The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-07-26
NEWS ITEMS.

captain and vessel owner, died in st.
Louis, aged GO.
Robbie Williams was killed at Nell
sonyille, O., while trying to steal ride
on freight train.
The next warship, now building at
the Cramps ahipyard, to go on trial
trip. will be the battlesi.ip Indiana
Philip Wagner suicidcti in Central
park, New York, because his wife was
going to have him arrested for abusing
family.
The Erie shops at Kent. o., resumed
Thursday. Thirty-ave mon were dis
charged, Including Gil the members OF
the a. r. e..
The North Dakota republican plat
form favors a currency OF both gold
and silver and favors arbitration OF la-
Dor troubles.
The plant OF the Peoria Lumber and
Stavc CO., ut Mound City, H., was de-
stroycd by fire. Loss, $4,000: insur-
ance, $4,000.
D. c. Ti!lo:son, city attorney Of To-
pelka, Kan, has been arrested on a
charge of criminal libel preferred by
NJ. G. Manlcy.
A cablegram from United States Sen
ator Wolcott announces that he has
left Carlsbad and will reach Washing
ton about August l.
Santo Cesar, the murderer OF Pres
ident Carnot, has been indicted for
trial at The Lyons assizes Judge
RrOutl1ao w;]I presi3e
The Chicago & Grand Trunk shops at
Battle Creek, Mich, resumed work,
The old men, with the exception OF
thirty, were taken back.
At Hammond, Ind, the democratic
convention of the Tenth district We'd
nesday nominated Valentine Zimner
man, Of Fulton county, for congress
Mrs John Dern bach left husband
and home near Lucasville, o., with
her hired man, hobo given employ
ment by her husband about six weeks
ngo.
Thomas Kane, an aged coal miner
employed III the HrtSon Coal Co.'s
mine, at Palmyra, O., was found dead
in the mine a large rock had fallen
on him.
Thomas Moran, the Chicago striker
arrested for derailing the limited cS-
press on the Baltimore ~ Ohio railroad,
was held to the grand jury under bail
Of s., 900.
John iIickmGn, aged GG years, died IN
his cell ut the Joliet Qll.) pcnitentiary
He had been in prison since April s.
L., III yr,ifn IN,
county, III.
The contract for the construction OF
the Monon railway main shops at La
fayette was lot to the Lafayette Bridge
and Taylor Lumber Cos, of TINT city,
for $127,300
at Monmouth, Ill, Truman Plant2,
of Hancock county, was nominated for
congress by the democratic convention
of the Fifteenth district on the 3OOth
ballot Wednesday.
The debris has all been removed
from the Cumberland Gap tunnel. The
first train was taken through Wednes-
day afternoon, and through traffic will
be resumed at once.
A supply of provisions to last tho
naval force thirty days has been sent
to Oakland, Cal. The sailors and ma
rines now at Oakland are to be kept
there for an indefinite period
The coal mining companies at Duran
no. Col, informed their men that they
would not acccde to their request not
to sell coal to the railroad company,
and the miners returned to work.
At meeting of the Central Labor
union of Cleveland, o., resolution
was adopted demanding COMPRESSION
al investigation of Judge A. ). Kicks,
of the United States circuit court
The postage stamps furnished the
post office departments under the new
contract with the bureau of engraving
and printing will not be ready for gen
eral circulation, before the first OF Au-
gust.
The Union Manufacturing Co. S plant
at Swissvallc Station, on the Pennsyl-
vania road, near Pittsburgh, burned.
Loss $4,000 A hoarding-house, gro
cery store and the post Office were also
destroyed.
Capt. Festus Cowherd, a c. &c O.
freight conductor running between
Hinton and Handy, was thrown up
against desk by the sudden stcopage
of his train at Hinton, w. Va and
fatally hurt.
District Assembly No. 8, ono Of the
largest in the order Of the Knights OF
Labor elected four delegates to the
aext general assembly, all of whom are
ant;-Sovcreign men and are favorable
to Powderly.
Miss Cora Fritz, handsome girl, OF
highly respectable people at Miami,
Miami county, Ind, committed sui
eide Thursday afternoon with arsenic,
dying almost Immediately. Cause I'M
known, but supposed to be love
affair.
Arrangements are perfected for tho
annual meeting of Eastern Indiana Red
Mems association at Anderson, Au-
gust /. One hundred and fifty dollars,
in four prizes, is offered to tribes hav-
ing the largest percentage of member
ship present.
The steamship Mariposa, from Sa-
moa, brings from Samoa news OF u Skin
mish In which the government forces
defeated the rebels, killing twenty-five
men. A petition that the islands be
annexed to Germany has been sent to
Emperor William.
Jasper J.. Vanfossen, the epileptic
who murdered Win. McWorley, Sunday
afternoon, at the Epiieptic hospital ut
Gallipolis, was bound over to the COM