The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-01-11
NEWS ITEMS.

Mayor W. l. Clapp was rc-cies.Ss
Memphis, Tenn.
Coroner Mccullough has commences &C,
lbs investigation OF the LouisvHS
bridge disaster.
The steamer A. L. Mason. struck .
snae near Friar's Point, Miss, ana
sank. Capt Keith was badly injured
Queen Victoria has conferred p5s
TIE ameer of Afghanistan the honorar0
,.righthood Of the grand cross Oh Bus
Bath.
The commissioner of internal revenue
Wednesday appointed Francis W. 10
gan a United States gauger IN the nIta
district of Kentucky.
For the first time in thirty-siz year.
the post Office at Louisville, N.Y. VIII
be under the control of a democrat
Charles P. Weaver, ex-assistant post
master.
The Knights of Pythias in Washing
ton are getting well in hand the WORK
of organization for the encampmen1 OF
the order to be held in that city next
August
Il has been decided by Secretary
Carlisle, that Chief Drummond, OF tne
United States secret service, must step
down to make room for some deserving
democrat
John Flint and Eva Flint who have
been in Jail for the past three months
at Albion, Ind, charged with being &C
completes in the Lake Shore train rob-
berry, have been released.
Speaker Crisp Thursday announced
the reappointment of Messrs. Wheeler
of Alabama, Breckenridge, Of kentucky.
and HIT, OF Illinois, as the regents OF
the Smithsonian institute.
Senator II. NJ. Teller says that when
the statehood bills come before the
senate for final action he will work
and vote for the admission OF Utan
New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma
1t New Albany. Ind, G. Riley toA
was Thursday sentenced to serve eigh-
teen months in the pcnitentiary for
robbing the United States mails. FOX
was a postal clerk on the Monon rail
road.
At Louisville, Ky, John Russell,
aged rs, of Cincinnati, threw himself IN
front of Pennsylvania passenger
train and was fatally injured. He was
RESPONDENT on account of his inability
to get work.
Admiral Stanton left New London
City Tuesday evening for New York,
where he will receive his orders, and
will Immediately sail for Porteau=
Prince. He will take command OF the
Kearsage there.
The yellow fever season has set in at
Rio Janicro. Two cases Of the disease
and one death were reported Friday.
The shore leave of all members of the
crews of foreign war ships in the har-
Dor has been stopped.
II. II. Prugh, late republican candl-
date for mayor of Springfield, O., as
signed Tuesday morning. Mayor john
son, strange to say. is his attorney
Assets, 81, 900; liabilities, &c. 500. Mort
cages caused the failure
The available cash balance in the
treasury Wednesday was $9O,375,553;
national bank notes received for re-
dcmption, $500, 1874. Government re-
ceipts: Internal revenue. sl2S, 1916; Gus
toms, 1886, 264 miscellaneous sl3l. 15a
Thomas Flagherty, 4 twclve-year-old
bow, and John Bauer, Of Valparaiso,
Ind, took boat and went to Deep
River with q net to fish. In some way
the boat capsized and both were
drowned Their bodies were recovered
The trouble between Mrs. Lease and
Gov. Lewelling is likely to lie patched
ND. It is said the governor had no
right under tbs lazy to remove her and
that there is no possible CHANGE OF his
securing her removal by due PROCESS OF
law
Otto Singer, a professor in the col
lege of music, of Cincinnati, from the
start of that institution until the sum-
mer OF 1892, died Thursday in New York
city. Prof. Singer had a national rep
utation both as composer and an in
structOr.
The Iowa State band, which was one
of the musical attractions at the
Worlds fair, has been engaged to play
at the Midwinter fair at San Fran
ciscof beginning January 90 1t will be
the only band, and was chosen out OF
20s applicants.
: In the circuit court ct Richmond,
Ind, Wednesday The case of the state
against Rev John Dinglcdey for cruel
ty to Werlen Orphans home inmates
was postponed until next term. 1t is
now believed that the case will never
come up again.
The promised resumption of mines at
reduced wages, to keep miners from
want, has not developed at Hurley,
Wis. The Carey, on the Wisconsin side
of the river, is the only mine in opera
ton. The force numbers $50 men, who
receive 81 day.
Receipts from internal revenue for
the last fiscal year just completed and
not contained in the annual report,
show the tax on beer collected in Ohio
as follows: First DISTRICT, sl,S3S, 6So;
Tenth, s4Oe,617; Eleventh, s5SS,399;
Eighteenth, s2O3,32l.
Mrs Frank Clevingcr, an aged resi-
dent of Upshur county, w. Va, upon
alighting from carriage on returning
from the cemetery where her husband
Had been buried Thursday afternoon,
slipped and fell, Her neck was broken