The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-08-09
NEWS ITEMS.

trlR has been OrdeTed 10 tOIea.
It is believed that the recent fires ID
Minneapolis were due to a conspiracy.
A light frost fell at Marshfeld- WIS,
Thursday night, doing some damage 10
corn.
The depot ON the c. s. o. railroad ut
Bradford, KY, was robbed Loss
small.
Postmaster General Bissel has issued
an order establishing a post Office III
East Hamilton, O. :.
Congressman McRae has Introduce
bill to prevent the free use OF TIM oer
On the public lands.
At Sfarysvillc, o., Seth Gibson, Ia
borer, was struck by lightning Ills
recovery is doubtful.
At Americus, Ga, G. W. White was
nominated by the Populists to run
against Speaker Crisp.
Charles Municr, the condemned an
azchist, has been transported to inc
penal colony at New Caledonia
Mr.. uatchs pure food bill Will DC Ia
! vorably reported to the house, the as-
ricultural committee having SO voted
| w. w. MohIers's residence at Forest
o., was entered by burglars, family
chloroforlned and sixty-five dollars
In money and gold watch taken.
Secretary Gresham will see the ma
waiian royal commissioners as hol-
yiduals, but it is unlikely that any
thing definite will come Of their visit
! Acting Mayor Jamison and City En-
ginecr Brown, of New Orleans, have
been indicted for receiving bribcs IN
connection with courthouse contract.
David Morris, of near kciths, o.,
while engaged in digging we'll Thurs
day afternoon, lost his life by coming
in contact with fire damp In the well.
II. M. Bales, prominent citizen ana
business man of Chattanooga, Tenn,
is mvsteriously missing, and the sup
asos;tion is that he has been murdered.
Edward Hnward Jones was convicted
for the fourth TINS of murder in the
first degree Wednesday srpraing p!
Georgetown. o. Jones killed his sah IN
1891.
w. 8. Melville. dcfaulting clerk OF
the Bank of California. San Francisco
pleaded guilty md requested to be sen
fenced forthwith to San Quentin peni-
tertiary.
Walpole Mass. is in great excite
ment over an alleged inccndiary fire
which eliminated in the arrest OF
Mrs. selssn j, Tyler aRa Mrs, Emma
T.. Foster.
An attempt to rob the pacific express
on Train No. . on San Francisco road.
ut Eureka Springs, Mo-, was unsuc-
cessful. The messenger was shot IN
the hand.
volders, the leader OF tho Belgian
socialist labor party, has become y
hopeless lunatic from overwork and
excitement, and has been confined IN
an asylum.
The ex-soldiers of Licking and Mus
lziuguIn counties o.. held their annual
reunion in Wickham's grove, at Black
Hand Thursday. The atttendaNce SAns
about 800.
In the criminal court at Wheeling,
~. Va, Giovanni Serigi, charged with
criminally assaulting Anna Grisla, aged
g. was sentenced to the penstentiary
for 90 years.
| Chris. Eyans was killed BY his II
year-old son Hrd, IN IIamb!en county
near Bulls Cap. Penn. Evans w.ss
| drunk and had shot the Roy with p
Winchester rife
At St. Paul Judge Nelson, in the fed
eral court. ordered verdict OF ac-
ouittal in the case ST DR.. O. b. Gibson,
of Austin, accused Of accepting bride
II, the famous Van Luven pension
cases.
The German ,va<s;.ies Alexsndrne,
Aroona and Marie, which ara naw oai
Che west coast OF the United States,
have been ordered to proceed to the
scene of naval operations between
China and japan.
Gov. Stone has honored the requisi-
ton for the surrender of Joseph *.
WILSON, charged with leading the mob
which tarred and feathered Atty. Gen.
Tarsney, near Colorado Springs, on the
night of June %.
Finley McCord, aged 90, married,
committed suicide in st. Louis Thurs
day by shooting. He left letter to
his brother, saying that domestic trou-
BILE caused his act. He was contract
or in good circumstances.
Patrick sdeBryde, secretary OF the
United Mine Workers. returned 10 Co
Iumbus, O., from Pittsburgh, Friday
morning, and as first act resigned
from the Thurman club to become a
pillar in the labor party to be organ
lied.
Mr.. Blair rep, N. H. introduced
Joint resolution in the house Friday
directing an investigation by depart
ment of labor into the lynchings Of the
past ten years, the cause thereof. etc,
which was raferred to the committee
on labor.
The jury in the case of heavyweight
Powell, at Newport, Ark. charged
with numbering Conductor McSully, at
Oliphant, on November 49, 1893, re-
turned a verdict of not guilty. Powell
was Immediately rcarrested on the
charge of train robbery.
The mission Of Assistant Grand Chief
Dolphin. of the Brotherhood Of Rail
way telegraphers, to St. Louis to secure
an adjustment of the difficulties be-
tween some of the members of this or
ganization and the Missouri Pacific sys-
tenn, has been attended with. success.
and the threatened strike is ayerted.
The state democratic convention adj
iourned at Jacksonville, Fla. after
nominating by acclamation Hon. Ben
S. Hidden of Mariana for justice OF