The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-05-25

In New Guinea and miners are tuSAfh.
TO the island.
The archbishop of Santiago do Cuba
= according to special dispatch from
Rome, has resi- iSned.
, at Crefeld Prussia. building IL
course of construction collapsed Satur
day and Ailled l9 workmer.
James &. Harris, ex-treasurer Of tho
Union Pacific railroad, died at his
home in Cambridge. Mass. Saturday.
Gen. Arolas, former Spanish mill
tary governor of Havana, wmls at the
theater in Valencia, Spain, suffered an
apoleptic stroke.
Lieut.. Col. Edward J. McClcrnand
assistant adjutant genereaD has been
ordered 20 Matanzas. Cuba, as adjItant
general of that department.
The report of the death OF Eugenie,
former empress of France, is entirely
without foundation. She is we'll and
Sunday received her nieces on her
yacht off Naples.
At Elgin, ILL.,. at the annual crow
hunt in which 500 men participated,
over one thousand crows were killed.
The hunter getting the largest number
was Charles Cruneau with 81 TO his
credit.
Edward p. Loomis. eX-prc>idcnt OF
the National Apple Shippers associs-
tion, and the first dealer TO introduce
cold storage on a large scale in the
apple business, is dead in New York,
aged 60 years.
James Fairy, organizer and first
president of the Journeymen Horse
shoers' international union. and about
the first general secretary of the
Knights of Labor, is dead, at his homo
in New York, aged As.
At Beaver Dam, Wis. Addison Par
ker, aged 81 n we'll known turiman,
committed suicide by shooting himself
in the head with a revolver. Parker,
for years, was associated with Robert
Bonner, OF New York.
AT Porosow. Russia, in the govern
ment Of Warsaw, has been dcstroyed
by fire. Twelve lives were lost and
8, 600 people driven from their homes
are now camping in the fields Itis
believed that the fire was OF incendiary
origin.
Sockalexis, the we'll known Indian
ball player, who was released By Cleve-
laud day or SO ago, arrived In Rochos-
ter, \. Y, and was signed by the Hart
ford team and will play his first game
with that aggregation Monday at Cul-
VERIFIED.
The adjournment of the reichstag
has been agreed toin principle, eSva9h
The federal governments are stiH irsSss-
ng upon the adoption OF suprtsrvn-
AIRY estimates. Consideration of ehe
neat inspection bill will bo poskpeasd
lntil next autumn.
AT Charleston, ". Va, fire Sunday
Ifternoon in the establishments OF
4ewis Hubbard e Co., the largest
Wholesale grocery house in the soutb.
rn part of the state, damaged stock
o the amount of about SEQ, 900.
overed 10y in n,urance. Origin OF fre
Unknown.
Plans have been practically COM
leted for the establishment OF
of the finer grades Of Cuban
obacco by the consolidation OF the
Ienry Clay and Book &c Co. corpora
on with the newly organized Havana
Co.. of which II. u. Hob
ms is president.
The monument to the late Masle
rancois Sadi Carnot, fourth president
the 'hird republic Il France. was
nveiled at Dion sunday In tho
resen G of President Emile +. ubet,
le premier Charles Dnpuv. the minis
n of war, Camille kantz and other
stinguished persons.
Edward Selleck, who two months
20 ended a service Of l3 years as pay
aster in the custom house, committed
licide at his home In New York Sun
~ by shooting himself In the head.
r. selleck was ~ years of age De
over the loss of his place Is
id to have worried Mr.. Selleck until
S health broke down.