The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1898-10-20
NEWS ITEMS

An earthquake felt at Visalia, CaL
rocked houses from their foundations,
broke crockery and aroused many peo'
pie.
Failures for the week were eos In
the United States against 2ss last
year, and IS in Canada against SO last
year.
The ltalie says Saturday morning:
France has concluded q treaty with
Abyssinia against England in the
Fashoda affair.
The marine hospital service received
a dispatch Friday night from Frank
lin, La, announcing l3 new cases and
one death there Friday.
France expects a small commercial
post on the Nile or at the entrance
to Bahr El.Ghazal as compensation for
the evacuation of Fashoda.
The Piscstaquis wooden mills at
Guilford, Me. have shut down for an
in definite period Lack of orders is
supposed TO be the cause Of the closing.
The pelSin correspondent OF the
London Daily Chronicle says: There
is a rumor in circulation that PLOT is
on foot for massacre of the Euro
peans."
A partial report by the expert who
has been examining tho books OF
ex.Tax Collector Keough, of Ilolyoke,
Mass. shows probable shortage OF
Sis 900
George Wilson Philips aged 70. who
invented most OF the machinery which
was used in the first match factory in
this country, died Friday at Spring
field, Mass.
Calvin Fairbanks, the abolitionist
is dead at his home in Angelica, n. Y,
aged So years lie was twice sentenced
to prison in Kentucky for violation OF
the slave laws
The Paris correspondent OF the Lon.
don Daily Chronicle says: IL learn that
Maj Marchand's return from Fashoda
by way of Cairo has already been ar-
ranged on both sides"
Maj Gen. Henry W. Lawton. gov
ernor of the military depart
ment OF Santiago, left Wednesday for
the United States on the Michigan, ac-
companied by his aides
The Vermont house Wednesday
unanimously passed resolution
memorializing congress to restore the
rank of admiral and confer that title
upon Rr. Adm. Dewey.
Dr. Jefferson ID. Goddard, under a 10
year sentence for the murder OF Fred
Jackson, u laundryman, has been
granted new trial by the state su.
preme court of Missouri
A special from Iona, Mich. says the
boiler Of a wing of the asylum for
dangerous and criminal insane explod-
ed Thursday night killing one man and
badly injuring three others
Christian Daniel, inventor of dozen
important machines used in the shoe
is dead at his home in
Brooklyn. His machine was the first
used for sewing welts in shoes.
The cruiser Montgomery sailed at
noon Wednesday from Newport, II. l.,
indcr orders to proceed TO Lamberts
Point, Va, a coaling station. II is be-
ieved she will be sent to Havana.
The Spanish mail steamer Reina
Maria Christina has sailed for Spain
rom Havana with 1913 officers and
roops, 6jl cases Of military archives
md heavy cargo of ammunition.
The duchess of Marlborough former
y Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, OF New
iork city, gave birth TO a son. Mother
nd child are doing we'll acc ording to
he latest reports from the attending
physicians
1t is the understanding at the war
apartment that the 7th and Sta reg.
lar cavalry, now at huntsville, Ala.
gill be the first troops that will go to
uba, and it is now expected that they
,ill go with Gen. Lee.
American imports into China con-
inuc to increase, while those Of other
ountries decrease. This is shown by
he statement OF the Chinese trade re-
orts for 1897, just received by the
bureau OF statistics.