The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-04-19
GENERAL NEWS.


Exposition, Sunday.
Large numbers OF pauper japanese
are floCking TO the United States.
Queen Victoria has decided 10 prolong
her stay in Ireland until April 2Ith'
The U. :. Supreme Court has decided
to hear counsel il the Kentucky Cover
Dorship cases or April 3Oth
Objaction is made in the British
West India Islands to the proposed
treaty with the United States.
The United States Supreme Court de.
cided that the express companies may
shift the war tax on the shippers
The Pope has decided that " hereaf-
ter no religious congregation Will be
permitted to take part in politics.
The failures In the United States in
the first quarter of 1900 were PIG great
err than last year and in March %. per
cent greater.
The grand jury of Frankfort, Ky
has returned indictments against 10
men charging them with the murder Of
William Geobel
Hon Hoke Smith has sold his inter.
est in the Atlanta Evening Journal
Mr.. Smith will devote his entire time
to the practice Of law.
a patent has been granted to Julian
Graham, Falls Church, Va, sssignor to
+. NJ Myers, Lincoln, Va, for an ad-
Unstable scraper for broOms
Because Of the failure of the Sultan
to pay our claim DISCO 600, es.promised'
the Turkish Minister. at Washington,
may be handed his passports.
Mrs Potter Palmer is commissioners
TO the Paris exposition. and says that
while the exposition is fine, it does not
compare with the Worlds Fair at CHI
cago.
The Ecumenical Conference, to be
held in New York for a week beginning
Saturday next, April 2lst, is attracting
attention all over the Ohristianized
world.
Contracts amouating to $40 600, 900
vera awarded by the Rapid Transit
Subway Construction Company of New
York for building eight sections Of the
immense underground railway system
in that city.
President Mckinley has accepted an
invitation to be present on May 2Oth at
the Mecklenburg declaration OF indie
psndence in North Carolina, which
antedates the Philadelphia declaration
by nearly fifty days.
President Mckinley is going to New
York on April 81 TO deliver an address
before the Protestant Ecumenical Con-
ference on foreign missions The hon.
orary president OF the conference is
former President Benjamin Harrison.
A battle. which was indecisive, &C.
curred at ZEN Chin, China, between
the Imperial Chinese troops and large
body of the Boxers " secret society
About 1000 men we're engaged, the
forces being equally divided The cas-
ualties were very heavy
Duke D ARGOS. the Spanish minister,
sent a bitter reply to Mayor Harrison.
of Chicago, saying the Dewey invita-
ton was the first discourtesy he had re-
ceived since his coming TO the United
States, unless, as he supposed, it was
sent through error. The Mayor wrote
and apologized
Admiral Dewey has placed with his
collection of relics In the National No
scum the beautiful silver vase presented
10 him last month by the citizens of
Savannah, Ga On one side OF the vase
is representation of the first stem
vessel to GROSS the ocean from the port
of Savannah and on the other is q pic
ture Of o modern steamship.
There are but IL, 900 European exhib-
itors outside Of France, az the Paris
Exposition, and Of these Germany and
Great Britain together have but 2 800
From the United States there are nearly
:. 900 exhibitors, occupying $50 900
souare feet in forty-seven distinct
snaoes Next to the French display the
American exhibits will. attract at.
tention
Developments in the telegraphers'
strike on the Southern Railway have
not changed the situation. Both sides
are satisfied President Powell, Of the
Order of Railway Telegraphers, who is
directing the strike. said the situation
is encouraging. Railroad officials say
the business Of the road is being trans
acted as usual and that If there Is any
effect Of the strike On the roads traffic
1t is imperoeptible.
The consolidated mortgage OF the re-
organized Seaboard Air Line Railway |
Company recorded at Richmond, and
subsequently in every other State |
through which the line extends,
amounts to 500. 500. 900, and the internal
revenue stamps upon the document |
amount to about $3l 900 Nearly oil
the tax was paid in 800 stamps, but q |,
considerable quantity Of smaller value
aud Of variety Of colors were used.