The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-12-13
NEWS ITEMS.
railing coal killed Three miners as


4,;cs caa:used loss OF $4,000.
The Waco Cotton exposition mas
closed. It was very successful
The claim is;now made that theeisy
90 Tacoma was swindled out Of fully
81, ooo. ooo.
begins its annual. convention in 81.
Louis Thursday
Three men have been killed at Park
dale. Ark, within week, and every
body goes armed.
W. Dickerson, of Omaha, married q
12-year-old girl at Atlanta, Ga, and IS
now in jail for bigamy.
IJnknowns am pushed and fatally shot
Mrs. Teady Arthur, a. notorious wom-
5 an, at Harris Creek, Ky.
By the cave-in of mine at Weoo
CITY. Mo, John Larson, Dan TroXll and
Walter Cole were killed.
Rev. N. D. Hills, of Evanston, H.,
will probably be chosen to the pulpit
of the late Prof David Swing.
An extensive strike has been In.
augurated by the silk weavers OF
Lyons, most Of whom LETT work.
The Occidental bank, Of Salvador.
has been robbed of 100000, and two OF
it's employees have been arrested.
William T. Crawford, OF Sullivan,
Ind. a pension attorney, has been DIS
barred by the interior department.
At Chicago the Debs conspiracy case
was called in the United States court
but was continued until December IL
The convention of the Brotherhood
of Painters and Decorators OF America
adopted the initiative and referendum.
The only members of the Yale foot
ball. team to return to college next
year will be Thorne, Murphy, Jerrems
and Hinkley.
Charles F. Howard was hanged at
Rawlins, Wy. He murdered Charles
Horn. They were rivals for the favor
of courtesan.
Paul Fierbacher, o 16-year-old Ger
man boy of Guthrie, Q, T., has invented
q railroad tie and been offered $50, 200
for his invention.
Special reports to the Manufacture
ers' Record shows an increasing inter
est in the purchase Of southern LANDS
for colonization purposes.
The Freeman's journal says that
forged American bonds to the value OF
several thousand pounds are IN the
hands of Belfast investors
North Carolina NJ. E. conference re-
fuses to accept donation Of $500 from
the Duke tobacco works, the money
being termed ''trust" money.
In the South Carolina legislature the
house, by vote of SIS to 81, killed the
bill to reduce the legal rate OF interest
in that state to seven per cent.
The 100000 stolen from the Occt:
dental bank of Salvador has been re-
covered and two Germans have been
imprisoned, charged with the crime,
Three-year-old Willie Lebbo was shot
dead by his 6-year-old brother Edward
at their home in Honeybrook, Pa. The
children were playing with revolver.
Sam Arthur Dunn is lost in the for
est east of Red lake, MINI. Dunn was
formerly reporter on the St. Louis
Globe, and was at Red lake for his
health.
During storm at Panther Springs,
Tenn, lightning struck house in
which a dance was going on. Dolderick
Lyon was killed and four others badly
injured.
Judge William Prentiss, of Easton,
will probably succeed the late Sher-
wood Dixon as United States district
attorney for the northern district OF
Illinois.
At Sherbrooke, Que, J. Herbert, who
was shot by Mrs. Josephine Begin be-
cause he refused to marry her, died
during the night. The woman is IN
custody.
The Cincinnati, jackson & Machinaw
road was placed in the hands of re-
ceiver by Judge Augustus Kicks, OF the
United States district bench, sitting at
Toledo. o.
At Columbia, s. c., W. A. Barber was
elected attorney general. He Is, per-
haps, the youngest attorney general in
any state of the union, being but &c
years old.
John Burns, the noted English labor
leader, arrived in Chicago Friday. he
was met by prominent local labor lead
ers and held an informal reception at
the Briggs house
Gov. O'Ferrall, of Virginia, has is
sued a requisitiop upon the governor
of West Virginia for the extraditioa Of
Honning Fleming, who Is wanted In
Giles county for murder.
At Shelbyville, Ind, the 2-year-old
son of John Williams, of Azalia, upset
cup Of hot grease upon his body,
burning himself SO severely as to cause
his death soon afterward.
Alexander Hoagland, president, and
W. Fl. Moore, secretary of the Boys
and Girls National Home association,
have issued a call for the next annual
convention in St. Louis on Tuesday
next.
A verdict Of not guilty was returned
in the case Of J. L. Bay, charged with
stealing $4,000 worth of.scrip belong
ing to the state Of Kansas while he
was employed as an expert accountant
on the books of Ex-State Treasurer
Woodruff.
In the New York supreme court JUS
tice Truax, in special term, handed
down decision ordering a permanent
and perpetual injunction to restrain
the Panama Railroad Co. from termi-
mating their present agreement with
the Pacific mail
One of the most important bills to be
brought up in the Wisconsin legisla-
ture this winter is now being prepared