The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-08-24

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quantity of anti-plague serum.
The Libertc says that the Dreyfus
trial will not finish before the middle
of September.
President n. Young. of the National
Baseball league. has received notifica-
tion OF the death OF his father Sunday,
at Amsterdam, n. Y, aged 9i years
Mr.. Young will attend the funeral.
Intelligence has been received from
the French Soudan indicating ( at
Lieut.. klopp and Lieut.. Mounier, who
were sent to take command Of COLI
umn of troops there. have both been
assassinated.
The transport Siam has sailed for
Manila with $50 mules which will be
used for military service in the Philip
pines. The vessel will stop at Ilono'u-
lu for several days, and the mules will
be given run ashore as rest from
their steamer voyage.
Miss Viola Norlocker. who is resting
under n 81. 900 bond at Hastings. Neb..
charged with having attempted to
take the life of Mrs. Charles A. Morey
by sending her box OF poisoned can
day on April 10. last. is now in An in-
sane asylum at Jacksonville. III.
Among the passengers who arrived
at New York sunday per steamer New
York from Southampton and Cncr-
bourg were Miss Louise Beaudet II. A.
Boal Walter Camn 4. II. Carter,
Fletcher Harper. John W. Goff. Il ch.
ard Harding Davis and John Drew.
Secretary Root was busily engaged
the greater part Of Friday in selecting
officers to fill the new regiments going
over the lists OF names that have been
submitted with recommendation for
appointment and considering their eff
ficiency records during the Spanish
war.
Il. l.. Sunday. Both the Defender and
Columbia are now anchored of tho
Herreshoffs shops, and during tho
week both will be hauled out. Tho
steel mast for the Columbia is about
ready to bc stepped. Both boats are
stripped except their mainsais
Frank w. Funk. accused OF the mur-
der of VIM. BROOKS, Mt Washington, d.
c.. WAS taken To the capitol city ia
charge OF Detective Edward Weldon,
who left ST. Louis on q train for tho
east Sunday. The accused had been
captured at Columbia, Mo-, and
brought there.
James i. Young, private in Com
pauy ID, 3Oth infantry volunteers, was
killed by freight train at Evanston
Sunday while on his way 10 Fort Sher-
idan to report after days absence.
lie lived at Mechanicsburg, H., and
was member of the ijSth Indiana reg
iment during the Spanish war.
Crump Arbogast was shot and killed
and Robert Reedy was shot through
the body by Sheriff Stephenson and
deputies at Eldorado, Clay county, w.
Va, Friday. All had been robbing and
burning stores and commit ng dcpre-
dations in Clay and adjoining counties
They had taken refuge in housc.
Three fresh cases OF the bubonio
plague are reported from Oporto. They
are said to be OF mild character The
Spanish consul there will be prosecut.
ed for failing to notify the Spanish
government of the outbreak. II is es-
timated that already the commerce OF
Oporto has suffered a loss OF 800. 900.
Sometime Saturday night Mrs. jennie
Weston drowned herself ana her =
year-old son BERTHE in a cistern at thu
family home. near Pierre, ;. ID. There
was no one else at HON, except q
daughter about Il years old, and tho
deed was not known until the young
lady wakened Sunday morning.
Jacob Gould Schurman. United
States commissioner TO the Philippines,
arrived in Chicago Sunday from tho
islands OF which he has just completed
a six-mon:hs' study at the instance OF
President Mckinley. lie left sunday
night for his nome in Ithaca, y. y,
and will report to the pre- ident as
soon as a meeting can be arranged.