Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-03-09
S. W. VIRGINIA
LOCAL ITEMS,
WHAT HAS RECENTLY TRANSFERRED
IN THE COUNTIES OF THIS
SECTION.
Mr.. T. L. Durham dropped dead at Mar
rows, in Giles county, on last Wednesday
afternoon.

Mr.. T. L. Durham dropped dead at Mar
rows, in Giles county, on last Wednesday
afternoon.
An effort is being made to revive the
Masonic Lodge at Newport, Giles county
1t has been extinct for several years.
Judge Rhea has served notice on Gen.
eral Walker that he will commence to take
dispositions today, the 9th inst, in the
Walker Rhea congressional contest.
The council of the city of Radford has
granted to B. Laughon and d. D. Hull, of
Pulaski, twenty year franchise for tele'
phone system ct Radford. The system
will be put in operation without delay.
The Bristol News says: 1.-THE Novem.
Der election returns show 900 votes cast in
Bristol, Va. A careful investigation of the
list of voters purporting to have voted,
shown by the alleged copy Of tie poll
books, shows that less than zoo legal votes
were actually cast"
The Mathison Alkali Works, at Saltville,
is now reported to be doing very pros
porous business. Recently bicarbonate
soda plant has been added to the works,
which gives employment to number Of
young women, who do the work of packing
and labelling that article.
Wayman Sutton, who was three times
sentenced to death for killing Peter Har.
veil, was once rescued by a mob from the
jail of Wythe county, fled to the state Of
Washington, was captured and brought
back to Wytheville, whose sentence was
commuted to life imprisonment, and who
was pardoned several years ago, was mar
ried last week to Miss Osie Kesner, at
Rural Retreat, Va. He had just obtained
a divorce in Wythe county circuit court
from his first wife.
John William Watkins, who was can.
didate for Congress last year from the
Ninth district, has given deposition in
which he swears that James A. Stone, Of
Bristol, gave him $25, and that G. G.
Stewart, colored, also Of Bristol gave him
S25, which he understood was money fur
nished by Judge Rhea's friends. Stone ia
the registrar at Bristol who refused to let
General Walker see the registration and
poll books. He was a member OF the
Democratic District Committee and one
Of Rhea's managers.
Radford was visited by very severe
storm on last Sunday morning about one
O'Clock. The long bridge across New
river was considerably damaged. A black
smith shop, storehouse, and sheds and
smoke stack of the Radford Manufacturing
Company were blown down. The office
building of this company was badly
twisted, and fences and outhouses blown
down, and tin roofs blown off. The wind
storm was accompanied by thunder and
lightning, and torrents of rain and hail.
Thomas Feldrich, notion drummer,
while riding along a lonely mountain road,
near Newsome Gap, gays he was held up
by girl bandit, who faced him with two
pistols. Feldrich says her eyes were COW
cred by mask, but that she smiled at
him while making him stand and deliver.
He tried to joke her out of the notion of
robbing him, and once attempted to draw
his revolver, but the nervous lingering of
her two pistols told him it was no joke.
He gave her $65, a gold watch, a diamond
stud and pair OF diamond sleeve buttons.
He hoped to get the drop on her as be
drew away, but she rode her horse be-
hind him few PAGES, warning him that if
be looked back it would cost him his life.
The woman escaped.