Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-03-08
Condensed NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader

a new battleship will be named tile
South Corolina.
In the last year France has i'm
ported over 2, 900, 600 watches from
the United States, mostly of the
= dollar kind.
The annual pension appropria-
ton bill passed by the House on
February Is, auhorizss an expen-
diture of $l38, $50, 100.
President Roosevelt has signed
the joint resolution providing for
the return of battle flags captured
during the Civil War.
Railroad companies have applied
for ar injunction to prevent Wash
ington "ticketscalpers" from deal
ing in special-rate tickets.
Ministers and laymen are hold
ing meetings in Philadelphia to
pray for the redemption Of the
city from vice and corruption.
Bitten more than eight months
ago by pet dog, Harry B. Alex
ander, well-known citizen Of
Newport News, developed signs
of the rabies last Thursday and
died in great agony of hydro
phobia the same afternoon.
A call has been made upon the
various candidates for State
offices to announce their standing
on the school-book question; that
lis, whether they favor the multiple
or the single list. 1t is likely that
the candidates will shortly make
their views known.
Peter Dancey and Edward Aus
tin, negro criminals, who are to be
hanged in Richmond on March 16,
were baptised in bath tub at the
city jail last week, two negro
ministers officiating. Both men
came from the water declaring
that they were saved and expected
to go straight to Heaven from the
gallows.
Just little less than $4,000
was paid by the State from Oct. /,
1908, to Sept. 30, 1904, for milit-
airy assistance to the civil authofi-
ties of the commonwealth. OF this
amount S9,S55.57 was spent for
protecting the negro, Henry Will
hams, who was charged with the
assault On lady and her infant
child at their home in Roanoke:
The eastbound mail train on the
Chesapeake & Ohio, had narrow
escape from being wrecked In The
mountains some distance west of
the Lynchburg While running at
a rapid rate the train ran into
an avalanche Of snow and ice that
had slipped from the mountain
and every step on the train on the
right side was crushed off with
loud noise.
The county of Dickinson, Va,
which has heretofore enjoyed the
unique distinction of being the
only county in the State without
a negro residing therein, has lost
that distinction recently. A ten
year-old negro girl has recently
been imported into the county as
help in a family there. SO far as
known this is the only negro in
the entire county.
Governor Montague has received
a letter from Geneva, Switzerland,
written by Countess Evelyn Ash
lelli, requesting him to lend his
lid or to interest his friends 10
a movement to provide
home industries for tho women anu
7oung girls OF the Transvaal. The.
cheme was originated by Miss
but so far she has been
bile to raise only four hundred
POUNDS, which is far short of the
mount necessary.
The Greenville, ). C, police have
T PECULIAR case on their hands which
8 puzzling them TO little. A Rus
ian i'm migrant, with name it
1ould be necessary to take abroad
0 get pronounced, after serving
entence on the chain gang for
city offense, was so much pleased
nth his treatment as prisoner
hat he refuses to leave, and de-
lares that he will spend tie re-
lainder of his life with the police.
lie said life as prisoner in Aeri-
IA beats freedom in Russia.
A movement is on foot all over
be State to induce the Legislature
law at its session next
anuary under which all hangings
hell take place in the penitenti-
~. At present condemned men
re executed at the courthouses of
ne counties in which they are
led and convicted. In many cases
lose in charge of the hangings
re entirely without experience
nd distressing blunders are likely
occur at any time. 1t isproposed
} have at the penitentiary a reg
lar hangman, with assistants,
I'd all executions will take place
,hind the high wall, witnessed by
lily chosen few.