The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-03-16
NEWS ITEMS

P0'n'eu captain general of Madrid.
!. Five persons were killed and 40 in
Jured in collision between two excur
sion trains Sunday near Rakia. ON Ra
kala river, South Ireland.
w The Cunard line steamer Pavonia
no Capt. Atkins, which became disabled
or and had to be towed into the Azores
ut arrived at Liverpool Saturday.
rs James Gilmore, the second of a trio
,e OF highwaymen wanted at Fergus
1t Hills Falls Mimi, for train robbery.
IT mas been convicted of highway rob-
is oery at St. Joseph, Mo-, and sentenced
J. to eight years.
y The plant of the Gray Iron Casting
S Co., manufacturers of iron novelties
c and shelf hardware at Mount JOY. Pa.
o was completely destroyed by fire.
r Loss about $50, 900; partly insured.
e The body OF the late Princess Bis
marck will be transferred Monday from
, Farzln to FREDERICKSBURG. where on
t April it will be buried with the BODY
: OF the prince in the Bismarck mauso-
: leum.
chippewa Falls, Wis, was Friday
visited by phenomenal thunder and
snow storm. The snow fell for two
hours at the rate of an inch per hour.
accompanied by lightning and loud |
claps OF thunder.
John Williams, aged 2S. and his wife
margaret, aged 9j, were asphyxiated
by illuminating gas Sunday at their
home 9SO7 Waverly street, Philadel-
phia. 1t is believed to have been due
to an accident.
The old Hungarian family of Ester.
hazy has decided to apply to the Seine
court for an injunction prohibiting
Maj Count Esterhazy from using the
title and arms of the Esterhazy family.
to which, it is said, he has no legal
right.
Capt. Thomas W. Shields, a well
known river man and a lieutenant coll I
onel under GEN Price in the confeder- ,
ate army, is dead Of heart diseas, at q,
caro-, Ill. lie was for many years a .
stakeholder of the Anchor line Of >,
steamers
Ihe EcIair confirms the report that (,
the government inquiry regarding the d
explosion of the naval powder maga- r,
zine at LaCioubran has shown that il m
was not OF accidental origin and much 81
'redence is now given to the rumor \,
nat 1t was an anarchist outrage. 90,
George Young, founder Of the well be
'nown hotel in Boston which bears his ye
lame is dead at his home in Boston. as ST,
he result Of a stroke of paralysis sus- W,
AIMED on Wednesday. Mr.. Young was a
years of age. He had retired from clc
BUSINESS some twenty years ago. ce
The solemn Tie Deum was celebrated ar
ST. Peters cathedral, Rome, Sunday n,
D commemorate the pope's recovery "a
nd his coronation in the Sistine chan =,
on March B. 1878. Cardinal Ram
Ola, papal secretary OF state. ofiiciat-
in the presence OF an immense con-
William A. Doucette, % years old, "r'
as arrested SUNDAY In st. Cecilia ina
lurch, Belvidere street. Boston. on ten
lie charge Of embezzling $4,000 from VIII
e collection box OF the church. the
arked bills, placed in the box Sunday day
orning, were found on his person sai'
ter his arrest. con
A terrific windstorm visited Oklaho- oey
City, Okla, Saturday, coming from 'le'
c southwest. For half an hour it mel
ew perfect gale, while the rain fell SEN
sheets. Nearly 100 houses were just
own down. The oil mill and com ana
'ss were damaged and nearly every case
okestack in town is down reco
\ large steamship owner has re-
we'd overtures from American agents NJ
carry American coal to Europe at TO k
IN II to II shillings freight per ton. of
rth of England coal merchants are deaf
rmed at the steady growth of the Frid
erican coal trade to European ports blow
t formerly took English coal bore
Ii the brick yards at Neenah. Me- illY'
ha, kaukauna, Green Bay, Depere mucl
* Creek and Appleton. Wis, fifteen Tear
ii, have formed combination TO murI
Known as the Fox River Brick and POO
, company The combine. which ways
control the brick yards Of the en-
valley, is capitalized at $780, 900.
rank Gilfort, one of the Gilfort
hers, well known circus gymnasts, ~ ~ =.
sunday at Orange, y. j. He in ntALl
d his right knee cap some years Ii
A few weeks ago blood poison suFI NJ
set in. His leg was amputated on LAM
nesday in the hope of saving his GRAf
but the disease had gone too far. No No
cording to dispatch to the Lon. Ga
Morning Post from bombay. se- HAY-
fighting has taken place between PROV
turkish troops and the Arab tribes But \
near Shall in the province of App
EN-, Arabia, where an insurrection PoTA
'een in progress for ten months. rIoI-i
Turks lost l60 men and the Arabs GRAN
CORN