Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1908-04-29
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arrest Night Riders, or whom
warrants have been issued.
The "Merry Widow" hat, hich
has apparently reused the entire
male contingent to the point of
frenzy, is repeatedly justifying its
right to exist by it's heroic featsin
saving woman from drowning.
! President Roosevelt has ordered
the Department of Justice to be
lenlnt to the railroads in enforcing
the commodity clause" Of the
railroad rate bill, which goes into
effect on May /.
Representatives of ia daily
newspapers, gathered in New York
at the annual meeting of the AS.
ISOLATED Press, decided to urge the
president and Congress to grant
relief from the excessive prices of
the paper trust.
Owing TO the crowded condition
of Cedar Hill cemetery, Suffolk,
Va, the council has put up the pri-
ces of burial lots 20 per cent. to
home folks and 100 per cent to
non resident. It's very grave
subject.
Tariff reform is referred 20 the
next Congress; currency reform is
to be referred to d commission; the
wood pulp duty is already referred
to committee for in, estigation.
"Do nothing to-day that you can
possibly put off till tomorrow" is
the motto of the Republican lea
ders in Congress.
The peach.crOp in the Winches-
ter section of Shenandoah and
Cumberland valleys has been seri-
Ously damaged by the heavy frosts
of the past ten nights. 1t lie said
there would be no more than one
tenth Of crop of peaches and 9TH
er early fruit in the Winchester
section.
The question with the National
Democratic Convention at Denver
is whether the party shall make an
aggressive campaign Oh Democrat
ic principles with Judge Gray or
Governor johnson as its candidate,
or whether it shall make a feeble
defensive campaign with William
j. Bryan as its nominee on other
than Democratic principles.
1t seems that the Republicans Of
old Virginia and the South gener.
ally are having Secretary Taft
forced on them by the administra-
ton machine whether or no they
want him for president. Thinking
ones balk when they remember
that in Ohio under Cleveland rule
Judge Taft issued an injunction
against labor unions to prevent
them from asserting their rights.
The body of A. B. Stratton, Jr.,
who committed suicide in Lynch
burg last September by jumping
from the the Ninth street bridge
into James river, was found last
week on an island in the James, 25
miles east of Lyncbburg. The body
was plowed up by negO farm
hand. 1t was headless and it was
identified by two letters in a pock-
ct, which seems to indicate the gu
icide was deliberate,
Surgeons bending over the OPEN
ed body of Judge John <. Nickel.
CHAN, of st. Louis, as it lay on the
operating table at the Johns Hop
kins Hospital, Baltimore, several
hours after he had died of a baf-
fling malady, were astonished as
they looked within the cavity to
discover that instead of the usual
setting of the organs, those IN the
body were scattered about in al
most unbelievable places.
Italy's proposed demonstration
against Turkey having been called
off as superaucus, Japan now an
nounces one to take place in Chi
nese waters. This is a purely
'friendly" affair, according to the
reports, but as there is no friend
ship. or possibility of 1t, between
China and japan, the observer may
safely conlude that the MIBado's
merchants are feeling the pinch of
the boycott.
This from New York on Satur-
day: Completely broken in spirit
and decrying his wealth, which he
declares has brought only curses
upon him, Frank Gould, who ia
separated from his young and
beautiful wife, started for Hot
Springs. Va, last night, while the
wife and their two children are at
the Gould home today. He said
they had separated and his wife
had beguh a suit for divorce.
As the result of protests filed
with the District Commissioners
by the Washington Ministers Un-
ion the railways entering the Dis
trict from the South have been re-
quested to either remove or cover
he so-called iimcrow signs dis
played In their cars. The Chesa.
peake and Ohio Railway Company,
the Washington, Alexandria and
Mount Vernon Railway Company
and the Washington, Arlington
and Falls Church Railway Compa-
ny have announced that they will
comply with the request. The OBJ.
jectiOnsble signs are used for the
information of passengers in the