The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1893-12-14
NEWS ITEMS

Hnverhill, Mass
Honduras and Nicarnuga arc about
to go to war again.
The net treasury balance Thursday
stood at s94, s25, 900.
An army of tramps and buns is en-
campcd about Canton, o.
A hurricane swept over the port OF
Algicrs Thursday. Much damage was
done.
King William, of Wurtemburg, is suf-
fering from influenza. lie is confined
to his bed.
The prince OF Wales Thursday was
nominated grand master OF the English
Free Masons-
Fremont Sutfine shot and killed Sam
ucl IIarter near Portland, Ind. Ear
mers quarrel.
Clifford Grover. aged fourteen. had
his skull split open while coasting at
Springfield, o.
General Master Workman Sovereign
says that the best element Of the X. OF
L. are still in the ranks.
e. NJ Jenkins. town marshal OF 'Oss-
burg, Miss, was shot and killed by Dep
uty L. S. Marshal Earl Patton.
A lynching is reported at Harrisburg.
Ark. There is no telegraph office there,
and particulars have not been received
yet.
There are now ten states in tho
Union in which there are laws on the
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Sunday.
The official expenditure upon the
Toulon and Paris fctcs in honor OF the
the Russians has been determined. 1t
was but S775, 900
A special from Hamilton. Ont, says
Thomas Axworthy. dcfaulting eX-city
treasurer of Cleveland, O., dicd there
Wednesday afternoon.
Mine No closes Saturday and over
100 men will be cut off The majority
nre destitute and in debt. Mine No.
is the only one working at MononSah'
W. Va.
A dispatch from Zone to the London
Central News says: Ex-Minister CriSpl
has been offered the presidency OF the
chamber of deputies, and that he has
refused it.
The First National bank, of kanka-
kcc, ILL.,, has reopened. 1t closed July
%, with liabilities $4,000 and assets
s22s. 900. The bank has been doing
business for twenty years
At Toledo the steam barge Concord
was discovered to bc on fire at o'clock
Wednesday evening and was damaged
to the extent of $4,000 She was
owned by Capt. Frank llcbner OF III
cago
Safe blowers entered Butler 4 Mil
ler's icwelry store at lndianola, Ia. by
prying open a rear window. hey Sc
cured about IS, 600 worth OF watches
and jewelry and 500 in cash. There is
NO clcw.
The battle at IIollister. O., between
the Iiuugarians and others. in which
two men were killed, started in
drunken brawl between a couple OF
worhmcn. From them it spread into
general fight.
The steamer Santuit, with tho Bra
lillian torpedo boat in tow, passed out
Of Sandy Hook Thursday morning. No
flags were shown except the American
stars and stripes from the mainmast
head of the Snntuit.
The steamer Traveller ROselyn col
lided with and sunk the steamer Bull,
of North Berwick, Eng, Wednesday.
The Bulls crew, numbering sixteen
hands, and her four passengers were
landed in small boats
Alexander and Joseph Rorique, the
two brothers who have been on trlnl
at Brcst before naval court martial,
charged with murder, mutiny and
piracy IN the South Pacific ocean, were
Friday condemned to death.
The arrest of a man named Nolen
and three boys named Parker, Morgan
and Post, ut Buckhannon, w, Va, it is
thought. explains the numerous mys-
FERROUS robbcrics that have occurred in
that town for the past few weeks
Mr.. George Gould has retained Hon.
Bourke Cochran ms his attorney in the
matter of the action brought by Mrs
Zella Nicolaus, who claims that Mr..
Gould took from her check for SO, 600
which he had previously given ner.
The Flambeau club of Sedalia, Mo,
has kindly offered to go to Columbus,
O., and help inaugurato Gov. Mckin-
lev, provided the expenses of the trip
estimated at e., 600 are advanced. This
modest proffer will be carefully consid-
cred.
Whit Fortcnberry was nssassinRted
in Center, Cherokee county. Ala Gill
bert c. Pricl<ctt is accused Of the crime
and is In jail. The two MEN had fight
at Gadsden Monday and prickett sworc
vengeance Forten berry was shot from
ambush.
The Fremden blatt, of Vienna, de-
MES the statement of the Paris Figaro
20 the effect that Italy contemplated
an attack upon France in September
last, and that she was only prevented
from doing so by energetic hungarian
intervention.
Senator Sherman Wednesday pre-
sented petitions from the soldiers
of Trimblcville, Williamsburg, Cole
brook, Sugar Tree Ridge, Madisonville
and Shawnee o., asking for an in
vestigation into the operations OF the
pension office.
A dispatch to news agency from
Cairo reports that the British ambas-
sadorship to st. Petersburg has been
offered to Baron Cromer, who, it is ex-
pected, will accept. Baron Cromer is
now British political agent and consul
general at Cairo.