Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-10-27
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di LuOIo vi ' III Hio, Az WI N"iN-
lima, Tennessee and Kentucky met
at Danville a few days ago, and de-
clared war against the tobacco
trust.
A local option election, TO deter
mine whether saloons shall remain
closed or shall open their doors
again, will be held in Berryville in
a short while.
DR.. James H. Carlisle, well known
educator, and the last but one OF the
signers OF the secession ordinance
which dropped South Carolina from
the Union, died at Columbia, S. c.,
Oct. 22nd.
In historic Christ church, Alex
andria, Va, where Washington
worshipped, Rev. DR.. Arthur S.
Lloyd was made Bishop Coadjass56rr =
of the Protestant Episcopal diocese
OF Virginia.
A farmer while blowing near the
town OF Champlain, N. Y, turned
up coins to the value of $780, 600.
They are British coins, thought to
have been buried on the spot as
long ago as the Revolutionary war.
Knud Rasmussen, the eminent
Danish explorer has given out a
ong statement in which be gives
proof that Cook reached the North
| Pole. He says, "Dr. Cook is no
swindler; he reached the North
Pole"
The faculty OF the University OF
Copenhagen has refused to yield to
the National Geographic Society OF
America the right to make the first
scientific examination OF the records
of DR.. Frederick A. Cook, and his
claims to the discovery OF the North
Pole.
This from Winchester: John h.
Ware, aged twenty-eight, has sue
ceeded in marrying his stepmother,
Mrs. Mary Jane Ware, after under
going many trials. Soon after Wares
father died he went with Mrs. Ware
to Hagerstown, Md, for a marriage
license, but was refused. The court
clerks here also declined to issue
the license. The couple succeeded
in obtaining permit in Washing
ton, and the announcement OF the
marriage has been made.
To the memory OF their comrades
of war DAYS, who died on the battle
field at Cold Harbor in 1864, 800
Pennsylvania veterans OF the regi-
ments OF the Keystone State which
fought in the battle of Cold Harbor,
and who came from all parts OF the
country, last Wednesday unveiled
a handsome monument in the pres
ence of Gov. Edwin S. Stuart OF
Pennsylvania and his staff, on the
2 spot where the fighting was hard
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; Reports from the New England
cotton mill towns are TO the effect
, that the leading mill owners have
Joined with the southern and Brit
t ish cotton men 10 general agree
= ment to curtail production from nov
= until the end of 1910. The reasons
i advanced for this movement, viii b
Is may result in the closing OF many
: cotton mills, are the increase in the
d cost of the raw material in the south
l. and in Egypt and the failures OF the
x big dry goods jobbers to enter .th'
~ reouisive volume OF orders.
Ginter Park, suburb otRichmond
:, is the first place in the South to ex
tend the suffrage to women. This
action was decided upon unanl
- mously at largely attended meet
> lug last Wednesday night. Th'
y co ,stitution and bylaws for tn
u" government OF Ginter Park speci
6es that "Ail male and femal
whites, over 81 years Of age, own
c. ing property and living in Ginte
h Park and subscribing to the con
d stitution and bylaws have a RICH
b. to vote.
20 A sensational case was begun L
IL circuit court OF Stanton recent
p. n which Daniel Kingan, a jewelei
is suing James Wehn, a capitalist
ID for $lO. 900 damages for alienatin
,e the affections of Kingan's wife
ee Kingan and Wehn were formerl
so intimate friends. Kingan's VII
he left him last year, it is alleged, &c
or cruel treatment, but Kingan claim
re that Wehn was the cause of tt
trouble. Last summer Kingan sh'
be at Wehu, who was passing his stor
es into which Wehn went for reIug
S. Kingan was fined 5000 for the shoe
re ing.
ut That ex-president Roosevelt an
he his policy of the strenuous life al
by responsible for more evils and erin
in America than any other eau
T..sxz MILAN