Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-11-22
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader

The Democrats will control the
Ohio Senate by vote of 10 to Is.
Author Thomas Dixon says be
will soon dramatic "The One
Woman" and stage the play him
self.
Ex-President Cleveland and a
party OF friends spent last week
hunting ducks in Princess Anne
county.
Germany and Austria are said
to be opposed to Russia making
any concessions TO the national
party in Poland.
Senator Knox of Pennsylvania,
will, it lie said, lergely mans &c
President Roosevelt's fight in the
Senate for railroad rate resula-
ton.
The Chinese Viceroy's report
declares that the recent murder of
missionaries was due to a personal
quarrel and not to an anti-Ameri-
can riot.
A movement is on foot ia Rich
mond to have John Shelton Will
liams elected a member Of board
of directors of the Equitable Life
Assurance Company Of New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. John d. Rookie
Teller arrived at Hot Springs last
week for the baths, and will make
an indefinite stay. This is their
first visit there in a number OF
years.
Mrs. Ann Bumbolow, who is
claimed to have teea l08 years old
and the oldest white woman in the
South, is dead at GreenviIle, S. c.
She was native of Gwinette coun.
ty, Georgia.
Pay day in the Roanoke shops
was last Thursday Of the Nor
folk and Western Railway Com
pany. The pay roll amounted TO
SIP, eco, and was the largest in
the histoty of the shops.
Col. A. NJ. Higgins, cor mandel
of the Seventy-frst Virginia Regl-
ment, seys ttat he will not enter
the race for sdjutant-ger eral CT
tie State Militia, but will use his
influence for General Male.
The old AlbeEarle Club, recent
ly sold out by its meT bers and
disbanded, will be reorganized at
once as a social a'd political
club-a Richmond Tam many.
The house is heing refurnished
and large membsrsh p will be
present at the opening this week.
The directors of the Jamestown
Exposition Company have donated
q site On the proposed exposition
grounds for a monument to the
memory of Pocahontas, the Indian
princess. The shaft ia to be erect
I'd by Western man named Davis,
whose wife is a Yirginian and
meal descendant from King Pow
latan's famous daughter.
Mr.. John P. Kennedy. State
librarian left Richmond last Thurs
lay for Boston, Mass, where he
yoes in search of original manu-
cripts relating to Virginia history.
While away he will visit the State
ibrarIes of New York, Massachu-
etts, Rhode Island and Connecti-
ut. The material found will be
Ised ir the forthcoming House Of
Surgesses fer 1902.
Mr.. Lacy Pilson of Augusta
ounty, last Wednesday at Staun-
on, had his right eye removed
nd an old gun tube removed from
he eye ball. The tube blew out
f his gun four years ago while
Ir. Pilson was hunting and lodged
n the eye. The wound healed
nd never gave any further trouble
ntil recently, although the sight
'ss destroyed. Drs. j. z. Cstlett
nd j. B. Rawlings performed the
psration.
In the presence of Mrs. Nc
.inley, the trustees of the Nc
.inley National Memorial Assccia-
iop, other noted guests and citi-
ems and school children Of Can
On, the cornerstone of the Nc
.inley monument, the gift of the
.merican people, was formally
id at Canton, Ohio, last Thurs
ay. Justice William r. Day,
ecretary of State and peace COM
issioner to Paris during Nc
inley's administration, presided.
A general investigation of the
Expenditures in the various depart
ents of the government and in
le Panama Canal Commission
i'll prove one of the notable
iatures of the coming session OF
according to members
no have already reached Wash
gton. They are discussing the
Instability Of urging TIE Speaker
revive the still extant but fer
me time quiescent committees
/ expenditures of the various de-
and to create a COM
ittee on expenditures Of the
anama Canal Commission.