The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-08-16
NEWS ITEMS.

CAolero Is reesng more savageiy tnah
ever In st. Petersburg.
Mr.. Could wants 70 race the Vigilans'
against the Britannia for $4,000
President Clereland has formally
yecornixed the new Hawaiian repuo
nc.
An alarming adulterntion OF food Is
alleged by the committee on agrlcui-
ture.
The Farmers National congress Will
be held at parkersburg, W. Va, octo-
Der to8.
Two strangers were stripped naked
In a box car at Beaver Fells. Pa. oy
cramps and robbed.
An electrical school under the na-
tionai school of electricity is to be es-
tablished at Cincinnati.
Pietro Caseldo, only three years OLD.
cut Frank Waters, aged six, in the
neck with q razor In Now York
John Rollings, the giant policeman
ds Philadelphia, and tho lnrgest officer
In the country, died Thursday OF pa
fnlysis.
Twenty ladiee Of Ashtabulo. o.. lx've
organized q Friendly Counsel union
FOR the purpose of rcscuing fallen
women.
Otto Cast slew three large copper
heads near Dnresville. ". Va. Inside
nf one OF tho snakes wore thirty-throe
little ones.
The German trades council Of Cincin-
natl decided to join the central laoof
council in the independent political
movement.
GLADYS Rankin md her husband,
Sydney Drew. are ct outs over EloiAe
Wilson. an actress. Mrs. Drew will sue
for divorce.
Lille and Lellie burgess. aged eand
respectively. were groun.l to pieces
while playing on the railroad track at
Alfalfa Ala.
At Charleston. w. Va. c. c. Martin
and his daughter, Mrs. Murrell Milton.
were thrown from their carriage nm"
killed Thursday.
The striking miners at Glen Camp.
bell, Pa. have called the strike of, and
the men will return to work at the
rates offered by the company.
A dispatch to a London agency from
Tien Tsin states that the emperor has
directed that levy DC made upon the
various viceroys for war tribute.
Thomas Dryer was killed and
other workmon injured by the break
;no down of a scaf7ols j., the now city
hall being built at Jersey City. =. D.
Churles Thompson. yard master OF
the Cincinnati, Jackson and Macl1inaw
railroad, ut Toledo, O. was brhcadcd BY
a pony engine In the yards Wednes-
day.
Chancellor Won Caprlvi has issued
special notice prohibiting the exporta-
ton Of munitiQns OF war from mari
time towns of eicrmaRs e China or
Japan.
Hapdow, the professional strong map,
,vas married Wednesday morning, IN
Manchester. Eng. 20 Miss iaanche
Brooks. the daughter Of Manchester
photographer.
Frank Reeves shot Leander Coffee
nino times, killing him. Both farmers
at Argellite, KY, and had grudge
sbosis Reeves cattle jumping into COT
feo's corpAeid
Ethel Leroy. + absolute woman. was
exurdercd kn San Frnncfaoo ~ FFnnR
Layrabee, her pazamour. With b Fszos
ne cut her thront Lara iro thea end
ed bis own Ito
The grand jury Of Webster c"unt.s
~. Va. found seven ind'ctmcnt9
aGalasA $he proprictors of the Cowen-
Addison hack line, fog {hlntpllgy passen-
gers on Sunday,
Sheriff IRA I.alnberson, OF Smith
county, wns shot and fatally wounded
10 battle between his poase aud the
notorious Cap Shnw gang OF oatla~a
near Middleton. Tenn.
Showers Friday evening broke the
drought over the central md northern
pefts Of Iowa. The rain came too late
to do corn much good, although late
folds will be benefited.
One hundred witnesses will testify Ia
the trial of Capt. I. A. Goodman, c. &
o. conductor, at Covington. Va, for the
murder OF Coz. Il, C. Persons, proprl-
etor Of Natural Bridge hotel
The officials Of the Corean legation at
Washington ore themselves taking
steps looking to the shipment to Corea
OF any supplies that may be donated
by the people Of this country.
The members Of family named
Walker, who live jnst out Of Oelwein.
Ia, were poisoned Wednesday night.
Three Of the children have since died
and others are barely alive at latest
reports.
Bv the burning Of the summer cot
tage Of Charles Hollenbcck Of Rock
ford, ILL.,, at Lauderdalo lake, Miss Sa-
die Fallon was burned to death and
Mrs. Hollenbeck's mother, Mrs. E.
Brown, fatally burned.
Ten car loads of gravel gave way at
Rartlett's gravel pit in Williomsport,
W. Va, buryinS three men named
Wade, Boggs and Hatfield. Tho two
former were slightly and the latter Sc
riously, probably fatally. injured.
A traction engine broke through
bridge one mile south of Waterloo,
ind, Friday. William and Solomon
Lower, the owners, were fatally in
3ured by bsiug pinned underneath the
engine. which was badly injured
Some Of the noted fire chiefs OF the
country were In Chicago Friday, pre-.
paratory TO leaving with Chief Sweenie
Saturday for Montreal. where the an
nual meeting Of the fire chiefs Of the
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