The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1905-01-05
The World AT Large

The farmers and merchants q Clay
county. Gcorgis. met az Fort Gaines
and decited 20 burn their share q p
100000 bales q Surplus coeton-
President Beckwith. q the Citizens'
National bank. o. Oberila. O.. who %
under Indictment for mlEappii
% funds q that bank. Is Seriously ~
John n. Lands. superintendent q
the United States mini az philadelphia.
announced that the availahle silver
bullion q the country has been cx-
hauetcd
benjamin J. Riley. % n-aoEiiue
Mass. declares that ne and Ofestcs A.
Weed o. Boston. came % New York
with the Intention OF committing ssi-
eide together. They took morphine
and weed died hut Riley may recover
A. stockton. Ala Babe Tayfor. ~.
On a dimcuity with Burns Han .niict-
ed a cut that may prove fatal " p.
Cofretf. Who attempted 90 separate
the comhafants. Rad his Throat crt by
Taylor. Dc dying a few minutes iater.
Jesse Rupert. aEcd IS years. and bis
I sister. Cecil Rupert. aged ff years. are
dead and Rurerts wife and anofher
sister. Ethci aect 10 years. are in
dying condition as the rcsnIt % pat
T lral gas asphyxlation az the Eupcrt
] home in Chanute. Kan.
I Fire completely destroyed The fe1sair
/ barns % the Chicago Uuior Tr1ctfon
| Co. az foth and Western arcnuc. cr-
I falling a loss of sf5onoo. Two arc
men Voro killed. two others and ora
. spectator were injured hy the falling
of portlon 20 the wall
Demand oas made hy ciffrens 2
I Cincinnati upon United statea Dis
tricf Attorney sherman Mcpherson. TO
investigate thc coal combine. as ths
oufsrovfh 10 The recent increase IN
the prices. which has cnusoi much IN
dignafion throughout tac city.
Suspended from thin iron g.rder
below thc foof.walk ~ rho suspension
hr.irc connecting Cincinnati and Cow
ington. tho hoiy N male child. about
tvo months oll vas found hv Daniel
Forfvce. foreman ~ fhe brider Hnw
the body eot there is a mystery
Senator Charles " Fairbanks vics
president elect. was Initiated into tho
secrets cf Masonry in Indianapolis.
He took the hrst two degrees ln
Oriental lodge SO. 500 az the lodge
hnn and in the Scottish Rite trmnis
hc was given tho third degree
80 Portland ore. Unitcd states
Senator John 70 Mitchell sent into
The federal srand jury room to tol
shat De kneW concerning frauds which
tho government believes have been
perpotrated upon 60 la the acquisition
90 its puhlc land
Herbert simmons Neero. vas
iynchcl at Seal Ca. for the killing If
j. a. Park a white man Tho Sszro
- was takon from the Officers by Iafn
rated citizens while bcing carried "a
p the Zchuiom iaii and afrcr being
P strung up ON a treo bis body was rid
ilei with bullets
Seven ~ nine conFicts at Che sfata
T, prison no Folsom. Cal. made a hreab
F., Tor liberty aus as a result three are
, dead and three are in critical couii
zion from bullet wounds. Capt b. D
. Murphy. a prison onciai was vrlnl
ed hy "a shot iu the leg aud receives
two snsht knife wounds.
i, senator Eikins ~ West Virginia
presented to the president John
Jackson. the oldest judge in the fed
4. eral judiciary Judge Jackson pro
sides over the United States tistric
court f1r the northern district 90 Yves
Virginia Dee is SD years old and Ua
4, appointed district iutee BE- Prcsids-a
q Lincoln 80 Years ago.
s. From December I 10 December q
~ the night before Christmas. 10 les
II, than 33foSf International ORDERS uer
Ia forwarded % other lands from Ne'
.r York city. and these orders called 70
n f4.G67. ceS9 80.