Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1908-01-22
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest tor the
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Busy Reader
The question Of increasing the
liquor Licenses to $4,000 is before
the Lynch6urg council.
The Senate has adopted another
resolution calling upon Secretary
Cortelyou for information concern
ing the recent bond and note
issues
The Senate's rejection of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's appointments Of
Ohio postmasters shows strong
combination of Senators against
the Taft candidacy.
Bishop Alpheus w Wilson, Of
the Southern Methodist Episcopal
Church. has returned TO HE home
In Baltimore after a trip around
the world, in which he covered APP
proximately 1000 miles.
Gen. Stephen d. Lee, comman.
der-in- chief of the United Confed.
crate Veterans, is opposed to the
proposed reunion Of the Blue and
Gray in Washington as imprudent
and endangering good feeling.
william Pinkney Whyte has
been elected United States Senator
from:Maryland for the short term.
Former Governor John Walter
Smith was elected for the long
term.
Col. James Ryder Randall, au-
thor of maryland, My Maryland"
and many other poems, died at his
home In Augusta, Ca, last week,
after a short illness. He was born
in Baltimore in 1889.
Yoshiro Sakatani minister OF fl
nance, and Issburo Yamsgata,
minieter of communications of the
Japanese Cabinet, have resigned
and the collapse of the entire nit
Istry was narrowly cverted,
In transmitting to Congress the
report of Provisional Governor Ma
COON of Cuba, President Roosevelt
said in a special message that the
island would be turned ever to the
Cuban government che year hence.
Guilford College, in North Car.
olin, located on the spot where
Speaker Cannon was born, sus-
tanned a loss of 100000 by fire
recently. One of the largest and
most valuable libraries in the
South was destroyed.
The TransvaaI yield of gold for
the month of December made a
new record. The output was
5SS, 500 ounces. which is 2S,499
ounces over the previous highest
the December output lie placed at
f2,47S,6 59.
More than 40 of the leading
of the lower Shenan-
doah Valley met last Wednesday
in Winchester and took prelimi'
nary steps for the organization of
a Valley medical society. DR.. j,
Whitridge Williams of Baltimore,
delivered an address on "The Sur
gical Aspects of Obstetrics"
Eighteen hundred hungry and
thiDly clad men marched through
the snow to the City Hall in st.
Louis last week seeking Mayor
Wells to apply for assistance In
getting work. James Eadshow,
philanthropist and scion Of a
prominent family, who proudly
styles himself a "hoboe," led the
procession, and the Welfare Asso'
citation, of which he ls the found
or and henefactor, formed the
nucleus of the "army."
The situation caused by scarcity
Of teachers in the Chicago public
schools has reached q climax. In
70 rooms, chiefly In elementary
schools, the officials found it i'm.
possible to provide teachers and
had to dismiss the pupils. More
than 140 vacancies were reported.
Almost half Of these were filled
through the assignment of scbsti-
tutes or by school principals who
took charge of the "disabled"
rooms.
II the bill that has been intro
dueed in the House of Representa-
tives by Mr.. Slemp dividing the
State of Virginia into three judi
,ial districts, should become law
it will be necessary for the Presi.
dent to- appoint new federal
Judge and court officers for one Of
the new districts. 1t is Mr.Slemp's
purpose to divide the western dis
trict into two districts, to be
known as the wester and SOUTH
western districts.
Love laughed at high waters In
Shenandoah county several days
ago when, seated in a buggy In
midstream with the water whirl-
ing about them and threatening at
any moment to swoop them down
stream. Arthur Runion, young
farmer, and Susie Rinker, farm
sr's daughter, were married. The
vows were called out to the cou.
pie by Rev. A. R. Book, who stood
On the bank with book in hand.
After tie ceremony the couple
drove to their home, near Mt.
Jackson.