The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-02-21
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Culpeper Is TO have q new Ice plant
The Culpsper National Bank hal
moved into It's fine new building.
Fire at Mount Jackson caused q loss
estimated ut $40 400, partly covered by
insurance.
Monday the Bertha Mineral Company
of Pulaski shipped TO London a train
load Of zinc.
The steamer Northumberland ran
into Warterview wart aud damaged tLe
wsrf considerably.
J. r Galewood, Of Essex county,
was thrown from his buggy Sunday
aud had leg broken.
A reservoir at Abingdon burst Mon
dayand los loose LOO 600 gallons Of water.
Some persons were injured.
The coal handlers strike at Newport
News has been settled. All differences
OF she future are to be settled by aTbl-
trati0n.
IL is thought that the Long Distance
Telephone company will soon make
connections in almost every section Of
the State.
The first B8p,ists church Of Atlanta.
Ca. has donated $1,000 towards rebuild
ing the Grove. Avenue church III
Richmond. 5i
Judge John q. Williams. Of Orange,
and two daughters. left last evening
torsa trip 90 Jacksonville, Fla Rich.
Times OF tuesday.
The City council of Oulpepsr has re-
ceived the plans and specifications for
this city electric light plant and will
advertise for bids 20 construct it.
Gov Tyler has signed the bill impos.
In a tax x 5000 on peddlers. aud It is
now Law. The measure DOES not az
ply 10 psddlers Of wood. oJal. and Toe.
The dwelling aud contents OF Will
liam Richardson. colored, near Manokin
church. In Richmond county, was
barned Monday. Nothing was saved 4,
aud there Was 40 insurance.
The Eleventh annual Convention OF
the Virginia State Sunday School AS
ISOLATION Of ell Protestantdenomin
was held In DAnville. Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday. Of this week.
R + Hilllard has resigned as post
IN Aster OF streets. Middlesex county,
aud that Office has been removed from
La Grange mill TO ]. r Hughes store
with j. +. Hughes IS postmaster.
The large female school at Brook
neal. HenTioo county. conducted
by Miss wilkinson, was destroyed by
fire Monday evening. The LADY teacher
and girls made q brave fight 80 save
their effects. bat most of the contents
were lost The building and furniture
were insured.
judge Z. M. Ware presided for the
fifsI time Monday over the Essex county
court. The Bar passed resolutions
euloglstic Of Judge Thomas Oroxton,
the retiring Judge Judge J. W. Fleet.
she newly-eleoted Judge Of King and
Queen, sat IN several cases that Judge
Ware was interested in.
Senator Marian telegraphedOh airman
W. A. Curtis and Oily Engineer Out
shaw of Richmond that the Senate
Committee had agreed upon. and would
report a recommendation that the sun
Of $40 900 be appropriated for the i'm
provement Of the harbor Of Richmond
oisy ABOVE the corporate limits 10 the
ship locks, which are ct the head Of
navigation.
Judge EWell, of Lancaster, was pre-
sented with petitions at court last Mon
day requesting that an election be held
at once Invite Stone and White Chapel
districts TO determine whether local
option shall continue or be repealed
This whole county has been under local
option for the past four years, but "speAk
easies" have flourished in the mean
time There will be lively Aght with
the chances in favor Of repeal.
Gov. Tyler has turned over 10 Presi-
dent John SHELTON Williams the forfeit
bond Of $75. 900 and the certified check
Of $50, 900. deposited under the terms
If the aoT passed at the last regular ses.
zion OF the general assembly inoorporat-
Ing the Richmond and Washington Air
Line Railroad Company, to beforfeited
L the road were not built within Ger.
tain term Of years. The act Of inoorpo-
ration was repealed Of the extra session