The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1904-10-27
CONDENSED NEWS.
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FOR TIE first tine siuco his entrance
into oeee Paul Morton. secretary q
the navy. visited TIE naval academy.
A telegram from Hon J. " Bgi,r.
mayer OF Cordos. Ala. stated that the
entire town has been destroyed ~ frs.
and asks Tor assistance.
After lying 70 the uorEue unidenti-
fed FOR two days a man who ~aa
struck N the head b. George Morton.
a Negro. vas Identified as Fred Doyle.
Of Bcilefontaine. o
Allan Parker the tefaulting cashier
Of the First national bank oi Tuiiaho-
ma. Tenn-. cave AimscR up. Pc SAYS
ae lost about So 900 % tfe banks
money tn Chicago arcsct shops
Fifteen earthquakes have been re-
corded on the seismograph. OF earth
quake machine az the Johns Hopkins
university since April last This Is
shown b. the Aims used from April 20
October. which have Just been tevel-
oped.
Suffering from acute nervous disor-
asrs. DR. Geo II Purviance. % wash
ington. d. C.. assistant surgeon gen
erai o. the marine hospital service.
jumped from the fourth story window
OF the Orihopaedic aosPi-ai Philadel'
paia. and was instantly killed.
Iu Edward Rice. better known
big Ed.~ and George Shine. ala.
p George schlossen. alias George Schau-
en-. the police % 81. Louis believe they
2 have captured the two most danger
I, Gus bank robbers. confidence men aud
e crooks iu the country.
m his annual report Brig. Gen
y Mills. superintendent OF the military
X academy. dwelis on the need for an I'M
p fictitious disease building On he
grounds OF the academy. a. there had
p been a number 90 cases az such DIS
eases during the past ycar.
John Livingston Dlnwlddie Rorth-
wick chief engineer I'm the Jntcd
states navy lrotiredl. with the rank
% lieutenant commander. died az Flor
enco. Italy. from nervous prostration-
hi, Engineer RonhWick was GO years ~
age he will be buried at sorrento.
with lhc forehead crushed and tho
- throat cut. the body uf foury carold
Michael Mayersk. Who was kidnapped
near his home in Phoenixvine. Pa.
=, bv baud of men supposed to oe
- rypsles. was found iu an abandoned
- farm house a few miles from Nallel
ID. Forge.
,r. Accurate figures are not obtainabl'
,.r % che loss by Gre ia the lumber dis
pr tricf ~ Mobile Ala The whole ~ thN
nd uiauf ~ the Mobile Lumber Co. wal
,at destroyed Nearly "a million feet q
OAK aud cypress lumber was consumes
along with the ,sharves 60 front % th
company's property
Reuben s. Hitchcock director ar
mo treasurer 20 J s. Ford Johnson a Co
chair manufacturers. Chicago. ana ON
20 the prominent makers of tlrnitu
ord in the United States is 1oa1 lie wa
ur- stricken with apopiexy while playir
EEK soif 40 the Calumet Country club hni
adj and died before his friends could reac
49, Dis side.
ni- Called FROM the room where she wi
'ial making merry with boon ccmpanion
lal Mary Chosser became thc Victim o.
nee mvsterious murder az Ouumva.
nee Her friends within heard "a sling
scream and IN instant later the VOL
an staggered among them with blo'
streaming from a CHASTITY wound
her throat
Inc Episcopal house OF depuu
- adopted a compromise canon areeti
- divorced people Like the old law.
permits the romarrisge of the innoc'
,,. person In a divorce for the cause OF
~ fdrsty. but further provides that
val, remarriase shall be allowed within
.opt. year after decree has been issued
was a civil court.