The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-04-30
GENERAL NEWS

More fraud arrests have been made in
Manila.
There are 3,S2s millionaires in the
United States.
4 Jury at Omaha, Neb., acquitted Jas.
Callahan of completely in the kidnapping
of Edward Cudahy, Jr.
Ii is said that military law has been
established in Cape Colony, South Africa,
and the situation is alarming.
Last months fire losses. amounting to
$15 900. 900, have aroused insurance men
to seek greater protection against present
methods of electric wiring.
The restriction of negro suffrage in
Southern States was criticised by speak
ers at various celebrations of Gen. 1. ).
Grants birthday anniversary.
Rev. DIR. Chas. II. Parkhurst, in n ser
mon in his New York church, said both
the South and the North disliked the
negro. but the North lied about it,"
George Gould has doubled the fortune
of $40. OOO. 900 left by his father, formerly
n poor shoemaker Since President Me
Kinley's election George has been making
81 900, 900 a month.
The President has decided To order the
restoration Of the historic relies OF George
Washington. now in the Smithsonian In
stitutiOn, TO the present head OF the fam
ily, George Washington Gusts Lee.
While attempting to sink a shaft in the
Mount Airy tunnel, at Rdgevile, Md,
for the b. < o. railroad improvements.
about 900 tons OF earth fell Saturday,
burying a number Of workmen alive.
The report to Secretary Wilson shows
great growth in the beet sugar industry
in the United States. IL il estimated
there will be IL new beet sugar factories,
making about ~ in this country, in OPP
GRAFTON by next winter.
Conservative estimates place the num-
Der OF homeless and the financial loss IN
the principal cities in West Virginia,
Kentucky and Ohio in the flooded dis
tricts as follows: Homeless, III ,1Jo; esti-
mated damage, 81, 100000.
Capable Of discharging 1l6 bullets n
minute at a high initial velocity, the new
automatic pistol adopted by the Board
Of Ordnance and Fertilization for the L.
s. Army IL in many respects remarkable
weapon. An order for ] 600 OF the PTS
tolls for the cavalry has been placed.
Plans have been agreed upon for new
Department OF Agriculture building, To
cost not exceeding $4,000, 900. IL VIII
be U-shaped, of white marble, four stories
high. with n 4O0iOot front. and two
wings, eaeh 200 feet long. The present
building will he incorporated within the
new structure
Mrs. BENJAMIN Harrison accepts the
provisions Of the will of the late Gen.
Harrison. BY the terms of the will she
IL to receive $l5, 200 in cash. the summer
home in the Adirondacks, the use OF the
home in North Delaware street, Indian
apolis. and the interest on 1926, 900
during her life.
There is great difficulty being expert
enced by many railroads in securing OPP
eratiyes-engineers. brakemen, tiagmen
and conductors The scarcity oil rough
labor has been apparent for nearly two
years, but Il has not been the ease In
years that the skilled labOrers necessary
to operate n railroad were hard to secure.
1t il reported that the British agent in
New Orleans has discovered that Boer
agents, employed rs cattlemen, have in
iected horses destined for South Africa
with CHAMBERS and other diseases. Hun
dreds of these animals are said to have
died on the way TO the Cape, while many
on their arrival have had to be destroyed.
The Turkish government is concluding
a contract for a new cruiser, although
nothing has been paid on account OF the
cruiser ordered in the United States.
Neither has anything been paid on the
Krupp account for naval guns, nor have
the eight irOn-clads which have been con-
tracted to be transformed into modern
ships been taken to Germany, owing 10
lack Of funds.
The Cuban Constitutional delegation
completed it's labors in Washington Sat
urday. In the morning the delegates
met Secretary Root, who escorted them
to the White House, where they had a
final and decisive talk with the President,
who received them with great considera-
ton, but informed them that they must
settle their form OF government and dis
pose of political questions before eco
nomic matters can be taken up with them
by the United States Government.