The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-08-31
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the 0porto prison.
A dispatch received by the navy de-
partment from the commander OF the
Wilmington at Mon,evideo states that
she has lost a fiange of one propeller.
Il. Turina. prominent sculptor.
who had been employed for some days
on the Dewey triumphal arch. now
under construction in New York. del
suddenly at his home sunday.
A fire at Armona, Cal. sunday. the
cause of which is unknown. destroye
$50, 600 worth of property, including a
large quantity of this seasons crop Of
raisins.
The Politische Correspondents OF
Vienna, says that deputation OF
American merchants from Manila has
gone to Washington to promote a
scheme for ceding the Philippines TO
Great Britain.
Sixteen men from I. battery. 5th
I tutAtu RtdttN haNt
rived at Seattle. WASH. from sandy
Hook en- route TO Manila. where they
will join the sd cavalry. They viii
sail on the TRANSPORT Victoria.
Adm. Dewey passed sunday on his
flagship. the United States crii~er
Olympia. AT Nice. More than thou
sand residents of Nice visited the war
ship, expressing the greatest admIra-
tion and pleasure.
The government, according TO q
Calcutta newspaper usually well in
formed. has asked the British India
Navigation Go. what transports would
be available for government use in the
event OF war in the Transvaal.
The governors of twenty one states
are announced as having appointed
delegations to attend the confere' CO
on trusts, by the Civic Federation OF
Chicago, and called 10 meet in that
city September IS TO l6
At hNotib ivy hit NhA"
ryiug food supplies 10y an underground
passage to jules Guerin, the anti
Semitic agitator, and his beleaguered
companions at the headquarters Of the
anti Semitic league In the Rue Do
Chabrol. Paris.
At Los Angeles, Cal, Ex-Gov Samuel
Merrill, of Iowa, VINO has resided thcre
for some time, suffered n stroke of
paralysis Friday, and is thought TO 10
dying. lie was injured severely in an
electric car accident several months
ago, and has never entirely recovered
from that injury.
The Lokal Anzeigcr publishes the
following from Constantinople: "A
financial crisis is imminen The o.
toman exchequer is empty. The finance
minister has fled from those seeking
payments and taken refuge in a PR
vatc residence, which is now under
the protection of the police"
Dr. CalpO, SALES, president Of Bra
zil, Sunday morning declared that Bra-
q would take part in the Pan-Ameri-
can exhibition in Buifalo. lie also
said that Gen. Roca, president of tho
Argentine republic, would pay visit
to the United States on the same occa-
sion.
julius Alexander co,ored. was pri-
vately hanged at Char.otte. y. C.,
Thursday, tor as>aultiny "A white woln-
an. lie confessed the crime and said
the penalty was just. a colored
preacher in talk on the scailold sad
Alexandcr's crime was zone in which
we are glad to see the law carried OUT"
Suspicious cases Of fever have oc-
Cured at Orizaba, Mex, nd it is be-
lieved to be yellow fever. The matter
is being thoroughly investig .ied by tho
superior board Of health. In the mean
time Orza0a mas been declared under
sanitary suspicion and all rules appli.
cable to infected towns has been APP
piled.
At Marshfe,d Wis. Wm. Moran,
fireman on tine Chicago IL Nortwc,tera
road, shot and killed his wife and AFT.
erward killed him, sunday morning.
Family trouble caused separation and
il was this that led TO the deed. Four
children are left orphans. Moran
was thought TO be temporarily in-
sane.