The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-07-05
NEWS ITEMS.

UinSsall rSssSrvatfCn
Ia Ell s5a bodies have been recovered
from Alb;on collierv.
The Kanawiaa river, is very low aud
navigation is greatly ilnpeaed.
Ahner Sersey hanged himself near
Union Mills, ny. BAD health,
Jas. Henderson was killed while
blasting rock rear Nic.solasville, Ky.
The estate OF Gordon, the printing
press manufacturer, has dwindlcd 10
about Sao0. too.
Mrs. Mary Riley has fled suit for
$4,000 against the Wabash Railroad
Co. at Wabash, Ind, Cor the killing OF
her son.
The Little Rock g Fort Smith bond
care, moro than S5.Goe,o00 being in
volvcd. was decided against the bond
holders.
At parlSersb,rg, w Va, Mrs. John
Richie was killed by lightning. She
was standing in the front door watch
ing the storm,
An Italian boy, aged eight, was
drowned while bathing in East river,
New York, by two other larger lads
who held him under.
Michael Gauser. aged 40. murdered
pretty Annie Scatter, aged Il, at Brook
lyn, because she wouldn't marry min.
He killed himself also.
At Springfield. O.. Earl and Lillian
Strauss poured some gasoline on the
floor and set Ere to it. 10th were
frightfully burned ard may die
Ellen Douglass, q 17-ycar-old Cincin-
natl girl, took paris green with suicidal
intent because her mother scolded
her for keeping late hours. She may
die.
a terrific storm OF wind, rain and
hail damaged many buildings and WIND
mills. demolished crops and ruined gar
dens in the vicinity OF st. Lawrence,
S. D.
The steamers Crosshill ana Norab
collidcd in the Bristol channel. The
Norah sank, and several of her crew
are missing The Crosshill has been
beached
The post Office department had not
been advised, up TO Thursday night, Of
any serious delay TO the mails in the
west through TIE strikes among the
railway employees.
In the house. Friday, II was declared
that Thomas Watson was not elected
to congress from the Tenth Georgia
district. and j. C. Black was confirmed
in his title to his seat
All the switchmcn and switch tend
ers employed by TIE Illinois Central Oh
the four roads at Kankalec, H., went
on Strike Thursday nightin sympathy
with the Pullman boycott.
The receivers OF the Frisco road are
authorized to pay 800, the semi.
annual interest due July on S744, DOC
bonds issued by the Kansas City &
Southwestern Railroad Co.
At midnight Wednesday night the
telegraph operators at Ration, Las
Vegas and Albuquerque, N. NJ, left
their posts, md the switchmen joined
the strike Thursday morning.
While Postmaster Ritezell was alone
in the Warren CO., post Office two men,
through ruse, attempted to steal the
contents OF the safe. They wero dis
cover and one Of them captured.
Application for certificate Of rea-
sonable doubt in the case OF Erastus
Wiman was, by consent OF both sides,
postponed until Julyo. In the interim
Wiman will remain in the Tombs.
A terrific wind and rain storm which
struck Malette, S. D., blew in several
store fronts and unroofed q number OF
houses. Two distinct cyclones were
noticed one moving northeast and one
southeast.
In the great race between Yale, Har
yard and Columbia at New London, Ct,
Thursday. the Yale crew won in 1l:15.
Columbiacame in at l1:27, Harvard AT
,l:4s. Ttk stroke was ~, IS and 4s. RS
spectively%
PLAYING Their races has been the ruin
alton OF Neal NicEnany a bright young
American Of twenty-five years, of New
York. He has been committed for trial
in $4,000 bail on a charge of embezzle.
ment and forgery
Richard Nvorthington, of the Worth.
ington Publishing Co, New York, was
Thursday arrested by the sheriff,
charged with having misappropriated
about $4,000 Of the funds Of the firm
to which he had no right.
The report sent out from Superior
regarding Rev. Dr.. Dunn, stating that
he had become insane as the result OF
financial trouble caused by his associ-
alton with the AIerritts, is denied by
his friends at Duluth, Mimi.
The democratic state convention OF
Vermont nominated G. w. Smith for
governor, II. n. Billiard for lieutenant
governor, ]. w Gordon for secretary
of state, Charles Clark for treasurer
and i. E. Sargent for auditor.
The sixth annual session OF the SUI
prone council of the order of united
commercial. travellers of America open
ed in the King building, in Columbus,
10, at 10 o'clock Friday morning, with
full attendance of delegates
Rodifer s. Hoifman's window glass
factory at Elwood, Ind, employing
two hundred hands, will take two
months vacation. and the employees
will spend the time camping along the
river and creeks enjoying their sum-
mer rest.
At midnight Wednesday the town Of
Hammond, Ind, was in the hands of
mob of several hundred people in SYM
ssatlsy with the Pullman strikers. The
Nickel Plate passenger train leaving
Chicago at SEQ was delayed two hours
4.S, 4l,a crowd