
fire engine in Charlottesville one
day last week.
Southern wheat sold ut 81 in
Baltimore last Wednesday for the
first time since March. In New
York wheat sold at $l.O8.
One of the acts of Russia
signalizing the birth of an heir to
the throne will, be total abolition
Of corporal punishment through
out Russia.
The Underwater Railroad Compa-
ny has corps of civil engineers
surveying for u line of railroad
from West Virginia through Sus-
sex county on the Atlantic Coast
Line Railroad to deep water and
Norfolk.
Captain John S. Wise, who was
In Richmond last week, says the
negro is a shuttlecock between
northern and southern battledoOrs
the North is hypocritical and does
not want the negro, and lie quotes
Senator DOlliver to prove it.
Judge Parker ie said to be con-
fident of his election and displays
it daily. Nevertheless he has sue
ceeded in impressing everyone who
has come to him with his belief
that faith without work won't elect
a Democratic President in the year
of grace 1904.
The immigration officials at
New York have been instructed
not to detain Mrs. Florence May
brick, now on her way to America.
after spending many years in an
English prison. The officials
will extend to her the courtesy due
an American citizen.
BY singular coincidence, a
widow living in the little town of
Oxford, Nj, received by different
vessels which that day had arrived
at New York at the same time, the
bodies of her two sons, who died
accidently within six days of each
other, in widely separated cities of
South America.
A crusade is in progress in
Richmond against dealers in i'm
pure milk, food and fruits. Under
recent ordinance an inspector
has been appointed and has begun
work. His Investigations so far
show that quantities. of impure
milk and food in bad condition
are daily sold there.
While searching for "Kruger's
Millions" alleged to have been
sunk with the steamer Zululand,
off the Natal coast, three years ago,
the coasting steamer Penguin was
wrecked and % persons were
drowned. The boatswain is the
only survivor. Four previous ex-
petitions with the same object in
view have ended disastrously.
The weekly record at the coal
piers at Newport News was smash
ed again last week. About month
ago all previous records wer.
broken when 10000 tons of fuel
were dumped in six days. The
record for last week was 49,
tons. The harbor was filled with
schooners and coal barges awaiting
their turn at the piers, and it is
by no means unlikely that last
months record of 27S, 900 tons will
be broken this month.
New York Evening Post Ind.):
II Americans have got tired of
all the fret and sham of militarism,
and the meretricious glitter of i'm
perialism, they will tdrn with relief
to Judge Parker. But whether
they do or not, he has shown him
self man worthy of their conf
dence and their suffrages, and has
already wrought great work for
his country by pointing it to the
things which make for its peace
and true grandeur.
Kenneth Mooring Of Algeria, W.
Va, whose 7-year old son. Isaac,
died in Parkersburg two months
ago of eating poisoned ics-cream,
has had the boys body placed in
n glass casket, which is filed
with alcohol. The latter has pre-
served the body, while the glass
casket enables the parents to
see his features at any time.
The casket is in a mausoleum
and the parents say the body will
always be kept as it is now so
that they can always behold the
face of their son.