Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1908-05-06
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reauei

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mail from Baltimore.
District Attorney jerome II New
York has admitted that duricg his
term Of Office no evidence regard
ing campaign contributions had
been laid before grand jurles.
1t is said by friends of w. j.
Bryan that Admiral Winfield Scott
Schley will be offered the Secre.
taTyship Of the navy in case the
Nebraskan is elected president.
According TO the police census
just taken the population Of Wash
ington is 339, 403, an increase of
1912 over last year. There are 24l,
800 whites ana 81, 4S9 negroes.
All the Federal ofiiceholders,
from President Roosevelt down, ore
confidently predicting the nomina-
ton of Secretary Taft or the first
and only bcllot in the Chicago
Convention.
1t is reported In New York that
Governor Hughes may retire from
the presidential race in favor Of
Taft, providing Roosevelt will eX-
ert his influence toward the pas
sage of the race track gambling
bills.
In the latest message Of Press
dent Roosevelt he describes non
sler of an American multi-million
aire with IA hard and cruel face
and a soft body, whose son Is IA
fcol and whose daughter is a for
eign princess.
A man dropped dead IN New
YORK street car yesterday after Of
fering his seat to woman. In
Philadelphia, says the North
American of that city. it's the wo-
man who droEs dead when any.
thing like that happens.
Persons said to be identified with
Virginia Railway. the road being
built from the coal fields 10 tho
sea by Henry H. Rogers, are look.
lLg over Roanoke with view, il Is
said. of piping natural gas t. that
city from Clay county, West Nir-
gina.
The Masonic Carnival, which
has Just closed at fredericksburg,
was II pronounced success, having
realized in the neighbOrhood of
SO, 900 for the fund towards the
erection Of a Masonic Temple o.
memorial to George Washington,
who was made a Mason in Feeder
icksburg lodge.
Public protest against the high
prices prevailing fer fresh meat,
particularly beef and mutton, is
taking a form in Chicago little to
the liking of the wholesale and re.
tail dealers. Not in many years
las the public generally objected
so vigorously to the extravagant
values they are called on to pay
for meets.
NansemoEd county Democrats
asst Saturday took \ stab at the
Virginia primary system. In
mass meeting they went on record
as opposed to the system which,
its speakers said, was a breeder of
rancor and discord, promoter of
pernicious effects, and whose OPP
eratlons are endangering Demo-
crotic supremacy in the State.
Mt. Etna is emitting huge col
umns of black smoke, accompanied
by rumbling. Ashes have fallen
in considerable quantity, damag.
ing the crops in the surrounding
country. There were slight earth
quakes Throughout yesterday, es-
pecially at Lingua G!ossa and
Santa Veronica. Mount Etna is
completely covered with snow.
Wilson Bryant, of Dickinson
equity, serving a life sentence for
murder in the penitentiary, on
Monday night dyed his clothes
with shoe polish and oil and made
a break for liberty. He was seen CO
top Of high fence AID ordered
back. He jumped for liberty and
was shot to death by the guard,
lie was a desperate man and had
previously tried to escape.
An arrangement has been consul
mated bv which Industrial Agent
+. II. Lacbaume, Of tie Norfolk
and Western Railway, and manu-.
lacturers of beet sugsr in Colora-
do will make extensive experiments
in the Valley of Virgioia and in
tie SOuthwes; for the purpose Of
-aecertalnlng whether or not these
sections will support factories for
the manufacture of sugar.
-Four armei men few days ago
held up guards who We're convey
lug $lS, 900 from Welch Ia Gary,
W. Va, to pay of ,he empIoy1s of
the United States Coal and Coke
Company, sndsidisry company 81
tls United States Steel Corpora
ton. The oney had been shipped
by the Mcdowell County National
Bank at We!ch There is 40 clue 10
the robbers, but sheriff r posse r.
securing the surrounding country.
The first of the State buildings
To be torn down and removed from
the jamestown Exposition grounds
will be thst erected by New Jersey.
A bill has passed the Legislature
Of that State calling for the remov-