The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-27
VIRGINIA NOTES.

that the East Tennessee road would BIO
doubled between Morristown and Chatta-
nooga, and that the Il. 81 o. would be
extended from Rogersville to Big Stone
Gap. The Atlanta Constitution pub
lshed an interview with Mr.. John II.
Imam some days ago, in which he said:
I'VE shall have to double track the
East Tennessee between Chattanooga
and Knoxville very soon. 1t has SO
many feeders at Chattanooga which
come in the shape of funnel that this
work will have to be done at once"
Nathaniel S. Keay, of Philadelphia, is
In Chattanooga with o view to estab-
fishing works to manufacture steel by
b Bates process. 1t is said that he ar
ranged while there to have the Chatta-
nooga billet steel shipped to him, to be
converted into tool steel. He had
samples of tools with him that were
made from Bates steel, or high carbon
steel made from soft or basic steel, re-
converted n c~arbonized by the Bates
process, which were pronounced very
superior tools.
Hiram Miller, manager of the Lebanon
(Pa.) match factory, was in Basic City
last week inspecting the match factory,
and making the necessary arrangements
preparatory to shipping machinery at
once.
The whistle at sthe School Desk
Works at Basic City blew several blasts
Thursday at noon, denoting tho fact
that their engine and boiler were in
position and all right, and that the
whirr of machinery and the manufac-
ture OF their famous desks would soon
begin.
In the Hastings Court at Staunton
Judge Grattan has chartered the "Staun-
tons Savings Bank" capital stock from
$4,000 to 100000 in shares of 500.
Officers for the first year: A. G.. Gordon,
president: w. II. McCuc, vico-prcsidont;
j. N. Mcfarland, G.. G. Child, Nell.
Holiday, C.. c. Berry, c. j.. Weller,
Joseph b. Woodward and Il. Il. Hughes,
directors.
Walter A. Turk, n young man living
near Messy creek, Augusta county, died
last Tuesday night from a terrible acct
don't. He was pitching hay from a NOW
on Sunday evening, and after throwing
the p1tchfork down, jumped to the barn
floor below. On so doing he was i'm
paled upon the fork. lie died after
forty-eight hours of intense suffering.
o. G. Schofield, a prominent business
man of Wheeling, w. Va, died Monday
of typhoid fever. Mr.. Schofield was a
prominent Republican, we'll known in
the State, had occupied several govern
mont positions, and had also been con-
nected with several ne wspapcrs at
different times. His romans were taken
to Parkersburg, his former home, for
burial.
Tho jury at Harrisonburg, in the case
OF the commonwealth against James
Bell, accused of an attempt to poison
his wife, has been discharged because it
could not agree. Bell was charged
with putting poison in his wife's food
about tho goth of December last.
The movement for tho establishment
in Winchester of n beet sugar factory is
being pushed cnergctically, and so far
meeting of farmers will be called
shortly, and the matter laid before
them.
The death is announced at Greensboro,
KY. February II, of Mr.. Edward Thomas
White, formerly of Hanover and well
known in Richmond. The deceased was
ninety-thrce years of ago., and belonged
to n of the branches of the we'll
known White family, long prominent in
Hanover history.
Superintendent Dougan is hard at
work with a force of hands putting in
the foundations of the furnace at
Pulaski, and Manager Stone is shaping
and fitting up the heavy timbers that
$500 W. HAOt cbN oGl III L
The grading of the sidetrack from the
Basic Lumber and Coal Company's yard
to tho belt line road has beer completed.
The iron has been received and the
track and switches will be put down in
a few days.
Messrs. Gold e Kirk havo sold the lot
at the corner of Fourth street and Au-
gusta avenue in Basic City to a North
ern party for $ $500. This is the largest
amount yet paid for a single lot in
Basic City.
Basic City needs q fire department..
The town is alb %olutcly without protec-
ton in case fire SHOULD break out.
At Clifton Forge building is progress
ing in every direction, some fine lots
are changing hands, and the real estate
men, the barometers and the leverage
of enterprise in a new town, are prepar-
ing for an active spring trade. The
foundation for the large stove foundry,
contracted for with Ohio parties several
months ago, is being laid, with Mr..
Brown, recently manager of Victoria
Furnace, in charge. The machinery for
the WOODEN mill was expected every
day, and operations to in tho
early spring.
The largo three-story brick building
of e. NJ. Ncttleton is we'll under way; a
contract for the erection of a suitable
building for the Clifton Forge Publish
ing Company was let; tho handsome res
idence for the manager, Captain L.. IIar-
man, of the Clifton Forge Company, is
nearly ready for occupancy; four or five
similar residence buildings are contem-
plated in the same locality; j. e. King,
manager for tho Clifton Forge Building
and Investment COnonopu hoo 49,