Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-12-19
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Chicago banks have earned over
s1l, 900, 900 during the year, the
most prosperous in their history.
A Montana man now living in
Ohio is said to have married six
sisters in turn, five having died
shortly after marriage.
The book on trial marriages IL
the literary sensation of the season;
but book telling the truth about
marriage trials would outsensation
it.
Senator Raynor, of Maryland, in
an able argument, attacked Prssi-
dent Roosevelt's contention regard
ing the exclusion OF the Japanese
from the San Francisco schools.
The quAdricentsnDial Of Bal
boa's discovery Of the Pacific fur
nishos San Francisco With a ham
DIV peg on which to hang her
scheme for q worlds fair in 1918.
1t is stated in Honolulu and has
been reported to the Government
at Washington that two regiments
OF japanese, completely differed,
are in Honolulu disguised as la
bcFers.
The Virginia Corporation Com
mission after a thorough investi-
gaticn In Richmond. placed the
blame for the Thanksgiving Day
wreck on the Southern railwey on
Operator G. d. Mattox.
Prisoners In the Norfolk Jail
have been been put to work on the
jamestown boulevard. Those in
} all the other jails should be put to
work at once building and repair
: ing the roads throughout the State.
} Edward A. Carper was electro
cutsd in Roanoke Sunday night in
the bathroom eff his home In that
city by attempting to turn on an
electric light while standing d.
reotly over the the radiator.
The peculiar actions of two dogs
led to the finding of the body Of
!, Mr.. Henry A. Smith, who had
killed himself by accidehtly dis.
|, , charging a pistol in his pocket,
. near Baltimore. One dog stood
,, guard, it ia thought, ell night.
a Andrew Carnegie, in an address
before the National Civic FEEDER.
. alton Of New York said be be-
. lieved that tho major portion OF
, the estates Of enormously wealthy
, men should 60 to the State upon
the death of the possessor Of the
n fortune.
A bill has been introduced in
e the House to prevent members OF
T Congress from being employed by
t public service corporations. The
passage of this bill might lessen
8 the number Of scandals in which
o members of Congress 80 frequsnt-
= ~ figure.
d Henry Watterson advises the
y President to get back to the Con-
t stitution, but that would be to de-
. sert his party and join the Demo.
9 Gratis. He likes a good deal of
democracy and is not above APP
Il propriatlng what he wants Of It,
. but he doesn't like the democracy
q enough to put up with the Consti-
tuition.
The United States government
= has been overcharged $40, zoo, 600
by the railroads during the last
n ten years for carrying the mails,
K according to a statement made In
!. the House by Representative Vic
tor Murdoch, of Kansas. During
= the consideration Of the legisls tive
. bill, Mr.. Murdoch explained in de-
n tail how various roads had made
false averages Of the daily weight
J. of mails.
, In recognition of courtesies ex-
= tended the Seventy first Virginia
o Regiment while il was in camp az
q the old Fourth VIrginia Regiment
= at the Nashville Exposition, years
II ago, the regiment was ordered ous
s as an escort to Governor Cox OF
n Tennessee, on the occasion. OF the
" presentation OF the silver csrvice,
IT tie gift Of the State of Tennessee,
y to the armored cruiser OF that
n name in Hampton Roads, Satur-
u day.
The committee appointed by
: Bishop futile, bishop of the Protss-
10 tant Episcopal church In America,
j to cooperate with like commit
tee of he Church Of England, APP
:, =, pointed by the Archbishop OF Can
. terbury to arrange services in 1907,
" comm en- orative Of the first plant
&c ing OF the church OF Anglo-Sax-
. ons in Ar erica, have fixed October
;" 18th as the date upon which the
81 81 General Epie copal Convention
~ shall go to jamestown Island fol
- special services, while the conven'
~ ton is in session at Richmond, Va.
: next year.
!, 1t is learned from President w
W. Finley. of the Southern Rail
way Company, that, owing to the
n. crowded condition OF some Of 1T
n single track lines and the double
At track work, including the revision
ss of grades and alignment, now un
IL der way for the purpose of reliev
N ing the crowded condition OF thu