The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-04-23
GENERAL NEWS

Affairs naNcQulelcu uOWn III NpioilDh'
Friday in Wall street the sale Of stock
broke all records.
Miami, Fla, was swept by tornado.
Much damage was done.
The movement OF negro labor OF vari-
Gus kinds northward from the South has
begun.
AguiualdOs long-expectcd address to
the FilipinOs, issued in Manila, advises
the natives to yield.
The strike in the sheet steel works at
McKeespOrt, Pa, was ended byan arree-
ment to restore things IA before the
trouble.
The engagement of Miss Vivian Sar-
tOris. granddaughter OfGcn. L. :. Grant,
to Archibald BaliOur, barristcr of Lon
don is announced.
A train loaded with cattle and coal
was captured by the Beers near Molteno,
Cape Colony Friday evening. The British
have located Gen DE Wet.
The British budget was presented To
the House of Commons and the Govern
ment asked authority to borrow $500
900 900, which was granted
W. II. Doll has been appointed general
agent of the passenger department Of
the SeabOard Air Line Railway, with
headquarters in Washington
After fierce battle, which lasted two
days, the chess players representing the
United States and the United Kingdom
broke even in the sixth international
match by cable.
Commissioner Evans il authority for
the statement that there are more pen
siOners on the roll today than ever be-
fore. They number 800 ,09G. an excess
Of about 800 over the next previous
highest number.
President Mckinley has decided to an
nOunce all or nearly all the appointments
Of first aud second lieutenants beior he
leaves for the West next Monday There
are JSS places in the list and the appli-
cations number into the thousands.
The Standard Oil Company will de-
clare n mountaineering dividend about
May of 20 per cent. on it's capitol of
800, OOO, 900. At the same time, the
plan will probably be adopted Of increas-
ing the capital stock Of the company
rom $lOO. 900 600 to 500, OOO, 600.
At Frankfort, Ky, Saturday the jury
in the ease Of Capt. Garnett Ripley,
charged with being in acOuspiracy which
resulted in the assassination of William
Goebe. rendered a verdict of not guilty.
The matter of a requisition for the re
turn of OK Gov Taylor from Indiana for
trial il theme Of speculation
There is every reason to believe that
the attitude OF the Meyican government
toward American citizens arrested in that
country, which has been the cause Of
much friction in the past, will I've more
lenient in the future. IL II said at the
State Department that conditions have
already greatly improved.
Annapolis. Nd, is the most expensive
port of entry in the United States. Lat
est statistics show that il cost the gov
eminent SOL To collect 81 the aggrc-
gate receipts of that port during the last
fiscal year Next To Annapolis is Rock
island, H., where it cost 500 to collect
80 cents.
Rebecca May, cOlored, now living in
Madison, has passed her lOlst birthday.
She was born in Virginia. April 10th.
1900. where she grew into wOmanhoOd
and was married. Her father was
wealthy planter and objected to the
marriage, so that she aud her husband
went to Indiana. Her children are scat
tered over several States.
Uncle Samfs most monumental publ
cation has been practically completed.
Ii is the oficial record of the Union and
Confederate armies. and consists of %
thick vOlumns, nm index and atlas OF
IT'S plates, showing maps of battlefields,
routes of marches plans Of forts, etc.
The books fill five big mail sacks The
Government sells single vOlumns or the
complete sets at cost Under the latest
act OF distribution each Senator, and
Representative will receive one official
and two additional sets for disposal AZ
he may see fit.
A Chicago woman recently said that
$50 a day would be the proper and uni
form wage of labor were things divided
as they should be- The New York World
makes some calculations for her enlight-
eminent. The World says: Roughly AID
roundly speaking. the working popula-
ton of the United States is 2j,000,000
At $50 per day these toilers would earn
$3.50, 600, 900 every twenty-fOur hours.
The money of all kinds in ci-cula-
ton in this country on the LIST of
last October amounted TO 50, 1921
9S3. This would carry the pay-rOlls at
the rates just quoted for not quite three
days. The process OF continuing the pay
ment Oflaborers by ioint-stock and mort
gage methods, after the ready money
was exhausted, would be interesting To
all but the sOuless corporations. IL can
hardly be believed that the Chicago lady's
proposition forms key to the problem
OF the age.