The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-08-30
NEWS ITEMS.

yer coinage.
Venezuela will admit wire fencing
free Of duty.
Heesville. Tex, had 100000 fire
Wednesday. Insurance Eaif.
The National Florists convention
will neet in Pittsburgh next year.
Ground has been broken Tor TIE
Blachwell's Island bridge, New 2or.l.
Congressman Ken was renolniiiatcd
by the populis.s of tho Sixth Nebraska
district.
Congressman Geary was renominatea
bv the democrats Of the First Cai'1or'
MIA district.
Ex-County Auditor W. P. Presley
was killed In runaway at CRAM
Rapids, Mich.
Gen. Horace Porter says that worh
on Grants monument at Riversl1e IS
progressing rapidly.
An anti-lynching organization was
formed in indianapolis by the prom
inent colored citizens.
It is said another attompt was mace
q few days ago to sssessinate Presi1e NJ
Hippolyte, of Hsyti
Nayor Blee. of Cleveland. o., has de-
nanded an investigation OF all the city
affairs, himself included.
Young Lyman Parks was completely
blinded by the explosion of his bicycle
tire at Jacksonville. lad.
r. S. Davis is dead, aged Sc years.
he has for nearly fifty years been post
master of Williamsport, 0.
After seven years Mrs. Leon Nc
Ieod Baldwin gets $50, COO FOR the muir
der of her husband in Mexico.
Just half OF the candidates noml-
mated for Offices by the Hopkins county
Ky.) democrats are bacllelors.~
In connection with the coal strike IN
Scotland serious rioting has occurred
and several pits have been wrecked.
At Woodland, Cal, S. D. Worden was
held on the charge of murder Thurs
day in connection with the tres'le
wreck.
The residence and barn Of the late
Horny Tow. near Mitchell, Ind, were
DESTROYED by fire. Loss is ABOUT So'o'o'
No insurance .
The Allentown Ta.) button works
have closed, and will be kept so until
the fashion for wearing fancy buttons
is inaugurated again.
A census bulletin shows that alinos'
60 Der cent. of farming families In MIS-
souri, own the farms cultivated by
them, md the remainder hire them.
Squire VIM. Bland, e prominent citl-
zen of the Conemaugh Valley. "a.
committed suicide while in Il OF
melancholy occas;oncd by business re-
verses.
A. S. Tucker, a Chicago board OF
trade broker. shot himself dead IN
Washington park Thursday. lie was
posted on change Wednesday as hav-
ing failed.
At St. Louis, Louis McGinniss, en- at
torney, was arrested by Sheriff +. T.
Bruen, of Hillsboro, Mo. lie was in
diotod by the grand jury Of that county
for perjury.
James Goblin and Edward Murray
were killed while at work in tho new
building of tho u S. board of apprais-
ers' warehouse in New York by the
fall of ladder.
The unknown man killed by tbs cars
in indianapolis, Ind, :.omo days ago
and who died pressing Cathohc
rosary to his lips, is supposed TO be "A.
". syrett, of Chicago.
Mr.. Wilson, chairman Of tho house
ways and means committee, has de-
cided positively to leave New York
for Europe September 5. lie will
remain absent about three weeks.
The chief executive Of Ecuador has
prolonged the session of congress In
order that it may pass the budget to
arrange for French syndicate to build
. railway from Guayaquil to Quito.
The reports sent from London, Ky,
stating that woman had been found
nailed to tree In Clay county were
gerry much exaggerated, as only all
efigy Of woman was thus nailed up.
A Negro who calls himself Anderson
Boyd is under arrest at Knoxville
Tenn, on the supposition that ne Is
identical with Jacob Haltz, who killed
Edward Uhl, In Marion county, O., ten
years ago.
A New York morning paper says:
The three mon, Herlitz, Scharf and
Nelson. who were arrested in Chicago
On charges Of arson, arc supposed to
have once piled the trade OF incen-
diaries in that city.
At Delaware, o., ". L. Long, ma
chinist, had q finger amputated III a
machine; William Worline lost thumb
in a buzz saw at the Big Four shops,
and c. E. Penny had foot mashed In a
hey balcr Wednesday.
At Cleveland, O., Louis Hugo return
ed home for dinner and found his wife
hanging by rope hitchca in a tran.
som. He cut the rope with bread
knife and saged her life. She did it
to frightcn him and succeeded admir-
ably.
The Chambers Glass Co. and the Phil
lips Glass Co., of Pittsburgh, Pa, ac-
cepted the scale of the Window Glass
Workers association. and will start
their factories on September l. This
will likely force the other manufactur'
rrs to accept.
Gov. Matthews completed arrange
ments with Indianapolis banks Wednes-
day for loan OF s4l, 600 with which to
nav off the militia for their services
during the recent strikes. The total
cost Of the labor troubles to the state
will reach $4,000 moro.
It is stated that Gov. Matthews, OF
Indiana, mortgaged his fine stock farm
In vermillion county to the banks in
order to secure the loan Of $4,000 to
49,, tho rni1i.ia for It's recent services