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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-02-15
libby Prison Anniversary.

CHICAGO, Feb 1o-Union ex-prisoners
Of war took Libby prison, on Wabash
avenue, by storm Friday. 1t Is the
thir;ieth anniversary OF the historical
tunnel escape from that prison, and in
co:nmemorat ting the day and event the
veterans held an all-day reunion and
reception. One hundred and nine oiH--
GERS made their escape, but since the
close of the war death has reaped quite
q harvest in thcir ranks. There are
only few living, and only g small part
Of that number were in attendance
They spent most OF the day in looking
over the thousand relics of WEI times.
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A Parsnn Policeman.

BARpoURsvlLLE, KY. Feb. 10-Rsv. j.
H. Hicks, pastor Of the First Baptist
church, of this city, has been appointed
by the city council as policeman in tho
Third ward, to succeed James Bow
man, indicted for killing William Reed
er. This is the first case on record OF
q minister, engaged in active church
work, accepting q position of this char
acter. His church may take action in
fbo INIT
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plcas<cr Eyee Speech.


Bayern, Mich. Feb la.-SFalter Sims,
the A. z. a. lecturer who was arrested
in Appleton, Wis, On Ec5:ytary o, is
sued an open letter on Saturday 70 Gov.
Peck demanding protection by that Of
Acisl and demanding that the right OF
free speech be protected sifas informs
the governor that he intends TO deliver
lecture OF Kaulsauna. Wis, where his
address was, interrupted last ,EoEth,
that between che and two thouSand
mon will go witt. him. and tact ii tlaey
are not given protection by ti.d aataor-
tiles they will protec. themselves 4
full Investigation of TIC Kaukanra AID
Appleton affairs is n!so demanded .
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Tic CurnNr-NnIrHr,l Eouf..

M1DDLnsgcRo, Ky. Feb 0. ---EScitc-
meat runs high III Bell anil Harlan
counties over the killing Of iohn and
Will Turner By Doc Nclin 1T Gsrl;;i c.
H., as it is fenred that TIE Howard
Turner ferd will break out again III eli
It's fury.
The feeling between the taos;ous has
only slept, sud, since the execution of
wills Howard in Missouri 1t his been
intensified, tire Towards baiicv:ag wis
to have been innocent and that he was
hourded to death BY the Turner's
expressed ny Fiow:ri: Wis
was innocent, ,,n;i WIS ::,art..re>' to 81 t
isfy the Turner'S, ami will re avenged. >
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A Priests k:ece's Laws..t.

HoBoEEN, y. j., FEB. 10.-An cid viii
has been fcrnd in the inte Father Cor
rigan's papers. 1t WIS made seoen
years ago aAd gives al his p perty,
Internationally. y his osasch- Father
Corrigan's lass viii, made Oh jsnuscy
8, four days before his Death, is now
being contested by 1:cco, on the
ground of undue influence. II is dis
cusscd whether the old ,riil Snail re-
place the new ona, if that il, SET aside
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RUSH FOR GOLD.
A C7ogt FTrd reported in tho Rainy IaSo
District IN Minnesota.

DULUTH, Mimi, Fob, 10. There is
great rush irool al pcrt5 OF Mirncsota
and from Canadian border towns to
the gold ae.tr!ct OF Rainy Lekc,
elong the international boundary.
People ere hocllin9 TO the district BY
slod, dog trains and on foot from all
directions .5
All The buildings IN the no" town OF
Rainy Lake City arc overcrowdsd, and
hundreds of people are sleeping in
tents. with the temperature frequently
reaching twenty to thirty degrees be-
low zero. Rainy Lake City is the cea-
ter OF the gold discovery ca Minreso-
to soil, but the richest felds nrc De.
lieved to be in Canada, north Of tho
lake
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FOURTH MURDER.
Human Life Continues TO ss Cheap Around
Birmingham.


BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Feb. 12.-Paul Lo-
casio. an aged Greek merchant, e III
iail for the murder OF his wife. Shortly
after dark Sunday night residents IL
the ncighborhood Of where Locasio
lived heard piercing screams, end rush
ing out saw Locasio dragging the pros
trate form Of his wife across the street.
When he saw the people coming 10
fed. pursued by a large crowd, Who
cnught him The police arrived IN time
to hurry Locasio to Jail
The woman had wound three
inches deep in her head. Beside her
lay a heavy spade, which was covered
with blood She died shortly after
ward. The only cause known FOR tho
murder is that it resulted from q
domestic quarrel. Locasio acknowl-
edges the crime but refuses TO talk
further. This Is the fourth murder in
and around Birmingham within two
dag
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BIG eLAzE
At Henderson, Fly. TTo large Tobacco
Warehouses; Bnrp.


Warehouses; Bnrp.
HENDERSON, Ky. Feb, ia most
destructive confa grafton Of inccndiary
origin broke out on sLaim street between
Fourth anG Fifth straets, in the large
tobacco stem,nery Of Barrett & Eon sin,
which rapidly communicated wiki Che
scoper sten,lpery, corner OF Fifth, also
consuming the brici. residence of A!rs.
Priest and Aies5rs. Lander, 1Iitflers
ana Steve Smith, involving total loss
OF about $3.50, o0o.
The flames spread With great ra-
pidity, and over 10000 pounds OF re-
Gently purchased Leaf tobacco was de-
stroyed.
Fortunately raost Ct this valuable
property was insured rs fellows: Per
Tett {, Rankin. Sc, SOC; Scopar, sa5,-
600; Lambert, So. 800; Nltlers, 1880;
Mrs. Priest, sl,3Jo, and Steve SIXTH.
$1,000
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rra S*rav Carrn1 Etr5.

MARrrysvILI.E, Ind, Feb. 12.-hlrs
Shircmur started to town with hot
bricks in the loose straw to keep her
feet warm. The straw blazed up uncx-
pectedly and her clothing caught IRE,
burning her frighttully before help ar
rived. Her recovery Is doubtful
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rension sw,ndler Sentenced.

SPRINGFIELD, H., Feb. 1o-W1n. w.
Woods Of DcSoto, who claimed to have
served through the Mexican war in
place of his uncle, Isaac Burke, in the
Fourth Tennessee regiment, Friday
entered q plea Of guilty to making
false pension claims, and was SEN
fenced to one year in the penitentiary.
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Eo;t, Co,ln.tc.i.

BIRMINGHAM, Feb. 9, --1isa rcpr'ists
aud disgruntled democrats succeeded
In nominating Koib Tic republicans
kicked out Of the harness. They will
nominate a. republican state ticket a
small fraction Of the pcpnlists bostetl
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Twn coal naata snnk.

BE1LAlRE, O., Feb. 1a.-The steamer
Josh Cook, OF Pittsburgh, ran into q
Baltimore & Ohio'railroad bridge pier
hero Sunday afternoon, and sank two
coal boats and one barge, containing
about 10, goo bushels OF coal No lives
we're lCat
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Tho Rebels yin a FIxhs.

WAsEtEeroN, Fen l2.-The navy de-
partment Saturday received the follow
ing cable:
"Rlo, FEB. 9.-This morning there
was q sharp engagement at Arcia
Point, resulting IN some insurgcnt snc-
cess HE*EA,'.
Area point Is - projection OK lsae
not for from NJ: 10y. which IS l.. The
same part 0; The -; Of Rio De Jano:ro.
Apparently Areia Point wcnla Re .
good piece Tor land operations aioo,
NictnnrCy
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cs4,d pprnad 20 Death.

HopEISsyl1LE, Ky, Feb. 1a-Whiie
playing with party of children at her
home, east of this city, Lizzie Turner,
the nine-yeer-old daughter OF James
Turner, accidentally set fire to her
clothing at the CRATE, and was so ter
ribly burned before the flames could
be extinguished that she died In Few
!,
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INCENDIARISM.
Eight Elszas ut Perm, In.,., TWO af rhoni
Occurring Irl,!0y.

Occurring Erl.!ny.
PERU, Ird., Feb 1O.-Ine epidemic
OF fncecdiary fires which has prevailed
in this city for the past two weeks still
continues Early Friday morning two
more wore added to tie list, making "a
total of eight The first fire was tns
large warehouse OF the Indiana Man
ufacturins Co.. which was totally
consumed, cnta:linc q ioss Of
SIS, Ooo No insurance. A drc.iching
rain ut the tine alone saved the water
works plant and prevented o general
conbagration. The second fire WAS
wagon shop, which WAS also totally &C.
stroyed Loss, s1,oC5; no insurance. It
is thought to re the wor!: Of tfam2a,
and the motive robbery. Vigorous
action Is being taken to discover Tho
author
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francs Mar Lose tie Panama Canal.

PANAIA, Feb. 12.-If no satisfactory
arrangement be reached before October
the Panama canal will pass definitely
from the hands Of I7rencamen, is fact
not to be disputed. The Columbian
government Is disguised, and will on no
consideration whatever rensw the
franchise il it be again allowed to
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The Dublin cotton compress, at Dab
I'm, Tex, valued a. $3.50, 900, has been
burned. The property has beou the
subject Of litigation for sons time be-
tween local parties aud consolidated
coinpanv.
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Wotster In olsy.

CONCORD, Il. H., Feb. 12.-carl Co.'S
RAIDS, the New York sculptor. has just
completed the clay model of Webster
from which tho new marble statue or.
cered by tho last legislature will 20
made. Competent judges pronounce it
enc az he finest works Of ssrs eyer seon
In the state. g.ss
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Negro BOYS ratsi Jest.

JACKSON. Tenn, Feb 1o.--'Fha: WIS
intended for playful prank, resulted
in a fatal one Friday afternoon &c Ed
Benson, 1e-year-old Negro Roy, woo
was playing on Highland avenue with
a little s-year'old white boy. 4 chain
fastened to a telephone pest kid used
TO hitch horses to was seizeG ~ BEN
son 0nd SWING around his necs 10
saying to his youthful friend in jot-
ing way that he was going to many
himself Scarcely had he uttered :hs
words when his feet slipped fro,n tx
curbstone and HIS body hung ont orc
the gutter. Before assistance ;.:s., e..
he was stranSlcd to death.
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Must Have Oar risur.

WASHINGTON, Feb. a--Gcorge i.
Parker, consul at Birmingham. hea
sent to the state department an .ex-
haustive report on the American wheat
and -four trade in English fnidlan,is
He estimates the increase i'll alnoant ,ss
1ou- received from the United States
IN four yearsiat 70. l per csaI lie SAYS:
Nothing seems moro completely es.
tablished than the dependence Of tho
people Of Great Britain upon he
United States FOR co1sidera bic lsapnly
Of breadstuYs, and this dependence is
Tar mere likely TO increase thsn diustn-
,ish- "
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Gen. Baylor Decd.

SAN Antonio. Tex, Feb. 1o.-Gen.
John W. Baylor is dead at his ranch in
Uvalde county, OF paralysis, ct tie age
of seventy-two. He raised q i.eZ;nlcnt
for the confeierccy and capture. Ark
xona from the federass, being appointed
military governor of that territory ua-
dor the coniederacy. He also sar9oa in
the confederate congress from :sSss,
residing st that time ut Lavaea. Aiter
the war he was prominent i'll politics in
western Texas
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A Regard tn Kansas.

EaiponsA. Kan, Eel, The worst
blizzart, and sgow storm experienced
hero for years prevailed Ill day suu'
aey. The snow is twelve to fourtecn
inches deep, with 10 appearance OF
abating.
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Handel became blind In his old
age, bnt the fact dbl not prevent his
continuing the series Of oraeordos thes
made hin. Immortal
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iowa s5ay yate On wcmsn suf1ga

DEE Molans. Ic., Feb e.-Thc senate
suffrage comia.ttss Thursday reported
favorab,y on hizl granting T:crnen
The right TO vote Ia schaol elections.
and also providing q constitutional
amendment allowing women TO vote In
all elections 'fho BID was made q
special ordsrfor next Tuesday,
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Ihr,cra so,:pncsrs 4. 1,a-sag.

WARSAW, Fob. 10. --Iherc mas 5een 4
recrudesccuos o; eAo!or.t hero, and
many deaths have occurred
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-21
BAD AIR LINE WRECK
TWO COACH LOADS OF EXCURSION,
ISIS DOWN AN EMBANkMENT.
Four People Fatally Hurt and Twenty
SeriOusly-Miners Going to Work
Tile Makers Trust.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

PRINCETON, Ind, July 2O.-Three coach
loads of church excursionists. from Al
bion, across the Indiana State line, in Ed
wards county. Illinois. were hurled down
twenty-foot embankment, near Velpen, Ind,
to-day, and twenty-five people mangled.
Veloen is out-of-the-way station in
Pike county, about twenty-five miles east
of here. on the Louisville. Evansville &
St. Louis (Air Line) railroad, and par
ticulars of the wreck are meager. A spe-
cial. with officials of the road and several
physicians have gone to the scene from
here and from Huntingburg. The follow
ing four people, all but one of Albion, are
fatally injured:
GEORGE PITCHER, head crushed.
AtoNzo DICKEY. chest and shoulders
mashed.
MELVIN STANLEY, Chest and abdomen
injured; died this morning.
NJ. DICUS. English, Ind, legs broken and
internal injuries.
In addition to these twenty others are re-
ported seriously hurt and it is believed the
fatal cases will be many. There were 21O
passengers on the fatal train. This is the
most disastrous wreck the Air Line
has yer had. There were three
coaches heavily loaded with the exc
cursionists and a baggage car. When
near Velpen, this afternoon, the
trucks broke under the engine ten
der, which jumped the track and started
down the embankment. The baggage car
and two coaches followed all rolling over
and over, and crashing together at the
bottom. The accident occurred without a
moments warning and without time for
any of the occupants to save themselves.
The wreck is at lonely place in the wild,
unsettled country in the southeastern cor
ner of Pike county. and particulars are
hard TO obtain. The wreck was cleared
away tonight and traffic was resumed.
A dispatch late tonight from Hunting
burg says: "An excursion train from AL
bion. ILL.,, to Marengo Cave, Ind. on the
L., E. & st. L. railroad was wrecked near
Velpen, ten miles west of this city, at 10
o'clock this morning. Three coaches. bag
gage car and the tender were derailed. At
the time of the wreck about thirty persons
were in the baggage car, four of whom We're
seriously and three slightly injured. Frank
Hanley, of Albion, who was fatally injured
internally, has since died. Physicians from
this city were called to attend the Wounded
Trains were delayed until 6 o'clock p. m,
when all the wreckage had been cleared
awaVp
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-21
BOYS IN MINES.
Little Slate Picl<ers Whose Ambition
Ii Is to he Miners.


In large room sat the little slate pick
ers. The floor slanted at an angle of forty
I'VE degrees, and the coal having been mas
ticated by the great teeth, was streaming
SlugglShly In long iron troughs The boys
sat straddling these troughs, and the
mass moved slowly they grabbed deftly
at the pieces of slate therein. There were
each trough. The coal is expected to be
fairly pure after it passes the final boy.
Inc howling machinery was above them.
High up dim figures moved about in the
dust clouds
III, These little men Were a tssrrifieally dirty
gamins In some ways, but they laughed
more, and when they laughed their faces
were wonder and terror. They had an
air Of supreme independence and seemed
proud of their kind of villainy. They
swore long oaths with skill.
Through their ragged shirts we could get
occasional glimpses of shoulders black as
stoves. They looked precisely like imps as
they scrambled to get view of us Work
ceased while they tried to ascertain if W.
were willing 10 give away any tobacco
The man who perhaps believes that he con-
trolls them came and harangued the crowd
He talked TO the air.
are yet at the spanking period. one con-
tinually wonders about their mothers and
i there are any n6 seh9S69gs But as for
get time off they go out on the cum heap
and play baseball or fight with boys from
other breakers" or among themselves, ac-
cording to the opportunities. And before
them always is the hope of one day get
ting TO be door boys down in the mines
and. later. mule boys; and yet later, la
borers and helpers. Finally, when they
have grown TO be great big men, they may
become miners, real miners, and go down
and get squeezed" or perhaps escape 10
a shattered old mans estate with mere
miners asthma" They are very ambi-
tious.
Meanwhile they live in a place of in
fernal dins. The crash and thunder of the
machinery is like the roar of an immense
cataract The room ShriekS and blares
and bellows Clouds of dust blur the air
until the windows shine pallidly afar off.
All the structure is a-tremble from the
heavy sweep and circle of the ponderous
mechanism Down i'm the midst of ii sit
these tiny urchins. where they can earn -
cents each day. They breathe this atmos-
phere until their lungs grow heavy and
sick with il. They have this clamor in
their ears until il is wonderful that they
have any hoodlum valor remaining But
they are uncowed; they continue to swag-
ger. And at the top Of the breaker" Ia
borers can always be seen dumping the
roaring coal down the wide. voracious maw
OF the creature.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-21
A COUNTRY FEUD.
Heads Cracked I'm n Fight Between
the Smiths and the FIanin gums.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
DARLINGTON, Ind, July 20.-Garfield,
small railroad station three miles south
west of here. is wild with excitement over
feud that exists between the Smiths and
Flanngams. Two years ago, while thresh-
ing wheat, AL Smith, aged twenty-five, be-
came offended at something said by Willis
Flaningam, a boy of seventeen, and knocked
him down Smith was disarmed, and the
trouble was continued in q rough-and-tum-
BILE manner. Flaningam was pretty badly
whipped, but he often said ii was only
borrowed and he would pay ii back with in
terest. Last Tuesday they came together
at a threshing machine, where some one
asked young Flaningam why he had not
gone to Hammond with Company l. he be-
ing a member. Smith remarked that Elan
ingam was a big coward. and at the same
time applied several names derogatory to
Flaningam's character Without any reply
Flaningam struck Smith a singing blow on
the side of the head with his pitchfork, and
gave Smith a severe pounding. Smith, not
being satisfied. took his brother to the
woods yesterday, and they armed them
selves with hickory clubs cut for TIE pur
pose and hid in the edge of cornfeld that
adjoined a wheat field where Flaningam
was pitching wheat Without a moments
notice they attacked Flaningam with their
clubs while he beat them off with his
pitchfork. A young man named Maxwell
on the wagon seeing the danger his part
ner was in, jumped off to restore peace. but
he had hardly touched the ground until he
received a blow across the head that laid
him out. By this time the hands al the ma
chine had noticed the disturbance, and they
joined in with knives and pitchforks, and
it took all the persuasive power that the
older heads had to keep down regular
sides are talking considerably, and there
Is no telling where Ii will end
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-21
THE MINERS COUNCIL.
Struck a Truce with the Operators
Until All Disputes Are Settled.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, July 20.-The ex-
ecutive committee of the miners State or
ganization and the executive committee of
the operators association met to-day to
arrive at an understanding about the en-
suing years wages. The Indiana miners
once repudiated the Columbus agreement.
but afterward decided to abide by 1T. They
did not take any step looking to a confer
ence with the operators to arrange for mi
nor details until this week To-day it was
decided that President Talley, of the op-
orators, and Purcell, the new president of
the miners organization, should act as a
board of arbitration TO settle disputes and
grievances, with power of substitution. In
the event that the board cannot settle the
grievance they shall have the right to ap-
peal to the State board of arbitration,
which board shall consist of the executive
board of operators and executive board of
miners of the State, unless the two parties
grievance to a third person, to be selected
by both presidents, whose action shall be
final. Work shall be continued until griev-
ances are settled. The operators agreed to
continue the policy of collecting the dues
for membership in the miners organiza-
ton. There was some discussion or a prop
c.sition that the operators should not en-
ploy any men except those who belong to
the labor organization, but the operators
positively refused to consent to anything
in this line.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-21
on THE MARCH TO THE SEA.
General Sherman's Light Sleeping
and Simple Living I'm the Field.

s. H NJ Byers in Mcciure's Magazine.
On the march and in the camp Sherman'a
life was simplicity itself He had few bril-
liantly uniformed and useless aids about
him. The simple tent sly" was his usual
headouarters and under IL all his military
family ate together. His dispatches ne
wrote mostly with his own hand. He had
little use for clerks. But Dayton, his ad-
jutant-general, was better than regfmene
of clerks. When we halted somewhere in
the woods for the night, the General was
the busiest man in the army. WINE otn-
ers slept his little campfire was burning
and often in the long vigils OF the nfght
i have seen a tall form walking up ana
down by that fire. . Sherman himselt
slept but little. He did not seem 10 med
sleep. and / have known him 10 stay but
years a slight asthma made much sleep I'M
possible for him. After the war. when I
was at his home in st. Louis, he seldom
retired till II or l O'Clock. Ii was ofteu
as late, too, on this march.
1t was a singularly impressive sight To
see this solitary figure walking there by
the pickering campfire while the army
distance or If an unusual noise were heard,
he would instantly call dpe or US 20 go
and find out what IL meant. He paid small
attention to appearances; TO dress almost
none
There is going to be a battle to-days
sure" said Colonel Audenreid, or the stans
one morning before daylight.
How do you know asked comrade,
there by the fire putting on clean collar
The signs dead sure"
A battle did take place that day, ana
Cheraw, with forty cannon, fel INTO our
hands. 1t was more run than battle.