Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-02-27
CONDENSED NEWS
BRIEF Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader

IN Action looking to the erforc,
cen ment OF 2cent railroad rate
oeing considered in three states.
old Commander Peary has anrourcs
rth that lie will seek Il e North Pol
,ta IA balloon TO be furnished b,
~ PRESIDENT Roosevelt.
:. The Senate, AZ to %. voted
" down the resolution TO unsea at Sen.
10 ator Reed Smoot OF Utah. A warm
is Debate preceded the taking OF the
vote.
ut Charles Curtis, the new United
ee states senator from Karsas, is an
Indisn. This is the first time a
-, real American has ever held such
er high office.
20 Vice President Fairbanks has
n appointed N Senator Gallinger of
o New Hampshire, and Senator
d Merlin of Virginia, members ~
y the board of visitors to the Amman.
!. oIis Naval Academy.
n Mr.. Rec efeller's gifts to sdu-
cation new total seine $40, 900. 900.
y Andrew Carnegis's gifts for II.
? oraries and universities aepre.
3 gate SOM $3.50. 900. 600, and he i.
not as wealthy man.
.It's an i'll wind that blow, No
oooy good," proverb brought TO
mind by the fact that the Tbsw
case bas inspired phiIanthropist
70 give s26o,0OO to an organizs.
Hon Tor the protection of Young
women. ''N"s
a rumor 10 current that the
railroads operating between Rich.
mond and Norfolk, instead of "a.
nn"ing ths rAilread fare from the
capital to Norfolk during the Elk.
position season, are preparing to
raise the rates to the limit.
Mr.. A. s. Johnston, editor and
proprietor of the Monroe wv. VAL
Watchman. has been indicted in
Greenbrier county for a misds.
meanor, the offence charged being
that he published M tier in b;s
newspaper libeling the court of
the latter county.
Eighteen n lies 10 said TO he RI.
longest distance al which a mans
voice has been heard. Thi, oc-
cured G. in the Grand Canyon of
Colorado, where one man shout.
Ing the name "Bob" at one end
was plainly heard at the other end
which is 1S miles away.
The "chronomegraphone" !.
Ire scientific name given to a new
apparatus invented by NJ. Leon
1aumont, of Paris. A moving
'lcture is thrown on a screen and
g the figures move the chrome
legraphore gives them speech.
We thus get combination of cin-
matograph and photograph.
A dispatch from Stanton saws:
larry Craun, who lives twenty.
x miles from Staunton, and had
ever before seen a train or street
IT. was in the city today. He
ould not leave the railroad sta.
on, expressing the fear he might
u ios1' He is otherwise very
teil'gent and was we'll dressed
ID seemed to appreciate the hu-
DR. of his situation.
In letter just made public
'vernor Swanson declines TO an
Int delegates to proposed
uthern conference on the NEGRO
estion, saying that the white
black races in Virginia are
cling together in Ieace and
rmony, that there have been no
shes and that there ore 70 good
lid ersue from conference
the one projected, go far az
ginla is concerned.
ls possible that Richmond will
porarily lose the United States
cult Court and also the Office Of
ectcr of internal revenue for
eastern district Of Virginia, on
punt OF lack OF proper facili.
Tor these institutions while
government is replacing the
'ent federal builaing with a
structure, for which an ar.
'ri"tion CT $500, coo has been
e oy Congress. Baltimore has
ady made overtures to the
'ri meat for the court, and
ok and fredericksburg have
gus on the revenue office.
ericksburg is the rome OF
'etor Lowry.
ederick Meeser, the South's
e citizen, famous as hunter,
before civilization blazed a
across the Blue Ridge noun.
) IS dead at his home in Hay
county, N. c., at the age of
ears. Messer was born AUG.
:, 1892. in Lincoln county, n.
ID In early life, when West
arollna was peopled by the
'kees, he located ir the noun.
II miles frem what is now
esville. He was hale and
'us up to few months of bis
frequently walking to
esv,lle to attend the county
and once every year, on his
ay' swimr ing the Pigeon
which runs by HE noun
'me. His age is established
thentic records. He used