Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-10-10
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader

VIC cdISio vi dSc COuHlJs anu
number of cattle have died within
the past week.
Tobacco growers Of Virginia and
North Carolina have decided TO
begin vigorous campaign against
the Tobacco Trust.
Yellow fever may be the foe that
the new government will have to
fear the most In Cuba, and strong
sanitary measures will be taken.
The pippin crop in Albemarle
county this ye0r he's been a most
unsatisfactory one, and, as a con-
sequence, there will be noticeable
shortage in the output Of cider.
Nearly 1000 printers and others
employed by the Methodist Book
Concern in New York and Cincin-
natl will work on an eight-hour
day basis, beginning November L.
The United States Postal Com
mission is investigating the mis-
use of postage by alleged news
papers, causing deficit Of about
S14, 100000.
Because of the wonderful pro.
duction of gold in the last four
years, the per capita circulation of
the United States is the largest
ever attained. 1t lie now S33.08 on
an estimated population of S5,-
Ola. 900.
Mrs. L. R. Clark, the trapezs
performer with the Cole Brothers
circus, who was shot In the aldo.
men in Stanton on the night of
September 9 by her husband, while
he was trying to shoot another
Snowman, died last week at the
Kings Daughters Hospital.
The month of September just
past was the hottest September in
this country in SIX years, accord
ing to the Weather Bureau sta
tistics. The mean temperature
last month was 70 degrees, that Of
1900, the hottest September in re-
cent years, being IA degrees.
The will of the late Captain
Warren S. Lurty of Harrisonburg,
which left the bulk of his property
to Miss Susie Smith, his house
keeper and nurse, was upheld in
the Circuit Court there last week.
She will get about $4,000. The
young woman declares that she
will continue at work.
A National Hickory Association
was recently organized. 1t was
formed for the purpose of protect
ing, fostering and preserving the
supply of hickory timber, which,
1t is alleged, will be exhausted in
this country in fifteen years if the
present rate of consumption con-
tinues.
The Geological Survey has made
public statistics on the production
Of coal in the United States in 1905.
From these it appears that both in
quantity and value the production
all previous records in
this country. The output amounted
to 392. 9l9,341 short tons. which
had value at the mines Of S476,-
759, 963.
Virtually 1900 men are engaged
N the meat inspection under the
new law which went into effect
On October l, and nearly 500 estab-
ishments-three times as many as
we're inspected before-are now
lnder the supervision OF the De-
oartment of Agriculture through
is representatives in all the States
md Territories.
Lost in the woods for two days
Ind two nights, without food or
alter, Mrs. Sultan Slower of 1.-Two
Tia, Pa, 70 years old, was found
N a mountain top, nine miles
rom her home by lumberman.
Ter clothing was torn from her
,ody and her hands and feet were
bleeding from the despairing efforts
he had made to find her way out.
,he will recover.
"Don't bother a bunch of stu
Tents who are merely enjoying
themselves and not molesting any
lody." This, in substance, is the
rider issued to the Boston police
8 the result of recent fracas on
he common, which laid out a too
leddlesome officer and caused
theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and three
Their Harvard men TO be hailed to
ourt. "s
The Grange Il Keysville Railway.
he Manufacturers Record is ofb
tally Informed, purposes to build
{ least 40 miles of line to run from
Ieysville Junction, on the South
RI Railway, to the crossing Of the
'idewater Railway, near the Char
otts county boundary; crossing the
Norfolk d Western Railway at
'armville and connecting with the
chesapeake & Ohio Railway via
he Willis Mountain route.
Soft soap poked down his throat
ntil every breath brought bubbles
Trough his nose and mouth, Sam
ell Dicker, an Atlantic City High
chool graduate, found life at
College too strenuous
fte- trial Of one day, and is back
t his home in the above named
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