The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-01-04
NEWS ITEMS.

Nm ntlsina Lloyd, tho English
archssologist, Is dead.
Mrs, Ann Stimson, OF Hancock, y. L.
{ Is Siead at the age Of 106 years
Rank Commissioner Driedenthal mas
.Iosed the Bank Of Greensonrg, han
Charles Koch, wealthy farmer. per-
;s1,ed ii, the blizzard near Grand forKs,
II. D. ~,
Assistant Secretary of State Uhl
Is acting secretary in the absence OF MI
Gresham
r. w. shapleigh was Tuesday elected
,,res;dent Of the Western Travellers
association.
Ex-NIayor Hugh J. Grant has been
appointed receiver of the St. Nicholas
+ bank, New York.
DR.. +. Flay, dentist, was burned 70
death in the FIRE at Providence, b. l.
Total loss, $780, 600: insured.
The grip is very fatal among odanah
Indians in Wisconsin. Within few
days four prominent ones have died.
The Ashland, (Wis.) blast furnace
will shut down January till June |.
Five hundred men will be thrown out
Of employment.
The brazilian legation in London
discredits the report that the Portuguese
minister is compelled to stay at no
against his will.
at Buck Creek, O., while lifting some
barrels of feed from a sled, Reuben
Martin, farmer, burst blood vessel
and bled to death.
Amack Lambert, salesman, com
mitted suicide by shooting, at the %.
Nicholas, hotel, Cincinnati, Thursday.
He was tired of life.
The italian government has notlneo
the government Of Spain that 1T IS not
possible for Italy TO lake special meas
ures against anarchists.
Mrs. Andrew Trim and an unknown
man were drowned near Detorr, Mich,
while crossing the ice from Drummono
island with dog team.
At Albany, \. y, Judge Wallace
Wednesday morning appointed Thorn
as c. platt receiver for the New YORK.
and New England railroad
Henry Clauser, Jr., the wcll-known
New York city brewer, died Thursday
morning at o'clock. lie had been
suffering from liver trouble.
Harry L. McIlvaine. at one time
wealthy coal merchant of that city,
committed suicide at Chester. Pa,
Wednesday by hanging himself.
Miss Louisa Alexander, the young
detective employed by broadway IN.
" iewelry stores, has captured eight
thieves so far during the holidays.
At Youngstown, O., Charles Sass,
aged II, went in a coal slope Wcdnes-
day morning to pick up some coal,
when the roof fell in, crushing his life
out.
at 1875 Thursday afternoon the mon
itor Miantonomoh left tho brooklyn
navy yard. She has sea stores sufficient
for two months and 240 tons OF coal
aboard.
Valiant will be tried on the charge
of attempting to destroy public
building His attorneys will advise
him to Apply for an appeal, to delay
matters.
Catherine Fade and Mary Lamar
servants employed at &c east Fifty-sev-
enth street. New York, were found
dead in their room, supposed to have
been suffocated by gas.
Capt. John Golfer, ono of the best
known men in whisky circles, died at
Louisville, Ky. lie was q native OF
kentucky and served with distinction
in the confederate army.
BY the death of an aunt in Califor-
MIA, Patrick Fitzgerald, formerly OF
Grand Rapids, Mich, has fallen heir
to a fortune estimated at 1880, COO
His present address is unknown.
Mrs. Margaret Martin, relict of the
late VIM Martin, one of the most en-
;nent women in the Methodist Episco-
pal church, and author of many books
on Methodisin, died In Columbia, S. c.
The Hanging Rock stove foundry,
two miles below Ironton, O., burned
Wednesday morning and is total loss.
1t caught from an engine on the Nor
folk & Western railroad. Loss, $50, 600;
fully insured.
At Michigan City, Ind, police have
discovered an organized gang OF high
way boys, who are aged from 12 to H.
They were we'll armed and hold up
boys caught in lonely places. Arrests
will be made.
A careful investigation made failed
to locate the crank, Joseph Donjon, I'M
der arrest at Washington for sending
threatening letters to United States
senator's, as ever having lived or worked
as a molder in Salem. 0.
The steamship Seneca, which return
ed to Havana Sunday morning with q
fire in her forehole, WIS sunk in the
harbor at that port in order to save
her. The Seneca had caught fire in the
lower hole just aft%Aeaving Havana.
A large quantity of dynamite was
found under the only saloon in Ossian,
Ind, Tuesday. and it is supposed it was
to lie blown up Tuesday night. The
same saloon had it's front blown out
few days ago, and had just been re-
paired.
HRS. Lease Out OF Office.