The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1895-02-07
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
Tennessee Grand Lodge Of Masons
donated $1,000 to Masonic orphans
home.
The French senate passed. the am
nesty bill shortly before the sdjo"rn-
ment Thursday.
Slight earthquakes were felt Friday
in the vicinity Of Naples and in many
towns in other districts.
Near Columbus Grove, o., grand
child of John Miller fell into o kettle
Of boiling lard. She will die.
The joint convention of the iowa
legislature took two ballots for United
states senator without result.
A car load of corn from Raleigh, N.
c., contributed to the Nebraska suffer-
ers, has left the Tar Heel capital.
A new Spiritualists' temple, in Nun
Gle, Ind, will be dedicated February 10
By Mr.. and Mrs. Moses Hull, Of Chi
cago.
The Metropolitan hotel, New York,
has closed forever. Havemeyer will
erect twenty-story Office building on
the site.
A little child of David Gillispie, OF
Warren, Ind, pulled tub OF boiling
water off q chair and was fatally
scalded.
The ladies of the First Methodist
church at East Liverpool, o., shipped a
car load of provisions to the Nebraska
sufferers.
At Akron, O., Sam Bischoff, milk
man, SO years of age, was fatally in
jured. His wagon was struck by q
trolley car.
Alice, daughter Of Mr. and Mrs. John
Johnson, of South Bend, Ind, tipped
over can of boiling water and was
scalded to death.
Fire at Waco. Tex, destroyed the
residence Of 8. w. Slaydcn, president
OF the Texas Cotton Palace association.
Loss $27, GOO. and insurance about $2O,-
| OOO
All the land forts at Wei-Hai-Wei
have been taken by tho japanese The
enemy retreated beyond Fung Linchi.
The Chinese warships were not cap
tured.
The Illinois senate passed the bill
sppropriating S254,7ol for the payment
Of claims against the state contracted
by the militin during the Pullman
strike
The colossal battleship Majestic was
launched at Portsmouth, Eng. Thurs
day, with great ceremony. The vessel
YVES christened by the marchioness OF
Lorne.
The Bank of Trenton, OF Trenton,
Neb., was Thursday ordered closed by
the state banking board and an exam
liner was sent out to take charge OF its
affairs
Plans are under consideration for a
reimbursement of the bonded indebted
ness of the Grand Rapids & Indiana
railroad. The total Indebtedness is
s15, 900. 600.
The large chicken-house of Enoch
Harrison, Of Millcrsburg, O., with ITS
pure bred Plymouth Rock fowls, was
consumed by fire, which caught from
the furnace.
The rails OF the Panhandle track
across the canal at Frazeesburg, o.,
spread, and eighteen cars loaded with
dressed beef were piled up in the ca
nal. Loss, $4,000.
| Edward Jackson, aged p. Terre
Haute telephone repairer, arrested for
robbing residences where he was doing
repair work, tried to commit suicide by
hanging at the county Jail.
Mike McDonnough, convicted at the
summer term. 1890, of the Belmont,
O., common pleas, OF assault to rob,
and sentenced to twelve years, was
pardoned by Gov. Mckinley.
The latest arrival at the Pasteur in
stitute, Now York, is lo-year-old John
D. Hite, son of farmer who lives at
Bloomery, Hampshire county, w. Va.
He was bitten by a mad collie Deem
Der 20.
Some of the ministers of Wheeling.
w. Va, assisted by number of benev-
olent ladies, are taking steps to found
an institution to care for fallen
women, who wish to leave their lives
Of shame
Annie Kroninger, aged 1o.was warm
ing herself at stove in the school
house, Newport, Ky. Her clothes took
Gre, and in the panic she was allowed
to escape into field, where she burn
ed to death.
At Bryan, O.. Wednesday suit for
alleged breach Of promise was fled by
Miss Ada Wolfe of Nit. Pleasant, Mich,
against Mark A. Sweet OF Edon, Will
Jams county. Miss Wolfe asks for $780,
600 damages.