The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1895-01-31
NEWS ITEMS.

1or NM, IS dead at burlington, la.
Fire destroyed the plant of the CHI
cago Sash and Door Co. Loss. $780,
600.
Fire in the business portion Of
Charleston, S. c., caused loss Of
$50, 600.
At Sutton, w. Va, Engineer Lloyd
Chichester was killed and mangIed by
his locomotive
Mrs Maggie Gill admitted in New
York police court that she beat her
mother to death.
Ralph Sailing, farmer living near
0wensbcro, KY, was killed in run
away Wednesday.
Stupendous frauds are charged in the
Fourth congressional Alabama district
in the late election.
There was no result in the Oregon
senatorial election Thursday. Only
one ballot was taken.
Baker brothers, managers Of coal
mine near Lacon, Ill, have fed owing
their. worllmen $4,000. W.
Chauncey NJ. Depew will be invited
to speak at the State teachers meet
ing at Sanduskt, o., in July.
James A. Allen, farmer residing
near Alliance, o., fell from the top OF
his barn and will probably die.
John konovich, Polander, was
killed by fall of slate III the Long
| Run Mines, near Steubcnvillc, 0.
Mrs. Pearl, the wife of the only pas
senger on the lost steamer Chicora,
has become insane from the shock.
The home Of Charles Silva in Sacra-
mento. CAL, was destroyed by fire, and
two children were burned to death.
Miss Katie Harcourt beautiful
white girl of Columbus, o., has married
Samuel Wallace, mulatto OF twenty
five.
p. c. Trusler, city controller OF lndi-
annapolis, has sued the German Tele-
graph. of that city, for $40. 600, alleging
libel.
Five more ballots, making nine in
all, were taken at Olympia. Wash,
Thursday, for United States senator,
without result.
Near Tulia. @. r., Cherokee Eill, the
notorious outlaw. was killed by his
brothcr-in-law, who blew his head or
with shotgun.
Cincinnati was selected by the
National Manufacturers association.
at the Thursday afternoon session, Tor
their headquarters.
Workmen engaged ona Steubenville
(O.D-excavation unearthed gravcstone
bearing the birth date Of William Dav-
idson, February TO- 1776.
The forty-seventh anniversary OF the
discovery Of gold in California was
celebrated in Chicago by the Western
Association of California Pioneers
An order has been received by the
Delaware Iron works. at New Castle,
Del, for five hundred tons OF trolley
poles for Dublin, ireland, and Bristol,
England
Walter Donaldson, who robbed the
Caldwell Kan.) post Office about
eighteen months ago, while assistant
postmaster, was captured in Ellen
wood, Kan.
A boiler tube at the Warren O.water
works plant blew out and VIM. jeffrey,
a bvstander, was seriously burned, and
Charles Mountain, an employe, slight
ly wounded. -,
Bessie Webb Loughbridgc, the wits
Of Prof. r. II. Loughbridge, OF the
university of California, committed sui
eide at her home in Berkeley, by drink
ing cncbolic acid.
Maurice Garvey, a prominent sugar
man. while showing a party OF
strangers around New Orleans, fell
over the railing Of the Chess club ~
stairway and was killed.
During the trial Of the Boyle-B oecls
lin case at indianapolis the wife OF
Tom East learned for the first time
that her husband had at one time
served term in the pen.
In the Illinois senate joint resolu-
ton from the house asking Illinois
members in congress TO support the
bill pensioning Gen. McGlcrnand was
unanimously concurred in.
! Henry Arens, the man who was shot
by the Seventh regiment men, at hal
sew street and Broadway, brooklyn
died at ST. Mary's hospital at 1855
o'clock Wednesday morning.
Alonzo Todd while fitting q pump
q. Prospect Hill coal mine, near Vim
cennes, Ind, attempted to climb to
the cage and fell .25 feet into the shaft;
MASKING his body into pulp
John pfeifer, colored. was engaged
in Columbus, o., with several othc'
men. in sliding heavy safe up q plank
into building by means OF ropes
when the safe slipped and fell, crush
ing Pfeifer's head.
John Sollenberger, who mysteriously
disappeared from koSomo, Ind, IN
September, 1893, has been found at
philadelphia. A letter to his wife says
he will join the family in a short time.
I He offered no explanation OF his pro-
longed absence.
Father Paradis, noted Romaa CATH
olic colonization missionary, was in
Montreal Friday on business in con-
nection with the repatriation of ST.
families of French Canadians compris-
ing o,s95 persons, now residing in the
county of Houghton, Mich.
MI. ,3ohnson; Of st. Louis, introduced
| a bill in the Missouri house Thursday
to legalize pol selling ana beQQsf max ls
inr on either local OR foreign races. u
conducted on the premises of racing
ring the legitimate season.
ISf nmmittec.