The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1899-05-11

Gov. Roosevelt has approved and
made public the findings Of a board Of
inquiry which convicted four leading
officers of the Seventy hrst Regiment
Of New York Of cowArdice at Santiago.
The session Of the General Assembly
Of the Southern Presbyterian Church
will convene in the First Presbyterian
Church. Richmond. May IS. and con
tinue for two weeks The Episcopal
Council for the Diocese Of Virginia
meets in Richmond next Tuesday
1t is rumored that large syndicates
are being formed to purchase the land
and water power on the Virginia side
Of the Potomac river in Fairfax and
Alexandria counties, for the purpose
of establishing electrical plants for
manufacturing purposes
Judge Clark, in the l S Court at
Chattanooga. Tenn. last week, decided
the state-line controversy between Ten
nessee and Virginia in favor Of Ten
neisee, putting about % 600 acres Of
land from Virginia into Tennessee and
North Carolina
The Fairfax supervisors have fixed
county levy at 25 cents on 800 valua-
ton of real estate and personal proper
ty for year 1899 County school tax
10 cents and districts school 10 cents,
and road tax Is cents in Dranesville dis
trict. and 20 cents in each Of the
other five districts 80 cents on each
1.-THE and 80 cents on each dog.
Another increase in prices has been
ordered by the North Carolina lumber
association, which controls the mills
throughout eastern Virginia and North
Carolina The increase ranges from
scots. to 81 per thousand feet, accord
ing TO grade. This is the second adj
vance since the association was organ
lid a few weeks ago
At the New England conference of the
A. NJ K. Zion church, in its session
last week, an address was delivered by
Bishop Walters, Of Charleston, S. O 4,
president Of the Afro American League,
on "The Condition Of the Negroes in
the South" in which he said: lin
spite Of all the present lynchings, the
thing for the good negro to do is to
trust in God, make himself solid with
the better class Of white people, and
await the result.
The sta ement comes from Muncie.
Indiana that mammoth window glass
combine will be completed during the
next few days. Glass men now regard
it as settled that the American Window
Glass Association, which goes out OF
existence May 30, will be supplanted by
the American Glass Company. 1t will
be capitalized at $50, 000 600 and will
control, it is asserted, more than 80 pei
cent. Of the country's glass production.
The board of supervisors Of Madison
has decided not to allow bounty or
hawk scalps, unless adjoining counties
do So
Messrs. Ohas. Smith, W. b. Fitzhugh
and DIR. A. Brockenbrough are candi'
dates for the Legislature in Northamp
ton.
Mr.. Robert Ryon, well-known citf
zen. of Loudoun, died suddenly OF hear
disease Tuesday night, aged seventy
five years.
Including the 500 600. 900 paid t.
Spain. through the French Ambassa
dor, the Treasury deficit for April wa
$24. 0S8, 437.
Heavy rains are now frequent il
Cuba. The continued absence of yellow
fever from Havana is source Of sur
prise and qualification.
1t is reported that Mr.. John A. Brown
ing, Jr. of Rappahannock county, ant
some Northern friends have organized
the "Oid Dominion Fruit and Orchard
Company, for the purpose Of raising
high grade fruit for foreign markets.
The bill repeating the act which pro
yided for the holding of a constitution
al convention in Alabama after having
passed the House last week, passed tn
Senate Monday by vote OF 10 to IL
every member Of the Senate voting
The Governor, of course, will approve
Washington, May S.-The Navy De
,ortment has selected successor to AID
miral Dewey to command the Asiati
station. Orders were issued today de
taching Rear Admiral Watson iron
command Of the Mare Island navy yar'
and ordering him to report to Admire
Dewey at Manila, to relieve that -office
when he feels that he can be spares
there.