Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-01-13
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A committee has been formed in
Chicago to raiss $50, 600 to enforce
the laws and prosecute the crusade
against crime.
Mr.. J. Allen Waite, consulting
attorney for the Norfolk and Wes-
tern Railway Company, died at
Roanoke last week, aged AZ years.
The Legislature recently passed
a law prohibiting the throwing of
sample packages Of patent medi-
cines into yards and doorways,
little children having been recently
poisoned by eating their contents.
DR.. Charles w. Dabney has re-
signed as president of the Univer-
sity of Tennessee to accept the
presidency Of the University of
Cincinnati. DIR. Dabney was born
at Hampden-Sidney, Va, and is
the son of Robert Lewis Dabney,
Stonewall Jackson's chief of staff.
Figures issued by the Commits
sioner of the Revenue show that
the value of personal property in
Richmond increased more thar six
million dollars in 1908. The pre-
ceding year it was assessed at
$50, 900, 900. The value of real es-
tate is million and half greater
than in 1908, now exceeding forty
four millions.
Investigation of the cause of the
fire in the Iroquois Theater, Chi
cago, develops the fact that a
swaying drop curtain cane IN con-
tact with the hoodlight above the
stage, and the resulting loss Of
life was due to the carelessness,
cowardice and unnecessary acts of
certain employees of the theater.
Many of the doors were locked and
bolted, thus preventing exits,
Professor S. C. Mitchell of Rich
mond College, Professor j. NJ.
Page of the University of Virginia,
and Professor Painter of Roanoke
College, have been appointed as
the committee to award the Cecil
Rhodes scholarships for Virginia.
Two of these scholarships have
been allotted to each State and
Territory in sthe United States.
The pay is 81, 500 year for three
years.
A bronze statue Of the late DR..
Hunter Mcclure, who was General
Jsckson's medical director, and
one Of the most celebrated sur
geons in the South, was unveiled
in the Capitol Square, Richmond,
last Thursday. Judge George l..
Christian, Grand Commander of
the Confederate Veterans of the
gifnnifaa, and aadrGGT Governor Montague re-
ceived it. The Grafton was de-
livered by Major Holmes Conrad Of
Winchester. Va, who served with
DR.. Mcclure on General Jackson
staff.
A fight between drunken men is
reported to have taken place in
Carroll county at the funeral of
man named MOckson. Mockson,
it is charged, was killed by Abner
Westmoreland, who escaped. Ac-
cording to a dispatch received from
Gladesboro, the funeral party
fought with fists and pistols in
the wagon containing the corpse
and continued the atfray at the
cemetery, the coffin lying unburied
half the day by the graveside. One
man was injured severely by being
thrown under the wheels of the
wagon.
Governor Beck ham of kentucky,
in his message to tie Legislature.
denounced the reports of feuds in
Kentucky as grossly exaggerated.
He recommended that "irrespoE-
sible romancers" who sent grossly
exaggerated accounts Of turmoil
in Kentucky be made accountable
10 the law. 1T is not an
exaggeration," he said, $50 say
that there was not a day during
the past year that human life was
not safer in Kentucky, even in
Breathitt county, than it is any
night upon the streets of Chicago
or New York.
Miss Ruth Cleveland, the eldest
child of ex-Presidsnt Grover
Cleveland, died at the Cleveland
Tome at Princeton, n. j., last
Thursday very Unexpectedly, the
immediate cause of death being
weakening of the heart action dur
ing a mild attack of diphtheria.
The attending physician said that
Miss Cleveland had been i'll with "A
mild form of diphtheria for four
DAYS and that the heart affection
was not anticipated. She was
born on October 8, 1891, in her
fa theirs residence in New York.
after Mr.. Cleveland had served his
first term as President. She was
named after Mrs. Cleveland s
grandmother, and as "Baby Ruth
was a great favorite in Washing
ton society during her fathers
second term in the White House.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland have four
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