Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-03-28
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items Of Interest for the
Busy Reader

A big party OF young men from
Pennsylvania have arrived at
Limston, Warren county, to cut
1900 acres Of timber.
General Kuropatkin says the
Russian defeats in the war with
Japan were caused by lack of pre-
paration and equipment.
President Roosevelt has decided
that he cannot interfere in the
deportation of two deserters from
the Russian Navy at San Francisco.
Arrangements have been made
for a cruise by Mrs. Roosevelt and
members of her family in West
Indian waters in the government
Yacht Mayfower.
According 10 cable dispatches
received from Rome, Thomas +.
Rysn and not j. Pierpont Morgan
'is to be the fiscal agent OF Pope
Plus in the United States. The
Vatican has at its disposal nearly
$50, 900, 900 for investment.
In less than 20 minutes time the
Senate enc day last week voted
away s140,OOO,O0O of the public
funds. The sum is carried by the
Pension Appropriation Bill, which,
being brief document, was made
thesubject of very little discussion.
Hereafter no flowers are to be
admitted to st. Agnes Cathonc
church of West Chester, Pa, in
company with the bodies of de-
&C ased persons, when macs is said
for the parishione,s. 1t is con-
sidered an evil so wasteful as to
amount to sacrilege in church.
A bulletin issued by the United
States Census Office shows that
the manufacturing industries OF
Virginia have il ress d hi ceTi
tai stock fion 3 2.2S 3d. 100
to $I47 $50 1872 II =; RI ''-
Der of wag' - go
to 80. POO; "a &c Vice O. ,L
procncts 81 80 cent.
Ire House Commit ee on Mill
tary Affsirs has decided to report
fatorably a joint resolution au-
thorizing a commission to examine
the battlefelds around Petersburg,
Va, and report whether it is adj
visable to establish q battlefield
park there. Representative Hay
! of Virginia, will make the report.
Real estate has cot been so ac-
tive in Richmond for ter years.
Property is changing hands raEid-
ly in a speculative WY and IN Lee
district has risen to boom prices.
Much speculation has taken place
! in that section, the same property
changing hands several times in
few days at an advance each sale.
A coal palace is to be built at
jamestown Exposition from the
.. various Goals mined in Virginia.
1t will be a large building aud
is expected to be beautiful. The
a; Exposition management has been
: advised that the coal operators
who devised the exhibit have
agreed TO undertake. the work OF
, erecting the palace.
1t 10 reported in London that
Waldorf Aston will marry Mrs.
! Mamie Langhorne Shaw at Il g
end of April in Virginia, and that
| they will reside at Ciiyedsn, the
Thames residence of William Wal
!, dorf Aston, which will be the we'd
+ ding gift from Mr.. Astor, who
= will also bestow upon bis son an
y income of $780, 900 yearly.
r The active career of Senator
Arthur P. German of Maryland il
6 at an end, according to friends fa-
= miliar with the nature Of the ILL
g ness which has confined him to
}, his home for the last six weeks.
n T. has been reported be ives SUI
feripg from grip tut that is not
8 said to be the fact, although the
exact nature of his ailment Is still
i kept from the public.
t Governor Swanson has received
from the u. S. Treasury three
/ warrants, aggregating SCI, S6' .4s
10 BIT distributed among the 5000
, white and colored Spanish Ameri
l can war veterans in Virginia, eacf
D: of whom will get something lik'
IS 800. The checks represent com
lie persatiOn from the period just at
% ter the volunteers were crga. lze'
to the time they we've formerly
Is mustered into the United State
lie army.
% The Tribune's ayrre' shove
e. That New York, witt p pu atioI
3 of 4o1A6j4. ras 1884 Police, 10,
N 537 saloons, and $1,000 liquc
d license. Chicago, with popula
D. ton of 1, $50. $50, has 1875 police
g 7, 500 saloons and liquor licers
81 Of only $500. Chicago has on
re policeman to every 709 ir habl
(. tants; New York has one police
W man to every 500 inhabitants
ID Chicago tas one saloon to ever
to 243 inhabitants; New York BIZ
70 one saloon 70 every 400 lnhhbl
t. tants. In January and February
Chicago had % murders; Ne
ro York had Is murders. In Janrs
D. ry and February, c icago hsc 81
ne burglaries; New York had %
W burglariss. Ii the 81 me ~onth'
a Chicago had 2lS robberies; Ne