The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1898-11-24
NEWS ITEMS


held at Fort Worth. Tex. December
to H.
In large fire, which completely do
stroyed and extensive timber shed In
ST. Petersburg Friday, ten persons
were burned TO ashes.
All the white officers OF the 9th vir-
ginia regiment, colored have resigned,
except Lieut.. Coz. Croxton and Lieuts.
Healy and Richardson.
The FarnumSville. Mass, cotton mill
has shut down again and there ap-
pears TO be no prospect Of business be-
ing resumed at present.
The National Municipal league will
hold the next conference for good city
government in indianapolis on Novem.
+ Der 30, December and >.
With the departure of the greater
number of the orden publico for Spain
one of the probable elements of disor>
der is removed from Havana.
In London. Lillian. the daughter OF
Gov. McCallum. OF New Foundland,
was married Wednesday to Percy
Buckley, of the royal engineers.
business failures in the United States
during the week number 2?9, as against
lS7 last week, 235 in the week a year
ago, sos in 1890, a33 in 1895, and 205 in
1894
Adviccs received at Yokohama from
Seoul say that the Corcan government
has issued orders that foreigners are
to be stopped from trading in the in
terror.
\ great strike Of grade ore is report
ed near Snowshoc Pass on the Warren
trail, 20 miles south Of Florence. Ida.
a big stampede for Florence is re-
ported.
In Brown, Rock and Dixon counties,
NebraSlSa, thousands OF acres have
been swept by prairie fires and much
grain many barns and several houses
destroyed.
The territorial capitol site commits
sion has adopted plans for capitol
building at PhWniX, Ariz.. 10 cost $780,
600. Bids for construction wi. he ad-
vertiscd for at once.
\ very pontifcial document is about
to appear. expressing the pope's full ap-
probation OF the democratic and lib
eral tendencies of the Catholic church
n the United States.
The Alabama congressional dclcga-
ton met at Montgomery Tuesday and
decided TO put forward representative
John II. Banlhcad for democratic lead
'rship Of the next house.
George Neighbors and his son Lewis
we're shot and killed on their farm
lear Garden Clay, Kan, by A. f. Potts
IS a result Of quarrel over the loca-
ion Of a fence. Potts is in Jail.
Adm. Schlcy reached Frederick, Md,
'riday and viii remain until Sunday
listing his relatives there. His com.
ng was the occasion of an immense
opular outpouring and ovation.
In legal circles in Paris the belief Is
impressed that the court Of cessation
III shortly order the return Of Drey-
lS to France from his PRISON on Dew
5 island, off ;hc coast of French
uiana.
a commissary Of police Wednesday
otitied NJ. Francis dc Pross,nse, the
cll-Lnown writer, political econo-
list and Dreyfus agitator, Of Paris. of
is formal expulsion from the Legion
Honor.
La Petit Republicue says that during
le recent trial Of NJ. lola for libel,
,mte Esterhazy was overheard To say
lat Gen. Billet, former minister ofwar,
I'VE him $4,000 francs for forging the
,rdereau.
Ethel Marlowc, a sister OF Julia Mar
we, died at the Knclter ecker
eater, New York, during perform
zee Of The Christian" in which she
aged tho part Of Polly Love. She
is - years old
Rev Dr. Samuel Colcord Bartlett,
rmcr president OF Dartmouth coll
g, died ut hi, home in Hanover, n.
, Wednesday night. Of acute iAi.-
stion after al Hines, VI little over
, eek , dnr&tiop.