Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-05-22
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al nan Ptoh MINUS uaFo shlleO.
e The American Baptist u fsion-
3 airy Unior, IT, session in Washing.
ton, will send out % new mission.
{ aries.
. The GA: of Russia has just
made contract by which the i'm.
peria palace is 10 be lighted by
electricity.
/ Mr.. William Jennings Bryan
: will neke an address before tae
e Richmond Young Mems Christian
Association On June g..
s GoverDo- Hughes Of New York,
has received an intimation that
! the Administration desires his aid
IN swinging tie State delegation
to Taft.
Republican leaders, with the
backing Of the President, are ap-
parently planning to prevent Ok
lohOmO from taking part in the
Presidential election of 1908.
The Investigation Committee re-
ports that they found that the
Republican grt fters made a profit
Of from 500 to 1000 per cent fur
nishiLg the State Capitol at Har-
risburg, Pa.
DR.. j. ID. Kirk, a Roanoke cap
italist, Was surprised Tuesday
night last, to find a month-old
male child en- his front doorstep.
The founding was placed in care
Of the police.
In speech at Manassas last
week, Carrie Nation raped 10th
great political parties, slapped a
cigarette from young mans
mouth, accused red-faced citizens
OF being "bCoze artists" and de-
clared she would smaeh more sa-
looms if the courts would stop
throwing her in Jail.
While there is but enc living
ex-President of the United States
(GrOver Cleveland) there are three
women living who bave occupied
the Executive Mansion at Wash
ingGon, at some time or other.
They are: Mrs. James A. Garfield,
Mrs. Grover Cleveland ard Mrs.
William Mckinley. Mrs. Cleve.
land lives in New Jersey, while
Ohio is the home of Mrs. Garfield
ard Mrs. Mckinley.
Glacier ice is now delivered to
some OF the larger consumers Of
Lyons and other cities of Europe.
There are so many railways in the
Al rs at present that il has been
found profitable to gather this ice
and transport it to the cities,
where it is preferred to other ice
; ecause of its hardness ard lasting
qualities. The ice lie blasted and
rined in the same Kramer as
:to.e is quarried.
Tie Evening Star OF Winches-
Ter. and the Morning News Hsm
If tfat city, have consolidated,
he combined papers to be c0utin-
leo as the Evening Star, with
nr. Il. +. Byrd as president and
general maneger. Winchester
ould not support Two psrerf,
hcugh repeated eEorts in that di-
ection have teen made. and now
he Stsr which Is most eredi-
able evening paper. has the
eld.
1t would appear from the state
lent of the japanese An bassador
D France that his government
ces not tOvet possession Of the
philippines, and would be willing
} put such renunciatOry pur.
Ose into treaty form. II seems
lat TO other nation is willing 70
Ike this burden from the United
tates eEd in the long run this
orernment ray be biged to turn
yer the whole archipelago t. iha
ghtful owners.
Senator Tillman in "a recent IN
rylew at Atlanta, Ga, nomi-
ties Bryan and Daniel as his tick
fer the presidential campaign
,xt year. BE thinks that while
e South has mary statesmen of
e highest ability, fitted in every
~ fer the presIdeT cy. yet be
es not think the time cpportune
place II Southern man at the
nd Of the ticket. He believes
at Daniel as rrnniag nate
tn Bryan would make the
or gest ticket the Democracy
aid select. He also mentions
thereon of Texas. or Hoke
nth of Georgia, as fit running
ties with Mr.. Bryan.
Because of alleged neglect of
wife tor Grace Colts, who has
IN boarding at the Newcomb
ne in north Winchester, party
about thirty young uen masked
white caps, caught William
wcOmb Monday night and ad-
sound tbEas hing
h hickory branches. Tar and
theirs we're also prepared by
Their crowd, bus Newe0mb man
d to escape, Newcomb has
e and SIX children, and is abe ut
" years ole. He reared the
girl from infsncy. New
ID has been notified By the
tie caps to stop his attentions
the girl or he will be treated 10
end feathers.