Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-03-29
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Virginia spent last year for ed
ucation $3.50, 255.7O and for tn,
sur preston of crime 1851, 6l0.77
A rise in the Levels of the Grea
Lakes of one to three feet durinl
the past 10 years is puzzIing scien,
fists.
Preparations for the launching
OF the battleship Minnesota al
Newport News, April s, have been
completed.
Ex-President Grover Cleveland
has gone to Florida for three
weeks TO recuperate from his re
cent attack of govt.
1t i, reported in Chicago that
owing TO quarrel among the
packers full information concern
ing beef trust methods will reach
the Federal grand jury.
At Harrisonb burg Monday Of last
week Congressman Swanson open
ed his campaign for Governor and
Hon. j. Taylor Ellyson began his
canvass for Lieutenant-Governor.
Both werc we'll received.
John L. Boland, for many years
prominent in St. Louis business
circles and a Confederate veteran,
is dead at his country home near
here. Mr.. BolaRd was born In
Ballington, Va.
The Cityjcouncil OF Stanton at
a special meeting last week passed
en- ordinance providing for the ex-
tension of the corporate IimIts. ad
ding about 1000 people to the
population of the city.
Judge Parker, late Democratic
Presidential candidate, consented
to make speech before the Demo-
cratic Club in New York after no
learned that neither Bryan moi
Cleveland would be there.
Gen. Arthur C. Cummings is
dad at his home at Abingdon
aged eighty three years. He was
a graduate Of the Virginia Mill
tary Institute of the ella 8 of 1874
and served the : cate CALAMITY in
the Mexican and Civil Wars.
Congregational ministers repre-
fenting Boston and various sections
Of New England have forwarded
to the American Board Of Foreign
Missions plea to decline the
$780, 900 gift Of John d. Rockefel-
er on account Of his connection
with the Standard Oil Company.
Mad dogs have been biting peo-
pie in Winchester to such all ex-
ent that the city is almost Panic.
stricken. Mayor Baker has issued
proclamation calling upon the
,eople TO muzzle every dog within
he city limits, and the police have
'een instruced to see that The or
Ter is rigidly enforced.
The Mt. Vernon tract of iron
re land lying in the eastern part
4 Rockingham and Augusta coun-
les s Id recently at public auction.
nd was bid in by Jacob Yost, of
tauntion, 10 agent for Stanton
indicate. The land comprises
bout 81, 900 acres, and vas sold
nder decree Of the Circuit
'ourt The price paid was $20.-
90.
President Roosevelt has formally
nnounced the names of the young
len designated by him as prln-
ipals and alternates for examina-
ion for admission to the United
tates Military Academy in 1905.
.mcng the p incipals designated
y the President is Thomas iona
nan Jackson Christian. a grand
IN of the late Gen. "Stonewall
sckson. Young Christian is ut
resent attending q military school
Georgia. His sister is u student
Miss Carter's School, near Bt til
ore.
The fourth criminal to die within
days in Yirgsnia will be Robert
rrner. colorod, who will be hang
| Friday at Abingdon for the
ur, or ia July, 1904, Of a negro
oman, Lou Jefferson. In Decem-
?. of lat year he was Sentenced
death, but his execution has
zen delayed in one way or another
It'll the present. Every effort was
a6e to secure new trial for
n. The Governor was appealed
on the giound that the negro
as drunk when ne committed the
ed.
The virginia State Anti-Salotn
'sgue has put the temperance
estion before the gubernatorlal
nui,lates now in the field in an
zen tier, which has been adj
essod to William Hodges Mann,
aude A. Swanson, and Joseph
Willard, and to G. T. Bland, J.
Cabell, j. r. Cation. aud J. Tay-
: Ellyson, candidates for the office
Lieutenant governor. The letter
signed by Rev. James Cannon,
esident of the league, and re-
ests information as to whether
not the candidates would sup
TT the mann BILL"
Healthy Mothers
others should always keep la good.
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