Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-04-11
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader

at General BIanco, former governo
g. general of Cuba,is dead at Madrid
es The proposed German loan Of
ID $3.50, 900, 600 is 10 be used IarRel,
1. to strengthen strategicsIly her rail
roads.
Berryville has increased the
corporation license fer liquor
l. saloons from $500 to $500 and no
l. screens are allowed.
An epidemic of smallpox has
: broken out at Hinckel, in the
!. western part of Frederick county,
and the situation is causing alarm.
1t is rumored that the Standard
7 Oil Company viii build an oil pipe
3 line from west Virginia to Nor.
folk along the TIdewater railway
r line.
Harrisonburg Presbyterians ex.
pect to build 500, 900 church Of
light bricks and stone trimmings
on the north side Of the public
square.
A memorial in Washington to
the late Susan b. Anthony has
been decided upon by the executive
board of the National Council of
! Women.
Secretary Of War Taft declared
at the anniversary eyeroises OF
Tuskegee Institute last week that
the cOlored vote is destined to be
the balance of power between the
white political divisions.
AS the omnibus bill, providing
for the terms of Virginla's twenty.
nine circuit courts, has title re-
ferring only to the sixteenth
circuit, it will be attacked in the
courts at once OF the ground of
unconstitutionality.
Fifty thousand dclltrs is the
amount set aside by the city Of
Richmond this year for smooth
paving. The asphalt block has
met the requirements 90 thorough
~ that tho city engineer has
adopted it for future improve.
ments.
General Won Mack, the Russian
representative OF the Red Cross,
has just returned to Moscow fIom
Japan. He declares that the
Japanese are actively engaged in
war preparations and he adds that
il is evident that the enemy in
view is America and that opera.
tions are being planned against the
Philippine Islands.
TIE committee Of the proposed
State Fair are within twenty thous-
and dollars of the seventy-hve
thousand necessary to ensure the
Enterprise. If the requisite amount
It cash is raised no doubt Rich
nond will provide a site. Only
ew more days remain to raise the
and the committee are
hard to secure it..
For the first time in its history
be Common Council of WInches-
er, last Tuesday night, postponed
he consideration of municipal
,gislatiO- OF Importance in order
} attend a comic opera. The sound
the music was too much for
lem, and they adjourned. Ire
ttractiou was Miss Paula Ed
ardes, in the "P-incess Begger."
WheE Emperor William visited
refeld, Germany,in 1903,a group of
iris complained to him that they
ad no dancing partners and beg
ID him to send a regiment of
4valrV there, which he did last
eek much to the Joy of the peo-
e OF the town, especially the
rls. The soify. which is the
inter- of the B5Ik and velye. indus
y, was gully decorated for the
casion.
The electric road now being
lit FROM RichnOad to Ashland
Ii be cOmpl tied. IL is understood,
the early fall, and es soon as it
finished the company will turn
stward and run the lire straight
1t, northeast, to Teppahennock,
Essex county. No construction
s been done as yet at the Tap
hammock end of CT the road. but
, route has been surveyed aud in
hort time the contracts for grad
, will be placed on the market.
Tne house occupied by Governor
-kley while he was in Onancock
a refugee from Jamestown dur.
Bacon's Rebellion, in 1916, is
ny torn down The property
Ongs to Mr.. Luther Hurst, who
built handsome residence in
ther Fart of the yard. 1t was
lted on the vest branch of TIE
ok, within the corporate limits,
was one of the landmarks OF
town.
/ is currently reported that Mr..
ry Belmont and Mr.. Thomas +.
N have signified their willing
} to give money this fall to
ire the 70 election to Congress
the conservative" Democrats
are now in that body, and that
7 will render financial assist
} in the campaigns Of "con-
alive" Democrats who seek to
seats in districts now Republi-
But they are reported to
, IN III onfrin hr that