The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-09
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA NOTES.

my ihnllleS, mostly WelSn STATE min
ers, and five farmers.
L. L. Twyman, Madison county, re-
ports two Italians planting vineyards for
vino making.
Rev. w. II. Campers cannery, near
Nason's, will be ready to begin opera
lions about the 18th of July. The build
ing is now in course of construction. The
capacity OF the cannery will be three
hundred bushels OF tomatoes daily.
The valuable phosphate beds in tho
Green Springs are being rapidly devel-
oped and a railroad will shortly be run
from them to tho Chesapeake and Ohio
Railway.
George Shelton. colored, about Fl years
of age, was killed at Waynes boro by the
east-bound Chesapeake and Ohio passen-
ger train at 2 o'clock on Wednesday
morning last, July j. Ho was with a
party of harvesting hands. and was
evidently intoxicated. 1t is supposed
front of the locomotive as the train
pulled out. He was killed instantly,
and the mutilated body was found on
the track by railroad employees just as
the train was disappearing.
1t is reported that Columbus Wood,
who is now in our Jail here under indict-
ments for forgery, will tell what he
knows about the Caldwell murder in
Pulaski county, and that his testimony,
if true, will be very damaging to
Feagles, who is charged with this MUIR
der. 1t will also implicatc Feagles in
the crime of forgery with which Woods
is OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Industrial
Journal.
Tho Wytheville Dispatch says: John
III. Crockett, Of the firm of Brown e
Crockett, tho largest sheep dealers in
this section, told us Monday that the
number Of lambs which will be shipped
from this county this year will reach
$4,000; and he added that they will aver
age at least S4.25 per head, making
total OF not quite sos, 900. A right nice
little sum for the farmers from one
source. We learned from Mr.. Crockett
that q number of sheep raisers in Tazc-
we'll county have already sold their 1892
lambs.
Tompkins Hurt, one of the best known
and most highly esteemed citizens of
Campbell county. died at his home near
Hat creek, on Saturday last, at the ad-
vanced ago Of So years. lie was the
father Of w. W. Hurt, formerly public
school trustee for Campbell county, and
of Floyd Il. Hurt a prominent business
man of Abingdon. The burial took place
on Sunday.
While Cephas Y. Williams, about so
years ofage, living near Chestnut Level,
Pittsylvania county, a prominent man
and wealthy farmer, was packing his
last bag of wheat in his storage room
Saturday, the flooring gave way and he
was carried to the cellar. The bags of
wheat burst, and Mr.. Williams was
smothered to death.
Near the Rockbridge baths, Rock
bridge county, Monday, a colored man
named John Philips. fell into the ma
chincry of wheat reaper, which was
in motion, and was literally cut to
pieces, dying almost instantly.
John Howard, emoloyed at the Old
Dominion Brick Works at Sturgeon
Point, Charles City county. was caught
in the machinery, Friday, and fatally
hurt.
Tho New Methodist Episcopal Church
South, at Relief, Frederick county, was
dedicated, Sunday last by Rev. Rum
sey Smithson, presiding elder.
Mr.. John L. Stublett, for many years
prominent business man of Richmond,
died in that city Sunday, aged "A years.
In Webster county w. Va, recently,
1880 acres of coal land were sold at
S120 per acre.
Congressman John W. Lawson has
conferred the West Point cadctship
ampton.
The Ghist Lumber Company, which
has been operated for years at Ceredo,
w. Va, has failed, with claimed assets
of $4,000 and almost an equal amount
of liabilities.
Bertha Davidson, a seven-year-old
girl, shot herself through the heart at
Clarksburg, w. Va She found a re-
yolver in desk and was playing with
sat, when it went off.
The Shenandoah Brass and Iron
Works at Charleston, w. Va, is reported
to be in a fourishing condition. The
present machinery and force has been
found too small to supply the demand of
the trade and will be largely increased.
he Buena Vista Plaster Company are
Hgsking extensive improvements on
water power has been greatly increased
by the erection of costly dam and a
large barn is being built on the site of
the one recently destroyed by fire.
force of hands are employed in unearth.
ing large quantity of tho plaster to
supp3y the next seasons demand.
70. D.. Via. Of Pulaski, stepped out on
porch in Radford Sunday night and
fell about thirty feet to the ground,
breaking both bones in one of his lers
below the knee. Mr.. Via, who is an
elderly man, has been subject to fits of
somnambulism, and it is quite possible
that he was walking in his sleep, rather
than awake, when tho accident befell
him.
The Norfolk and Atlantic Terminal
Company has purchased the water front
bounded by Tanners creek, Hamp ton