The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-05-10
NEWS ITEMS.

Fire destroyed the low -
Cal ooo - two new
manufactures eaid
The Hayti cattle plague IS ~" -
to be Of mild form so,;eved
A gang of counterfeiters Is :, os1
to be located near Fremont, y.
The evening news is recent 1ou'na
;.4:a ~s,t,re at Newcastle. Ind ),
Tramps kidnapped johnny bu y o
willie WEIGH from Ashtabu'a, -
The viking ship is to De Drous -
h,cl- from New Orleans to Chicago
The strike OF miners in Garter couh-
- T Ty s' threatens to become general
Fire destroyed part OF Kenwoo oooo . !.
suburb of Albany N. Y. Loss s-o0'
COO o.,;a n is
,, Mas. a vIee At Cleveland, for attempt
% Th;rtv industrials under the leader
sb;n Of Can't. Duff, left Ashland Men,
Thursday for Omaha ~or.
In New York 1850 Chinese have e, reg .
istered out of 5000, in Boston 80 oo oA'
If 2 eco. in Baltimore 695 out OF soo.
is NjcCaskev, deputy county Clerk
:. n,;ss;ne from Wheeling, W. va.,w1tn
soror.l thousand of the county funds
The fourth annual congress OF the
military surgeons completed its ses,
SONS at Washington, Thursday, ana
adjourned. -, u,ho 20
slowly dying from knife wound re-
fuses to tell who stabbed him or "ila'
his own name is.
Bishop Korum has published ooou-
ments presenting evidence OF the per
forrnance of miracles during the las'
exhibition of the holy coat ut lrcVes'
At Willsesbarre, Pa, Jacob Gould a
relative Of the late Jay Gould, was ad-
iudced insane. He was one OF the
wcalthiest residents in Salem to"n'
snip.
The Kansas City grand jury returned
indictments against the chief partici-
pants in the Catholic and America"
Protective association election Day
riots.
The Iowa board of examining sur
peons has recently refunded. through
tho nension bureau, 81, $40 collected Tor
services not rendered. They may be
prosecuted.
Gottleib Knapp, German forty
years of age, who lived alone at III
William street. New York. was found
dead in bed with his skull battered and
his neck cut.
At sistersville, W. Va, detectives
from st. Louis arrested Thomas Lewis
a well-known oil operator, on the
charge of numbering man in St Louis
ten years ago.
Gen. Kelly asserts that Coxey pos
sesses no generalship, that Carl browne
is an ass, and that the California in
dustrial army Will surely reach Wash
ington-and attain its purpose.
The men at the Franklin mine on the
Mesaba range have struck for 81 so Tor
surface men and by force compelled
the men working ct the Oliver Auburn
and German mines to join them.
The miners at Plymouth ". Va, held
a meeting and decided to resume work.
At Queen City the operators offer 21s
cents, an increase of x cent per bushel,
but the men decline to accept it.
George w. Abel. one of the proprie-
tors and editors of the Baltimore Sun,
is dead of pneumonia. lie was the sec
ond son Of A. s Abel, founder and for
over fifty years the proprietor OF the
Sun.
The New York Mail and Express
Friday said it is an absolute certainty
now that Yale and Oxford will arrange
an eight-oared race in the near future,
if not this season, then assuredly next
year.
The striking miners of Peoria coun-
ty, ILL.,, six hundred strong, marched to
the Collar mine and compelled the min
ers to suspend work. The same sue
cess met the strikers at several of the
mines.
1t was decided Thursday to hold the
democratic congressional convention
of the Eighth Indiana district at Gov
ington, July 25 The district is 1000
democratic. Brool1shire will probably
be renomirated
At Missouri Valley, Ia, an inquest
was held on the body of Reddy Wilson
mot Johnson), the burglar who was
lynched. The verdict was that death
was caused by hanging at the hands of
some unknown parties
Bob Fitzsimmons sent word Friday
that the purse of $1,000 offered by the
Olympic club, of New Orleans, for a
fight with Choynski was not large
enough. President Scholl was wired
that probably $4,000 would be accept
able.
Dick Burgc, the lightweight pugil-
ist. beat Tom Nicklcss in u fight OF
twenty-eight rounds in London Friday
evening. In several rounds not a sim
gle telling blow was struck. The fight
was for s40O and the 140-pound cham
pionship.
A San Francisco evening paper prints
a statement to the effect that sensa-
tional news may be expected by the
steamer Australia, due from Honolulu
Saturday, private letters having been
received by the last steamer indicating
trouble, owing to split in the govern
ment party.
The unorganized miners Of the dis
trict held a mass meeting at Brazil,
Ind, Thursday for the purpose of join
ing the United Mine Workers About
four hundred members were secured.
It is claimed that within a week every
miner in the district will have ininad