The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1893-11-09
NEWS ITEMS.

Coming convicts right and left
At NASSAU Wis, as result Of 4 fam
ny quarrel, VIM Odctte Friday sho:
and killed his brother Louis.
Petitions are being circulated in Chi.
c;aso praying that the government buy
fha Northern Pacific railroad
The pope has consented to act rs god
Nsher 70 the king of Spain at his
approaching confirmation and first
communion.
The duke of Portland denies the re-
port in circulation in London that nc
Will build q yacht to challenge for the
Americas cue.
Nineteen new cases Of yellow fever
wero reported at Brunswick, Ga, Fri
day No deaths. Fourteen patients
we're discharged.
The University OF Minnesota. at Min
neapois. is offered for sale for taxes II
refuses to ply 10 the city, the officers
claiming exemption.
Lawyer Francis II. Weeks, the de-
faulter, reached Jersey City at 1912
Friday He was taken directly to po-
lice hcadqua' tcrs
Two cntire blocks in the town Of
Ito,visvillc. md, were destroyed by
fire Thursday morning, causing loss
CT thousands Of dollars.
Vice President Stevenson left at
Ii o'clock Friday night over the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad for his
,,ccuc in Bloomington, III.
Capt, William II. Lee, cx-chicf of po-
lice Of st. Louis, died Thursday morn
ing Of paraly is. He WAS the only chief
eve;' promoted direct from the rank OF
patrolcman.
George Il. Oylcr & Co., wholesale
dealers in vehicles and agricultural
Implements ct st. Lonis, assigned
Wednesday, Assets, S250,000; liabil'
tiles unknown
Private ad7iccs just received at Ia
coma, Wash, state that twenty men
were eaten alive hy wolves at Shensi,
October II ard 10 Wild animals over
run that district.
y majority Of the KiclSapoo Indians
have agreed - accept 800 each and be
enrolled fer allotment. Allotting
against Neai has begun work. The
reservation V III be open by spring
Mr.. Young. L. :. minister Of Gauto-
mala. informs the state department
that President Ezct;., Of that country,
nov proclaimed dictator, has suspended
The tariff duty on salt meat and live
stock
a syndicate of Americans has pro-
iect on foot for the esta bliShncnt Of a
gigantic cloc,: and watch nanufactory
in Toxic, Which is to employ over 10,
000 workmcn, labor being cheap in
5apan.
The body of an unknown man, GO,
was found OH thcK. & NJ. railroad, 10
miles south O. Point Pleasant, w. Va.
He had built {. lire, and, by some means
his clothes caught fire and he burned
TO death.
Edward NJ. Douglass, youthful
orsethief in jail at Peru, Ind, was
married to Miss Alice Black Wcdncs-
Say in the Jail. The bride is Il we'll
lsno.vn young; lady of the northern part
OF tilc county.
There is increased activity among
&hc mills in Pittsburgh, and it is as
serted that fully fifteen thousand more
!cen arc at work in the various factor
Fcs OF Allegheny county than were en-
"a PED in wae e-carning on October l.
Mrs, Sarah nman, aged n, residing in
Mteian Crcel township, few miles
southeast Of Bedford, Ind, committed
NI!cidc by thr wing herself into creek.
no cause can be assigned and the act
sx;.s probably the result of temporary
Insanity.
4. II. smylhe. of Columbus, O., whose
connection with the Egyptian exhibit
* the street in Cairo ut the Worlds
fair, as mana: er Of it, gave him wide
reputation. vas married at Columbus
TO Miss Charlotte Parmelec, q teacher
of that city.
At Keithshurg, Ill, ire which
started at $50 o'clock Wednesday
morning, burned three blocks of resi-
Gcnccs and sore buildings, destroying
altogether twenty-five residences and
eleven places Of business The loss is
estimated at $40, 600, with very little
insurance.
News reached Little Rock, Ark, of
the death in Tcgucigalpa, Honduras
July 81, of John G. Warheld, eX-sheritf
end collector of Dcsha county, who 81
few years ago defaultcd in the sum of
g., 900 The information was brought
by the abscoader's son, who has re-
turned from Honduras
A dozen Italian laborcrs with emf
grant tickets boarded q Chicago & Erie
Grain at Huntington, Ind, and at
tempted to install themselves in first
c!a:s car. Being ordered to the smoker
fight ensuel, in which several were
injured, Conductor w. II. Hampstead
seriously, with q stillctto.
LES Roi," a drama by Lemaitre,
uhich was to have been produced next
Monday az the Renaissania theatcr,
Paris, by Sarah Bernhardt, has boon
;nterdicted, The Austrian ambassador
barring protested because the principal
scene suggested too strongly the death
% the Crown Prince Rudolph.
The clearinghouse OF Peters Bros,
%,Mt0ria, o., was broken into Thurs
day night and about 800 worth Of
osoflling and :cwclry and about s25 in
moncy were taken. Coleman Joyce
tFnd a young man named Geo. Schreck
ware arrested and jailed. The stolen
eooio we're found in their possession.
!-u,s {oc So 0O9 damages has been
commenced a Warren, O., by Mrs.
.Iohi Kcarns Of Niles, against the