The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1904-07-07
THE WORLD At LARGE.
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Dan Emmett the old-tlme minstrel
and famous as the composer q DIX
ie.- died suddenly az Mt Vernon. D.
Emmett was about s. years cid
BeiEsam. Holland. Frznre. Germany
and Russia VIII send representatives
and samples 70 the interaetionai pars
food congress 70 Be held In 81 Louis
IN September.
The degree o. batcheior % arts vas
conferred BY Radcliffe college on Helen
Adams Keller. the deaf. dumb and
bind girI. whose wonderful schieve-
ments have made her name familiar
throughout this country.
Nothing has been heard % the
missing Kent J. LOOMS. brother %
Assistant Secretary Of State Frank q.
LOOMS, who suddenly disappeared
several days ago when the steamer
arrived a. Plymouth. Eus-
Al ST Louis Charles A. Gutke. for
mer member Of the house o. delegates.
convicted on. chArzc Il bribery and
soon % be tried on another similar
charge. made 4 complete confession tn
circui; Attorney Joseph W Folk.
The Russian viadivostok sqnadroz.
accompanied BY torpedo boats. APP
peared OF Gcn-San on the east coast
Of Korea Torpedo boats entered
Gcn-ssn harbor at $50 IN the morn
I inE. sheilcd the settlement and sunk
a small schooner.
Walter r. Miles. Of Pacihc college.
I Nevberg. ORE. won the frat prize q
500 In the prohibition oratoricai cor
test which was held a. Indianapolis.
Ind. Miss Mamie White. OF wheaton
college, Wheaton. m. was awarded The
second prize OF $50.
A report received from Gen. Oku
says that after the nEhtlng al Tclissu
I. tvafaneoWl on June IS he buried
.S5t Russians. The trophies taken
consisted OF rs guns. As wagons. $50
rifles and other things
The department % agriculture has
received the nrst sdvices from Dr.
o. r. Cook. the departments travel
Ing agent. since the latter started
from Guatemala with the newly dis
covered ants intended TO dght the
boil wcevila In the cotton fields.
Col Joseph n. Brigham. assistant
secretary Of agriculture. died az Del
"a. o. where he was on short visit.
while on his way % 81 Louis Col.
Brigham was chairman OF the gov
eminent board AZ the St Louis expo
sition He had icst Washington for
St Louis 10 attend a meeting % thu
. board
al W H. Ellis was interviewed on
I board the steamer Oxur az sucz He
saf9 D.. h.t M fufar-.aff.-, r-a~.~.ft-..s
Kent J. Loomis. brother OF assist,
ant secretary OF state. who disaVp
pcarcd recently. from the steamer Kai
q ser Wilhelm H. at Plymouth. Eng
4 and who was travelling in company
. with Ellis
= Wild Texas bun escaped from ths
- stock yards In Peoria, III. and dashe,
Is through the streets. Il entered th,
wholesale drugstore Of CoIhurn. Birki
& Co. The clerks. panicstricken
fed from the building The animal de-
D. ~stroyed considerable property an.
x finally ioaped through window n
q feet from the grouad. sustaining IN
s. juries which caused death.
The covoncr's jury in the Gen. SID
cum inquest returned a verdict Capt
Van Schaick and Capt Pease are heI
10 be criminally responsible for IN
large loss Of life by tho burning o
:. the steamer al New York Il was ais
Z. due 10 misconduct OF the directors O
the Knickerbocker steamship CO
:, Mate Flanagan acted In a Coward
manner" The charge In each case !
maRslaughter In the second desre.
Bail was h1ed az from 81 900 to sS.00'