The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-04-19
NEWS ITEMS

are still out 49,. rnnar
High water prevails on 'no up
Missouri river. ,., ia a
Now they say coxey's unknown Is .
Pinkerton detective. .,,
Another ocean cable is talked OF HUI
Nova Scotia to Ireland ,.4.a.
The total membership OF the i"''e'
d,v saints is shown to be 7,ll&
a cooperative stove foundry Will %
started at PariScrsburg, W. va.
The St. Louis tailors' strike Is sct'ieu
and thousand men have rcsuneo
work. e,,h IN.
The first section OF the Spanish phi,
crims six hundred in mum Der aff''e0
In Rome. ,,..,o, ~
The late John VOTES collection OF
paintings brought 100000 ut auct'on
in New York. ~,
Editor Dana, Of New York, sal'so
with his wife for Hamburg on MS "H
nual vaca ton .,.oa
The Durango (Col) region Is e1citeo
over UNPARALLELED gold findings IN lie
Plata mountains -
An inccndiary fire destroyed tho MS
toric guardhousc in the Oniteo o'''0'
failyard at Ft Smith
Gertrude Wering, aged years. was
fatally burned while playing at o ooh'
Gro, at Las yette. Ind.
The trial of DR.. Henry c. +. Meyer
for the poisoning NJ Ludwig hrano'
was begun in New York.
The general election OF The hague
resulted in the defeat OF tho govern
ment by large majority
At the Republican Congressional con
vention at Portlan /, Gre. ". H. ELLIS
was renominated for congress
A fire In Wooster street. New orH'
causcd a loss of $3.50. o0a IN the Amer
lean straw Eoard CO. 5 :.uilding'
A dispatch from RIO tirande do Sui
saws the federal troops have completely
routed tie insurgents i'll ti2t state
At Fremont, O., Mrs. A. y. Reynolds
was attacked by larcc r?m and IN
jured so badly that death viii doubtless
ensue.
Mr.. Shelley, a well-known American
dentist. in Paris, committee: suicide by
shooting. He had suffered from mcian-
cholia.
Willie Gulloy, aged seventeen, blew
his brains out at Fallen, W. Va be-
cause his parents refused to let MIN
marry.
Ali the strikers at the Werner lithe-
graphing works at Akron, o., have re.
turned to work except pressmen and
feeders.
The sale Of the Worlds fair buildings
to l.. C. Garrett, Of St Louis for $7o,-
500 hns been called off because the cash
is not forthcoming.
An organization Of persons Interested
In the Druggists National association
has been formed ut Detroit to knock
out cut-rate dealers
INQUIRIES among Dakota stockmen
from all sections developes the fact
that the losses from storms this winter
have been greatly exaggerated.
Fred Morelocs's country store near
Mt. Vernon, Ind, was blown up by the
explosion of can of powder. Three
men were dangerously injured.
Robbie Purcell, aged & was standing
on the Vandalia track at 1erre Elaute,
when he was struck and killed, one
arm and both legs teing cut off.
The Argentine cabinet will demand
satisfaction and the return Of those
Brazilian refugees who were forclbly
taken from an Argentine vessel
The Roman Catholic cathedral at
Eewry, ireland, was entered by burg
lars, who broke opon all THO aims
boxes and carried off the contents.
Congressman Jason Brown is said to
be making the canvass in his Indiana
district dressed In an old suit Of clothes,
leaving hts fashionable attire in Wash
ington.
A natural gas explosion, at McKces-
port, Pa, wrecked the home Of VIM.
Malseed. Mrs Malsced and her twelve
year-old daughter Effic. were fatally
burned.
Five prisoners confined in the jail at
La Plata, Mo, placed an iron rod in
tho stove and heating it red hot set
fire to the jsil and broke out through
the flames
Wednesday marked the one hun
dredth anniversary Of the birth of Ed
ward Everett, the distinguished orat tor,
scholar and statesman, who died of ep.
plexy In 1885.
Edward Beeson. who bought the
Fond Du Lac Journal nearly fifty years
ago. and is the oldest journalist in Wis
consin, was dying Friday night He is
so years Of age.
At Wheeling, W. Va, while going to
fire at gallop the Niagara fire en-
CINE knocked down anal ran over Clar-
ence Hill. 0 years old. He was dead
when picked up
The people Of Gainesville, Tex, are
terribly wrought up over the lynching
of Ed Cash, who was hanged to tree
in the presence OF his wife. The muir
derers are unknown
At a meeting of the directors Of the
chamber Of commerce. of Toledo, O.,
committee was appointed to investi-
gate the feasibility of a ship canal
from Chicago to Toledo.
Albert J. Barr, the new surveyor OF
customs Of Pittsburgh, is editor Of the
Pittsburgh Post, OF which his father