The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1898-09-29
NEWS ITEMS

Failures for the week have been i13
Ia the United States against 900 last
year and 10 Ia Canada against 2s last
year.
Everything tends to confirm the
opinion that Gen. Zurlinden, In order
ing the military trial of Col Picquart
acted entirely upon his own initiative
Joseph Terrell, colorcd, was hanged
in the Jail yard at Charlottesville, Va,
at 1880 o'clock Friday morning for the
murder of his mother-in-law, Malinda
Brown.
Senior Emilio CASTELAR,, the repub
lican leader Of Spain. has received
letter dated at London, threatening
that he will be the next victim of the
anarchists
The American commissioners in Ha-
vana continue inactive, spending their
days at the trocba hotel, where, as far
as can be learned. no official business
is being done.
At Bridgeport, CT, Charles A. Plumb,
who was arrested in Stratford We'd
nesday night on suspicion that he was
implicated in the Gill murder, was re-
leased Friday.
The annual report OF y. o. Murphy,
governor OF Arizona, to the secretory
OF the interior says the population Of
the territory Is nearly " not quite
100, 900 people
A dispatch to the New York Herald
from Manila says; The schemes of
the Spanish clerical party have divided
the Filipinos almost beyond the hope
of reconciliation.
The French minister OF foreign af-
fairs, NJ. Delcasse. has offered the
peace commissioners the use OF the
foreign Office FOR their meetings. which
commence on October /.
The steamer Alki arrived at seattle
Friday from Skaguay with 90 passen-
gers, most OF whom were from Copper
river. Fifteen passengers from Daw-
son had small amount of gold
dust
At n meeting of ingram carpet yarn
spinners, held in Philadelphia, an alb
soluto shut down of the mills repre-
sented was decided upon. This action
is taken because OF the overproduction
of yarn.
Col. Hyde, OF the United States quar-
termaster's department for Boston,
has received orders from the quarter
master generals department to secure
suitable winter quarters for nearly
5 900 soldiers.
A cyclone visited Mt Airy, n. C.,
unroofng the Cape Fear & Yadkin
Valley railroad depot, blowing down
several buildings and doing considera-
ble damage to telegraph and telephone
The French wheat crop is estimated
at 1913, 600, 900 hectolitres, the largest
since 1874, when the yield was lS6, OO0.-
France independent OF foreign impor-
tations Of wheat
Hon. George n Curzon, until recent
ly parliamentary secretary for the for.
eign office, who is To succeed the earl
Of Elgin as viceroy OF India, has been
elevated to the peerage as Baron Cur
zon Of Kedleston.
Barring Star Pointer, the fastest
two harness horses In the world. Joe
Patchen and John L. Gentry, had
match race at the Rcadville (Mass)
track Thursday and the Patchen horse
won in two straight heats
The acting secretary OF war has re-
ceived cable message from Gen.
Brooke, chairman OF the Porto Rican
evacuation commission at San Juan,
saying that 500 Spanish troops en-
parked for home Thur sday.
VIM. 7. Ryle, the Paterson, n. j.,
silk manufacturer, died
It Cape May, y. j., very suddenly.
Of the stomach set In and
he utmost efforts of his physician
we're unavailing He was 40 years OF
lge.
Aguinaldo and his chiefs have made
! plea to the powers for recognition Of
Angoncilio, his agent
who was passenger on the steamer
5hina, is on his way to Europe to sub
nit the question TO foreign arbitra-