Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1908-04-01
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items OF Iuterest tor the
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By his wife, secretary and other
members of his family, arrived ia
Richmond, Va, "a few days ago.
President Roosevelt has directed
that the publication "La QUESTION:
5ociale" be excluded from the
mails and suppressed In every way
possible.
Itw said in Portland, Me. tina
the real reason for Congressman
Littlefield's resignation was the
growing sentiment against prohi.
bition in Maine.
At the registrars ofties 80 the
University o: Virginia the total en.
Tollmtnt, rs Of February Is. was
T78, exactly equaling the enroll.
ment at the same time last year.
Leading citizens OF Central
kentucky are circulating petitions
urging the President to interior
to the end of stopping the tobacco
war outrages.
The House Of Representatives.
have recently passed bill
which will end betting on horse rs-
ces IL the District of Columbia, ii
concurred in by the Senate ana
signed by the President.
The State Commissioners to the
jamestown Exposition will ask the
extension of the option time limits
to the State building sites for six.
ty or ninety days, in order to have
additional time in which to dis.
pose of their properties. The op-
tiOns expire on May Attn.
Without any opposition what.
ever, ex-GovernoE John Walter
Smith was nomint ted to fill out the
unexpired term II United States
Senator william Finkney Wythe,
by the Democratic members of the
Maryland Legislature In caucus
last Tuesday night,
Statistics complied by Michi-
gan newspaper editor show the
lumber output of that State last
year was less than half that of the
banner year, 1883, and that the
supply will be exhausted in 80
years unless reforestation be ex-
tensively adopted.
According to the Houston Post
a Dallas man has come home late
seventy eight nights in succession
with a different explanation each
time that was perfectly satisfec.
tory to his wife. A man like that
really ought to be in the diplomatic
service of his country.
For the erection of a death
chamber at the State penitentiary
and its equipment with ali electric
chair and machinery for the cleo.
trocution of prisoners, the sum OF
$4,000 has been appropriated, to be
expended under the direction of
rhe penitentiary authorities,
Thereafter, as heretofore, stated,
the gallows will be abolished.
Poisoned by placing an indelibls
pencil in her mouth, Miss Mary
Shales, Of Plains, near Wilkes
barre, Penn, died after three
weeks of suffering. The young lady
was a clerk in a laundry, and II
was her duty to mark articles az
hey were received. She did this
With an indelible pencil, which
he mOistened with her tongue
many hundreds of times a day.
DR., and Mrs. Thomas Nelson
Page. OF Washington, have placed
$50, 900 at the disposal Of the Uai-
Versity of Virginia for the estab-
ishment of a permanent lecture
to be known as the
Foundation, 10
memory OF the donors and the
,reat.grandfather Of Mrs. Page.
Governor james BarbO,x, OF VIZ
sinia.
The decision Of the u. 5. Sn.
Dreme Court against the reduced
passenger rate clause of North
Carolina is yariously viewed as to
The bearing it will have on the
Virginia rate case. Lawyers are
BADLY divided. The Attorney Gen
.ral will not be quoted, but IL Is
understood that he thinks Virgin.
Ia's case is not ON all fours with
the Carolina case, and that Virgin
ia may hope for favorable deci-
sion on the other hand. A member
# the Supreme Court is said 70
nave expressed most gloomy view
,s TO the outlook for Virginia.
From actor to evangelist; from
The stage to the pnlplt. This is the
,hange of role and scene made by
Robert Downing, who last Sunday
ilght preached here his fret ser
non in his new character at Nc
Kendree Methodist Episcopal
church in Washington. The robust
ioics that has been heard by 30
many thousands during the last
20 years In the lmpersoEation Of
and the Gladiator stands
Downing in good stead, and he
made forceful impression on the
audience that packed the large
Representative Lamb has intro.
iuced bill in Congress granting
/ pension OF 800 u month to Mrs.
widow of Gen. Geo. +.
Ofokaff uho onmmaadad fha Gan.