The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-06-21
NEWS ITEMS.

Nheelfug W. fssst Uef~1.S - - : 80 =
ing the Chicago Packing Co.
Ben O.Falion Clarke, the wcll-knosyn
st. Lonis broker, Is missing
THE Emperor William is to have o
carriage lighted by electricity
Earl Pool, three years old, drank hy
poison and died at Upper Sandusky.
Commissioners of Pensions I.ochren
has gone to his home in Minneapolis.
The syinnebago Indians are having q
big rain dance near their reservation
Frank Coleman, who murdered WE.
Smith, was hanged at Monticello, Cal
The entire business portion of pur.ly'
Mo-, was destroyed by fire, Loss sso''
600
NJ. NJ. Estce will likaiy be the repub-
lican candidate for governor OF Cali
fornia, :.
Rev. 2. g, Robinson, professor OF
philosophy in the University q INCA
go, is dead. =,
The populist state convention VIII
indorse Gov. Lcwe1ling, Of Kansas. anu
renominate him.
r. S. Richey's house was demolished
au1 his little boy killed in tornado
near Guthrie, O. Z;
At Omaha, Neb.. Sam a'aTpe, a ne,
gro, confessed to the murder OF MaIa
Rubel, white girl.
viii Cameron of ChattanoogaeTcnn.
was poisoned ~ death by face powder
which contained arsenic.
Joe Graham, ex-sanitary officer Of
DECATUR, Ala, gut of office only a week.
committed suicide nv drowning.
Louis Collier was stabbed To death 81
Arcola, ILL.,, by boy named FRAZIER
whose father Collier was beating.
4 chipaman committed suicide by
shooting, on q train pear Boonville'
Mo. No cause known foF the aek
Along the river south OF ST: Lqa.s II
the LIST two days eleven foaters have
been found. Some are supposed to DC
csKeyitss:
YIN. Delaney. Buffalo politician
was killed by A. BarthoiaMy. gfalH
elevator clerk, for the seduction OF the
latter's wife.
Arrangements have been made
whereby the old men Of the coal mines
at Pekin, ILL.,, will return to work a'
the old wages.
John Z. Mooney, a letter carrier, has
su1a Postmaster Wear at urbana. o.
for SIC. osa aaMesgsss for snspending him
without cause.
Druggist Barnhill was held up IN aa1
store at Neelyville, Mo-, by stranger
with two pistols, who got $3.50 cash and Q
q 6na gold watch.
A vein of coal 10 feet t44Ecls was dis
covered at the depth OF AZ feet on th7lss
farm OF Joseph aYeist, three miles
southeast of Kentiuad. Ind.
The Ohio state board OF heaisf' ilas
elected DIR. Byron Stanton, OF Cincin'
natl. president. and DR.. S. *. WISE OF
Millersburg, vice-president.
Four men and two women are IN jail
at Scottsboro, Ala. charged with the
murder of young man named John
Duryin. near Belfont, on the Tennes'
sec river.
Six hmndred unemployed Poles
marched to the Hsayors office at Toledo
O., Thursday, and demanded work.
Things looked riotous, but tiisy were
finally dispersed.
Joseph X. Lockett, of Henderson
XIV, has made wager that he can eat
tub of corn containing six or seven
gallons of popcorn between the hours
of a. IN. and 6 p. ~.
The Spanish government will pro-
pose the appointment OF mixed com
mission to settle the difficulty between
Spain and the United States concern
ing the Cuban tariff.
Hon. r. w. Taylor, of Columbiana
was nominated for congress by the re-
publicans of the Eighteenth Ohio dis
trict in convention at Alliance Thurs
day on the seventh ballot.
Gov. Peck, of Wisconsin, has ordered
an investigation of Company +. First
regiment, national guards of Racine.
Among the things on which the com
naittee Is to report is the moral stand
ing of the officers.
Col, Andrews, of the Twcnty-fifth IN
santry, asyestpd oyer two hundred IN
trudcrs and striking mineEs N pHe
choctow nation. They were carried
out of the territory. 1t is believed this tAiii:!
will virtually settle the strike.
A severe hail and wind storm has de-
yastated Sibley and Nicollet counties,
Mimi. Many buildings were badly
damaged. The hail storm was mile
and half wide by ten miles long. All
grain along the route was destroyed.
Grant Baum, aged 10, of Slnithyiilc,
O.. shot and killed Millic Zimmerman,
IL years old, only daughter OF a
widowed mother. They wopa az their
way home from Dunlsard love fteasf:
Baum claims the weapon was accident
ally discharged.
Charles Mcdonald. o one-ycar man
from vinton county, was pardnped out
of the penitentiary by Gov. Mckinley:
Mcdonald was convicted Of assault on
thirtv-yea,-old woman named Annie
Sherkv, but subsequent developments
have shown that the woman had sworn
falsely against him.
The Iecla and Calumet Coke Co.,
Greensburg, Pa, will fill their works.
Thursday, with Negroes. 1t is said
on reliable authority that 5000 Negroes
will be imported into the coke region
by July l. The sheriff of the county
has a large number Of eviction notices
that viii be served on strikers, begin
ming Thursday.
A freight train on the Wabash rail
way was held up at Mt. Olive, Ill, ear
" Wednesday morning by alleged mine
strikers, and number Of cars loaded