The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-08-10
General News.

President Mckinley has appointed Rev.
Joshua Wilson, coored. TO he postmaster
ut Florence, $. G. This pcstoflice is 10
Gated only a short distance from the scene
of the Baker trouble.
Mrs. Cornelius f. Gable, Of Bristol, has
been notified OF the murder of her hus-
band in Porto Rico. He was 81 years old
and belonged to the navy. lie was found
on wharf with q bullctt hole in his head.
Byayole of to 10 the City Council OF
Roanoke, Saturday night sustained the
veto of the mayor on the appropriation
bill. The Mayor vetoed the bill because
the appropriations were about $lb,oOV III
excess Of the expected income OF the city.
Radford Nash, aged seven, and Clarence
Nash, aged five, we're drowned while BATH
ing in the canal at Reusens, Campbell
county, about = o'clock Saturday alter
noon. They are the sons of John Nash, a
colored employe Of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway.
-Four negroes were hanged in Baltimore
Friday. Three were convicted oil cr'ini-
nally assauting Annie Bailey. thirteen
vear-od megress, while Joseph Bryan, the
fourth member Of the quartette, kiiieu
Mary Pack, ncgress with whom he had
lived.
The Richmond Tobacco Warehouse
Company viii open their new warehouse
for the sale Of bright tobacco in that cry
some time after August 10. kichm"hu
will then become market for bright
loose tobacco after an intermlssion OF
some ten or fifteen years.
General ULYSSES Heurcux, president OF
the Dominican republic was asslnated AT
poca. Santo Domingo, Tuesday. July 20.
The name of the murderer is Ramon
Caceros. He succeeded in making his
escape. An instruction has been started
by the presidents opponents ana Tue
country is now in an uproar.
DIR. J. C. Anderson, against whom Two
indictments now stand, gave himself up 10
Sheriff J. G. Shelhorse, of Pittsylvanla
county. Sunday morning, and is now IN
the county ;aii. Dr.. Anderson is charged
with the seduction aud attempted murder
of Miss Missile Watson, who committed
suiciue about month ago. an account OF
which appeared in the Baltetn.
Rev. DR.. James a. Duncan, OF the H0l-
ston Conference. and located at Knoxville,
Tenn. was elected president Of Randolph
Macon College to succeed DR.. J. A. Kern,
resigned. Rev DR.. W. Il. Edwards, Of the
Virginia Conference, was elected 20 the
chair of Moral Philosophy and Biblical
Literature, the trustees having decided to
separate the chair from the presidency
A meeting Of the heirs of Andrews
Valentine House, formerly of Maryland,
but who died many years ago in Kentucky,
was recently held in Richmond, Ky, to
take legal steps for the recovery of large
estate in Maryland and Virginia. includ-
ing the backgrounds of Antietam and the
city of Fredericksburg. 1T is claimed the
ancestor leased this estate for ninety mine
years and that the lease expired in 1910.
George w. Ward, Jr., son of the late
Judge George W. Ward, of Abingdon, was
murdered in Japan few days ago 10y an
American sailor, who. at the same time,
shot and killed two Japanese women.
Jealousy is supposed 10 have been 'he
cause of the crime. News OF the tragedy
has reached young Wards mother at
Abingdon. Ward was hayward young
man, with a checkered career, his parents
having been unable TO restrain him.