Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-08-22
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DOh U CiAOiCIIo JONf HelSHOOF !;
set him an example.
Forest fires are sweeping great
areas in Northern Minnesota.
There is much excitement in
Stanley county, n. c., over the
discovery Of oil and natural gas.
King Edward has gone to Ger
many to confer with Emperor Will
liam on the Russian situation.
The Government will erect a
$4,000 monument at jamestown
and will give 800, 600 for large
negro exhibit at the Exposition.
The Sultan Of Morocco intends
to transfer tine capital from Fee to
Morocco city, owing to the strategic
insecurity Of the former.
The Shah of Persia is institut.
ing widereaching reforms includ-
ing a call for a national assembly
composed of the representatives of
all classes.
The trial Of the first of the San
Francisco insurance cases, involv-
ing an earthquake clause, hos
begun. The companies will demand
a jury trial in each case.
Kansas winter wheat crop is
estimated at 9I,3S5, 676 bushels.
and the spring wheat crop will
swell this total to over 100000.
600, breaking all records.
Although his heart has been cut
out and keld in the hand of a
surgeon fer the space of six pulse
beats, A. Mccartney of Los
Angeles, Cal, lie still alive and re.
gaining strength rapidly.
a man In Massachusetts, lately
underwent an operation for the
removal of a cherry stone, which
was found to have sprouted. This
wins the championship from the
the original cherry-tree story.
The statistics kept by the Balti-
more police department STOW that
for the period from January /,
1906, to last Saturday, inclusive,
there have been 90 cases OF suicide
in that city and ~ attempts at
suicide.
Sharks have been frequenting
Urbanna Greek, near the mouth Of
the Reppahannock river and
bathers are shy about venturing
far in the water. Preparations are
being made to shoot the sharks
when they appear again.
The Virginia State penitentiary
has adopted the Bertillon system
of measuring prisoners for idsnti-
fcation and J. NJ. Nye, Of the
Federal prison, Is there instructing
Thomas X. Kemper, of the peniten-
tiary force, who will have charge
of the apparatus.
Two thousand divorces each
year has been Chicago's average
for the last two decades, accord
ing to G.. NJ. Pond of the United
States Census Bureau, who is in
charge of tai irg the "diyorce
This shows a serious
condition of affairs which seems to
be growing worse.
William J.Bryan in a statement
given out in Paris concerning his
demand for the resignation Of
Roger Sullivan as national COM
from Illinois, declares
that if the committee il unable to
rid itself of the leadership of such
men as Sullivan it might as well
dissolve.
Mr.. Alex. Clohan. president Of
the West Virginia State and
Berkeley County Horticultural So.
,ieties, says the peach industry
ii Berkeley county has been
practically wiped out by the spread
IF "yellows" and "brown rot
among the orchards, and that every
richard in the county will be
uined unless immediate and heroic
measures are taken to eradicate
he disease.
Hundreds Of birds roosting in
he trees were drowned on their
,erches in the awful rain storm OF
sunday night in Norfolk. their
lead bodies fairly littering the
idewalks when people began to be-
tir themselves Monday. In the
uburb; birds were drowned in
ven geater numbers than in the
ity. Only those which sought
under the caves of the
ouses escaped. 1t was the worst
torn that has visited that section
q ten years, and the volume of
ain smashed all previous records
or that locality.
During one Of the heavy storms
hat visited the Piedmont, WA,
sgiOn last week lightning played
queer prank on George K.
howers' tomato crop. Mr.. Showers
as been in the habit of planting
is tomatoes in rows Of about 300
Iants, tied to wire running from
Dst to post. On Friday lightning
ruck one of the wires connecting
lie whole system, and, passing
ong the entire line, destroyed
,out 100 bushels of tomatoes
bout ready for marketing. AL
,getation touched by the wires
as killed..
One of the latest big undertake
gs in electric rallroading is that