The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1898-11-03
NEWS ITEMS


q In fire at Corsicana, Tex, Friday,
VIM. johnson and two children were
burned TO death.
I Col. William Jennings Bryan contin-
ues quite i'll in his room at the De Soto
hotel, Savannah, Ga.
| lt Is now recognized that the epi-
demic prevailing at Samarkand is the
true plague. The mortality is high.
Fridays statement Of the condition
OF the treasury shows: Available cash
balance, SSol, 49i, 49l; gold reserve, sa4O.-
744,5l4
work on the cruiser Chicago is adj
vancing rapidly, and it Is believed that
she VIII be ready next week to 90 into
commission.
The steamer l.. X. Doty, with her
crew OF Is men. is believed by marine
men TO have been lost in the great
storm In midlake off Kenosha.
The United States transport Missis-
sippi' from Porto Rico, having on
BOARD the 9th regiment, Massachusetts,
volunteers, has arrived at Boston.
Since October orders have gone
from Havana to Boston for 81. 500. 600
worth OF sugar grinding machinery.
several other orders are now pending.
1t was reported in Paris Thursday
evening that the British cabinet at
thursdays session decided to proclaim
the protectorate of Great Britain over
Egypt.
Ten. Kitchener, whose elevation TO
the peerage was announced September
20, takes the title of Lord Kitchener OF
khartoum and Aspall in the county OF
Suffolk.
some OF the cannon captured at San.
Ilago are now on their way 10 the
United States These pieces will be
stored at Governors island until dis.
posed of by congress.
The missing schooner Aberdeen was
'rought into port at Grand Haven.
dieh., Thursday in n badly wrecked
ondition. The crew suffered terribly
rom exposure and cold.
Brig. Gen. Abraham H. Arnold, U. S.
=, has been relieved from further duty
nth the 9TH army corps and assigned
command Of the calvary brigade.
IN army corps, at Huntsville, Ala.
Walter Brown Holt. aged So, an ex.
'idier OF the United States army, and
claimant to the immense Holt estate
England is dead at his home i'm
ew York OF bronchial pneumonia.
Philip X. n. IIildreth, 20 years old.
member of Troop A, New York vol.
ltecrs' committed suicide at his home
New York Thursday, while delirious
ON fever contracted in Porto Rico.
Secretary Long has declined TO sub
tute the name of any other state for
at OF Connecticut, which he recently
Inferred upon one of the monitors
lose construction is soon TO be begun.
1t Paris Judge Day and Senator
ny, OF the United States peace COM
ssion, visited the court OF cassatjon
day while NJ. Manau, the procura.
r general, was reviewing the Drey.
case.
'othng definite has yet been settled
with the formation of
French cabinet The air how.
r, is full Of ministerial lists. IN
oh the name Of NJ. Ribot figures
d. W. j. Bryan, who has been iii al
hotel since his arrival in Savannah.
is much improved and received
lber Of callers Friday. The corp's
'eon says that he has n light form
1phoid fever.
Dupuy, who was interviewed as he
leaving the Elysee, said the cues
OF the Dreyfus revision was pure
dicial, adding: mo honest politi,
will decline TO accept the decision
n shall be given"
the feather-weight contest arrang.
r 20 rounds in birmingham, Eng.
'sday evening, between j. White.
and Mike Sears, of
On, Mass, the Englishman beat
american in l2 rounds.
e members Of the 1st battalion OF
'2d Kansas regiment, who have
from San Francisco for Manila,
ballots with them and will vote
ansas officers about midway be-
4 Honolulu and Manila.
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