Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-01-07
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GENERAL u


after the holiday recess at
Tuesday. q
Goochland County Jail
morning of the 9th ms.
one inmate and he was rest ! s.
ona conservative estil
crop of the United States thi &
10 two barrels to every man s.
child.
Spain now sends out the
Gen. Rivera, the successor d =
is dead, as a result of 8ounds
recent battles.
Sixty thousand dollars year,
drawn by the French Ambassador i
don, is the largest sum paid to any DIP.
lomatist in the world.
The annual production ofgoid from all
the various sources is at present about
s2lo,OOO,ooo. This is twice the amount
produced seven years ago.
The Keil Canal is lighted over its SIX
ty.two miles by electricity and the longest Z
distance in the world lighted continuously
in that way. There are 5000 poles.
Two thousand employees Of the West
inghouse Air brake company started to
work in the Wilmerding shops at Pitts
burg on the 4th inst, after being idle for
about month.
Col. Phillip Duncan Elkins, father of s
Senator Stephen B. Elkins, died at Ellzins,
w. Va, on Monday afternoon. He was
in his eighty-eighth year and his death re-
suited from old age.
Maj Lewis Ginter has bought property
the Jefferson Hotel, at Rich
mond, and will remove the buildings and
erect fine theatre on the ground pur-
chased.
A great Photographic camera, for TAX
ing full-length life-size portraits, has been
made and used with much success by
Dublin firm. The camera takes plate
seven feet high and five feet wide.
Weyler says his conscience is clear and
he is satisfied with the way he has con-
iucted the Cuban campaign. He must be
clear of any conscience if his brutal con.
luct does not dissatisfy him.
The Westminster Gazette gives prom-
nence to report that Queen Victoria
las decided to commemorate the fact that
The has enjoyed the longest reign in En-
,lish history by abdicating in favor of the
Prince of Wales.
Fer Christmas dinner at the Georgia
tate Insane Asylum at Milledgeyille the
GLOWING were served: 375 turkeys, so
pounds candy, 500 pounds Of nuts, 500
pounds of dates, 25 boxes oranges, 80
'arrels apples, % punches bananas 900
ocoanuts, light Bread jelly, etc.
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After an idleness of nearly three months
arious mill of the Bethlehem Iron Com
amy, of Bethlehem, Pa. started to work
gain on the End inst. The steel mills of
he same Company were started Z.
n Monday the 4th inst, and give
mployement to 1000 more men.
Deduction from employees wages are
nade at factory at Elwood, Ind, to
ay the salary of physician whom the
roprietors place there to attend the work
nen in case either of illness or accident.
he practice issaid to be against the wishes
# nineteenth of the men, and suit to test
he employers right to make it is contem-
plated.
Henry C. zehrruny, president of the
standard glass and paint company, Of
Lincoln, Neb., committed suicide by i
hanging himself on the 3lst ult. It
thought he committed suicide becaass
,rief over the defeat of Bryan at Z
:ent election. zehrruny at one tins
leading Republican, but was cafz
way by the free silver craz.
Geo. B. Wilkins, yiee-president Of the
Commercial National Bank, of Selma, Ala
which failed for half million on the sOtIl &
# Dec, committed suicide by shooting =
himself through the head in the Episcopal
church at Selma at o'clock on the nom
ng of the 3lst. He was treasurer of the
hurch in which he committed suicide.
Minister Hoshi, of Japan, has signed
ontracts for two new cruisers fer the
japanese navy to be built in American
hipyards, one by the Cramp shipbuiIding s
of Philadelphia, and the other
W the Union Iron works ofsan Francisco.
he award to American builders is con- )
idered not orlyrecognition of the superior 4
merits of American shops, American arrioS
nd American materials, but also an enl1 *
'hatic recognition on the part of Japan g
he kindly offices ofthe United States d
he late Japan China war. 1t also proves