The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-03-20
VIRGINIA NEWS.
Mr. Ellery l.. Evstaphieye died in
Prince William county.

A. T. Rice has been appointed yum
missioner Of Valuation for Northumber-
land.
Mr. George W Strother died recently
near Markham. Fauquler county. aged
SO years.
The wind and sleet storm prostrated
many telephone poles in different parts
of the State.
Mr.. O. o. wager and family.of Gu
pepper county. expect TO move to Orange
o. H. soon.
Miss jamie Belle M,Craoken, and MIR.
j. II. Myers, Of Leesburg, were mar
ried last week
General Edgar Allan is Ill, in
and is said to be threatened
with pneumonia.
Mr.. b Haywood Fry and Miss Lucy
Thomas, both Of Madison county, were
married March 10th.
Mr.. George O. Keystone successful
Of Loudoun, lost twelve
sheep by dogs last week.
A case to test the constitutionality Of
the Commissioners Of Valuation act
has been made in Alexandria.
Il. o. Norris has been appointed post
at Lively, Lancaster county
vice +. d Northern, resigned.
The dwelling of Robert Brown. near
Kilmarnock, Lancaster county. was
burned recently with oil its contents.
Judge Baker +. Lee at Hampton,
has sentenced Frank Benjamin to hang
April "a for attempted criminal as
sault
Over two hundred leading business
men assembled in Winchester Friday
night and organized Business Men +
Association.
Rev DR.. A G. Brown, prominent
member Of the Virginia Conference,
Methodist Episcopal Church South.
died Friday at A-hland.
Little Louise Fray. daughter Of W H.
Fray, d grain merchant Of Oulpeper.
fell and broke her arm while roller
skating at the rink there.
Rev a d Reynolds has for the
present reconsidered his determination
to resign the pastorate Of Pope's Greek
Baptist church in Westmoreland county
Charles Newton. Of Roanoke, died at
the Maryland General Hospital Balti-
more with hydrophoblA Saturday
The boy was receiving the PAsteur treat
msnt
r Ods Harding. son cf DR.. II y"
Harding. Of Northumberland county.
while working al his sawmill. wes
knocked senseless aud narrowly capped
death
Cedar birds have been lowering
around Irvington in droyes DR. W
J. Newbill, marine physician. killed
about 800 in a single cedar tree IN
parts Of two days
Oysters are still being birreled and
tulIlcu 10 Nhl tA'Au AAhi ms ~ 4''
quantities he steamer Essex on one
Of her trips last week took on 800 bar
rels at Sharps Wharf, alone
DR.. J. f Jackson Of Richmond. vino
during the war was chief surgeon ~
Gen. T. J. Anderson and identified
with Ohimbor ~ Military Hospital.
is dead, aged 70 years
Mr. Robert Stribling. Of Fauquier,
will locate in Newport New IN the
practice Of law He makes the sixteenth
attorney in Newport News-0ne 20
about every four hundred people
Every house in Warrenton that could
be obtained has b en- rented for the
summer. il is said, and many IN 1re
could have found tenants Many city
people are expected there next summer
Superintendent E. @ Glass, Of the
public schools Of Lynchburg. and Mr.
jenkins, the principal Of the high school
at Portsmouth have been designated e
conduct the summer school of methods,
at Roanoke.
Congress having recently passed a
bill deciding that a term Of the United
States Court be held in Charlottesville,
that city will probably soon ask fo- a
government building for court and post
office purposes.
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Davis died in
Richmond. aged SO years She was
the widow of John B. Davis, who was
a we'll. known banker in Richmond and
brother OF ex-senator Henry G.. Davis,
Of West Virginia.
Large quantities Of walnut logs are
being shipped from Northumberland
county The demand for timber is
greater in the Northern Neck than the
supply. AS much as 8 per cord is
sometimes given for poplar wood.
The March term of the Loudoun
Court, Judge Tebbs presiding, was
shiny attended. The horse show,
which used TO be feature OF the day,
was practically omitted there being
only one or two animals on the streets.
A movement has been started to pur.
chase a section in Hollywood and
renter the remains Of Rev John b.
Lourens, who, founded the Rosebud
Missionary Society. 1t is proposed to
mark the spot with a handsome monu'
ment
The special grand jury investigating
the case Of W. j. Garland. of Philadel'
phia, who was suspected of having
knowledge Of the cause of his wife -
death, at Newport News failed to make
out case, and he was not rearrested
The matter will be dropped.
There will be a meeting Of the mana
gers of the base ball teams Of the Nir'
ginia League today in Richmond.
Teams in Norfolk. Richmond. Ports
mouth. Newport News. Petersburg,
Hampton. aud prob ibly Roanoke and
Lynchburg will De represented.
The claims Office OF the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad, moved from Rich
mond TO Cincinnati in 1893, is to be
moved back to Richmond at once
There are forty clerks in the Office,
many of them Richmond mon. who