The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-04-20
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS.

- - '"'tN ~ thSN tdk Will US
GIN business for the season Sunda,
morning. when a train will be run {,
the summit.
II representative Baird. of Lou siana
= whose condition improved slightly Sat
= rrday, grew worse Sunday and he is
gradually sinking.
L Robert Biissert. well known labor
c leader who founded the Central Labor
n union OF New York in lSs2. died sun
day Of pneumonia. aged 5s years.
The National Federation of Miners
has issued call for an immediate
p strike for two per cent. increase in
wages in all the four great coal basins
in Belgium.
Jos. Lichbaum. aged - years. head
Of the well known lithographinr and
stationary firm. Pittsburgh died sud-
denly sunday Of heart disease. Mr..
Lichb baum was a SD degree mason.
The Oh uese government. according
to di,p'tch from Shanghai. has as
Senieo TO the proposal to open three
new ports in the province of Kiang
>n' h'ang 81 and Ngan Ilwci. or An
Hui.
Thomas T. Kelly. part owner of the
National thcater Philadelphia. and
its manager, died sunday at his home
in this city. The cause of death was
rheumatism of the heart. lie wa, -
years Old
Four runaway accidents, in which
seven people were injured. one prob
ably fatally. occurred SUNDAY within
five minutes Of each other in three
inner', co~'cgc, at Calvary cemetery.
81. Louis.
1t iN officially announced that the
Montencg'in crown prince, Danilo
Alexander. now in his 9sth year. /, be-
trothed to Duchess Augusta Charlotte
Jutta' Of Mcci,icnburg->trclitz. now in
her 2Oth var.
Commandcr-in-Chief W. {. johnson.
Of the G. a. T., has extended an invi-
iation 70 President Mckinley toattcnd
-he national cucampment of the or,an-
zation TO begin at Philadelphia op
:.
The bill introduced by senator KIM
'alL OF Hot Springs, Ark, providing
or the erection Of new state capitol
i cost not 20 exceed 81. .OOO. 010 has
'asscd the Arkansas house and now
waits the governor, signature.
The Petit Bleu alleges that Lieut..
LIEN. who died at Zanzibar on March
while ON the way to assume the
overn>hip of Eas Jibutil, the French
ost and colony On the west coast of
ne Gulf Of Alden, committed suicide.
The elections to the new cort,,
assed off quietly in Madrid. Some
Sturoances occurred at Bilbao and
any persons were injured at Valen-
a. and Cullar dc Baza. in Anlaiusia.
Granada, an election agent VS.
-Four men started from New Yorl, for
aniIa Friday night by way Of San
'ancisco in the interest Of missionary
.ort under Protestant Episcopal Ill.
itIon. One Of these men was j. II.
yton. a layman. and a resident Of
est Virginia.
At Che amino, Mich. Mrs. N. b.
'th "r'pp 4 shawl saturated
tn hcro-crc about her went out in
a fed and set herself adrc. She
S soon discovered. but was burned
bad y THAI sine died SIX hours later.
5. Keith had for years shown signs
insanity.
It Allentown. Pa, Frank J. Krausc.
o on March 3 murdered Maggie
tn at Cctron.a. and ser ou,lv
unded his employer Owen Kern.
shot Mr.. Kern in the arm. WAS
urday found guilty of murder in
hrst decree. Sentence was sus-
ded pending application for new
rs. Cook, wife Of Capt Franl, Cook.
commanded the brooklyn during
late war. died at Annapolis. Md,
day morning after a lingering i'll
= Capt Cook had been cablcd for
IS expected to arrive in New York
lday. Mrs. Cook leaves two sons.
Il surgeon and the other a cadet
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