Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-03-10
ROANOKE
Important Order Issued by the
Hastings Court.
Neglected Chanccry Causes to BE
Given Immediate Aucniion-N. IL
w. s.Cut or, Contract Ict-Minis-
ter Dead Terrible Accident.

ter Dead -Terriblc Accident.
Roanoke, Va, March AT the Feb
ruary term OF the Hastings Court
Judge Woods directed p. II. Tucker.
deputy clerk of the Hastings Court, to
make out and post n list of all chan
Gerry causes. in which orders had not
been entered in five years, with the
view of having them stricken from the
docket The investigation disloses that
many of the cases have been aban
doned, and in some sales OF real es-
tate have been made and confirmed,
but no order fer the distribution OF
proceeds and III other cases all needed
orders have been entered. except mere
dismissal from the docket. Judge
Woods proposes at this term OF the
court To dismiss all dead and finished
cases and to issue rules against the
commissioners, calling upon them to
show what disposition they have
made of the proceeds OF sale. This will
be done at the regular calling of the
chancery docket on Monday, March is,
1899.
N. AND w. r. Il. CONTRACT.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
Company has awarded the contract for
grading masonry and tunnel of seven
and one half miles cut off, near Rad
ford to Walton II Luck, Roanoke CON
tractors. No figures are given. The
contractors have one year TO complete
the work. The railroad company will
lay the track, and later the contract
Will be awarded for bridges. The whole
work will cost in the neighborhood of
81 900, 900. The "cut off, begins near
station hcfXvaap RIuafipl1 MI
Radford ana ends near Christiansburg
The tunnel will be siX-tenths of n mile
long and work on it Will be carried on
night and day.
A MINISTER DEAD.
Elder j. w. 1ller. a prominent citi-
cent and faithful minister of the Ger
man Baptist Church, died at his resi-
dence III the Cave Spring neighbour
hood Tuesday. His remains were bu-
ricd in the family burying ground
near the residence.
The funeral services We're held at
the residence where he resided at 10
o'clock this morning.
4 TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
Meagre particulars of terrible acct
dent, near Oakvale. at East River.
Mercer county. w. Va. reached the
city to-day.
1t is the old story of thawing out
dynamite with the usual result of do
ing the work carelessly.
one man was blown into shreds, and
five others seriously injured.
The terrible accident occurred Tues
day at noon. y section foreman
named Petit was at work on II slide
with six men. While the men were
resting at the dinner hour it was de-
cided to thaw out some dynamite which
WIS TrUZrTT.
Mr.. Petit was sitting on the box of
dynamitc, when suddenly there was an
explosion. He was blown into eternity,
and the men sitting near with one eX
ception. badly injured.
OF the seven men only one was able
to so 10 the station and report the ac-
cident. Later a freight train came
along. and one of the unfortunate men
signalled the engineer to stop. The
men were taken to the station. where
they received every attention posi-
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The names OF the injured men are
John Sinclair. Noah Conner. James
Hunt and Wesley Blankenship. At a
late hour last night it could not be
learned whether there was any hope
for their recovery, but it was generally
supposed that they could not live.
George Sanders, colored. was pain
fully hurt. though his injuries are not
regarded as dangerous.
CULTURED MEIl1ODlSI CON
FERENCE.
The annual conference of the colored
Methodist Episcopal Church met in
Davis Hall to-day. Bishop Goodsell,
who presides over the conference, is
stopping at the Ponce de Leon l.
Garland Penn, of Atlanta one of the
most distinguished young colored men
of the country, who is a general secre-
taIy of the Epworth League, is also in
the city TO attend the conference There
will be a grand Epworth League rally
tomorrow night.
Mrs, j. c. Wilson died at 7:4o We'd
nesday morning at the residence of her
brother, &. NJ. Crute, No. 372 Seventh
avenue, S. W, from consumption. aged
20 years The deceased was Il consist
ent member of the Second Presbyterian
Church. she is survived by her hus-
band.
The many friends of Mrs Samuel
Balentine, who was married last We'd
nesday at n time when she was sup
posed to be at the point OF death. Will
be glad to know that her condition has
greatly improved, and that there is
reason to hope she will regain her
usual health.
Professor Virchow is the fifth scien-
fist on whom the phys!co- mathemati-
cal class of the Royal Academy of Ber-
lin has conferred the gold Helmholtz
medal Its weight is go gramme. and
Il was strucy in memory OF Helmhol;Z's
10Th birthday in 1892. Herr Virchow's
predecessors We're Helmholtz himself
Dubois kcyH nd Weiarstross and