Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-07-04
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OhuS uhcAS VI tho OOHlSucidcy
propose to erect a building at the
jamestown Exposition.
The Virginia Society of Colonial
Danes mas presented the baGtleship
Virginia with handsome silver
service at Portsmouth Navy Yard.
} Alexander Muir, author of "The
, Maple Leaf" Canada's national
hymn, died suddenly last week
at Toronto.
Members of the millionaire
Dupont family are, on account Of
strike, acting as teamsters at their
plant near Wilmington, Delaware.
William j. Brysn's tax ASSESS
ment, just made, shows that he 10
worth $4,000. In 1896 he had
only $4,000.
Main Republicans in convention
refused to again submit the pro-
hibition question to a vote, reaffirm-
ing their devotion to absolute pro-
hipition.
Richard Croker has written q
letter saying be favors Bryan for
president, and that he has no doubt
that Bryan was robbed Of both
former elections by the trusts.
The oxygen treatment for bovine
fever has been used with great
success by DR.. John A. Myers At
HarrisOnbarg, according to the
Harrisonburg News.
The British government has
issued orders to withhold all issue
of American brands of preserved
meat to the army until an inyesti-
gatien has been made.
The Philadelphia Bureau OF
Health has directed the owners of
81 slaughter houses in that city to
abandon their establishments be-
cause of unsanitary conditions.
Ben Hubbard, colored, was exc
culed at Covington last Thursday
for the murder of Robert Brown.
There was no excitment attending
the hanging. The crime was COM
mitted at Low Moor last March.
Governor Swanson has reap
pointed President X. f. Blackwell
of Rendolph-Macon College, and
Judge Asa Watkins of Farmyille,
as members of the Board of Visitors
to the Virginia Normal and Indus
trial Institute at Petersburg.
The use of tobacco is increasing.
The revenue reports chow that il
1905 there was an output in the
United States as follows: Cigars,
Z, O07, 264, AL; cigarettes, 1885,.
48s, 563; plug fiDecut and snuff,
367, sSS, I16 pounds.
Police and banking experts are
alarmed over the appearance,
at Atlanta City, simultaneously
with the arrival of Western ex.
cursiOnists, of hcod of counterfeit
silver coin. Hundreds of silver
dollars, offered by hotels aGd brsi-
hess men, have been refused at the
banks.
The third annual meeting of the
Virginia State Farmers Institute
will be held at Roanoke July 10th.
18th AID 18th. Praticsl speeches
will be made on all branches Of
farming and free excursion will
be run to Blacksburg on the 18th.
Railroads give reduced rates to all
farmers who desire to attend.
The State Highway Commission,
authorized by the last General AS
sembly, CON menced business July
1st, with headquarters In tae State
Capitol building. Captain Wilson,
named by the Governor as COM
missioner, was in Massachusetts,
last week where he studied the
road system of that State. He also
visited other States in the North.
Governor Pennypacker of Penn.
sylvania, with his staff and
large number Of survivors Of the
One Hundred and Twenty-seventh
Regiment of Pennsylvania Volun.
teers, came to fredericksburg, Va,
last week in special train 20 un.
veil a monument to the regiment.
A number of ladies were also in
the party. The monument is in
the National Cemetery. 1t is o
feet square and 10 feet high and
cost $4,000.
The Navy Department wants no
more apprentice boys at the Nor
folk Navy Yard who smoke ciga-
rettes. OF 10 applicants for five
vacancies four were found to be
addicted to the Ira bit of smoking
They were rejected
by the examining surg
con. Apprentices addicted to the
use of cigarettes have been found
undesirable in the pact and no
more smokers will be accepted. 1t
il probable that the same rule will
be applied in other navy yards.
President Roosevelt has approx
ed the joint resolution of Congress
expressing the horror of the people
Of the United States IS the result
Of the massacre of Hebrews in
Russia and expressing 81 mpathy
with those bereaved. The approx
ed resolution will be sent to the
State Department, where it will be
published officially as an act of
Congress. There is no requirement
in terms that it shall be officially
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