The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1898-12-15
NEWS ITEMS


release OF Col. Picquart has already
been ordered.
Action has been taken by Secretary
Long TO withhold information concern
ing American naval affairs from for
eign governments.
At noon Sunday the transport Sara.
toga, with the iSt battalion of the 10th
infantry on board. sailed from Charles
ton. :. C.. for Cuba.
James Shaw the ouly surviving mem.
Der of the state legislature of 1871.
when Detroit was the capital Of Michi.
gan. is dead in Niles, Mich. aged s6.
DR.. j. J. Walker, pastor Of the Cen.
tenary Methodist church. of Portland,
Ore, has been appointed missionary in
charge OF all Methodist work in Alaska.
Miss Reel. superintendent of Indian
schools, in her annual report. makes
strong plea for the industrial feature
of educational work among the Indians
Mrs. Mckinley, who has been visit.
ing in New York, arrived home Friday
night She was accompanied bv sev.
eral friends and was met at the station
by the president.
y large quantity of brick work i'm n
sewer in course of construction in Bar.
celona, Spain. collapsed SUNDAY after.
noon burying many of the woramen.
Eighteen bodies have been recovered.
The Berlin correspondent of the Lon.
don Standard says: 1T is rumorcd
here that the great powers concerned
nave agreed to German occupation of
the Samoan islands, tcginning with
Upola'
The whaling bark Alexander. the
last of the Arctic fleet To return this
year. arrived at San Francisco without
single catch. She came
from Plover bay by way of Dutch
harbor
Three persons killed, three wounded
and the mother of one OF the victims
lying of the shock caused 10y her sons
leath, Is the result Of two wrecks on
he Clarion River railroad near Port.
and Mills, in Elk county, Pa.
Jordan Webb. colored. who comm IL
ed criminal assault upon Mrs. Lucy
}owden. an aged lady, in September
ass, was hanged at Courtland south
mpton county, Va, Friday lie adj
nitted his guilt just before his execu.
ion.
The steamer Rosalie brings new,
hat an exodus of men is ta<ing place
rom Dawson City. John IIalver,on
ays: There are nearly 1000 men
trung along the Yukon between Daw.
IN and Chilkoot pass. All are making
II effort To reach the coast.
Mrs Lulu Johnston, of Pond Creek.
kla., is in Jail at Pond Creek and will
e tried December 10 on the charge Of
oisonlng her sixth husband at Law.
nee, Kan. in May. She is also ac-
lsed OF poisoning IA half brother in
lmner county, Kansas last July.
Lieut.. Nark. Of the Royal artillery,
no on Thursday last was sentenced
death on the charge of numbering
iss Jane Yates, OF Liverpool, "A girl
good family, Dy conspiring with her
procure an illegal operation which
suited in her death, has been re-
ieved.
Judge Carey, cX-United states sem
Or, has announced that he will not
candidate for election TO the
llted states senate at the next ses-
IN OF the Wyoming legislature. His
tirement is regarded as materially
proving Senator C.arl's chances of
election.
The remains Of Charles ID. Kennedy,
e superintendent of the Judson
wdcr works. Oakland. Cal, who was
led by the explosion on Monday,
II be shipped east to be inferred in
, family lot at New Bedford. Mass.
G funeral services at Oakland were
pressive.
-he | nited States peace commissions
have been almost overwhelmed
Ia offers of dinners in England.
'mpted by the desire Of prominent
glishmen to emphasize the Anglo
lerican entente, but they will re.
IN in Paris until the day before sail
for the United States.
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