The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-04-13

dead at his home in New York, are
IS years.
dispatch TO the New York Heral
from Beunos Ayres says: According Z,
last reports Argentine will export thi
year 225o, 900 tons Of wheat.
John Ii. Sullivan. a former menhe
d OF tho governors executive council an,
It one OF the most prominent politiciar,
h IN Boston, dropped dead SUNDAY.
i capt. Edward A. Schmidt. 4 San
$ FRANCISCO harbor pilot and prominen,
}, yachtsman, murdered his former wife
$ and committed suicide in Alameda
t Cal. Sunday
Mrs John Donahue and Timothv IT
Donahue, her son. wers burned 20
: death in fire which DESTROYED their
home in Wakefield, Mass. early Sun
} day morning.
frehdent Mckenzie OF Elmira coll
ieRe' EImira. n. T.. has already Sc.
cured slOo 900 toward $500. 900 ccnten.
mai fund. The celebration will takc
place in September 1908.
The stock holders Of the Pan.Amcr.
lcan Exposition Co.. Buffalo. n. Y.
nave decided to increase the capital
stock from $1,000 600 to 81. 800. 900 in
100000 shares OF $40 each.
The queen regent. in signjng tho
peace treaty, acted under the advice Of
the responsible ministers, nor will her |
action meet with opposition from Sc.
ncr Sagasta on the reassemblino of tho
cortcs.
AT meeting OF the Tammany hall
general committee, New York. rcsolu.
tions were adopted putting the organ.
lzation on record as favoring municipal
ownership of gas plants for all Hcht.
Ing purposes.
A meeting OF leading manufactur- /
ers OF collins and coffin trimmings was /
heId at the Waldorf-Astoria. New Il
York, with the purpose in view Of 5
FORMING consolidated company TO t
cohtrol the coffin making trade. v
Hon. j. Walker Fearn is dead at Hot II
springs Va, after lingering illness. b
ne funeral will be at Richmond. Va. 81
Mr. Fearn was in charge Of the for Il
eign bureau of the department OF pro- In
notion and publicity Of the Worlds IN
air ii
Maj Gen. William L. Shafter ac- er
ompanied by his aide, arrived in Il
Washington Sunday afternoon from al
to testify before the army te
ourt OF inquiry into the beef charges, IN
aving been summoned there for that Of
urposc. to
At the bi-mothly meeting OF the 50
ssoclation OF Steel Shaftiny manu- Pi
'cturers held in Pittsburgh, Pa, it SCI
as decided to make an advance in
rices, The advance varies with the In
&c OF the shafting, and will average ch
bout per cent fr
The war department is informed that ''''
lie transport Logan is loading the 3d III
pt
ebraSka at Havana. and the San An. "'
MO part Of the 10Th Iowa. The Havana eon
III soon take aboard the 9th Missouri. i'c
ID the Thomas is on her way to load Jos
c 3lst Michigan. cht
United States Senator Henry VI. Tel
has been quite i'll OF fever in Den '00
r, Col, resulting from severe cold
ntracted while in Chicago, but it is -
nounced that the crisis has been "''
ssed and that he will be able TO be ~"
again in few days. N''
Ilmon NJ. Clapp. at one time United ~
ties government printer, died at his :.
idence in Washington at 4:3O o'clock
lday afternoon. in the sSth wear OF RI
age. Mr.. Clapp was born in Xii.
ely, Ct, in 1911, and came from A RI
OF the Oldest families In New Eng. 1
d. 'S
). Benedict died at hotel in Sioux
ia, Sunday night Of general debil-
aged Sugars. During the war he had -, -
r,,e ~ oo,s,,,.. The
~ Va CONSULAR CC.fcS pOHdcnCc for
retary Seward aud was with him "''r'
N he died. Mr.. Benedict was for ooin
ly harbor master Of the port of New es'S
/, the I
,,r-s ~o;u1 Hin
,ty oouroil oloo.,- -o" met
v that 800 nationa!ists, So unonists. N'''''
labor candidate and one liberal "''s
been returned. The earl OF Dun. s0''
n and Mount Earl, Baron Mon. supp
lie. Of Brandon, and Baron Emly. J." "
MSS, were elected in the Limerick 0O''''
let coFht
omas j. llavemeyer died Sunday
ling at his home in Throgg's Neck.
:. aged 80, of hemorrhagc Of the
!. lie was a brother Of Henry 0. Sc,
Theodore A. Havemeyer, and was SSAALLv SSALv
erly in partnership in the sugar Mi
less with them. Three years ago sHEF ~
tired from business owing to i'll LAMB
i FLOU
lie GRAIs
Is said at the navy department Co, Coo.
the collier Scindia, now at San Ga,
CISCO. is to be extensively repair- HAY