The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-06-07
GENERAL NEWS.

Arbuokls Bros advanced the price Of
their package coffee one.half cent q
pound.
The President nominated to the SEN
ate Brigadier General jose ph Wheeler
U. s. v. TO be brigadier General Uni.
ted States army.
-Four men concerned in the Lancaster,
Pa, revenue cigar stamp conspiracy
confessed their guilt OF Lancaster, and
were sent to prison.
AT Washington pensions were grant
ed to j A De Lagnel. Alexandria,
- 90; George ID. Davis. Woodbridge.
Prince William county, sl2.ptr month.
The State Board Of Education on Tues.
day chose Mr.. Thomas Brown TO sue.
coed the late Taliaferro Hunter as Su.
perintendent of Schools for Westmore.
land county.
Julian L. Biddulph Arnold, a son Of
the English poet who is wanted In Eng.
land on the charge Of embezzlement.
has been arrested in San Francisco and
will fight extradition.
Mrs. John Sherman wife Of ex-senator
John Sherman. suffered her third stroke
of apoplexy Sunday afternoon while
sleeping at her home In Mansfield, o,
aud died Monday night. aged ~ years.
The amount Of the bonds so far ex.
changed at the U. s Treasury for the
new per cents is 1888 l5l, 100. of
which 800, $50. 100 were received from
individuals and institutions other than
national banks
Queen Victo H., surrounded by the
Duke and Duchess Of York, Princess
Victoria, and many other notables Of
her court, drank to tho health OF Lord
Roberts and the army, at Balmoral
Tuesday evening.
At ST. Louis. Mo, the strike situa.
tion assumed such a serious phase that
prominent residents united lie q telegram
20 Governor Stephens asking him 20
call out the militia for the protection
OF life and property.
Perry Belmont's horse, Ethelbert easily
defeated Jean Beraud, owned by VIM.
o. Whitney, in the special race at
GraVesend, New York. on Saturday.
The time was 2 '08 for the mile
and q quarter, aud the purse 81 900
The Daily Express has a dispatch
from Shanghai, dated Tuesday. which
says 'Russisn troops have been or
dered from Port Arthur to the neigh
oorhood Of Pekin 60 punish the Boxers
Tor killing two OOssacks and wonnding
two"
Mr. Harry NJ CARTS, Of Oorcord. N.
d., has been appointed Government
auditor TO determine the portion of each
officer and sailor who TOOK part in the
battle Of Manila, in the bounty Of $751; :
$50 found to be due them by the United |
States Court Of Claims.
The Postmaster. General has amended |
the postal regulations so az TO permit |
the sender Of registered letter
TO recall 1t after il has been dis |
patched Heretofore the rule has been |
that such letter could not be recalled |
without the consent Of the addressee
The Shanghai correspondent Of the |
Daily Mail, telegraphs: THE Boxers |
are within seven miles Of Tien Tsin
In addition TO marines the defensive |
force includes volunteers under COM
mand Of Major Higg, late Of the Six.
teenth Lancers. The town is practi.
oally under arms. >"
The State Department at Washington
has received a oablegram from MiEis- |
ter Oonger, at Pekin, stating that mat.
ters have taken a much more serious |
turn there No details are given, but |
1t is indicated that the Boxers actiyi.
~ is extending very closely to the
Chinese Capital
Among the " sights on the nam.
moth truck farm Of Mr. George Smoot,
oD Mattox creek, in Westmoreland |
county, is q watermelon patch Of 10, 900 |
hills. Mr.. Smoot, who is a model |
trucker and farmer, will probably load
4 number OF sail-vessels and steamboats, |
with truck and melons from that farm
this season.
TIE case Of o. W. f. Neeley, the
Cuban postal swindler, was again post
poned az New York This agreement
vas reached after q conference between
Neeley's counsel and United States
District Attorney Burnett The delay,
e is said, is In consequence Of the in
'urance of requisitlon papers for
Seeley's removal to Havana by Cover.
lor Roosevelt
A Vienna dispatch says: "As mat
rimonial sHindler who succeeded in
100 girls to become engaged
70 him within q few years, Alois
frankenburRer. formerly Of the United
States has been sentenced at Graz to
NO and q half years imprisonment.
lie holds the record as matrimonial
hark. Ia each case he managed to ap
)ropriate the savings Of his intended
ride and then he took French leave
Government officers Monday invaded
be Metropolitan Medical College. an
alleged diploma mill" in Chicago
md arrested the officers: President
AS. Armstrong; vice President j. H.
Randall, Secretary Thomas Armstrong,
nd former Secretary Charles Nj Hovey.
folders Of Diplomas are said to be
In every State and in all
arts of the world. the British CONSUL be-
ng one Of the oomplainants against
he institution. Two girls were EN-.
loyed to Write the names of the
Faculty" on All the diplomas Issued.