The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1903-10-22

Il is learned that the fcrsfa<stsoa
board has decided % make san Juan.
y. v. ons OF the Americas fortfn<4
stronKhoids-
Al exploring party Of n. the frs< 70
reach Nokuspopo. tho summit of tss
crater Mauna Lna, naeeret 1sserc;y
from mountaia sickness and cold
Tho reward for the missias nsill.on-
sIre. =. L. wentz who disapprsreS
IN the mountains Of Wise coa-sty. Va.
has been Increased fron $500 10
$4,000 II found alive
Secretary Moody has approved the
esfiratee for tAe support of the asTy
for the next fiscal year. snaonnsirE 20
si01S6e.tts. a. against s7s.Sis.sst
appropriated last year
NgiWankee's new reveuas e,itser i~ft
for Cleveland. o. to take part in Ia
settlement OF the International dis-
pute which has arisen between lie
United States ana Canada over shs
fishing IN Lake Erie.
The dinner given BY the Pilgrims
society. % London. 20 TIE Al4skan
boundary commission At Ciaridges ho-
tcl. proved the most notable Assem-
l. biaEc Of Enklishmea. Americans and
, Canadians ever brought together in
( London.
J. W Morton. a directoe % re
worlds fair and chairman of .ae
z committee on ana arts. and a director
Ct the 81. Louis union rctse ca aud
u a trustee Of Washington university.
!, died suddenly IN St Charic, eolrty.
= Z Minnesota.
Tho plant o. the Pacific Wireless
a. Telegraph Co. was thrown open "a
r. the public at Port Townsend. Wa~h-
q. The apparatus worked successfully on
IS the initial message. which advised
\. President Roosevelt OF the coinples'cu
ot of the connections
r. The people Of Maurie. H.. a small
in town on the wabash river IN wh't'
u county. have become excited over M
n hnding ot valuable pearls In the rivei
We bed and scores Of people are nos
by working daily gathering mrsse
he shells. which are selling at SIS Ton
10 Eleven states and the island o
Porto Rico are 70 be asked 70 increAs'
their appropriations for buiidings aa
displays al the worlds fair. IN
M states OF whom large appropriation
viii be asked are kentucky. Mar
land. Massachusetts. New York. so'st
sa- Carolina Louisiana. Mississippi. Ne
lch Jersey. Ohio and Rhode Island.
ght Dan Patch broke the worlds pacin
&C record 20 a wagon and came within
ans quarter OF a second of cqualinE nj
Ish own suiky record The previous pa
out ing record to a wagon Vas 1-oit
ing made BY Little Boy on the Memph
$50 track. Dan Patch clipped two and on
the quarter seconds or his record and w~'
the the mile IN i.SeH
pre- The chief Of the record and pensis
'As bureau ot the war department In h
into annual report treats OF the eior
lrh' made 10 obtain from governors
am states records Of the confederate ser
.ins Ice. Nearly all OF the states Will
10 wero Identified with the coufederl
service have responded and the u
10 ords in the state archives have be
'onn sent to the war department
DR.. J V. Jay. a well known ph.
clan Of narnardsyiile. \. C.. ara
himself With clawhammer. AMI y
this crude instrument OF destruet
-, murdered his three children, aged
and years. Two blows suificed
XIII the elder children. and then
approached the youngest. -fS
don't hurt me- hsped The baby
First demon caught the child Aboct
waist and rained blow after blow
on the little head.