The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-07-19
NEWS ITEMS.

aanr;.ts tban at any time in its MS
tory. r-.nass Go.
was robbed of sll,6oo near lieicna'
Mont. ,,,;,,ns
nominated vespasian Warner Tor con
gress. ,,a most
! office appropriation bill were asfeeu ~
by the house. :-+or
Frank. Dame, a New York painter;
| shot the 0irl who rejected him anu
killed himself. ~
Thos Nevins says he bought the ne.
troit street car lines for hl1nseAi' no'
for syndicate. ,
Veterans of the war arc volunteering
aid to the eoycrpment In various parts
| of the country: n
The old horse car tracks AZ hii's ~ w.. -
| arc being torn up to make way 1of d
new electr;e line, o.,.~.
Pom and Calvin Cooley, pFotners.
were hanged IN North Caroline FRIDAY
for killing peddler.
Several men were wounded IN a COZ
,;eion hntyrccn United states troops
and strikers ut Sacramento.
Mr.. Debs saws there is no foundation
for the statement that he had engaged
Rabert G. Ingersoll as counsel
Dispatches from the pplSotas indicate
that wednesdays intense heat dlo
great damage to the growing crops.
A cal,legram from Dublin: ireland
SAYS that James !. Ccrhctt vii! leave '
London for America an Friday '"ly ~
Now claimed that slices Of pure gold
MS iargs Us ppaltHife hlaaps arc heins
picked out Of mine at tnppie A'feeA'
Col.
There are over 4.Ooa Stockholders OF
tins t'nitman Co., at whom. i'lofe s''"n
one-half are momea and trustees az 70
tate.
At Wadestown, W. W.. Mrs, Michael
Henderson, wife of Il respected inrmer'
hanged herself in the burn while tenn
porarily insane.
The conviction is growing that gen
urai up.ia;ng of the foreign element
against the negroes who dlsplacH' 'l'c'h
in the coal region is imminent. !,
Pitcher John GARRISON was released
bv the Cleveland club, Saturday, anu
bh1s piaisa on the team will be supplied
81 Tony S Mullape, Of rs l}ss!timore s..
The county Jail is guarded ey hlty
deppties sworn to prevent the lynch
ing.of the French canadian who muir
dered Officer jacobson, ~ ftastfnSs'
MINI.
The commission to be appointed by
President Cleveland will have no
power to erlitrate the differences he:
tween Pullman and tho strikers: ~
will be purely advisory.
kilograms from Richmond and
Lynchburg, Va. Savannah. Augusta
and Atlanta, Ga. say that no attention
has been paid to Master Workman Sow
ereign's order, and no strikes are IN
psy s!ssfe1!eseett ,,:,.,.,,,,.oo
& st. Paul held a long meefiiiI ~ Genes
day night and decided to strike in
body Thursday The meeting includ-
ed engineers, firelncn and all train ana
yard men. ~,
4 ssyantytoot bridge, three miles
porth Of 5taitrlap. Ihf.. 2n the TT.
Wayne g. Jackson branch OF the Lake
Shore 4 Michigan Southern ia ilroad'
was burned. Wabash strikers IT Ash
ley are suspected.
4
A terrible gas explosion startled the
vicinity Of the Huron house, Toledo
O.. a second-class hotel two squares
fro,s tbe custom house, Friday morn
ing. The guests sf tho hotel escaped
without serious injury.
At Jacksonville. Ind, Col. James NJ.
Van Hook, who killed Anton Shacfcr,
a. Charlcstown, July 4, was taken out
OF the Ciarha cnaAty jall on writ OF
habeas corpus. and released ga $4,000
bond by Criminal Judge Gibson.
Ohio River railroad employees of all
classes, federated and unanimously
passed strike resolution, each order
calling upon It's grand chief to so order.
Five hundred men are involved The
slxiAa is for an increase of 10 per cent.
in wages, and is not sympathetic.
The peaceful reports from Chhiiecago
have quieted the labor troubles a New
Oslenns. The presidents of the differ
emit unions declare their opposition to
striking, but at the same time assert
that they will strike if their lenders SO
determine,
At Topeka, Kan, United States Judge
Foster sentenced j. ". kNrth, an en-
ployc OF the Missouri Pacific, and Pat
rick Sullivan. foundryman, to thirty
days in jail for contempt OF court. The
contempt consisted In assaulting
switchmon at work.
At West Superior. Wis. the attempt
to arbitrate the differences between
the Coal Managers association and the
striking dock men has failed, and the
manages gefysc to treat with the men
as anton. Nearly fifty boats were in
the harbor Friday waiting to be un-
loaded. and some have proceeded to
Two Harbors, Mimi. to unload.
An outgoing freight train on the Big
Feuy Wednesday night stopped at
| junction few .aile., out Of st. Louis.
Passenger train No. A.. east bound, On
the Wabash ran into its rear, demol-
ishing several cars. a freight brake
taan. known only as John. was instant
ly killed, and A. J. Fuller, Of Toronto,
Can, a passenger, seriously iajured,
The freight crew were new men, and
no light was placed on the rear of the
train.
The Louisville & Nashville railroad
has determined to follow up it's victory
In the A, X. u. strike by boycotting