Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-07-07
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader

Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader
People who admire us are al
ways pleasant COZ pany.
HkWcrk on the Panama Canal
during the present year will re-
quire the use OF 10000 tons dyna.
mite.
The Virginia Passenger and
Powe. Company will effect ccm.
plete physical reorganization OF
its railway lines in Richmond.
1t is said that Mrs. Paul Sigel,
the mother of the murdered Elsie
Sigel, has been driven hopelessly
insane as a result of the shock she
received when she fret learned
that her missing daughter wac
dead in trunk billed by the hand
Of Emission" Chinaman.
You often see or hear the ex.
preston, "the sister states"-nnd
come wag has figured it out they
are Mics Ouri, the Misses Sippl,
Miss Ida Ho, Miss Cslie Fornia,
Miss Mary Land. Mics Allie
Bama, Miss Louisa Anna, Miss
Della Ware and Miss Minnie Sofa,
In her anxiety to kiss her hus.
band farewell at the Charleroi
station, Pittsburg, Mrs. Mary An
ionic of California neglected to
take the car window into account
and thrust her head through the
glass, She was severely gashed
on the neck, and is not expected
to survive.
A jeWeIer in Fredericksburg,
has on exhibition in his window a
clock of his own design and make.
rhe face is made Ct composition
and inlaid with 55 che cent pieces
of the date of 1909. Across the
face is inscribed, "Time is Money"
This Is quite a unique clock and
has attracted considerable atten.
tion.
After a cOu:tship conducted
over the telephone, Miss FRANKIE
Yenable, a teller hone girl at the
Winchester exchange, and John
+. EDders, telegraph operator Of
Beiryville, were married at Berry
vile Saturday night by Rev. Julian
Broaddus. The bride is the fifth
girl to marry out of the exchange
there in as many years.
Says an exchange: CliDgirg to
q prediction that be first made
twenty nine years ago that color
ed man would some time he presi-
dent Of the United States, Johr g.
Douglas, ex-scLool teacher, rod
carrier, lecturer and would-be
statesman, has announced himself
an active candidate for the Prohi-
Ditivu u~IHiu~vivu fV' PtrsiuehU III
1912.
General George B. Cosby, one of
the few surviving brigadler gener.
ais of the Confederate army, com.
mitted suicide in Oakland, June,S0
by inhaling gas, He had suffered
long from paralysis and had be-
come discouraged. He was sixty
nine years old and snatlve of Ken
lucky. Gen. Cosby graduated
from West Point in 1862. He was
the first adjutant general Of Cali.
fornla.
With the roof going on new
dormitory at the Randolph Macon
Woman's College, the excavations
have been started upon a 5000
gymnasium for the college. This
college in the past four years has
Quilt two dormltories, a science
ball, a library, and doubled the
ize of the chapel, in addition to
he third dormitory and gynnas-
um. The school next fall will
have a capacity tor 500 girls.
There are sIch vast areas of
grazing land in the United States
that the mere suggestion of i'm
porting meat seems absurd. But
here is an announcement. aprar
emily in good faith, OF the INN edi'
ate establishment of a line of large
steamers to bring dressed meats
here from Argentina. 1t is claim
ed, and very reasonably, that meat
can pay the import duties and still
be sold much below the prices fixed
by the combination of Chicago
packers.
A decision of the Court of APP
peals of New York, in a CAGE which
grew out of a Dispute over the
right to car seat, holds that
placing a piece Of baggage in a
seat does not pre-empt the space.
The court rules that passenger cara
are to carry persons, not baggage,
and that filing a seat with lug
gage confers no title to the seat
on the owner of the grip. In other
words, if a traveller wants TO make
sure of sitting in an ordinary day
coach. he or she must take q seat
and remain in it.
The Richmond News Leader
seys: Efforts will be made to have
all the school superintendent for
Virginia rejected when the list is
sent to the Senate for confirm alton.
The present board of education
will pass out of existence early ia
the coming year. Governor Swan
son and AttorneyGenerel Ander-
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