Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-06-20
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| Galveston, Texas, Is cut off
from the mainland as result OF
the burning Of the bridge running
to the island on which tie city
stands.
Mali adyices from Hankow,
China, shcw that the grPat floods Of
this spring in Human caused an
appalling less Of ife,amounting to
tens of thousands.
Representative Sherman Of New
York, has introduced e bill pro-
viding that the passenger rate on
all railroads in the United States
doing an interstate business shall
be two cents mile, effective
January next.
Secretary Shaw says that the
tariff will be revised after the
Presidential election OF 1908.
Referring to the tariff she said:
ono political party in the last fifty
years has revised the tariff down.
ward and carried the next cleo
ton"
For the fifth time in her life
Mrs. Ida 4. Clifford, "A years Old,
at York, Pa, has become a
bride. She was married to Thomas
NJ. Hoban of Chicago, who is 81
years old. Both the bride and
bridegroom have been unmarried
for twenty years.
While Senator Daniel was a
guest of the Southern Club, in
Philadelphia, Saturday night, he
said: "If Bryan fights the battles
he finds before him he will not only
be nominated, but he will certainly
be elected President Of the United
States"
Not a birth has been recorded
by the members of the Chicago
chapter of the Theosophical Society
in three years. This is the statement
of Mrs. j. Nj. Henderson, who has
been a member of the cult for that
length of time, and who says she
knows every one of the 400 women
who compose the local branch.
According to Dcwie, he is not to
be waited to heaven in q chariot of
fire, but is to pay the debt of
the human race. He, however,
says he is to rise from the dead.
81 Thank God, ;" he says, that l
am about to die, and that | shall
return to the world to finish my
work as Elijah the Restorer."
Reports that Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson is to resign
from the Cabinet es "a result of the
meat-inspection scandals seem to
have no other foundation than the
belief that the Secretary has been
remiss in not Obtaining an inyesti-
cation of packing methods earlier.
Secretary Wilson declares he has
no intention of leaving the Cabinet.
4. Wallace, who for years has
been travelling with a circus as
"human ostrich, was operated on
at the City Hospital at Minnea-
polls, MINI. Tie surgeons removed
IS nails, 3 or pieces of glass and
5 pieces of wire from his stomach.
He will recover. Wallace Gays that
he has been doing his "ostrich"
act for years and had never felt
any ill effects until recently.
The fashionable residence of
Rober. F.English, en- Grove avenue,
Richmond. was entered by
burglars early last Wednesday
morning. Mira. English, whose rcou
they entered, died from fright,
and her husband is nearly insane
with grief. Mrs. English ran from
her room calling for her husband,
and as he emerged from HE room
she swooned at his feet and died
few minutes later.
The committee of the faculty of
the University of Virginia appoint
ed to suggest and prepare some
form of testimonial to Hon. Charles
Pinckney Jones of Monterey, in
recognition OF his faithful services
as rector, selected a handsome
loving cup, and forward the gift
to Mr.. Jones. Accompanying the
gift was on engrossed letter Of
thanks for his long and able
service.
The President has decided to
appoint w. p. Kent of WythO
county, to the position of consul
general to Guatemala. The posi-
ton pays a salary of SO, 600 a year.
Capt. Kent is a son of late Lieu
tenant. Governor Kent, and was
ccptain in the Second Virginia
Regiment during the war with
Spain. He was the Republican
candidate for Lieutenant Governor
on the Virginia Republican ticke.
last fall.
A handsome set of battalion
colors-infantry, artillery and
natiOnal--were Thursday after
noon presented to the battleship
Virginia in the name of the
Junior Order of United American
Mechanics, of the State. The
presentation occurred Oil the main
thoroughfare in the Norfolk navy
ard while the naval post band
played the Star Spangled Banner.
The presentation was by Mayor