Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1908-02-26
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The Attorney General of Iowa
has reud' red an opinion thet brew =.
eiie' cannot own saloons.
Frank CauthOrn wac found "not
guilty, but irsane," for the mur.
der of Mrs. Ada Jones at Chris
tainsb1rg.
A coroner's jury gave a vote OF
praise for bravery to Newport
News policeman who shot q negro.
Russia is taking the threat of
war with Turkey seriously and
preparations for eventualities have
been in progress for some time.
The House of Representa- tives
has accepted for the United States
the statue OF DIR. j. L. M. Curry of
Alabama, for Statuary Hall, in
the Capitol.
Protection of seed oysters is the
chief provision in the Maryland.
Virginia bill agreed on by commits.
sioners from both States in Rich.
mond.
Fearing extensive strikes, Presi.
dent Roosevelt has directed an i'm.
mediate investigation into the eau.
ses OF reduction of wages by rail.
roads.
At the annual meeting Of Tuck
egee negro conference, held last
weeS, resolutions were adopted en-.
dorslng the present temperance
movement in the South.
Shipments of coal from Newport
News to foreign ports during jan
uar amounted to 8l,504 tons, val
ued at $246. 1929, These figures do
not include fuel coal loaded by
foreign steamers.
There is q movement on foot
among Shriners of Virginia look
ing to the building in Richmond
of a large structure for the sole
use of Acca Temple. The present
quarters at Masonic Temple are
considered entirely Inadequate.
The Pullman Palace Car Co.
has decided to discontinue the sale
of liquor OF its cars In every part
of the United States, the order to
go into effect as soon as the liquors
now OF hand can be disposed of
without loss.
1t has been shown that eggs two
years old are being sold in Pitts.
burg, Pa, and vicinity as "stiict-
ly fresh" Some were examed re.
Gently which we're identified by
young man who had marked them
in 1905. 1t is said that in China
eggs a thousand years old are con-
sidered a great delicacy.
Roanoke county has appropris.
ted $1,000 for the improving a
half mile of five roads, and the
,ity is expected to connect with
hem with paved or macadamized
streets. President Jacobs, of the
Common Council, Roanoke city and
Mr.. Davis. a member of that body,
will accompany the county people
IN the inspection of the roads.
More than 800 American girls
lave married titled foreigners,
nd careful statistician has fig.
red that tribe more than $30S,
100, 900 has been taken over seas,
through cupid's Influence. This
mount does not include the for.
une of Miss Gladys Vanderbilt,
rho became the bride of Count
zechenyi of Hungary.
Secretary Taft said in New
hampshire that the time has come
'hen the DiDeIey tariff "shonld
e Te-examined with "A view to its
evision on purely protective ba-
IT," THE is an astonishing prop
sition. Hitherto even violent pro.
ectiOnists have pretended that the
aritf WAS a measure for raising
evenue.
April 22d next is the day set by
lie Estes memorial committee, OF
livingston, In Nelson county, up
n which to erect u monument to
heodore Estes. 1t is the first an.
lversary of the day upon which
lis young mah was shot by Judge
owing, at Oak Ridge Station, for
legged improper treatment of his
aughter.
1t is said that the Pennsylvania
abroad has on its lines east and
est 1000 idle cars, representing
/ investment of $77.0O0,OOO. OF
ese idle cars, which represent
,proximately 80 per cent. of the
mpany's freight car equipment,
200 are standing on the sidings
I'd yards over the system and 49,
10 are in the various shops un-
rgoing or awaiting repairs.
At meeting in the Young
ems Christian Association in
N Francisco on Sunday, Ng Poon
lew, editor OF the Chinese World,
Id nis audience that China was
Using an army of 100000 mel
drive Europeans from the EN-.
re. "But she will never menace
nerica." said the editor, "be-
use, among other things we have
lrned recently is. that the United
ates is the only nation on earth