The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-04-13
VIRGINIA NEWS.
Items Of Interest That Have
TRANSFERRED IN the Old
Dominion.

The date for the final muster out of th
Fourth Virginia regiment, now in camp a
Savannah, has been fixed for April u.
Miss NJ. p. Duvall was Wcduesda
elected principal of the Virginia Femal
Institute at StauntOn, vice Mrs. j. +. b
Stuart, resigned.
The American Edible Nut Company ha.
secured options on all but one Of th,
twelve peanut factories in Virginia.
The department Of education decided
that the school o. methods is to be held nj
Roanoke, the summer school at Pulaski
and another at fredericksburg, n summer
school for coIored at Hampton and another
at Petersburg.
Coal has been discovered near Newport,
Page county, i'm large quantities. The dis
covery was made by Mr. James Housden,
at the foot of a small mountain on the
edge of Il stream of water, and all the in
dications are for an abundance of coal.
A large force Of men are now at work
tracing the vein.
A bust of General Fitzhugh Lee made
out of Carara marble 10y the sculptor
Chevalier Trentanove, of Italy, now tenn
p%orarily residing in Wasbisgton, was
placed on exhibition in the rotunda of the
capitol at Richmond Yesterday. The bust
represents Lee in the uniform of a major
general Of the United States army
1t is reported that two aud two-third
acres of land have been purchased from
Colonel Thomas B.. Dayit at keyser, W.
Va, as the site for the woodworking
factory to be removed from Oswego, y. Y.
The projectors have gone to Baltimore to
procure rates over the Baltimore and
Ohio. The factory proposes to employ
100 men at the start.
Mr.. d. d. Hull, Jr., of Pulaski CITY,
representing himself and others, was at
Marion Saturday and bought the stock Of
the Marion Telephone Company. 1t is
reported the new company will build Il
continuous line from Roanoke 10 Bristol
and otherwise improve the service, which,
under the old company, was highly salts
factory.
Morltz Becker, the Russian tailor, whose !
wife and children were recently deported
from New York by the immigration au-
thorities, arOusing great interest and
much sympathy for the family, was indict-
ed by the grand jury of the United States
district court in Richmond Wednesday
for obtaining fraudulent naturalization
papers. Not only this, but a separate in
dictment was brought against Becker,
Sam Stern aud NJ. Rosenbloom, for con-
spiracy in obtaining papers from the
hastings court.
One day last week tightening struck
and killed ten head of fine cattle belong
ing to Il man named Jack Morris of
Pulaski county. There were twenty cattle
In the herd and they were gathered around
a straw stack when the fatal flash came.
The cattle killed were valued a. $50 each.
A new bank has been established at
Floyd, Va, and last week Il large safe TO
be used in the bank arrived at Christians
burg, the nearest railway station. Ii was
loaded on IA wagon and started in the
of Floyd. After getting only a
short distance from Chris,iansburg the
roads were found to be in an impossible
condition and the safe has since been
resting securely on the public highway.
1t Will be taken to Floyd as soon a. sum-
muer sets in and the roads dry up sufici.
emily. Why not have better roads?