The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-04-05
NEWS ITEMS.

ueItn CEelE lHIiut piothCi "1 HoA'''
Ok.
The cold snap has cost truck garden
ers around Chattanooga alone fully
500. 900.
w. NJ Thatcher was elected chair
man of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity in
New York.
According to rumor, nuggets OF pure
gold are being dug out OF the ground
near Lavcta. Col.
W. II. Owens, city marshal Of Paris,
H., shot anil killed Il colored coal
miner who resisted arrest.
Edwin T. Waldo belonging to Il
wealthy Boston family. is nis,in- and
the police are looking for him.
Or. Sheldon Jackson, commissioner
of education for Alaska, viii leave on
his annual tour of inspection on APRIL
10.
Mrs. Henry Elig attempted suicide
by throwing herself in the river ut
Wheeling, w. Va, She was rescued in
time.
l.. J. Morton, . merchant of Grand
Rapids. Mich. WAS stricken with total
blindness on tic streets 1T San Fran
cisco.
John Birnstein, travelling man. was
arrested at Kansas City for pavning
$1,000 of his employers goods. Faro
fend.
The carriage factory of ". y. Pattcr-
son, Flint, Mich, was burned Thurs
day morning. Loss, :2o, 900; insurance,
$4,000
The widow of President Garfield. who
is in Washington for few days called
with her son, Henry, on Mrs. Cleveland
Friday.
The remains of Senator Alfred II.
Colqnitt were inferred in lose Hill
cemetery. Macon. Ga. with impressive
ceremonies.
Gov. Matte has refused request to
endorse the CoXcy movement and lssne
! Il call for the unemployed of Denver TO
! march to Washington.
The board of commissioner, OF the
kentucky Western Lnnatic asylum mas
advertised for Iii is for the 500 ~ All
dition provided for by the recent lesis-
lature.
Work was resumed Friday in the
mines of the I.ykcn> Valley Coal Co.,
where operations We're suspended
week ago Nearly 800, men arc eni-
ployetl.
The largest log JAZZ, eve" seen in the
Grccnbrcr river has i"ril"! ilst above
Marlinuton. ". VA. II is said 10000 is
a conservative estimate Of the logs in
the jam.
Ex-Shcriff Leonard Ire sci was founl
guilty ut Mansfield of cnlrzz!in'. :'f'
from The rich estate ami is now Il
prisoner in the jail where Il year ago he
was iailer
The personnel Of almost tliTcc-fourths
Of the total number Of the board ofcX-
amining surgeons Of tn, pos ON bureau
| has been changed since the Hc ginning
of last May.
Moy Lee Sing, the Celestial sent to
the worllhousc for running an opium
Joint, ut Indianapolis, Ind. will get
out an injunction to prevent the cut
ting OF his queue.
The Chickasaw Cotton mills OF John
II. Curricr and others. az Chiciasaw
two miles from Paris. Tenn, burned
Thursday morning Loss about SO
0OO insurance, $1,000.
At $50 "Wednesday afternoon the sem
ate lobb;cs began to fill with smoke
Fire had broken ont in Il room used for
the storage of paper No damage be-
yond that to the contents WAS done.
The Dayarian government has prom
isetl subvcntion to send the ina mayer
of the Munich Permanent exhibition to
the United States to promote the sale
of the products of I;ayarian art in
dustry.
The Star Clipper newspaper office, at
Tracr. Ia, was destroyed by fire Fri
day morning. and also the post office
and several mercantile houses. The
loss is $50, 600; partially covered by in
surance.
The statement that a mortgage for
Sa4, 600 held Ivy Col. Pepper on his horse
Acolytc had been forccoscd is denied
by Coxey's attorneys. There has been
no record of any such transaction ct
Canton, O.
j. S. Erawlcy, of Pennsylvania,
Wednesday rendered his resignation to
the president as sixth auditor of the
treasury for the post office department.
1t is understood the resignation was
involuntary
The most brilliant display of the
aurora borealis ever seen at Nashville,
Tenn, was witnessed about o'clock
Friday evening. 1t was dazzling in the
extreme, and was witnessed by thou
sands of people.
Miss Henrietta Bruc.lner, an cdu-
Gated young woman Of Western Springs,
ILL.,. was found wandering in the woods
near Quincy, Ill She had Teen miss
ing three days and is unable to give an
! account of herself
The breaker of Park Colliery, No 9,
at Park Place, near Nahoney City, Pa,
was burned Friday morning. The ma
chinery aud building originally cost
500, OOO Lentz, Lilly Il Co. were the
owners and the plant employed roo
men and boys.
The Denver branch mint in March
received gold bullion to the value OF
$500, 1871 a6 IN increase OF 200 per cent.
over the corresponding month last
year. The receipts for the last three
months have been $3.50, 926.l IL, an in
crease over last year of almost sou per
cent.
King Humbert, Queen Margherita,
Aremier Crispi. Sig, Eacelli minister of
public instruction, the mayor of Rome,