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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05
The celored Line in New York.

A New York newspaper tells n pathetic
story of man in that city who had very
dark complexion The unfortunate man,
It'll said is generally mistaken for Al negro,
and the consequences of that mistake are
anything but pleasant. He found thatin
the North. where the friends OF the negro
ali live, il is not wholesome to beeven sus-
pected of being a negro. Real estate
men" this unfortunate person declared.
refused TO rent me houses until ! ex-
planned to them that | was white man,
and even then have been refused in a
great many instances In great many
ways am subjected to the annOyances
that usually bother negro who tries to
mingle with white people. About a year
ago my neighbOrs tainted my wife about
living with negro and she left me. |
threw up my position here and started
West. and when too late found that |
could not secure the employment |
desired, being continually taken for a
negro"
II is perfectly well known all over the
country that this is the way negroes are
treated in the North But that fact does
not prevent the Northern newspapers
from devoting their columns to denounc-
ing the South for entertaining race pref
udices.-Bal timore Sun.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05

RELEASED from ali fear of party out
lawry, the warning Democratic factions
in Norfolk county are at each other g
throats Registration books are already
missing from Churchland and both sides
are 10 ugly moods There will likely be
many clashes before election.-NorfOlk
item in Dispatch.
This is most distressing condition
ofparty affairs. For the first time in
many years-if ever before-that we
recall warning factions in the State
Democracy have showed their teeth
so plainly that the State Organiza-
ton feared to interfere. Worse than
that, even-the State committee took
a position and when they were defed
quickly receded. 1t may have been
unwise in the committee to decide as
it first did in the local fight, but it
was a greater blunder to retire from
the position it had taken. We do
not see that 1T has helped matters
particle in Norfolk county, and where
it may have ieopardized its prestige
in the first instance with a faction Of
Norfolk county, in its later action it
viii most surely lose the respect
throughout the State that awe al
ways inspires.
The Republican party has not yet
displayed sufficient strengthto cause
a cementing of Democratic factions in
Virginia, and unless we are very much
mistaken the next campaign will see
more warning Democratic factions
than in the past. The State COM
mittee may or may not be called in
as arbiter, but there will be feelings
OF rebellion in the defeated ranks
that will be melted to open revolt by
the unwise action OF the Committee
in the Norfolk county case.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05
POLITICAL.

Senator T. S. Martin spoke at Char
lottesvile Friday night and received an
ovation from a big audience.
Hon. 4. ]. Montague closed the cam
paign at Gloucester C. H. yesterday,
and went from there to Danville to vote
today.
President Roosevelt intends to have
the rural free delivery system OF the Post
office Department placed under civil
service rules.
In Franklin county, at political meet
ing. William Hale, a negro, becoming ln-
censed at a remark made by a white
man. secured double barreled gun and
fred into the crowd, killing two white
men and seriously wounding two Others,
one of whom will die,
Mr. J. o. Atwood, chairman of the
Prohibition State Committee, announces
that it is the wish of his party that every
vote cast for the Prohibition candidates
shall be certified to the State Board OF
Canvassers along with the other votes.
He charges that it has been the custom
at some precincts in the State to ignore
the Prohibition vote.
The feature of the local political cam
paign in New York Sunday was the act
i've part taken in it by the pastors OF the
churches. Thirty-one pastors, clergymen
and two leaders of independent church
societies. advertised themselves to speak
on the issues of the election, and all
took for their subjects the alleged malad-
ministration of the present city officers.
The fight for the Mayoralty is between f.
NJ. Shepard, Tammany, and Seth Low.
EusiOnist.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05
70 The Point.

Ii Miss Stones life shall be forfeited
through the penuriousness OF the civiliz-
ed world in not providing the ransom
demanded for her, the probability is there
will hereafter he decided falling of OF
enthusiasm among laborers in the field
of foreign missions. 1t seems to be de-
feet ia eur government that it is powless
to furnish the money for the ransom.
though it can exact from Turkey indem-
nifcation of those that do provide it. 81
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05
Indiana Man Prefers Divorces to ouarrsls.

John Baker, of Indiana. who recently
married Miss JEANNE Balser, says this is
his sixth marriage within the past five
years. Yet he declares married life is not
a failure in the sense that most people
take it. All his former wives are living.
All reside in the immediate vicinity and
pass him every few days on the streets.
Baker says it shows ill-breading to
quarrel with women. "If you can't live
in harmony with woman, he declares,
get divorce and marry another, and
repeat the process until you do find one
to suit you. That's my plan and |
believe now that have a woman that
Mill meet all requirements. Baker is
twenty-seven years old.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05

WE WILL wager that Richmond s
"Justice John" has spun out more
mother wit and horse logic in his
official career than all the so-styled
humorous English and Irish Justices
Cincluding Lord Morris, the famous
Irish Law Lord put together Ia
the staid days Of old when a man
madea bright remark it was recorded
and heralded to the coming ages.
Flashes of wisdom fit across Rich
mond's sky every day between the
hours of 10 a. m. and noon, and none
but the curb-stone reporter records
them.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05
MILLIONS IN COURT.
Capitalists Charged with Violating Game
Law.

More than $50,OOO,OOO were repre-
sented in Squire B. A. Davis's court, at
Saluda, Friday morning, when Senator
]. II. Cochran, of Williamsport, Pa,
who owns the Rose Gill estate, in Middle
sex county, and dozen or more OF the
officials OF the Pennsylvania Central rail
road, who are his guests, were summoned
for the violation of the game law. The
Squire soon found that there was moth
ing in the charge, and dismissed the
cases The Jolly gentlemen were more
amused at the hunt after them than they
were in their hunt after the birds.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05
oilad Roadhada.

The plan of making roads dustless by
Incorporating crude oil into the dust of
an ordinary earth road for the purpose
OF holding the dust down and securing a
permanent roadbed or to prevent its
holding water and being cut up, has been
introduced successfully on highways in
various parts of the country, particular
" in California, and the same scheme is
now being utilized to secure dustless
roadbeds on several Of the principal rail-
roads OF the country.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

The pledges OF the Democratic leaders
in the Virginia campaign commits the
Constitutional Convention absolutely
against the Acknowledgement OF single
white man.
An effort will be made to haveembodied
in the new Constitution OF Virginia a
clause requiring every citizen between
the ages oils years and As topay tax OF
% cents per capita per annum for the
support Of the State military establish
ment.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05

IT'S going it little too strong to
caricature Mrs. Roosevelt at the
Booker Washington dining as some
Maryland papers and politicians
have done. The South will protest
against such an ungallant impugn-
ment of the lady as quickly as it did
against Mr.. Roosevelt's thoughtless-
ness-or erraticalness, which shall
we call it? 1t may be matter OF
interest to know whether OF not the
"first lady OF tho land" was present
on the occasion, but that is all the
farther one can pursue the guest with
proper courtesy.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05
GENERAL NEWS.

Cuba is absorbing millions from this
country in railroad enterprises.
The Pan American Exposition at But
falo closed finally Friday night.
The recall of Wa Tingfang, Chinese
Minister at Washington. has been decided
upon.
An assassin attempted to murder Til
hsi DOwager Empress Ol China, but was
prevented.
1t is reported that Gen. De Wet has
captured 5000 British army horses near
Cape Town.
4 commission which examined Leon
F. Czolgosz at Buffalo reports him TO
have been sane.
John d. Rockefeller owns that he is
worth 81 600, 900, 900, and his income
is a million n week
The Government census gives the total
of iliterate men over - years old in the
United States as 2,326 29j.
The arch to he erected to perpetuate
the memory oi the late President William
Mckinley il to cost 81 300, 900.
The whole ElkhOrn mountain in West
Virginia is on fire and great apprehension
is felt for the safety of the community.
An unknown person sent n bomb
through the mails to =. W. Rouss, son
of Charles Broadway Rouss, the New
York millionaire.
During a storm on Lake Baikal. in
Siberia. scores of fishing boats were
destroyed and one hundred and seventy
five fishermen drowned.
The brigands are still holding out for
the $4,000 ransom, and it il feared
that should they persist in their demand,
| Miss Stone will have TO he sacrificed.
Lord Kitchener reports n disaster 10
thel British near Bethel, in the Eastern
Transvaal, in which two guns were lost,
sc men were killed and 90 wounded
The worlds national Indebtedness is
estimated at $3l POI .749. PA. ten times
az great as the worlds national debts
amounted to during the Napoleonic
wars.
Lockjaw Is epidemic in St Louis as
the result of the administration OF
diphtheria antitoxin; several chiklren
have died. The Health Department has
stopped the free distribution Of tetanus
antitoXin.
President Roosevelt has accepted
the invitation of the South Carolina
Interstate and West Indian Exposition
directors to attend the exposition on
Wednesday, February 12-Lincolns
birthday.
Twenty-Five million dollars will be
spent to make the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition, which will he held in ST
Louis beginning May LIST, 1908, and
running for six months, the greatest
show OF the kind the world has ever
undertaken.
A new departure in charity is the do
nation of John D. Rockefeller Of $500
600 to furnish the funds for the support
of an institute for medical research. The
object of the plan is To begin the work
of research III earnest and To that end
nineteen ielloYships have been estab-
lished.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05
the sugar Question.

Reciprocity in general and in particular
is going to make no great Roadway i'm
mediately so much is apparent from the
attitude and utterances of the leading
men of the Republican party. But some
questions win not await political schemes
or party necessities. Aud possibly the
sugar question, with all its conflicting in
terests and it's iticalinhuence on Cuba,
may be one OF them.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05
Hard on This Tax Dodger.
(Danville Register

The tax dodger, whether rich or poor,
is, in n specific sense, dead beat who
wants other people to pay his way as
citizen. Indiana seems-tO have quite a
sprinkling of people within her borders
who have defrauded the State by making
false returns of property. 1t has been
found necessary in that section to enter
upon a vigorous campaign against tax
dodgers. One wealthy individual in the
State has been fined 81 900 for such an
offense and compelled to pay back taxes
for seventeen years on property that he
had failed to give in. He probably
never thought Of himself as a transgres-
sor until he discovered that his way was
hard.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05
Sava Watch En-.

Corporations should receive justice at
the hands ofthelaw, but legislation that
discriminates in their favor to the det-
riment OF the States revenues is an in
il stice upon a tax-burdened people and
should not be tolerated by them.-Fred-
ericksburg FREE LANCE.
Just so; but even at the prospect OF
reaching a measure that might bring re-
lief the Constitutional Convention shows
unmistakable evidence of anxiety to ad-
journ. Watch results when the propo-
sition to create a Corporation Commits
sion, with power to assess corporation
property, is reached Norfolk Virginian'
Pilot.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05

Col. J. HAMPTON HOGE failed to
pull the record on Mr.. Montague of
his differentiation speeches. And
so the certain has fallen upon the
slow drama without Il thrilling
climax.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05
Rebuilding the Jefferson.

Plans for rebuilding the Main street
side OF the Jefferson hotel are progress
ing. The architects are planning the new
structure according to the wishes OF Mr..
Arents and associates, and within a
short while it is expected that final plans
embracing all the changes will be decided
upon. The Franklin street side OF the
Jefferson will be ready in part for guests
in a short time. There was taken to the
jefferson on Wednesday a giant safe.
This required the efforts OF sixteen
horses.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05

A CHICAGO millionaire was found
dead in a cornfield the other day. He
had killed himself. Had he come to
Caroline county, Va, he might have
hung himself on one of those giant
cornstalks and thus given the event
more notoriety.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05
New Isthmian Treaty.

Lord Paunceforte has returned to Amer
lea, bringing with him, it is said, a draft
of new isthmian canal treaty. 1t is as
serted that the Clayton Bulwer treaty is
abrogated and the objections OF the U. s.
Senate met in spirit OF Cancellation.
London is not confident OF acceptance by
the United States.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05

ONE county of West Virginia has
among its political subdivisions the
Slab Fork, the Marsh Fork, the
Shady Spring, the Clear Fork and
the Trap Hill districts. Surely that
county ought to be able to satisfy
the idiosyncracies of the most fastid-
iOus politician.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05
q. 9. Grand Jurors.

The following are among the grand
iury Summoned for the fall term Of the
L. S. Courts, which convene in Norfolk
on November 7th:. W. B G. Shnmate,
Calverton; j. w. Coon and NJ. b. Hill, Of
Culpeper; E. Wilkinson, West Point G..
l.. Blackburn, Lot; w. W. Corr, Cologne;
S. w. Courtney, Little Plymouth; Har-
vey b. Johnson, Beulahyille.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05

The report of the Second Auditor Tor
the year shows that there are outstand-
ing bonds TO the amount of S24,O05,-
49,. 50 as follows: Riddlebergers, 81
572. 226.SS; Centuries, $40, 1866, 1909:
miscellaneous, 81, 466, 455.S5.
During the last four years bonds to
the amount of$1 800 have been pur-
chased by the board of sinking fund
commissioners, and during the last
twenty years bonds to the amount of
1860. 091 40, in addition to about
$500 600 now held by the commissioners,
which can be cancelled at any time by act
of the Legislature.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05
Senator Daniel Still III.

1t is said that there are grounds for ap-
preheusion that Senator Daniel will not
regain his former robust health. 1t is ad-
mitted that the return Of the Senator to
his seat in the Constitutional Convention
is very improbable, his condition requir-
ing rest and immunity from all worry.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05

The scientists say that there are
LOO different kinds of mosquitoes.
But they all sting alike to the I'M
scientific.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05
virsinia's Revenues.

Auditor Marye is at work on his an
nual report, which is to be submitted TO
the General Assembly. The following
figures show the amont of taxable values
in the State under the assessment OF the
mast wear:
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05

THERE is many a man in Virginia
who does not know that today
Tuesdays election day.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05

IT Isgenerally conceded that Philip
pine loyalty is circumscribed by the
American dollar.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05
Sent to whipping Post.

Friday Justice William Muir, OF Rich
mond county, sentenced Edward Rich,
colored, to one weeks confinement in
jail and to receive thirty-nine lashes for
stealing a shotgun.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05

THE Beers are buyingguns in Eng
land. Invasion is a leading charac-
teristic of war.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05

PERHAPS Elkhorn, West Virginia,
is trying to throw some light on the
election.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05

GENTLEMEN of the political fra
ternities, choose whom you will
serve.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05

JUDGE. ADVOCATE LENlLY seems to
be an expert at boiling down Potts.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05

THE eyes of the Irish potato have
a golden hue this season.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05

The ballot-box is the key to the
situation to-day.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05

A POLITICIAN may be likened to a
crab because he knows how to side
step.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05

1t has leaked out that the latest devel-
opments in the case of John Armstrong
Chanler, the wealthy New Yorker, who
was divorced from Amelie Rives now the
Princess Troubetzkoi, will probably
prove that Mr.. Chanler is not and has
never been insane. despite the fact that
he was closely guarded in BlOomiDgdale
Asylum, in New York, for long time as
a homeless case.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05

Senator T. S. Martin spoke at Char
lottesville Friday night and received an
ovation from big audience.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-05

There is a movement on foot to have
something in the nature of reunion OF
all the Culpeper boys who have LETT here
within the last twenty years. 1t is pro-
posed to have it some time during next
summer, and to give them banquet and
a grand ball in their honor.-Culpeper
Exponent.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-05
SOUTHBRlDGE

"A large force began work Saturday
afternoon and worked all day Sunday
and part of Sunday night on putting up
the new trolley wires on a portion of
the Southbridge & Sturbridge Street
Railway. The cars to Sandersdale did
not run all day Sunday and the resi-
dents of the village had to remain at
home or take a two-mile walk to the
centre of the town. The new wires be-
ing put up consist of two trolley wires
one to be used by cars going in one di-
rection and the other by the cars go
ing the opposite way. The wires will
soon be connected so they will receive
the power from the new power house
of the Worcester & Southdridge Street
is now practically controlled by the
new road.
Mrs. Charles H. Hanaford of this
town is in Philadelphia, attending the
meeting of the general executive COM
mittee of the Woman's Foreign Mis-
sionary Society, having been sent as a
delegate by the meeting of the New
England branch recently held in Port
land, Me.
AT the regular meeting of Doric
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Monday
evening, the P. NJ. degree was con-
ferred upon 10 candidates,
d. L. Rogers, who Is engaged in
state work in the Y. M. C. A, spoke to
the boys at their meeting Sunday af-
ternoon and Robert ellison read his
paper which he read at the Fitchburg
convention last week, making, the boys
meeting very interesting.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-05
WESTBORO WOMAN
COMMITS SUICIDE
Special to The Spy.

Westboro, Nov Mrs. Rose Bates
Nye, wife of Harry G. Nye, committed
suicide this morning lat her home, on
Blake Street. Mrs. Nye returned home
from work this noon and, not finding
his wife there Immediately went to the
attic where he found her body hang
ing at the end of a rope fastened across
the top of two doors and tied to the
door knobs. She leaves a brother,
Samuel Bates, and a sister, Mrs. Harry
Harrington, both of this town.
Mrs Nye has not been in the best
of health for the past month, being
troubled with nervous and Respondent
spells, but this morning she seemed as
well as ever and when seen by the
grocery man at o'clock was appar-
emily in the best eff spirits. She said
that nothing was needed. This was the
last time she was seen alive.
Her sister, who lives down stairs,
said she did not hear anything more
of her after that 1t is believed she
had everything planned ahead, because
when the grocery man called she came
from the front part of the house,
where she was getting things ready.
The rope used was a common piece of
clcthesline, but it was nearly new and
very strong.
Mr. Nye returned from his work at
the usual hour this noon and when he
found his wife was not there, he knew
at once she had done something des-
perate, because about two weeks age
he returned home early and found heI
trying to drown herself in the bathtub
He reached her just in time to save he1
life
Medical Examiner Hoyt of Marlboro
came at 8. 30 and viewed the body.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-05
Michael Carroll, a Well Known
Sportsman, Hit by TempIeton
EIectriCs and His Body Fright
fully Mangled
STEPPED DIRECTLY IN
FRONT OF THE CAR
Nearly Every Bone in His Body
Was Broken and Both Legs
Were Severed Below the Knee
-FenderS on the Car Were
Too Hiuh

Special to The Spy.
Gardner, Nov. 4. - Michael Carroll, SO
years of age, unmarried, boarding at is
Waterford Street, at the home of Patrick
Murphy, was instantly killed by car on
the Templeton Street Railway about $50
o'clock this evening. The accident took
place on Parker Street, about half mile
out of West Gardner. The car was bound
from West Gardner to Baldwinville, and
was in charge of Motorman Harry Beals
and Conductor George Mott.
Carroll is painter by trade, but passed
the greater part of his time hunting, be-
ing one of the best known sportsmen in
this section. He was out with his gun
this afternoon. During the evening he
was standing near the car tracks. Ac-
cording to the story told by the street
railway men, just as the car came along
he stepped directly in It's path. The fend-
ers on the new cars are so high that a
mans body can be passed over when 1t is
lying on the ground. CAROLS head evil
IDENTIFY was struck by the beam of the car
and split in two. The car passed COM
pletely over his body, both legs being cut
off Just below the knee by the wheels on
the left side of the car.
The body was removed to the under
taking rooms of Ryan Brothers on Par
ker Street. DR.. E. A. Sawyer viewed the
remains and pronounced death instanta-
neous. CarrolHs body was frightfully
mangled. The neck. jaw, all the ribs
both bones of the left wrist, both Shout
ders, collar-bone and breast-bone were
broken and two legs cut off.