The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-04-26
NEWS ITEMS

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Galloway. ,. will he
Yves. Virginia State history WIZ ,,,oo IL
one Of the studies in the puoiio 'o''0
next term. na;,,yov Co.
10 ~ ooreod to pay the old scale anu
there will be no strike. .. If
evanston will not become par -
ch;o.@o Tho vote stood against
2. l55; for annexation, ST. om
Mavor Hopkins of Chicago has ON
ci.l1r denied the application for a n
cense to race at Garfield park.
The Second Indiana district rcpuo
,,..ns nominated Col. A. N. Hardy q
nrominent lawyer for congress
The bank at Monterey, Ind was en-
tered by burglars, who blew open inc
sef, carrying away several thous"no
dollars. ,;t,tor,
fro,, Chi, and Pennsylvania ere busy
among the $4,000 coal miners u '''''
rho revenue cutter Corwin left San
E~,,c;sco Saturday for Port Townsend
~ ION tho United States naval heet III
Behring sea. :,.o
IN the investigation Of the Davidson
+be,ter fire ut Milwaukee, The jury re-
turned verdict which blames no o''o
for the loss of life
Secretary Herbert char2cteri~cs .,So
story of the utter helplcssness OF 'he
o.,r,ored cruiser Nov York as outrage
ously exaggerated.
rho shore end of the third cable OF
the Commercial Cable Co was success
fully landed at W"tcrr:l-c, Ireland W
tho steamer Faraday.
Clwood, Ind, is infested with oar.
! inc gang of burglars. The chlcl o.
Seymour, Ind, ro!ice is there Win
hounds trailing the Ten
Tho sa1conists of Ecnwoml. ". Va,
arc hold ng meetings To consider INC
question of applying u council Tor d
decrease in saloon licerse.
Incidental to tho preparation ror the
Hcssc-Coburg murriagc. the authorizes
have taken every possible prccaution
AGAINST anarchist ontraSes
Low Tinscl half-brother OF James
lambeth found murdered at Russell
Vile Nv, is aecusei by his wife OF
having committed the crime.
The Russian government is expected
to discharge 200, 900 soldiers during tne
coming summer with view to taclll-
tating the gathering Of the harvest.
At Ritters MILL Mcdowell county
". Va. Tom Montgomery and Eugene
Whitlow quarrelet. Whit(ow was
stabbed fatally. Montgomery escaped.
At police headquarters in st. Louis
Actor YIN. II. Crane identified George
Field, Negro, as the man who roooeo
him of 81, $50 in New York last winter
Case Frederick was renominated Tor
congress in the First district OK kansas
bv the republican convention at VAL
lev Falls, Wednesday, without oppcsl-
ton.
Peter Mortol, a dissolutc St Louis
shoemaker, aged IS committed suicide
bv taking poison. He ,pawned his
wifes wedding ring for money TO buy
the drug.
Six experts left Washington Friday
morning for Cincinnati TO assist in the
transfer of money in the suhtreasury
there from the old TO the new assistant
treasurer
The president sent to the senate a
list of Isl army officers nominated Tor
brevet rank as 4 reward for gallant
and distinguished service in Indian
campaigns.
1t is officially stated that all the min
ers of The Ohio locking valley will
quit work ut / o'clock Saturday. one
hour earlier than the time set by tho
convention.
Mrs. Jeff Gullctt, the wife of a prom
inent farmer of Magof1in county, Ky,
has been arrested and placed in jail at
Salyersville charged with having
stranglcd to death her eleven year-old
stepson.
The Wabash fremcn and engineers
committee had another conference with
President Ashley and General Manager
Hays over the coming reduction Of 10
per cent. in wages. As negotiations
proceed the probability of a strike is
lcsseDcd.
A cable dispatch was received in Chi
cago from the English war department
ordering the shipment of a sample con-
signment OF five hundred tons Of COM
pressed fodder for horses. 1t is COM
bination of crushed oats, corn and
chatfed hay.
During the Trough of last year field
fires were SO numerous on the Louis
vile branch OF the Pennsylvania road
that more than $50, coo has been paid
out by the company fer fences and
crops dcstroyed; yet there are many
unadjustcd claims.
The Chicago s; southeastern railway
has purchased twelve acres OF land at
Muncic, Ind. for the location OF shops
where several hundred men will be
employed. General Manager Noric
says c. &; s +. trains will be running
into Muncie July l.
The democratic state convention at
Nashville, (Tenn) nominated for
judges of the supreme court, d. l..
Snodgrass of Chattanooga ". X. Nc
Alister of Nashville, John S. Wilkes of
p,,1,cl-; wv 4 ColJ,,-o1l &c DrocIor md