Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-03-01
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Two additional indictments,
making 10 in all, were found in
Cleveland against Mrs. Chadwick.
The sumner home of Thomas
Atkinson, Of Richmond, erich
lands," near Gordonsville, was
burned last week.
Fifty bodies have been recover
ed from the Virginia mine, in Ala
bama, where 100 men were in
prisoned by an explosion.
Fire destroyed two of the lar
gest Hoosac tunnel piers in Boston
and demaged the steamship Phil
adelphia, causing loss of $1,000,
900.
The University Of Pennsylvania
last week conferred the degree of
doctor Of laws upon President
Roosevelt and Emperor William
Of Germany.
The Equitable Life Assurance
Society has won a suit in which it
was intended to compel the COM
pany to divide 100000 among
the policyholders in Wisconsin.
President Truesdale, of the Del
aware, Lackawanna and Western
Railroad, says the proposed bill to
regulate railroad rates would be in
effect confscation of railroad prcp-
erty.
The government wharf at Wake
field, on the Potomac river, in
Westmoreland county, the birth
place of George Washington. has
been destroyed by the heavy ice in
the river.
Wagner Chapman, the mail car
rier between Madison Courthouse
and Somerset, has been arrested
charged with robbing the mail.
He confessed and was put in jail
in Charlottesville.
The striking New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad fire.
men proposed method of arbitra-
ton which the company rejected,
on the ground that il was not ac-
ceptable to the engineers.
j. p. Stearnes, who has been the
representative OF Newport News
in the House of Delegates for the
last two terms, has rendered his
resignation to Governor Montague,
ard it has been accepted.
Tie building used as a work.
house and store-room of the color
ed industrial school at Manassas,
was burned on Sunday night, max
ing the fifth building of the school
that has been burned since its es-
tablishment eight years ago.
Mr.. William Hodges, of King
George county, during the recent
cold spell, found one of his pigs
frozen stiff and supposing it dead.
threw it on the hillside. After
two hours it was back at the pen,
trying to get in, the sun having
revived it..
A special Federal grand jury
venire was drawn in Chicago and
subpenas for 1875 employees of the
so-called "Beef Trust were is.
sued, pending an investigation as
to whether the supposed combine
has oeen violating Judge Gross-
cups injunction.
Army officers of Seattle say that
the United States government will
erect Notifications opposite Port
Simpson, which has been chosen
as the terminal of the Grand Trunk
Pacific railway, and therefore will
be a very important st.ategical
point for Great Britain.
Lieut.. Gov. Willard has been
elected vice president Of the West
moreland Club, of Richmond. IL
is an unwritten law that the vice
president shall succeed the pres
ident, and Col. Willard will next
year become head of the club.
succeeding H. l.. Cabell.
The widow of Jefferson Davis
has published statement declar-
ing that she has no recollection CT
writing letter to General Miles
thanking him for his huTare
treatment Of her husband, and ste
calls en- the General to make rct-
lie Photographic reproduction
of the letter.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, President Of
the jamestown Exposition Com
pany, was given cordial recep-
ton by the North Carolina legis-
lature last week. After an infor-
nal reception he made an address
urging the passage of the bill for
participation by Nor3h Carolina in
the exposition. The bill appro-
pirates $50, 900.
w. II. Newman. Il native of Vir-
GINA, head Of the Vanderbilt rail-
read interest, was recently elect
ed president of the Cincinnati and
Springfield Railroad, Il tributary
line of the Big Four system, 10
succeed NJ. Z. Ingalls,. This is a
part OF the plan to bring the var
ious lines of the Big Four under
Mr.. Newman's personal manage
ment.
Healthy Mothers