Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-10-18
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Collector j. E. B. Stuart Of New
port News, by order of the Presi-
dent, has reinstated his two
Democratic subordinates that he
recently dismissed.
Russia, it is reported in Toxic,
will station 300, 900 troops on the
Chinese frontier, partly because
she is afraid the soldiers may join
the indictments at home.
President Roosevelt lie said to
have abandoned his plan to trim
the tariff this winter and will de-
vote his energies to PASS a measure
to regulate the freight rates.
Secretary Taft will ask Congress
at the forthcoming session to
increase the strength of the army
of the United States by about 4, 500
men and the neceFsary number of
officers.
w. Bourke Cochran of New
York, and John Sharp Williams of
Mississippi, have been invited to
speak at the barbecue at Salem,
October 25, in honor of Congress-
man Swanson.
Tie rejection of Poe's name in
the list of great poets by the
judges Of the Hall Of Fame has
caused wave of indignation in
Baltimore, and is described as
colossal stupidity.
The strike in Moscow is spread
ing; agitators are openly preach.
ing e revolution, and red hsgs are
displayed by the crowds. Many
workmen have been driven from
the factories by strikers.
A Washington dispatch states
that friction is developed over the
administration of the Panama
canal project, and that a clash
between Secretary of War Taft
and Chairman Shonts is not i'm
probable.
The Amerika, the worlds largest
ship, is of about %, 800 tons
register and is intended for the
service between Hamburg and
New York. She can carry 10000
tons of cargo and about 1000
passengers and crew. She is eS7
feet long, "a feet 6 inches wide and
So feet deep.
The quarantine which has been
in force in Richmond for several
weeks against New Orleans and
other Southern cities infected
with the yellow fever, was raised
last week and all trains were
allowed to pass withC ut al ex
animation Of the passene ers. The
physicians consider the danger
over.
Que of the results of the recent
total solar eclipse is the renewal
of the belief expressed in astrono-
mical circles that in course of time
the earth will, through the certain
evolu tions & the solor body, be
reduced to a state of frigidity.
This is one of the conclusions Ct
the French astronomer, NJ. Camille
Flammarlan, who made his
observations from Almszan, in
Spain.
According to report just issued
by Rev George G. Wiley of Rich
mond, SUP erintendent of a training
school, after a gears work, the
effort 20 educate white women for
domestic service seems to be a
failure, mainly through the objec-
ton CT the girls to taking such
positions. "Our records show"
says Mr.. Wiley, "that we have
placed forty-six white girls in a
year, and that We have had
thoueand or more applications for
such help. We have net with Just
the difficulties that were expected
In getting white women TO train
for positions as servants In a Sec
lion where negroes have done
such work fer all the past"
In the opinion of prominent
awyers every candidate in the
primary campaign last spring is
guilty Of technical violation CT
The pure election law. The omission
If d comma in the clause that
the expenditure Of
money for advertising purposes is
for the confusion. The
clause is conteined in the first
lection of chapter 90 of the Acts
II Assembly and reads as follows:
mo expenditure made by any
or his sdherents and
riends for the purpose Of printing
n advertising in some newspapers,
y in securing suitable halls for
,utlic speaking at a reasonable
rice. shall be deemed illegal"
The Interpretation heretofore
,iven the phrase printing or adj
ertising in some newspa pers"
Justified the printing of cards,
'ostere, etc. The reading of law
8 it appears in the code. however,
tipulates that the printing anc
dVertising shall be done only lin
ONE newspapers"