Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1908-09-16
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader

Mrs. Russell Sage and Miss Anna
Warner have given the govern
ment Constitution Island. in the
Hudson, to be added to the West
Point reservation.
Bishop Hood, of Fayetteville, N.
c., the oldest bishop in the Afri-
can Methodist Episcopal Church,
has Issued O statement in which
he advises the colored voters to
stand by the Republican party.
Somebody has called attention
to the fact that man never was in.
tended to smoke pipe or cigar,
otherwise nature would have made
him with chimney in the back Of
his head.
Someone who is apt at figures
has shown that New York city to-
day is larger In population than III
different states and territorities,
and further chat within a radius
of 20 miles are living over 10000,
900 people.
Jacob S. Coxey, who led the
army of unemployed men from his
home at Mt. Vernon, o., to Wash
ington, fourteen years ago, an
nounces that he intends to work
for the Popnlist party and for the
election of Thomas Watson during
the presidential campaign.
Mystery surrounds.t the visit at
Norfolk of Prince Ranji Smile.
whose nativity is Kelat, Beluchis-
tan. The prince arrived from At
antlc City with Z attendants and
% trunks. When seen by repor-
ter be declined to make any state
ment regarding his visit to that
section.
Lee Strother, colored, will be the
last man to go to the gsllows by
court order in Virginia. He was
hanged last Friday in Madison
county for attempted criminal as.
sault upon white girl, Governor
Swanson refusing to grant BIN a
further respite. Electrocution at
ter this will be the mode of capital
punishment in Virginia.
, Nine thousand tons of English
walnuts is the estimate of experts
on this seasons yield in southern
,, California. This will be the largest
! crop ever harvested, and 1000 tons
more than last year. Weather con-
ditions have been extremely favor
able and unless blight or an unus-
7 uaIy hot summer should develop
(which is hardly probable any
more this sumner) it is expected
the harvest will exceed even this
J estimate.
DR.. William Osler, for many
years a resident of Baltimore, but
q now Regius Professor of Medicine
a at Oxford University. England,
o will likely be elected Lord Rector
q of the University of Edingburg.
: This hoEor Is said to be coming to
DR.. Osler on account of the won.
dertul work he has done at Oxford,
and is only given to men who have
2, especially distinguished them
It selves in the United Kingdom fol-
e conspicuous service liz the world oil
Is learning, politics or PHILANTHROPY
IS According to a well-known at.
l. torney of Hampton, the Republl'
e, can national com mittee has decided
'e to make an attempt to have the
G. veterans vf the National Soldiers
IS Home registered for participation
Re in the approaching national ano
y congressional election of citizens
< of Elizabeth City county. This at
I, torney states that he has been re
Is tanned TO represent the old soldiers
IL and that he believes he is going L
10 win his fight to have them declared
lie eligible for registration in thu
;" county.
/" Alexandria Gazette: Some o
the State papers are disposed to lie
the gubernatorial campaign res
10 till the presidential election i
~ over. This is most excellent ide
20 20 and should be adopted. 1t is ba'
v. enough to be on with new cam
70 paign as soon as we are of wit
the other, but combination o
~ two or more ls dreadful. Only tn
i politicians and those who hope {
ly be benefited personally thereb
70 would lnlict such a condition G
y affairs upon a long.suifering from
ha elections people.
of The graOd jury at Roanoke ha
err indicted ". S. Gregory, a wealth
n dentist, for assault on Miss Thee
W: dore U. Irvine while she was p'
tient under the influence Of cnlor'
form in his office July %. Miss l
vine's home is in New York cit,
by She was visiting friends in RoaI
oke when the alleged outrage vi
he con- mitted on her. DR.. GregoI
ria has maintained that the assau
ma was immagine d while the pate
NJ was under the influence of chlor
to- form and that he is innocent. /
m is at liberty on $4,000 bail.
le- Judge William Hodges Mann
les Nottoway, one Of the promine
DO candidates fer the Democrat
do nomination for Governor, is grea
10, ly displeased concerning certa
a recent newspaper stories, which
aid declares, place him in false llg
hofora tha naorla of V!rglnl