The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-01-18
NEWS ITEMS.
Valiant will probably be executed

NEWS IL HMOs
Valiant will probably be executed
in private.
Gov. Altgcld, of illinois, hasreprleved
George Painter until January 60.
Ohio coal mine operators ask for a
reduction OF 20 cents in the mining
rates.
The great fumes and dams washed
away in Few Mexico last fall have
been restored.
Az Lafayette, John james, aged 50,
,os cLta;ne,i a divorce from his wine,
Almira, aged 80.
-Four st Louis building associations
are. believed to be wrecked by Nj. 1.
Bogarlus doings.
Rev. Anson Carter died at Des Moines'
Ia, aged 102 years. lie was born q
slave il Virginia in 1909
Thomas j. Comp, soap manufacturer,
of ST. Louis, hanged himself Thursday.
Dali business was the cause.
A dispatch to the London Times from
Paris saws: NJ Elo5ert, the inventor OF
the Flobert carbine, is dead.
A. j. Mack, the American National
bank, of Kansas City, embezzlcr, has
been arrested at Cleveland, 0.
Judge Henry Brannon WAS elected
to the West Virginia supreme bench
in place of Judge English resigned.
Sim Smith shot Harrison to death
while resisting arrest in Butler county,
Ala. 4 mob hanged Smith in front OF
4 church.
The fire at tic Cl.:cayo Worlds fair
ground l:sas put tie Mi'i-U';-stc: exposi-
ticn officials Oh tic watch To-. the safety
of their buildings.
Hcrn.lon & Wood, tobacco dealers at
GAINESVILLE, Ten, have been suspend
ed from the bo@rl OF trade for alleged
crooked transactions.
At parllerslurr, ". W., the grand
Jury Fr;da- returned ljo indictments,
50 being against Mrs. Lucy Reed fer
selling licaor to minors.
l.. D. ,andorcn. CT Elllhart, Ind,
drew his pension from the government,
ana On his va hone was held up by
three lras,:cl nien sa,l robbed
A city license gr;iat:n permission to
the nuval Athletic clu.... of Jackson
vile, Fla. to give the Ccrrett-Mitchell
contest was issued Friday morning.
1t was announced in Berlin Friday
that the Russian delegates have agreed
upon tho proposed Rvsso-ticrman
treaty, and its duration tt be ten years.
The sos employees OF the Charlerol
Plate Glass Co. at C!;arleroi Pa,
struck Friday against a 2Tjs Ter ce1t.
reduction in wages The plant is shut
down.
Chairman Garter, Of The national re-
publican committee, has resigned as
chain Of the executive committee,
TO be succeeded by Mr.. Manly, OF
Maine.
The remains of a 5n.a Of gigantic
stature were ;,ncarthcd near faducah,
Ky. They are believed to DC OF one OF
an ancient tribe corresponding to the
Aztecs
Hugh Higgins and Eugene Finch
quarreled over 4 game of pedro in Al
mena, Mich. Finch IS dead, while
Higgins is in jail, awaiting trial for
murder.
A cablegram from Rome to Cardinal
Gibbons announced the appointment OF
Rev. =. J. nonahue. rector OF the ca
thcdral, Baltimore, rs bishop Of Wheel
ing, ". Va.
The residence Of Michael 5Eetterly,
near Vest Lolis. G, turned. While
the house was burning S.lctterly drop
ped dead from heart failu:f, occasioncd
By the excitement.
The Philadelphia and Reading rail
road company las suspended ninety OF
the employees IN the car shops OF the
colipHny III !. Trading, Pa, IN ORDER to
reduce running expenses.
The post of!icc at Ashley, H., which
is in jewclry store. was entered by
BURGLARS an. robbed of about $500 in
stamps and money. large quantity
of jewelry was also taken.
Window glass and bottle manufac-
turers from I'll over the country were
in session at Pittsburgh Wednesday.
Their object IS TO break the wage scale.
4 bic strike is threatened.
Annie walden, OF Stege!lv lille. Pa,
wanted to get married and she picked
on. Joshua Williams as the man Of her
choice. Joshua .yls engaged 10 Emma
Williams, bat be married annie, and
he row says she hypno.ized ana drug
ged him. and he c'anors loudly for di-
vorce.
United Assembly No. 1885,, Z. OF L.,
clothing cutters and trin.Ecrs, Cincin-
natl, has sent to congress a resolution
denouncing the Wilson tariff bill, and
protesting against lis passage. It,,
however, inlorses an income tax as a
means of maintaining prchil tive
duties
at Eokono, Ind, Leonard 3. Hod-
gen, the dist to be tried OF the Batch of
prominent citizens indicted III October
for conspiracy to murder 81 I. Garri-
gus Jnly /, was acquitted Wednesday,
the jury BEING out thirty minutes. The
other seven will be tried 1T the next
term OF court.
T. c. Mcdonald, chief OF the Biz
mingham Gala police ana y.ca-pres-
ident of the National Chiefs CT police
association, was suspended t':iday
night on charge Of exceeding Ills all
thority in suspending a patroIinan Tor
an alleged violation Of city ordinance
governing patrolnen-
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