The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1898-09-15
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The 18th Pennsylvania regiment will
break camp at Middletown. Pa. sun
day morning and leave for Pittsburgh
TO be mustered out
The G. A. T. posts of St Joseph,
Mo-, have extended invitation 20 Pres
ident Mckinley to stop off here on his
return from Omaha next month.
The Cincinnati has gone to SAN Juan
de Porto Rico On Wednesday night
the government permitted her to coal
from the American deposits at ST
Thomas
1t is stated at the white house that
the president has not yet sent final
word to Mayor Van wyck, of New
York, concerning the Parade Of troops
in New York city
A dispatch has been received from
the British minister at Pekin, sir
Claude Mcdonald, confirming the re-
port that Lii Hung Chang has been dis
missed at his request
Adm. Cervera, accompanied by his
son. Angel Cervera and his aide. Lieut.
Gomez, left for Portsmouth, y. H., to
arrange for returning TO Spain the
Spanish prisoners there.
Lieut. Guy Morgan, OF the 22d Kan
sas' who was tried by court-martial at
Camp Meade on the charge of desc
Grating the graves of confederate sol.
diers in the south, has been acquitted.
The Capetown correspondent of the
London Daily Mail confirms the re-
port that Great Britain has leased
from Portugal the town of Lorenzo
Marques, on the north side of Delagoa
bay.
Prince August Wilhelm, fourth sou
OF Emperor William is suffering from
The younger children
have been removed and the empress
alone remains at the new palace with
the patient
Oscar Gardner, the "Omaha Kid"
Friday night knocked out Sam Bolen,
,olored, OF New York ia the tenth
'ound OF what was TO have been a
10 round bout The Knockout blow
vas hard left hook in the pit of the
The heat throughout England We'd
iesday showed the highest tempera.
ure of the ye0r. The mercury reach
d OIL degrees in the shade in London.
The same altitude was reached In
rance. where there were numerous
The lst Illinois regiment Of infan-
ry OF Chicago passed through Clcve-
and, o., on four Lake Shore trains
etween 7 and o'clock Friday even
" on the way home Although there
ere 2l0 sick mn, none of them were
l a serious condition.
Queen Wilhelmina Is well-nigh ex.
austed by the prolonged festivities in
with tho enthrcnement
thursday her majesty issued special
quest To the populace to discontinue
leering in the Damplatz after IL
clock in the evening.
by premature explosion Of blast
! the line of construction OF the Rob-
n-Pettleton branch OF the Canadian
aciiic, near brooklyn, Il. G. Jim Kin
Ir, Oscar Anderson and Tom Ian bau
ere killed. They were hurled far
'wn the mountain side.
A dispatch to the New York Herald
ON Manila says: Gen. Aguinaldo in
S capacity as president or dictator,
calling a meeting of the Filipino
ongress" has disclosed the fact that
has planned to have complete con-
ol Of that body from the start
/ he orders mastering out batteries
c and d, lSt Maine artillery and
3 4th Texas infantry have been re.
ked. Orders have been issued mus.
ing out the LIST United States yolun.
n infantry at Galveston, Tex, and
} lst Texas cavalry at San Antonia.
several salmon, averaging % pounds
weight, have recently been caught
the Sacramento river. From the
t that the adipose fin had been re-
we'd from each. they we're identified
fish liberated from the hatcheries
the Clakamas river in Oregon in
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