Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-12-20
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief 1tefas Of Interest 70 the
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d editor OF The State, who was killed
n by Lieutenant Governor Tillman,
Q was unveiled ut Columbia, S. c.,
last Wednesday.
q The town Of Pocahontas held q
local option election last week
which resulted in a vote Of 81 for
, and ~ against. A majority against
local option of III.
! The freehold voters Of Roanoke,
, by a vote Of 637 to 1O1, last week
authorized the issue OF $500, 900
public Improvement bends, $176,.
600 for streets, 800, 900 for sewers
and $2b, 200 for fire department.
The West Virginia Supreme
Court has decided that q wife is
not a competent witness against
her husband, even II her testi-
mony would convict him of shoot
Ing bis infant In the arms Of its
mother.
The jamestown Exposition
Company has received from the
State Treasurer a check for $780,
900, being the amount of the
States first apportionment ap.
preparation of 5000, 900 for the
Exposition.
The postoffice receipts of Rich
mod for the past three months
have exceeded that Of any other
city in the United States by a large
percentage. A great bulk of the
business was no donbt due to the
recent State election.
A cablegram has been received in
Washington from the Emperor of
Korea which declared that the
agreement between Korea and ia
pan lie null and void, because it
was obtained By force, and the
Emperor will never sign it.
Representative Brownlow of
Tennessee. has in Congress a bill
providing for the appropriation of
$4,000 for the establishment of
a home for aged negroes in Wash
ington, the money to be taken from
arrears of pay and bounty due
estates Of deceased negro soldiers
of the Civil War.
City Collector Davis of Lynch
burg has closed up installations Of
city taxes on real estate for the as
easement of 1904, and there will be
no delinquent list, as every dollar
due the city on assessment Of eight
million and half dollars has been
paid. This is probably a record
that has never before been equaled
In the State.
A dispatch from Bristol, Va,
says: A most unsual occurrence
has come TO light here. SallIe Eli
son, a cOlored girl, whose mother
declares she was only 10 years of
age in October last, has given birth
TO an eight pound infant. The girl
came here alone from Stonega,
Wise county, recently, claiming to
be homeless. Local physicians say
they never before heard Of a case
of the kind.
A stock company, capitalized at
500, 10000 has been formed by
seven Harvard graduates, all ath-
letes, with purpose Of purchas-
ing farm in the Shenandoah
Valley Of Virginia, and Of cultiva.
ting it according to the latest eel
sntific methods on the commun.
stic plan. Two thousand acres of
and will be bought and developed.
The original plan was for each
nan TO marry, but this wac too iron.
lad proposition, 20 it was modi-
led.
DR.. Benjamin Blackford, for
'ourteen years superintendent of
he Western State Hospital, Staun-
on, Va, died Wednesday night Of
pneumonia. aged II years. He had
'een i'll four days. His wife died
hree weeks ago of the same disease.
Among his sons are Thomas A. and
Arthur, of Wilmington, DEL;
Taylor, Of Knoxville, Tenn, and
Charles NJ. Blackford,
ow in the Philippines. DR..
'lackford was a native of Lynch
urg.
Formal announcer ent has been
,ede by the President end Mrs.
Roosevelt Of the engagement of
heir daughter, Alice Lee Rooss.
cit, to Nicholas Lcngworth, rep
esentetive ir Congress from the
'irst District of Ohio, ore OF the
districts. Coupled with
be announcement of the engage
lent Is the additional announce.
lent that the wedding will
axe place about the middle of
ext February. While arrange.
tents for the wedding have not
cen made, it is expected that IL
ill occur ct the Wife house.
The impression that Governor
Iontague, at the expiration Of his
nee, February Ist, would leave
edmond and settle in New York,
-evailed pretty gsnersllYe month
50 ago, but now it appears ttat
, has no idea of leaving the old
ominion. Indeed, the Governor.
ON the very first, insisted that
} made no plans for going North,
1t many of his acquaintances
ought this etstement was ac-
by mental reservation.
lends of the Executive now say
will undoubtedly locate In Rich
L.