The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-06-14
NEWS ITEMS.

was highly successful.
Three persons were killed in tor
nado near Baker City, Ore.
Kelly's army abandoned their boats
at Cairo and are camping out.
Mrs. Barbara Hlazccak, aged ninety:
hanged herself at Chicago. Tired OF
life.
Young Cochran killed young Storey
near Paducah. KY. il a quarrel about
girl.
Nearly every factory in Decatur. Ills.
has been closed on account OF the lack
Of fuel.
Three hundred Chicago Bohe1nians
and Poles started TO join Coxcy at (
Washington.
Brazil Is talking of prosecuting n
number OF highwayfGen who aided the
rcvolutionists.
Two colored men are in Jail at ur-
hama, O., charged with arson to secure |
insurance money.
The final vote In the senate upon tho !
tariff bill will probable be taken the
latter part of June. |
The United States ship Lancaster.
for whose safety some anxiety has been
felt, has arrived at New York.
At St. Paul, Alinn., Wednesday. Lieut.. |
Nancy was acquitted of murder. but
found guilty Of threatening superior
officer.
A. +. BENSON, of Huntington, was
| nominated for congress Thursday oy
the peoples party convention Mt Ma
rion, Ind.
The only obstacle that now lies be-
tween Louisville, Ky, md the q. q. Il.
national cncempment for 1895 is the
raising of s75.oOe.
At New York DR.. Henry Meyer. con
| yicted of poisoning Ludwig Brandt.
| was sentenced to life Imprisonment at
Sing Sing. Friday.
James Collie, of Lebanon. Ind, real
ICES that he is insane. says he has de-
| sire to kill some one, and has requestea
that no be restrained. :.
There was quite blaze In the roo1
of the female department of the ONO
penitentiary. The women prisoners
extinguishod the flames.
The populists of the Tenth congress.
sional district. at their convention held
at Logansport. lid. Thursday. nom'-
mated Rev. S. NJ. Hathorn.
Auatia q. Gorham has been appointed
receiver for the Denver Land and Wa
ter Storage 60. Interest has been de
faulted on $751;, 900 of general mortgage
bonds.
Muncie, Ind, seems to have an cpl
demic of attempted suicides from the
fac. that four persons have attempted
TO take their lives within fow hours
Wednesday.
Isaac Kcmpt colorcd. who tt,sfdeFes
Deputy Sheriff Ned Carver, at West
OYER. I'D. was taken from Jail by
mob Of ahant foNF hundred men ana
| shot to death.
The twenty-fourth annual meeting
OF the West Virginia Educational assoc
citation will be held in the new Normal
School building, Paramount, W. Va
on july. and :.
The prevailing famine price OF coal
and the low freight rates have caused
! many steamers plying between Chicago
i t,ofts asaa ;ysr,2ys others to 20 ont OF
business temporarily;
| The jury In the case Of John laussnf,
chargcd With the murder of Chief En-
gineer J. RI. raddoeis vt Davidson: near
Cniontown, Pa, April 1, returned! II
verdict of manslaughter.
There was bad hesd-ond collision
between two b. & o. freights at Re-
public, O.. Friday morning. Twenty
tsnns were piled up. both engines dc
moiishea aA4 tbs engineers foot cut
! off,
Dr. Donald Mclean, Of Detroit, ~aS
elected president of the American Med
;cal association. The American Med
ieal Temperance association hos chosen
as president BE. s. G: Davis, OF Chi
cagO.
Theodore p. IIaughcy, president Of
the defunct indianapolis National
tnrlt, was Thursday morning sentenced
to six years III the pcnitcntiary for
his part in the wreching Ut thqt instlr
tuition.
Sister Catherine, daughter OF Mil
lionaire Drexcl, OF Philadelphia. who
has been visiting the convent in At.
Louis for several weeks hun been de-
tailed to take charge as superior OF
the Usulne Sisters convent at Alton,
Ill.
The man killed on the Big -Four at
Nliddlctown. o.. Tuesday night. has
been identified as William j. Heath, OF
brooklyn. n. Y. p. J. Heath. OF that
city. wired the coroner Thursday night
to hold the body fof further instruc-
lions.
The senate Thursday confirmed the
following nominations Chas, Neilsap,
Of Maryland, to be second assistant
postmaster general; W. i. Roberts, OF
North Carolina, to be consul Of the
United States at Victoria, British CO.
lumbia.
Confidence meu succeeded in fleeing
Otis IIaskins, retired farmer living
near Pittsfield. ILL.,, out of 5000 We'd
nestlay. reward of $1,000 brought
the news that the men were locked up
at Versailles, ILL.,, with all the money
and $500 more.
Owing to the scarcity OF coal from
the great coal strike, the Mobile &
Ohio railroad shops at Jackson, Tenn,
laid off thirty.fye men Wednesday.
Two or three trains have also been
taken off. The jackson water works
are mixing wood and coal.
Hon. VIM. Nash, aged so, the Oldest
editor in Ohio. died at Gallipclis, after
an illness of several years. Mr.. Nash