Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-02-10
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Irterest fer TIE
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"A lhctOrV VIII re esLa bHsneO ~
Norfolk to make pepper ard sugar
from green corpstslks.
Ohio Mss0rs rave honOred Pre-
ldent.elect Taft by ling him a
EN- Der Of the order ri sight.
The Standard Oil Company has
proposed making the State Ct Mis.
souri, a partner in a new CON pany
TO be formed.
Secretary Cortelyou has issued
call for about $50, OO0, OOO Of feder-
al funds from national bank ten D.
orary repositories.
By vote of 48 to % the Cali
fornia Asseu bly, has rejected the
bill prohibiting all aliens owning
and in California.
Henry Fairfax of Loudoua coun.
ty, has been elected president o. tbs
Virginia State Fair Association,
to succeed Henry c. Stuart re-
signed.
President Alderman Of tie Uhl-
versity of Virginia, is preparing a
statement In reply to the criticism
On the award OF the prize for the
eesay on General Lee.
Tfere are to be three ec'ipses
this year, one Of the sun, another
os the moon. and another Of the ex-
piOits Of all previous hunters, who
have entered the African Jungle.
The Lincoln car" in which
President LincOln is SAID to have
ridden to Washington for his in
auguratiOn, wac destroyed Tues.
day night in fire at Siarpsvills,
Pa.
Speaker RE. Bryd of the House Of
Delegates, was operated On in his
epartn ents in Richmond on Satur
day night, for severe case Of
acute inflammation of the ear, with
which be had been suffering for
The last few days.
Rev. ChOrIes X. Stvibling, PAS
tor of the Wayresboro Presbyter
an church, has declined call 10
he Presbyterian church at Faru-
Vile. Mr.. StribiiEg was tie Germ.
er pastor of the Falling Spring
Presbyterian church.
An important land deal hss J. cen
consunated in Botetourt cOCnty,
by which 10000 acres Ct ircn and
coal lands are transferred e Pits
burg capitalists. Inc tract IN
cludes the elite OF the cid Catawba
lurnance, which furnished iron for
the Confederacy.
1t 10 the purpose OF the fire in
surance companies DOM business
in this State 10 fight the constitu-
tionality of the legislative act
which i'm poses l per cent. tax on
their premiums for the benefit OF
the FiIemen's Relief Association.
A test of the soil of the lower
Valley of Virginia from Clarke
county 20 Hagerstown, Nd, will
be made this yea: in sugar beet
aising, which, if it proves safact-
Dry, may result in developing that
section into great sugar beet
producing and sugar manufactur>
ing center.
a local option election has been
called for Covington by Judge
Anderson, tue cate being set for
March 2. Covingtcn is now dry"
and the petition asking for ito
election was circulated by the
VETS" There were about 200
names on the paper, aEo there are
800 voters in the city.
The Supreme Court OF the Unit-
d States has decided that a cor
poration acting in violation Of the
Sherman anti trust laws cannot CO
business and cannot collect bills
for goods sold. This is the hare
est blew the criminal trusts have
vet received. The decision un-
fortunately was made by diyi4SG
court of 5 to 4.
A dispatch from Chicago say !;
"Dlxie" will. not be song H. a. @
public schools OF Chl,a.O OF Lin
.oln Dey. A ban on the rrlicklng
Southern air was pldeed ty the
uusical directors of the Board OF
Education today, anu tee k,ete
which In recent years "iways
stirred Chicago audiences to hand
clapping and cheers will he Mss.
ing from the public progr rs n
commeuOratica of tire Illinois
Commoner.
Explorations and investigator =
have shown that the known coat
beds of northern Mexico woUid
supply this cOuotry with fuel for
the next hundred years ut an an
uual consumption OF 1900, coo
IONS, and as yet only portion VI
be coal 1t nds has heen explored q.
Sa bines is the center Of the grsat
ccal fields, a portion Of carboul!er~
GUS Mexico which hosrcveei: "a at,
existence of at lerst 303JoC, $50
ICES of available fuel.
Few people down Scuth le,uit
that in the North drrire x. war,
. town would offer say $40, o.
county $1,000, and The State 60
900, for every volunteer. J his
MAS often done. Jfrse were