The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-03-30
NEWS ITEMS

10 Comts Alexaadre Damase De Chau
derby. the celebrated French dipio
matist died Sunday in hls rs year.
Prince Lowenstein, formerly hon
. orsry aide-de-camp or the stan Of Gen
e Miller At Iloilo, soUehow rot In from
= OF the firing line and was killed.
The fall Of snow during the week In
London has been greater than at any
similar period this year. In many
: places In this vicinity nearly Eve feet
has fallen since last Sunday.
The transport City Of Puebla sailed
for Manils Friday night with 800 men
OF the 9TH regiment Of infantry. Lieut.
Vitate, military attache Of the Italian
legation at Washington. was also q
passenger.
Capt George II. Fortson, Company II,
lat Washington, who is mortally
wounded at Manila, is a lawyer of this
city, 80 years old. He is a native OF
Elberton, Ca. but has lived in this
slsto since 1886.
That Capt. Coughlan and his men, of
the cruiser Raleigh. which took such q
conspicuous part in the naval battle in
Manila bay on May l. will receive
royal welcome when they come to New
York is now an assured fact.
a dispatch to the Eclair from Toulon
says that the experiments made there
with armor-piercing shells have con-
clusively demonstrated the possibility
OF shell piercing war ships armor
and exploding inside the ship.
Mrs. Albertine Kenkel, the pioneer
leading lady in German legitimate
drama in Chicago, st. Louis, Cincin-
natl. New York and Milwaukee. is
dead at the residence OF her daughter.
Mrs. NJ. u. Schuttler. in Oconomowoc.
Wis.
lnsurgont papers received at Manila
from Malolos show that Agunaldo is
endeavoring to deceive his followers
into the belief that they are winning
great victories All the recent engage
ments are proclaimed as American de.
feats.
Adjt Gen. Corbin has undertaken to
get all the volunteers out Of Cuba by
April %. and arrangements are now
being perfected with that end in view.
This Is fully two weeks within the
INIT of May 10 set by the president
'efore he left for the south.
Calvin T. Wheeler, ex-president Of
he Union national bank, and one of
he pioneer commission merchants Of
'hicago, is dead OF heart failure at his
esidence in this city. He was 81 years
Id. Mr.. Wheeler was born in 1917 on
farm In West Galway, n. Y.
Henry Alloway, of New York, owner
the New Haven (Ct) Daily Palla.
ium, has acquired the controlling in
rest in the New Haven Morning
ews and Monday consolidated the
vo properties, the new paper to be
nown as the Daily Palladium.
+. Girard Mitchell. the Texan for
HON Mrs. Martyr Black. OF London.
rsook husband and friends and who
lied herself recently at Long Beach.
flowed the example OF Mrs. Black
inday and took his own life by cut
ing his throat with a razor at Los
ngeles, Cal.
John Webb and viii Toney, two Ne
o boys about IL years old, were killed
a two OF their companions seriously
'unded at Edgefeld, 5. C.. by four
lite employees of the EdgeHeld cotton
'tory' The murderers are mere boys,
obably not over is years old. About
shots were fred.
Views reached Sydney that submar ne
options had caused a tidal wave in
solomon group. Two villages were
ept from Rakahanga Island, causing
Dig loss of life. Considerable dam.
was done to the cocoanut planta.
ms at Siola, headquarters of the
lanesian mission.
he new Mexican am mbassador, Senior
n Manuel Azpirez, who succeeds the
o Senior Romero, has arrived in
ashington. He left Mexico City on
llth, stopping at FL Paso and ST.
nis where he was handsomely enter
ned by the commercial bodies and
Spanish American citizens.
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