Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-05-09
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items Of Interest for the
Busy Reader

CATION Of the election of Mrs.
Morris from the White House.
A syndicate Of New York
capitalists has been formed to
advance 100000, 900 for the re-
building of San francisco on a
bond and mortgage basis.
All the Virginia delegation in
Congress favored the proposition
to have the government continue
the present method Of distributing
seeds among the farmers.
The hotels Of New York are
closed to Maxim GoTky and now he
cannot secure public hall in
Boston, in which to make his
socialistic speeches.
The German government has
proposed june % next az the date
for the first meeting of the inter
national Conference az Berlin to
consider the regulation Of wireless
telegraphy.
That Russia is playing a deep
game in the East 10 shown by the
newspapers being forbidden to
publish news concerning the
rehabilitation Of the army and the
movement Of troops in Marchuria.
Importan measures, including
the dispensary bill, passed at the
last session of the Virginia Legis-
lature, are. according to John j.
Stuart of Washington county, UNI
constitutional.
The Taylor Hotel at Winchester,
one of the oldest and most historic
landmarks in Virginia, was closed
last week. Years ago the Taylor
Hotel was the leading hostelry in
the Valley of Virginia.
Fred L. Jackson of st. Louis,
traded his wife, forty-one years
old and the mother of six children,
for the twenty year old wife of j.
NJ. Mosby, farmer, according to
allegations en- which Mosby has
been arrested.
The Cologne Gazette Gays that
the American steel companies have
proposed to the German steel COM
panles to cooperate in supplying
the extraordinary demands fer
structural steel in rebuilding San
Francisco.
The Danvlle Military Institute,
one OF the best known educational
institutions in the South. has sus-
pended two weeks before the close
of the regular session. This sus-
pension is due to financial embar-
easement, but to what extent the
school is involved is not known.
Captain Richmond Pearson Hob
son OF Alabama, who recently won
congressional nomination by de
feating Representative Bankhead
at the primaries, is in the field
az a presidential candidate. His
principal hacker is LIB. Musgrove,
who managed Hcbson's congress
sional campaign.
r. L. Payne of Spotsylyania
county, Va, has an earthen pitcher.
which be says nee been in his
family FOR ore hundred and fifty
years. The story has been handed
down that George Washington, in
his campaign in the Revolutionary
War, stopped at the hore of his
ancestors and drank milk from this
pitcher.
A bond issue of $50, OO0 has been
voted by majority of the citizens
of Leesbarg for the purpose of
erecting a standripe and supplying
the town with a gravity system of
waterworks. The standpipe will be
erected on the highest elevation
within the corporate limits, and by
December | the system will he in
in full operation.
The druggist OF Portsmouth are
much incensed at the order OF
Mayor Reed forbidding them sell
ing soda water, ice cream, cigars
and so forth on Sunday, and may
decide to close their stores alto
gether on Sundays to make the
order Of the Mayer all the more
Objectionable to the people. The
druggists think the order will
drive people to Norfolk on Sun
days.
United States secret service
agents closed for the first time in
lorty years the Honduras lottery,
continuation CT the Louisian
lottery, with headquarters in Wilm-
ington, Del. After forty years Of
continued, unmolested prosperity,
netting half a million dollars a
month to its hackers, this lottery
received it's death blow recently
by the seizure Of its three head
quarters. These were located at
New York, Gloucester, N. j., end
Wilmington.
AS n result of tine late decision
of the supreme court of the Uuited
States, the divorce which Mrs.
Mamie Largborne Shaw obtained
several years ago from her husband,
Mr.. Robert G. Shaw, second, Of
Boston, has been subjected to the
closest legal scrutiny. At the
initiative of Mrs. SLaw, her
recent marriage to VIM. Waldorf
Aston was postponed in order that
even the slightest dorbt CT the
validity of the divorce might be
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