The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1893-10-26
NEWS ITEMS.


days
Reports from the lake storms thus
far show fifty lives lost and twelve vcs-
sells wreclsod
Rev. Francis r. Batcman. Baptist
minister Of New York. has gone over
TO the Episcopalinns
An organized band of cattle and
horse thieves arc causing the farmers
much trouble west of Fostoria O., in
Hancock county
Emma Van Orden, the daughter of
Millionaire Orden, of New York, who
Joined the Salvation army, has left the
army and returned home
1t is reported Shat one OF Tive largest
retail dry goods firms In Ne~ York has
been victinized to the amount Of sl0O,-
600 by scvcral Of Us employee
Jules l>etort. the xell-known French
chemist and member oi the Academy
OF Medicine. died at Paris. He wax the
author OF several works on chemistry.
John karpo. George Su;o and MI
chacl Salokay, Elungarians, were con-
NiS'cu VI iHulttci III VIC HcSollu NGb ~
for killing George klaclS at Wiliner-
ding, Pa
At brunswick, Ga, there were eleven
new cases oi-ycllow fever Friday-lwo
white and nine colorctl. One death oc-
Cured, md thirty-cight discharges
were made
BY the caving IN OF trench at the
Homestead steel works. homestead.
Pa, Thursday morning, two men wore
killed outright and five others injured.
one Of Thorn fatally.
Two Jews at brunswick, Ga, sick
with fovcr, We're told that the doctors
wcro going to murder them. One has
gono crazy and the ot!scr is lying.
Both we're gcttia% better.
Representative Outhwaitc says it is
the understanding that every MEM
Der of tho Chic dole gation. including
Senators Sherman and l;ricc. viii he IN
fhc campaign cforo the Is OF Novcm-
Der.
Irs. aIarlatt, convict IN the Ohio
penitontiary, tried to kill Guard ". ".
Short, but was foilcd Tic was given
terrible punishment by duciiins and an
electric battery called tho drumming
bird"
James Smith, q Washington county
burglar, anG Nathan II. Burk 4 Sum
lnit county prisoner, trie.l to suicide at
the Ohio pcnitcntiavy By inhaling coal
gas They yvero both discovered and
saved
Some OF tho stats commissioners
tho Worlds fair havo grievances
against tho administered ton and bureau
OF awards and intend meeting ana
passing resol1 tons expressive OF their
feelings.
The mystery Of Anna Orr's disap-
pearancc from the home of her father
on Holland lIciGnts, near bridgeport
c., has boon clcM-ed up hy' tho finding
OF her body in an old we'll a mile from
her homo,
The cngagcnentof senator Faulkner
OF West Virginia. and Miss Virginia
Whiting. daughter CT Col. II. Clay
Whiting. prominent banker OF lamp
ton, Va, is announced. The wedding
will take place early n tho coming
year.
Superotitious people arc commenting
on the fret that there were thirteen
coaches in the fatcd train wrecked near
Battle Creek, Mich, Friday, and that
the car in which the fire started was
number tx 1t had been in previous
wrecks.
Mrs. Ida Willems, OF milwaukee,, &C
cuscs her husband Peter, his sister An
ME and hi. mother Christina of setting
fire TO their house TO secure the lnaur-
ance. They are suspected OF sottlnS
other fires that nave occurred IN My
yankee.
Mrs Rachel Logan, aged seventy,
near Pittsburgh, was tortured Ivy
masked robbers and forced 10 give up
@15, savest eoY her old age. Later four
eoung r..u na,ucd LauGhlin. Evans,
Shields and Shoesnakev were arrested
and confessed
Pone Leo has ordered his nuncio at
Paris to tender the coincidence OF the
vatican to the widow OF Marshal Mac
Mahon. Cardinal Rampolla sent a sec.
ond message, containing the Official
coincidence of the vatican, addressed 10
the French government.
1t is probable that tho investigation
before the committee on public LANDS
of the opening of the Cherokee strip
will be discontinued. 1t is believed
from testimony given by Commissioner
Lomoreux and Gen. Hall, that the
charges OF corruption were trumpcd up
for political purposes
George Arnot or Arnaud, OF the
French EN- busy Mt Washington, twice
cttemptcd suicide in the kimbaE House,
Atlanta, Ga. Friday morning -lysr
terry surrounds the case, and there Is
difference of opinion as to whether uls'
appointed love or delirium trclnens
prompted his actions.
The committee that has beer lnvestl-
eating the books of the knights ana
Ladies of Honor which has member"
shin all over the country. with head
quarters at indianapolis, Ind, mas
rea ched a point whore 1t can be stat& q
with certainty that no defalcation ex-
lists although the books were found III
very muddlcd state.
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TO secure rattlcsnalScs the noun
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