The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-05-24
VIRGINIA NEWS.


The Acts Of Assembly will be ready
for distribution about June LIST.
W. e. Tinsley, Of Petersburg was
robbed Of 81, 800 In Richmond.
The final exercises Of the Fauquier
Female Institute will take place June T.
Work has commenced on the electric
line between Manchester and Peters
burg
A new post office has been establish
ed at Levy, Loundoun county, Sam ID.
Redman, postmaster.
Baltimore and Norfolk capitalists in.
corpOrated the Virginia Hosiery Mills
Company at Norfolk.
Miss Mamie Blight, eldest daughter
OF John Blight. Of Prince William
county. died Saturday.
Alexandria's finances are In good con-
| dition, and there Will be no need for
increase In the tax rate.
About 100 members Of the American
Medioo.I psychological Association were
Ia Richmond this week.
Mr.. J. NJ. Booth, treasurer Of Nor.
thumberland county, wss g caller at the
Auditors Office in Richmond this week
Laura f. Hudgins at Port Haywood
has been granted pension Of IS per
month. and Ralph Ems ut Lyells, 50
per month.
Gen. Julian 8. Carr will be the ora
tor at the unwilling Of the North Caro-
lima monument. in Stonewall Cemetery,
Winchester, June 6.
The conservation of Bishop. Elect
Kelley, of the Savannah Diocese, will
take place June 3rd. at Sc. Peters
Cathedral, Richmond.
Mrs. Anne Gary Randolph Atterbury,
q member OF one OF the most promi-
nent Virginia families, died In New
York, aged forty-Ave years.
1t is thought that W. p. NJ Kellum
and Joseph Vaughan, Of Richmond, are
on board the wrecked steamer Car
iuthia on the coast Of Haiti
The disposition Of the management
OF the Carnival Association Is to give
a different entertainment in Richmond
next year, introducing new novelties.
The bond Of 7. +. Taylor, the alleged
defaulting deputy clerk Of Henrioo
County court. has been reduced from
81 600 10 $500 by Judge A. Ashby Wick
ham.
$40, 900 worth of tobacco and build
ings of the value of $50. 600 were de.
stroyed by fire in DanvIlle Tuesday |
morning The tobacco was fairly In
sured.
Roanoke Is to have street carnival,
aud the week beginning with June % |
will probably be the time The oiti-
zens have subscribed literally for the |
venture.
Stephen Baptist, the alleged Mecklen-
burg murderer, was taken from Peters. |
burg to Boydton for trial. guarded by a |
squad OF the Walker Light Guard, Of |
Richmond.
Professor T. NJ. Jones. now filing |
the Chair OF Ancient Languages at |
Emory and Henry College. was elected |
to the CHAIR Of Greek and German In |
Randolph Macon College
Confederate Memorial Day was OBJ.
served with appropriate services In |
Norfolk Tuesday. In Elmwood Gene. |
terry granite cross. erected to the |
memory Of the late Father A. ]. Ryan,
the "poet priest. was unveiled.
Nineteen dwellings in the suburbs Of
Portsmouth were burned Sunday night |
The inadequate water supply made IL
necessary for the firemen to tear down |
a house to stop the rapidly spreading
flames. There were no casualties.
At Pulaski two children of Hiram
Mills (colored) were playing with an
old musket The younger Cora, aged
ll-struck the musket against the door.
and it went Off, discharging the load
through the heart Of the older-Ida, aged |
land killing her instantly.
The last spike Of the Richmond. Pc
tersburR and Carolina railroad will be
driven on June I'd. John SHELTON viii.
liams. Jr. will drive 1t TO its position.
The spike will be Of gold and Master
Williams will use a silver hammer.
bearing the day Of the completion Of
tine road.
Quite q number Of Mr. Frank Hume's
friends among the newspaper CORE
spondents and others have been invited
to spend the day with him at his home
at Warwick, near Alexandria, on the
Gath inst which is both election day
and Confederate decoration day In AL.
Grandma.
Brigadier- General James f. Orocker,
commanding First Brigade, Virginia
Division, United Confederate Veterans,
has appointed on his staff, among
others. Judge John O. Ewell. of Lam
caster county, as oommissary general.
and Mr. g. A. Orocker. Of Northum-
berland, chaplain general.
Mr.. and Mrs. John 8 Wise, Of New
York have issued invitations to the
marriage Of theIg daughter. Evelyn
Byrd Douglas Wise. and Mr.. James
Perrine Barney Of Virginia. The mar
rage will take place at the home of the
BRIDES parents. No l54 West Seventy
sixth street. New York city. June 9Th,
at 4 80 O'Clock.
Prof Fl. ]. Frawley, of Newport
News. charged with bigsmy, vas sen.
fenced to eight years In the penitenti.
airy. Frawley had no LAWYER and con-
Quoted his own defense. He 10 a man
OF brilliant attachments and made the
best of q hopeless fight. His plea was
that he thought his first wife dead
when he married the second one.
The Congo Mission boat. now build
ing at the TriRg ship yard, Richmond.
will not be launched. but, like church,
will, on its completion. be dedicateds
aud these ceremonies will be attended
nv wall known mission workers. Among