The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-05-08
GENERAL NEWS.

Ex.Secretary Of War W. + Endicott,
died in Boston.
Last years business Of the Suez Ga
nal was the largest in its history.
James 4 Robinson, the veteran cir.
Gus manager and owner, is dead.
The Mallory steamship pier, New
York. was destroyed by fire Loss 81.
900, 600
The new 500 counterfeit silver certifi.
cate is giving the Treasury officials
much uneasiness.
Miss Susie MeKeon. Of New Haven
CT was driven insane by scandalous
stories affecting her character
Amiel S willard, Chief Justice Of
the Supreme Court Of South Carolina
during the reconstruction days. died
suddenly Of apOplexS Saturday in
Washington.
Senator Mason claims, as the result
of bis investigation into food adulter-
alton that many brands of American
champsgnes are equal to the best
French vintages.
The Second Assistant Postmaster
General wrote to Chairman Loud. Of
the House committee. that there had
been no evidence Of fraud in weighing
the mail
Professor Charles n. Gregory, of the
Law School of the University Of Wis
consin. has been chosen TO deliver the
annual address before the Virginia Bar
Association.
Ten thousand Sunday school children
waved flags and sang patriotic songs in
honor Of Admiral Dewey at a great
public reception given in the Exposi.
tion Building in st Louis.
The greatest astronomical event of
the century for the South is the total
eclipse that will paint a wide path Of
darkness over the South from New Or
leans TO Cape Henry on the morning Of
May %
One Of the most sensational homioides
,.
Cured when Rev w. Il. johnson pastor
of the Baptist church, shot and almost
instantly killed W. 7. Bellinger,
stenographer Of that judicial district.
The trouble originated from the paint.
ing Of fence.
The Standard Oil Company has de.
clared a quarterly dividend Of $40 a
share. John D. Rockefellow owns in
dividually $3l. 200 900 of this stock.
His fortune will, therefore, be aug.
mented by 50, 100 900 Since January
Let he has drawn dividends amounting
to sl2 400, 900.
Judge Lochren, Of the United States
District court, in a decision in the
Orlitz case at st. Paul. MINI.
held that Porto Rico Is part of the
United States and the Constitution ex-
tends to it, The decision is exciting
great interest, it being the first judicial
utterance on the subject.
Miss Olga Nethersole, of Sapho
fame, Is suing Rev. DR.. Easton. of
Washington. for $50, 600 damages for
defamation Of character. DR.. Easton
preached a sermon denouncing the play
and referring in uncomplimentsry terms
to the actress DR. Easton has made q
personal apology, but Miss Nethersole
says: Il shall press my suit IL he does
not make a public apology from the
pulpit and liquidate the cost of this &C.
tion which l have already paid. E"
The doctor will make the required
apology.
The cholera has broken ont in famine
stricken India. About 80. 800, 600 per-
sons, for this Is the population Of the
districts affected are sweltering their
squalid existence away. amid pestilence
and misery that show no sings Of abat-
ing. Hundreds Of thousands Of pounds
in British gold, German marks, and
American coin have been thrown into
the country, but. judging from the lat
est advices all this charity is merely a
drop in the ocean. The famine and Its at.
tendant complications appear to exceed |
in virulence any two previous vista
tione.