Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-11-27
coNDENsED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
fusy Reader

tusy Reader
Tie New YpIF State macl.ine is
worFicg for Coz 'lyou t. Offset
Hughes sentiment.
Owing TO "a scarcity Of army off,
GERS, the ser Tor class at West Point
may be graduated months ahesd
Of time.
President Roosevelt will spend
Thanksgiving Day at Montpelier,
tie old home of James Madison, In
Virginia.
Congressman Tawney says the
trip Of his committee to Panama
will save S! 900, 0C0 on next years
expenses.
"A letter supposed to indicate
plot 10 kill John D. Rockefeller
Yves fonnd in the Omaha postofflce
few day ago.
s. Eight thousand workmen in
navy yards will probably lose their
jobs SOON after the battleship feet
sails for the Pacific.
Vice Consul Gassett, at Kobe,
Japan, has reported to the State
Department that bubonic plague
has made its appearance at 0saks,
the largest manufacturing city in
japan.
Mrs. A. ROssner of GOodhue,
Miss, has became the mother of
the sixth pair of twins since 1898.
She is now the mother Of twenty
five children. President Roose.
welt was at once notified by the
proud father.
Senator Thomas S. Martin, in an
interview q few days ago, said
that in his opinion the country is
too prosperous to justify any ex-
tended period of depression
and he believed Virginia banks are
in excellent condition, go far as
solvency is concerned.
Under the new two cent psssen.
ger rate of Georgia, the Atlanta
and West Point Railroad has
earned l7.9 pei cent increase In
passenger rates during the month
If September. A pretty good arg
Iment that reduced rates will not
bankrupt the railroads.
The people of Greenbrier and
Monroe counties, West Virginia,
)aid the fine of $50 and all costs
n the case Of Editor A. 5. john
on Of the Monroe Wstchman,
Who was indicted for lbellIng
Judge Joseph W. K. Bennett.
Judge Bennett presided over the
the trial.
The Alabama House General
Prohibition bill was passed by the
'enate, only two senators voting
gainst it. The residents Of Mo-
lie, where the opposition to the
i'll centered, held a mass meeting,
t which it was proposed to take
teps to secede from Alabama, and
teach the city to either Florida or
Mississippi.
There will he no more trouble
18th Japan, as the President in
is diplomatic way has had two
CELEBRATED Japanese wrestlers to
o bout for bin aG the White
Iouse. No greater honor could
ave been conferred or the Japa-
csc people, as their wrestlers
aud next in line to their Emper.
: and Princess as "honOrable
en-"
The crew Of the battleship Vir-
mia has teen presented with
Kaleidoscope and NOV
x picture machine, which vas
ought through subscriptions
used by Nrs. j. Taylor EIlys)n,
lie wife of the Lieuteuant-G0v.
nor of Virginia, during her stay
the jamestown Exposition last
mn err. Tie machIre will also
used by Chaplain Stevenson to
ustrate his lectures.
The following statistics were pre-
ntcd to the Virginia Conference,
ethodist Episcopsl Church, South,
the Conference last week in
.tersburg: Loca! preachers, 90;
IN bers, l0I. 807; infants hap
ed, 9l5; adults taptised, 1878;
w orth Leagues. 100; Epwcrth
sgue members, 4,l9b; number
Sunday schools, 7SO; officers
d teachers, S,665; scholars en-
lei during year, SO, 2Ot; paid
esiding elders, $50, 27022; paid
eacheIs, 1922, Gall; mum Der Of
,ieties, 1917 houses of worship,
B value Of houses OF worship,
1913, 600; insurance on same,
80, G98; number of pastoral
argos, PAT; parsonages, 1871;
mter of residing elLer districts,
district parsonages, 3. he re.
TT alec gave detailed educational
tistics showing fetal of ll2
GERS and teachers and 1915
dents at the Women's College
Lynchburg,, the academy at
dford City, the institute at
and the institute at
nville. The total value OF the
FUNDS and buildings belonging
these institutions is 1888, 334. SO,
Ii a total endowment OF $780,