The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-02-23
VIRGINIA NEWS.
Items Of Interest That Have
TRANSFERRED in the Old
Dominion.

Robert Hume, ex sheriff of fduquie
county, is dead, aged - years.
The Baltimore conference has been ask
cd by the Methodist church at Christians
burg to return Rev. W. d. Keene to hi
present charge.
The Radford Advance has been designeC
ly Judge Paul as the organ OF publication
of bankruptcy Tor Floyd and Montgomery
counties aud the city OF Radford.
The war department has changed Second
Lieutenant Fitzhugh Lee, Jr., from the
twenty-fr Infantry to the cavalry, which
Is considered by military men Il better
appointment.
At the sixth annual convention OF the
Virginia Bankers Association, which will
he held in Richmond on February 22nd, it
ts expected that Secretary OF the Treasury
Lyman J. Gage will ADDRESS the body.
Mr.. Gage has promised to be present, and
his speech is looked forward 10 with much
interest.
The first death at the pest-hOuse in
Newport News since small. pOx scare
started occurred Saturday night at |
o'clock. Whether or not the man died
from smallpox Is difficult to learn, hut it
is believed that his death vas due to the
dread disease. When approached Ola the
matter Monda, afternoon. DR.. J. r. Bigby,
The health nni 90, admitted that = co.Oreu
man died at the post-house at The time
-taicd, hn Would not say directly wb-ther
,Hdcd nj lie.
? ro, responder; OF the Ricu-
ut." .. ten: y letter received her
az u,- chat the Sank Of CreVe, AT
Geo.. ot-lN d,siro, cd - hte sun
d., ,u several other buildings were
puf.,i. nc bank building was insured.
tn, liz, T. laid 10 have originated IN Il
room occupied 10y Conductor Farley, of the
Noriolk 49, Western. The loss of the
nank viii prove a serious Inconvenience,
though lis funds, books and property was
saved
A dispatch from Lewiston, Ill.,, says:
Major Newton Walker, the noted Illinois
p%ioheer, is dangerously i'll at his home in
Tin, ct,. Mai e. Walker was 80 ear, old
II D,cemhcr. He va, born IN Virginia
ir 1873, and married. Miss Aun sums %
Years ago. She Is still IN tam, good
they reside on the same spot
they settled As Young people when
they came 10 Illinois in 1889 and built
heir forest home. 1t is now part OF thi,
When Marquis de Latal cite visited
America in 1924 Major Moore commanded
militia that acted as guard OF honor
,1ile he was visiting Ia that part OF
n.a. Nb,,, NaJ1 Nah,r then l,sid-
dl NetI N..a atmH,t co. thc ,
.i.ie t-r,atur, m 1886 with ,
p n Ltncoln, and was a lifelong
' f.,t mart,ted pte,ident.
X Do .ll Dispatch: a letter recently :
nere from Captain Frank String ,
chaplain OF the Fourth Virginia, .
that the veteran soldier ana :
is very comfortably situated at
Captain StringtellOw's friends I
~ they never expected anything else. L
ears OF hard experience IN campaigning u
General Lees chief of scouts has taught I
aptain ~Stringfellow the things a soldier h
no wishes to preveryo his health aid TO n
AXE himself as comfortable as circum- :
ances will admit needs most t. know.
is understood, however. that Captain
desire the r~gim,ut TO be v
usiercc out. thoUsh has calling made T
m IA man Ot pea.e, d." Nas soldier be- =,
ne he WIS Il preacher, and the iOss ia -
e FOu'th used TO say he wanted 10 smell G.
as bad a. any in the regiment. *
~ that There is no probabiliI, OF his e.
'ins 80 he wants Ia come back 10 VI
10 ihif. ss
som 90 rnc members OF the Two negro Il
the Sixth Virginia and Third In
Drth Carolina, will now begin to pay
terest on the fun they had in Macon,
l., recently. The following sentence of
ma Iial held at Camp Haskell have b,
". 'i't.: Private John Goodwin, n
apo g Nth Virginia, repeated
90 tie sixty-ser0nd ~ icie of !
r, hard labor under charge of,egimental
ard Tor one month, and forfeiture Of pay III
the same period Private Harrie A.
erett, Company F, Third North Caro- y.
a, ior'violation of the fortieth article of
r. dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of
and allowances due or To become due, Is
1 confinement at hard ,abOr at his regi- ce
iital guard house for one month, the no
I and third seven DAYS of said eonfn- 90
Mt to be solitary confinement on a a.
ad aud water diet. Private John a..
ks, Company II, Sixth Virginia, was ~
uitted Of a charge of violating the n
and sixty-second Article of 7
pal