The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-12-27
NEWS ITEMS.

Heavy snow storms prevail in Ne
braska. :.
The New Orleans stevedore strike Is
atean end.
/ Mrs. Rebecca Rabbit, millionaire
widow Of B. T. Rabbit, IS dead IN Ne"
| York. -.
/ In London the report that hober'
louis Stevenson still lives is not be-
| lieved.
The distillers of Milwaukee resolved
to ask the government to defer the 1aA
on alcohol.
Tax Collector Blackwell was scared
away from Morganfeld, KY, and LETT
for Uniontown.
Counterfeit silver dollars and 50-cent
pieces are in circulation in and about
Morgantown, W. Va.
Frankfort Qnd.) drinkers now stand
in plain sight. The screens have been
removed by ordinance.
Deputy U. S. Marshal 4. L. Taylor
was acquitted of the murder OF Striker
Leach at Pueblo last July
A new trial is granted Conductor
Goodman, who shot and killed Col.
Parsons. of Natural Bridge, Va.
John e. Bielby, cashier OF the Cen
trail national bank, Syracuse, \. l., is
a defaulter in the sum of $4,000.
Chas. Hart, who murdered the Good
children, pleaded guilty at Defiance,
n .nd was sentenced to hang April
L..
The sale Of $4,000, 600 worth of Kan
sos CITY water bonds to Messrs. Blair
& Co., of New York, has been can
celed.
Vice President Stevenson left Wash
incton for Asheville, n. c., and Will
take his invalid daughter farther
south.
eKid" Waddell, buncoist, who
'.ioshed" Farmer Weldon, of Mandon,
N. Y, out of $500, was arrested at
Fonda.
About peck of loose dynamite cart
ridres were discovered under one emo
of the new Central avenue brldSe'
Delaware, 0.
At a state convention of Arkansas
MAYORS resolutions were adopted re-
oucsting the coming legislature to call
constitutional convention.
John Schuster, farmer living IN
Macomb county, Mich, ten miles from
Detroit, was burned to death whlIe
TRYING to rescue cattle from burning
barn.
The Valparaiso Qnd.) Telephone Co.
has been organized to operate an eH-
change in that city. The company is
to furnish telephone service at s. per
month.
Jesse Young, living on Cherokee
Creek, Lawrence county, Ky, has dis
covered a fine vein of peacock coal four
and one-half feet thick, and exceeding
ly rich.
Corporal Mauve, Of Company A.
United States military post, Platts-
burg. n. Y, who took morphine last
Saturday with suicidal intent, died
Wednesday.
Indications are that the shortage in
the accounts of ex-County Treasurer j.
II. Henderson, at Princeton, ILL.,, will
be made good in a few days. The
deficit is $4,000.
Diphthcria of the most malignant
type is raging to such an extent at
Summitville. Ind, ten miles north OF
Muncic, that the public schools have
been compelled to close.
AT Denver, Col, Judge Graham de-
cidcd that the law prohibiting insur-
ance companies from writing policies
on the lives of children under 10 years
of age is unconstitutional.
Vicar General Farley Of New York
admits the truth of the statement that
Odd Fellows, Knight of Pythias and
Sons of Temperance have been inter
dicted by the Catholic church.
At Pittsburgh, Matthew Quinn
charged with the murder of John
Fletcher, was convicted of voluntary
manslaughter. The district attorney
bitterly denounced the verdict.
The house of DR.. Webb, eXpresident
of Mississippi college, was burned at
Clinton, Miss. Joseph Hughes stu,
dent of the college, boarding with DR.
Webb, was burned with the building
Steve Adams was hanged in the jail
yard at Greenville, Miss. for the muir
der of James Verso on the night Of
April /, 1894, four miles from Green
Vile. Adams died bravely, protesting
his innocence.
A Preston county Nv. Va.) Negro
stole rig, was defended by Negro
lawyer and got free. He then stole the
lawyers horse, was caught, and hat
the nerve to ask that same lawyer tt
defend him again.
The receivers of the Northern raclue
railway will modify their order reduc
ing wages. Details of the settlement
will not be made public until Judge
Jenkins has passed upon it.
In q cross petition filed at Spring
field, O., Thursday, Mrs. Catharine
Hartman, of New Carlisle, sues DR.. j.
NJ. Dean for $4,000 for neglect and
earelessness in setting her broken
limb.
At Stanford, KY, a. G. Dunn. q
peaceable citizen, Friday morning shot
James Todd fatally. The latter. a
quarrelsome man, attempted to draw a
pistol to shoot Dunn, but Dunn got his