The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-08-23
NEWS ITEMS,
Hog cholera is epidemic at Welc]

The daughter Of Senator Martin, of
Kansas. win become q nun.
Fire destroyed the big Montreal
steam laundry. Loss, 100000.
Father Murphy, Bishop Wiggcr's tor
mentor, has sailed To-. Glasgow.
The Wheeling (v. va.) steel works
are running full force and time.
The guillo.ine for santos execution
has been shipped from Paris to Lyons,
strict neutrality has been cnjo:ned
on all British subjects in the far east.
Tola Mcssengale imprisoned Mrs
Henry Gencry in an eastern Tennessee
cave.
John McEridc is to stump the state
of Ohio IL the interest OF the populist
party.
All the European steamship lines are
tickets
The Missouri republican state con-
ventioa declared in favor OF free silver
coinage,
The new electric line between Ak
ron, O., and EcIbcrtcwn IS being con-
structcd.
\ sa;lboat containing six men was
caps;zea at Duluth Three were
drowned
The Negro democratic league in
dorscd Cleveland and the Chicago
platform.
Th:cc Of the four accused New York
police scrgc&nts were dismissed from
the force.
Seven Chinese vessels of war arc re-
ported sun, in en- engagement with the
Japanese
Congressman John +. lIaincr, OF
Nebraska YVES rcnominatod by ac-
elunation.
NJ Frustuly, Frcnc, consul to Ciudad,
Bolivia. was drowned III Tic Orinoco
August T..
Another Soath Aune,iccn agency of
the Cincinnati bosrd of trade is to be
established.
Cincinnati banks are pushed with the
demand for money on the part OF
whisky men.
Fire IS sweeping the prairies north of
Gas City. Ind, and several farmers are
heavy losers.
Guatemala Nicaragua. San Salvador
and Honduras are to be united under
orc government.
The railroad companies in West Nlr-
ginia are picking UP in business ut u
good rate lately.
Oscar Lrmen and his atlianccd. Ada
Wic!lnnn, were drowned while boating
near Minneapolis.
An Internal machine was sent to Al
dcrlnan Coughlin. OF Chicago, who is
fighting the opium joints.
Police Scrgts Jordan, Mckcnnn Lci-
tcrs, Patterson and Clari, are on trial
in New York for e:<tortion.
Unllnovns shot to dcrth Il farm hand
named Miller while he was sleeping in
field near Terre lIautc Ind
A death from cholera was reported
Frdav to the authorities i'll Chelsea,
the southwest suburb of London.
1t Is rumorcI in Berlin tllut the Dis
couto-Gcsse.lschaft is negotiating =
Chinese loan accounting to S5o.co2,co
An alleged anarchist plot has been
discovered m Chicago, having iii view
the Wholesale burning OF valuable
property.
Edward Yinmer, the lNyear-old son
of a prominent citizen of Portsmouth,
o.. was drowned in the Chic river. Fri
day afternoon.
The Lake Shore officials have reason
to believe that an organized band OF
bandits are operating on the line Of the
read III Indiana.
The prince Of Wales denies that the
duke Of York was privately married
previous to his nuptials with the Prin-
cess Mag OF TeclS.
Jacob +. Coxey was chased out OF
camp at lIyattsville Md, for saying
that ne had nothing more TO do with
The commonwealers
The Lake Shore railroad has aban-
doned the use of the switch at kesslel
Siding, H. on account OF the frequent
attempts at trainwrcclling
Elliott Roosevelt brother of Civil
Service Commissioner Theodore Rcose-
Welt died after an illness extending
over period OF only four days,
At Columbus, o.. Police Prosecutor
C. w. Voorhees, was elected from the
Grand opera house because he was tax
ing in the show without paying
Two boys, only 10 years Old, Henry
Fink and Russell Barnes, were ar
rested for trying TO rob James Girls
well; q rich farmer, near Wooster o.
Many tin plate works in South
Wales, which have been closed foi
some time, arc preparing to resume
work in view of tho passage of the
tariff bill il Washington.
An immense meteor burst immediate
" over Cotfccvillc, Miss, Thursday
night with n report that shook the
earth for miles around and frightened
the people almost out OF their wits
Tho Shanghai correspondents OF the
London Times says that 5000 Japa'
reese troops have boon landed in Corea
and chat more ate i;tn1iHS almost cor
stantlc. The Chinese fleet is passive.
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