The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-12-20
NEWS ITEMS.


try--Tchikhatchoff has resigned. =.
There will be big entertainment
at the Ohio pepitentiary, Christmas
w. I. corrican, brother OF Arch
bishop corrigan, has become insane.
The Coshocton (O.) opera house was
badly damaged by fire Friday morn
ing.
baroness De Rothschild. widow OF
the late head Of the Frankfort house.
is dead.
Mrs. Ida Netzen drowned herself
and two small children at Omaha. De-
mented.
A Young Negro, who outraged
white girl near Hope, Ark was
lynched.
The presidents family has aban-
doned Woodley and moved into the
white house.
Earlham college. Richmond, Ind,
has passed u rule making gymnasium
work compulsory.
A freight train near Sioux City ran
into drove of cattle and killed TWEEN
ty-two without being derailea.
Bowling Green Ky.) bakers have a
bread war on. and as result Two
,oavcs are being sold for five cents.
At Pomeroy. O., Robert Campbell
aged SIS, was killed in the Coal kldge
mine by fall Of slate. Lie leaves u
family.
The Kearney (Neb.) national bank
has failed The officers refuse TO make
statement. The bank had $4,000 OF
county money.
Controller Eckels has appointed j..
Leslie Thompson, of Sioux Falls, ). d..
receiver of the Citizens National bank,
of Madison, S. D..
The jury found George Laneham, OF
Lime Springs, Ia, guilty OF conspir-
acv to bride the Cresco board OF pen
sions' examing surgeons.
AS the result of newspaper adver-
tisement and subsequent correspond
cpce, G. L. Wright of Heppner, Ore,
married Minnie E. Green, of Cadiz, ..
John NJ. White. one Of the most prom
inent men of West Virginia. is dead at
St. Cloud. For three weeks he 'yasun
conscious and without food or drink.
Elkhart Qnd.) citizens are petition
ing the city council to compel the cleo
trie railway company to use iron troll
lev posts through the business portion.
The National Water Purifying Go.
of New York, filed suit against the
New Orleans Water Works Co. for Si3S'-
800, the alleged value of filter plant
Co.operative colonies of unemployed
workmen from Pittsburgh are to be es-
tablished in West Virginia. Similar
colonies will also be started in Mlchi-
gan,
The statement of the Atchison rail
road for the first week in December
shows decrease of S@G, slO as compared
with the receipts for the same month
last year
A masked mob ct Fort Jones, Cal,
took VIM. Dean, an Indian who MUIR
dcred VIM. Barmore. from the custody
of Constable Dixon and hanged him to
derrick.
The directors of the Western Union
Telegraph Co., at their meeting We'd
nesday, declared the regular quarterly
dividend of a per cent, payable Janu-
airy !, 1895.
Judge Dallas filed an opinion in the
United States circuit court, at Phila-
deiphia, granting motion for receiver
for the Mutual National Bank and In
vestment Co.
An assassin shot at Sam Lazzio in his
bed at Houston, Tex, but fatally
wounded his little daughter. Assailant
supposed to be a Negro who had quaf-
relied with Lazzio.
Third Vice President Baldwin, of the
Southern Railway Co., says he has no
fear whatever of strike of the en-
ployes on the system as result OF the
time and pay schedule.
Daniel NJ. Robertson, carpenter, ~
wears cd, born at Fredericton, Prince
Edwards Islapd, of respectable pa
rents, was hanged Friday for the muir
der of his wife, September 2, 1893.
In the United States court of appeals
at Chicago, President Geo. Mcdonald,
of the Guarantee Investmentand Bond
Co.. was remanded to the custody OF
the marshal to serve eleven months IN
Jail.
w. Il. Simpson, a prominent jcweler
of Holden, johnson county, Mo-, died
Wednesday morning of a broken heart.
His 1S-year-old son was convicted OF
embezzlement and sent to prison for
two years.
A petition formidable in size, num-
boring 1873 printed pages. consisting
largely Of exhibits and signed by aim,
X. ITubman, was. Friday presented in
the house for the enforcement OF the
antitrust law.
The democrats of Muncie, Ind, held
an election Wednesday and selected as
their next postmaster Edward Tuhey.
who received over half of the LOSE
votes cast. Ephraim Smell and Eugene
Kelly were the other candidates.
The directors of the American Bell
Telephone Co. Wednesday declared the
regular quarterly dividend of per
cent, and an extra dividend Of rs per
cent. the latter ''out of the surplus
earnings of the six months ending De
cember 81
Sam Ford, who lives in Noxubee
county, Miss, ten miles from Macon.
enraged because his wife refused to
live with him, sent bullet through
her saody, killing her instantly. Then
he turned the weapon on himself, but
citizens frustrated htiAq and placed him
In Jail.
The bill to establish the University