Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-04-18
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Indications point 70 tue post
ponement of the Hague Peace Con-
: ference, ana it may not meet until
next year.
jones A. Bailey, the Snowman,
, formerly of Barnum and Bailey, is
dead at his home in Mount Vernon,
N. Y, Of erysipelas.
1t is learned that John brooke
Teller has planned to build ST.
600, GOO house at Tsrrytown as a
present to his new grandson when
he becomes of age.
Ihe President has sent a mess-
age Of coincidence to the King Of
Italy upon the havoc ard loss Of
life resulting from the eruption Of
Vesuvius.
a petition signed by over 400
people has been filed with the
clerk Of the City Council of Roam
oke, asking that the Sc looms be
closed at 10 o'clock, instead Of at
midnight, as heretofore.
The American Peace Society, in
a Communication to the President,
urging that the Pan-Amerlcan
Congress at Rio be made force
| for peace in the Western Hemis-
pierre.
Partial success has attended the
efforts of the surgeons to restore
sight to Wilton Heinard by graft
ing the membrane and cornea Of q
rabbits eye to his. He can now
distinguish between daylight and
darkness.
A parrot gave an alarm Of fire
recently in the fashionable board
ing house in New York, and saved
life and property. The blaze
broke out on the third floor while
the occupants were at dinner. The
parrot screeched loudly, attract
ing the diners.
Officials of the Pennsylvania
Railroad admitted to the Interstate
Commerce Commission in Phiia-
delphia that "the traffic associa.
lions" of the railroad control the
rates on coal, and 'fix"them with
the object of maintaining the price
of coal.
The Junior Order of America
Mechanics throughout the State
of Virginia have prepared a
voluminous petition protesting
against the present immigration
laws being made less stringent, end
it has been forwarded to Senator
Martin, with the request that he
give it his attention.
A party of Baltimore sportsmen
have leased the Rafting Springs
property on the Potomac above
Harpers Ferry and will make
fishing resort of it, 1t will be
known as the jefferson Fishing
Club and the property will be used
exclusively for the pleasure Of the
club mem beis and their friends.
A dispatch from Washington
says: The salaries and expenses
of the Spanish Treaty Claims Com
mission with cost of defending
suits before the Commission total
ed $5S7, 500, while the awards
were but $50, 74O. This was the
report made to the House by Secre-
tary Shaw.
The town Of Abingdon, Va,
last Thursday abe lished saloons
by popular election, and endorsed
the dispensary system, which will
be innaugurated May l. Abing-
don 10 one of the eldest towns in
Virginia and at oRe time voted out
whiskey, but later re-established
the saloon.
Randolph Jordan, colored, he'd
been the sexton of Market Street
Methodist church, Petersburg, for
about 40 years. He was buried
with distinguished honors from
his own chu CHI, colored institu
ton, few days ago. TIE stew
ards of the Msrket street church
which he had served SC faithfully,
sent floral designs, ard the white
stewards were his rallbearers.
White men and women filed ell
the space set apart for them in the
church.
Representative Charles A.Towne
Of New York, delivered an eloquent
speech liz the House CT Rep esenta
tives in support of the jamestown
1t would be difficult
he said, to ovsrestimate the sign
fic ance of the event it is proposed
TO celebrate. Citing the great
events of American history, the
struggle for liberty, and the pro.
gress Of the republic, ne said no
one could say how much of that
in which we take pride would have
been had not our early history
been made by precisely the men
who did make it.
For the fret time, 80 far Gs
known, in the history of the
churches in Raleigh, N.
j., there WIS Wednesday after
loon administered to two young
aides the rite of baptism by i'm
nersion, this in the church OF the
Good Shepherd. The young ladies
ire students of the Baptist Uni
,ersity for Women, and it was
heir desire that they be thus
and this was acceded to,
70 in the Episcopal church, while
he usual course is baptism by