Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-11-10
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A chewing gun fomiro j. hreat-
red by the fi.ar 4 b -"
uopIy in YucAtrn
A waterfall, said + he tie '4reest
IN the Western Hemisphere, has
been discovered in Labrador
The Norfolk W. c. T. U. has be-
gun the circulation for signatures
Of petition asking that the incom-
ing Legislature pass law forbid-
ding the sale or manufacture OF al
coholic liquor in the State.
The electric power plant at Dam
No. on the Potomac river, near
Shepherdstown, W. Va, has been
completed and will furnish both
light and power for hartinsburg
and Shepherdstown. The dam is
l, 100 feet long and % feet high.
Following a domestic quarrel in
their home in Wise county, Charles
Rhinehardt shot his thirteen-year-
old wife and then killed himself.
The girl wife was shot three times,
Il of the bullets taking effect in the
back and coming out just below the
breast.
Work has begun on the new rail-
road in Highland county, to run
from Clifton Forge to a point in
West Virginia. New York and
Philadelphia capitalists are interest
ID in the road. 1t is feared this
road will divert much trade from
stanton.
1t is rumored that two strong
candidates to succeed Representa-
tive F. R. Lassiter from the Fourth
district in Congress will be State
Senator G. R. Lassiter, a brother Of
the late representative, and former
Congressman Robert G. Southall Of
Amelia county.
Shade Moore OF Berryville, Va,
sold crop OF apples on the trees
this fall for $3.50. The orchard
comprises forty-6ve acres. There
are large orchards in the same vi.
entity that bring from $3.50 to
80, O0O each year, the buyers pick
ing and packing the apples.
DR.. ]. S. de Jarnette, superin-
tendent of Western State Hosp tai,
has gone to Columbia. S. c., TO at
,end the pellagra convention, which
will study and discuss the new dis
Ease. There are two cases OF pei
lagra at the Stanton asylum. ac-
cording to DR.. de Jarnette.
More than $13, 1000 is repre-
,ented in church edilices reported
the Mauuf lcturer'S Record as
having been built, in course Of cree
ion. or definitely planned, during
me first nine months of 1909, in the
IA Southern States, the District OF
Columbia, Oklahoma and Missouri.
, The great annual football game be.
, tween the West Point cadets and
Annapolis midshipmen, which was
10 have taken place at Philadelphia
November q, will not be played
. this year, owl g to the death OF Ca
Diet Eugene A. Byrne as result Of
! INJURIES received Oct. 80, in the
game with Harvard.
The Association for the Preserva-
ton of Virginia Antiquities in
Richmond have gone on record
in reply to a letter Of inqui-
ry from V. Summer Appleton OF
? Boston, as strongly opposing any
movement to transfer the control
: and care of Mount Vernon from the
Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
to the federal government.
,, Alexandria Gazette: The Mary
land Republicans by combining
With the negroes and Independents
among the latter lot Of disgrun'
tied virginia1s who cant get Office
: in Baltimore) [ n Tuesday succeeded
n defeating the proposed amend
ment to the State constitution,
: which was intended to disfranchise
he vicious and ignorant vote as
,As been done in Virginia and other
~outhern States
John Armstrong Chaloper, di-
creed husband OF Amelie Rives,
he aIthoress, now Princess Trou-
oetskoy, and brother OF Lewis Stuy-
vesalt Chanler, late Democratic
andidate for governor OF New
York, last week at his home in AL
+ bemarle county, held up an automo-
bile loaded with passengers on a
, public road, at the point OF a revol-
yer, and forced the chauffeur TO dss-
cend and lead his horse, which had
o become frightened, around the ma
chine and out Of the way OF danger.
f Philadelphia Record: Command
err Peary has gold medal from the
Y National Geographical Society to