The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-04-18
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The mail route from Warsaw to Mon
tross il being readyertised.
Mr.. Eli Sharp has been appointed anex.
press agent at Sharps Wharf, Richmond
county.
At Charlottesville Tuesday Cornell de-
feated the University Of Virginia team at
ball. Score Otto ,.
A meeting of the Pension Board OF rs
sex county was held Monday and four
additional names We're enrolled.
Frank ThrOckmOrtOn, at Richmond,
fell distance Of 30 feet without doing
himself any injury. The man walked OIL
Edward Deane, colored, was tried Tor
larceny in Essex County court and sen
fenced to three years in the penitentiary.
There will be big horse show in Rich
mond next October. Ii may be held dur
ing Carnival week il not, It will occur
the same time.
4 gift of $1,000 has been made to
Richmond College by Mr.. George Is. West,
of Newport News Mr.. West recently
gave $1,000 to the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary at Louisville, by.
DIR. Kemper Mc('lanahan, formerly OF
Culpeper county, now a surgeon IN the
navy has started for San Francisco, on
his way to Manila, where he has been
assigned. lie was accompanied by Mrs.
McClanahan.
The bronze tablet TO the memory OF
Rev. DIR. Moses ID. Hoge was presented
ON Sunday to the Second Presbyterian
Church. in Richmond. DIR. Hoge was
for more than "a years the pastor OF that
congregation.
Prof. Lyon G.. Tyler, president OF Viii
liam and Mary College, is candidate Tor
the position of superintendent OF schools
of Williamsburg. The incumbent Is Mr.
X. II. Armistead, who has held the posi-
ton for many years.
Dabney Cosby, manager OF South BIOS
ton Brick Works, Richmond, met death
Tuesday in a peculiar manner. While
feeding clay into the hopper OF the brick
machine he lost his balance, fell headlOng
in. and was ground to death.
George W. Gray, OF Pittsburg, Pa, for
merly with the Pennsylvania Railroad.
has been appointed supervisor Of the n.
Y..P.& n Railroad, with headquarters
in the general office at Cape Charles, to
succeed c. A. Mckinney, resigned.
W. C. BohannOn was held up on the
free bridge in Richmond Sunday, and,
after being robbed, was thrown in the
river The fact that he struck in about
four feet Of water saved his life. BOhan-
non was injured about the head and body
No trace of the robbers.
Good roads are necessary for the con
tinuance of rural free delivery, declares
the PostOfice Department. Notice has
been given the patrons OF the existing
routes that unless the roads traversed by
the carriers are kept in fair condition the
service will he abolished.
Graduates OF the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute are deeply interested in the an
nouncement that the Department of Ag-
riculture will at once engage fifty gradu-
ates of the agricultural colleges to be
trained in the work Of the department
with view to putting them on the Fed
eral payroll at good salaries.
School superintendent will be elected
within very short time and the board,
composed of Governor Tyler, Attorney
General Montague and Superintendent
of Public instruction Southall, will meet
in a few days to set date for the board
to begin consideration of the contests
The time expired Monday in which APP
plications for superintendent OF schools
may be made.
Leslie Hicks, of Louisa county, a youth
nineteen years old, was arrested Monday
and tried by jury as to his sanity now
and also on the 14th OF March, when he
attempted to assault a young white lady.
The jury decided both questions in the
affirmative. He will be sent to an asy-
lum for the insane. In January young
Hicks attacked two daughters Of a re
spectacle cOlOred man on their way to
school. They resisted, and, together,
gave him a sound thrashing.