Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-08-08
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader

Is never any use TO MIN.
President Roosevelt has con-
tributed 81 to the fund of the Re-
publican congressional committee.
AS long as a man wins in the
stock market We call him a srecu-
latOr, but when he goes broke, a
gambler.
If woman cant think Of any
thing else to be miserable about
she will go away from home so as
to worry over the children.
The agricultural department at
Richmond il overwhelmed with APP
pile atoms for laborers for farms in
various portions of the State.
The Pennsylvania Railroad an
nouhces reduction of from "A
and 3 to p cents mile ON one-way
tickets and 2 cents a mile on
thousand.mile tickets.
Attorneys for Campbell county
landowners declare the charter
of the Norfolk and Western Rail-
road does not confer the right Of
eminent domain.
An Archaeological addressed a
letter to the Pope, calling upon
him to open the tomb of st. Peter
and settle doubts as to the exist
ence OF the grave.
Governor Swanson has ordered
a rigid examination of the bad
behavior of two companies Of the
seventy first regiment which pass
ed through North Carolina Friday
afternoon en- route to the Chicka-
manga encsmpment.
Condemned murderers "Bud"
WilIisms and Cornelius Combs,
negroes, now awaiting death in the
jail at Pittsburg, Pa, on Septem.
Der 9th, have decided to shoot a
game of craps to decide which
shall take precedence over the
other on the fatal dsy.
The official notice Of the State
Corporation Commission to the
railways doing business in Virgin
ia, that the commission proposes
to promulgate fat two cent rate
tor all manner of passenger trans
portation in this State, regardless
Fof anything that has been done
or may be done concerning the
Churchman two-cent mile act. has
attracted no little attention.
Commissioner L. W. Lane, Jr.,
Of the State Hospital Board, IS
asking for plans for tho rroPvseu
epileptic hospital opposite Lynch
burg, on James river. in Amherst
county. The successful architect
will have to supervise the construc-
ton of the buildings. The Legisla-
ture appropriated $25, 600 for this
work. Colonel Lane resides at
Williamsburg.
A league of citizens has been
formed in Norfolk to bring to the
jamestown Exposition all tie
national conventions possible dur
ing the coming year. A big fund
is being raised for the purpose of
defrayIng the cost of entertaining
the delegates. The convention
league has engaged offices and has
inaugurated a strenuous campaign
for contributions.
Mr., John II. Alexander, a pro-
minent member Of the Leesburg
bar and q noted member of Mosby's
command, has recently written a
book on the daily life ard eyperl-
ences in camp and battle of the
members OF that famous band,
entitled "Mosby's Men," 1t has
been we'll received, ard the incl
dents recorded therein have the APP
prevail of Colonel Mosby.
Dr.W w. Smith, president of the
Randolph-Macon Woman's College
of Lynchburg, has been officially
notified that the Carnegie founda-
ton for the advancement Of teach
ling has found that college to
measure up 10 its collegiate stan
dards and has voted to place 1t
upon the permanent list of lpslitu-
tions entitled to retiring pension
for their professors.
The project Of building railroad
under Behring Straits seems to be
again assuming shape. A dispatch
from Paris says that in ac'
cordance with an order issued by
the En peror of Russia, the Ameri-
can syndicate, represented by
Baron Loicq de Lobel, is authorlz-
ed to begin work on the Trans
Siberian Alaska Railroad project.
The proposed route is Intended to
be a link to connect a new around
the-world route by railroad and
steamer which will make it possible
to travel from New York to Paris
by railroad.
In the presence of Annie Laurie
Poole. the beautiful ffteen'year'
old daughter of prominent AT.
lauta, Ca, family, whom he had
assaulted, Floyd Carmichael, a
negro, was literally shot 70 pieces
last Wednesday afternoon by the
male relatives of the girl. When
: the negro fell, cut and torn by a
hundred bullets, it was proposed
to burn the bleeding remains, and
steps were taken to kindle fire,
) but the relatives of the outraged
girl decided not to 60 to this ex'
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