The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-08-26
FURNACES CLOSE
FOR REPAIRS
Many Workmen Thrown Out Of En-
pIoyment Temporarily.
WILL ERECT A LARGE TANNERY.
Commonwealth Attorney Proud OF lbs
Record i'll Convictin. Criminals.
Reunion Of Veterans to BE
HcId-Treasurer's Accounts.
WILL ERECT A LARGE TANNERY.
fspecia1 Dispatch to The Tlmes)

BRISTOL, VA, August 25.-The Virginia
Iron, Coal and Coke Company has smut
down the Bristol iron furnace in order
to make important repairs and VIII, ii
is said, not start up again until the new
road has been completed to the compnny S
own iron mines on Doe Mountain, East
Tennessee. This means that the furnace
will be idle for at least several weeks.
The company now has about dozen
idle fErra aces and is doing practically
nothing in the way of producing iron.
However. the work Of building the rail-
way extension is being rapidly completed
and the company is working away on It's
large coke plant at Looney Creek, Va,
which is taken as an indication that I'M
der more favorable circumstances The
company will resume the manufacture OF
iron. The cessation is, however, inter
fering with the wishes of mechanics and
laborers, as many Of them are being
forced to seek employment elsewhere.
The Mathieson Alkuli Works at Salt
vile have been shut down, pending i'm
portant repairs, and for the time hun
dreds of laborers are in idieness- THIS.
however, will last for only short while.
LARGE T-ANNERY.
AS a result of the building OF the Vir
GINA and Carolina railway. a large tan
merry is to be located at Damascus. Va.
The project is being managed for a COM
pany by j. c. Speck, who, as agent, has
purchased a site for the enterprise and IS
making contracts for lumber for the ne
cessary buildings. The tannery, it is said,
will be so large as to consume 5000 cords
of bark annually
The S. V. Fukerson Camp of Confed-
crate Veterans has arranged for an an
nual reunion in Bristol of ex-ConfetIerate
soldiers. their wives and children. vete-
rams will attend from various counties in
East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia.
The first OF these reunions will be neld
on the goth day of next month and loca!
committees are now making arrangements
for the occasion.
AS yet the City Council has not pass
ed upon the conflicting reports relative TO
the accounts of Treasurer j. W. Owen,
Jr The matter was referred to a spe-
cal committee this week, who Will exam
inc the reports Of Mr.. Boudar and Mr.
Harding, respectively, the experts who
examined and made reports on the treas
urer's accounts.
The friends of Mr.. Owen say there is
no way by which the treasurer can be
figured short in his accounts. except by
ignoring what the Council has allowed
him upon the settlements heretofore
made upon which settlements the Coun-
Gil has repeatedly furnished the treasurer
statements to the effect that his accounts
were all right and that he was square
with the city. The allowances granted
the treasurer were based upon custom
and presidents and Were not in accord
ance strictly with the letter of the law
regarding commissions for the treasurer
PROUD OF HIS RECORD.
Commemorative Attorney As,worth has
cause to be proud of his record as prose-
cutting attorney in the court here.
At the term OF court which ended this
week, AR. Ashworth convicted the
whole of sixteen criminal and misdemean-
or cases, the jury bringing in a verdict OF
equity" in each case.
Mr.. Ashworth made a very able speech
in the case of the Commonwealth VS..
Hartsook, for malicious wounding. and
-Hartsook was promptly sentenced to five
years in the penitentiary, although the
man whom he assaulted sought to es-
cane the Jurisdiction OF the court in order
not to appear against the prisoner.
Sheriff Hortenstine, sofWashington coun-
ty, has received a message announcing
the serious illness of his son, John. In a
Mexican hospital. The young man wasl