Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-02-23
S. W. VIRGINIA
LOCAL ITEMS,
WHAT HAS RECENTLY TRANSFERRED
IN THE COUNTIES OF THIS
SECTION.

| SEGIlUN.
The circuit court of Bristol City, Va, is
now in session, Judge John P. Shelly pre-
siding.
The jail at Hillsville, Carroll county
week before last was without single pris-
oner in its walls.
A man by the name Strederick Thomas
in Craig county is said to be one hundred
and three years old.
Mr.. A. V. Hancock and friend while
recently hunting in the neighborhood OF
Christiansburg killed two white patridges.
Such birds are very rare.
A party of about twenty-five people left
Grayson and Carroll counties a few days
ago for Nebraska in Which state they will
make their homes in the future.
I'VE have heard that on Tuesday of last
week at Wise, Va, the thermometer re-
gistered twenty degrees below zero, and
that yoke of cattle froze to death on the
streets of that town.
The town of Pulaski is making strong
efforts to secure one of the State Normal
Schools that will be held the coming Sum-
mer. The citizens have raised subscrip-
ton of S2l9, which they will offer as
bonus to pay the expenses of the school.
A man by the name of George McCar-
thy, who hailed from North Carolina, was
drowned in Mcclure River, in Dickinson
county, one day last week. He tried to
cross the river in boat when the stream
was very full, lost his presence of mind,
was washed down the stream in the boat,
eventually jumped out ofthe boat and was
drowned.
The Norfolk and Western Railway Com.
pany has placed an order with the Roam
oke Machine Shops for 1000 new coal
cars. They will be of the new style known
as hoppeis, with triple steel bottoms and
frames, and each will have a capacity of
100000 pounds. The cost of the 1000
cars will be about 500, coo, and the order
will keep the machine shops busy for
some time.
Col. James Yates, an old and we'll
known citizen of Washington county drop.
ped dead at his home near Abingdon on
Sunday night. He went out into the
yard, and failed to come back into the
house. A member of the household went
out to look for him, and found him dead in
the yard. Dogs had torn his clothes near
ly off his body. The deceased was about
seventy-three years old, bachelor and the
possessor of good estate.
A company known as the "Lawson
Lead and Zinc Company" has recently
been organized, of which Mr. r. NJ. Law
son, Of Burkes Garden, is president. Mr..
John w. Robinson, OF Wythe county, is
vice president, Ro. L. Pierce, treasurer
and NJ. NJ. Caldwell, secretary. General
James A. Walker and MIR. D. S. Forney
are members of the company. 1t has pur-
chased the Graham and Robinson tract of
land, lying on New River, one mile below
Alisonia. Va, and will erect plant for
mining and concentrating the ores.
The syndicate of Virginian and Eastern
capitalists which recently purchased the
South Atlantic and Ohio railroad, the Bris-
tol, Elizabethton and North Carolina rail-
road. also large boundaries of mineral
lands in Southwest Virginia and a num-
ber of iron furnaces in this section, ef-
fected a permanent organization at meet
ings held at Bristol and Pulaski on Satur-
day and Monday nights. Two companies
were organized, namely: the Virginia and
Southwestern Railway Company, and the
Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Company.
The same officers were elected for each
company, as follows: George L. Carter,
president; B. L Dulaney, E. R. Chapman,
vice presidents; NJ. D. Chapman, assist
ant treasurer. Directors: George L. Car
ter, E. r. Chapman, B. L. Dulaney, M.
d. Chapman and J. II. Eichs. w. B.
Emmert was elected superintendent of the
railroads. AS we'll as could be ascertained, it is
the purpose of the syndicate to 90 actively
atwork with view of putting its numerous
furnaces in blast, thus beginning the man
ufacture of iron in Southwest Virginia on
scale that will challenge the envy Of the
world.