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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-06-27
Will NOT Take Part.

Washington, June 24.-The United
States government has taken no part in
the fresh demands made on China, and is
disposed to do everything possible to dis.
courage them. Our government will not
for moment countenance the claim that
the maintenance of the legation guards in
Pekin is properly chargeable to the Chi
n,se government, and The United States
will present no bill on that score.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-06-27
RAVEN AND HIGHLANDS.

The large body of level land lying on
Clinch River, between Rlchlands and
Raven, at the extreme west end of the
county, was about completely covered by
water, and the growing crops on these
fertile river bottoms virtually destroyed.
Richlands suffered no serious injury, but
considerable damage was done at Raven.
There are two large general merchandise
stores at that point. One is run by Hurt,
Mccall & Co., &nd is located just north of
the railroad. The other is owned by g..
W. Sample, of Swords Creek, Va. Both
of these stores had water to flow in them,
and it rose above the counters. We hear
that the damage done in each store was
not less than $1,000
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-06-27

completed new store house on Indian,
eight miles above Cedar Bluff. He moved
the stock of goods from Tazewell to the
new store house on Indian and increased
his stock until he had about $4 900 worth
of goods in his new store. This store was
washed away and completely destroyed
Mr.. Hopkins was in the building alone
when the flood came about s o'clock In
the morning, and, perhaps, had the most
thrilling experience of any person who
suffered by the food in Tazewell. Before
he was aware of it the store was surround
ed by water, was lifted from its founda-
ton and was floating down the valley,
The lower part of the building became
flooded and Mr.. Hopkins climbed up un-
der the roof, removing all his outside
clothing go that he might be prepared for
swimming when an opportunity came.
After floating hundred yards the build
ing struck tree and began to break up.
Mr.. Hopkins crawled out on the roof and
hoated along down the mighty, rushing
current for about half mile, when he
found an opportunity to seize a limb OF a
large sycamore tree which lie used to get
into a place of safety in the tree. There
he remained until about o'clock p.
No., when he was rescued by friends
from his painful and perilous situation
The store was totally destroyed and the
stock of goods is almost completely lost.
Further down the stream VIM. Dur
hams mill dam was torn out and washed
away.
On Laurel Fork of Indian the steam saw
mill Of Groseclose 4 Hager was completely
wrecked. Nothing was left, except the
boiler and engine. The saw was broken
in the middle and the carriage entirely de-
stroyed, and all the lumber at the mill
washed away
All the fencing in the Indian Valley
from the head Of the stream to its mouth
we're swept away and the crops in the fiat
lands were about destroyed.
McGuire's Valley, from which a small
branch flows into Indian, was the scene OF
another frigbtful flood. Sheriff Bandy
lives in this valley; and he tells us the
small branch was swelled to a considerable
river, that the fences were washed away
and the crops destroyed in the low lands.
Many of the residents of the valley had to
leave their houses.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-06-27

The people of Tazewell county during
recent wears, and even during recent
months. have been hearing and reading
about terrible storms that have visited
other sections of the United States. Some
of these disasters were truly appalling
such 80 that at Johnstown, that at Calves
ton and the more recent one which dld
such damage in East Tennessee. VI
course, when our people read and heard
of these things their sympathy was aroused
but it did not produce the profound I'M
preston that comes from disaster at
home. We had begun to think we were
living in a place of comparative saiety'
where floods and cyclones would not come,
but from this delusion we have been sud-
denly and sadly awakened.
On last Saturday morning, few hours
after midnight, storm began which con-
tinued with unabated severity until ABOUT
eight O'Clock. When daylight came we
became aware of the fact that an unprece-
dented fall of rain had been taking place
and was continuing. Then, those who
lived in town we're hopeful that it was
only a local storm and had not prevailed
throughout the county. But observant
persons who looked out in different dlrec'
tions could see angry clouds that gave
token OF more violent storms than the one
which was raging Immediately over and
around the town. When they saw the
immense volumes of water gushing down
the mountain sides, and swelling the
branches on the east and west sides oi
town to raging torrents, they became Sc
riously apprehensive about the situation ID
other sections of the county where the
Typographical formations were less tavor'
able for protection against floods AS
the news came in that day and on SUNDAY
from other parts of the county our fears
were reduced to direful reality. 1t was
found that number of lives had been
lost, many houses swept away and hun
Greds of thousands of dollars worth OF
property destroyed.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-06-27
DRY FORK.

We have been unable to get anything
like full reports of the damage done on
Dry Fork, but from what we have gather
ed the damage along that stream and its
tributaries, both in Tazewell county and
Mcdowell county, w. Va, is very heavy.
Near the head waters of Dry Fork a
part of the house of Lee Linkous was
washed away, and on Dix Greek, triC-
utary, the stable of Alex. Altizer was car
ried away. He had a fine grey horse in
the stable and the animal was drowned.
Farther down the stream, at the mouth
of Beech Fork, Elijah Barnett's house and
mill were washed away. The house of his
son-in.law, whose name we have not learn.
ed, was also washed off.
James Beavers ("Jim Beardy'' lost 200
600 feet Of fine yellow poplar lumber.
At what is known as the old Brewster
place" the house of Reuben Brewster with
its contents was swept away. Nearby the
house of Vest Booth was also crushed and
moved off by the raging stream. Booths
father, a man by the name of Blankenship
and one named Beavers were in the house,
trying to save the household effects, and
they were drowned.
We hear that the big lumber plant Of
the w. NJ. Ritter Lumber Company, in
West Virginia, was washed away and COM
pletely destroyed, including the splendid
band mill and immense quantities of lum
ber. This must involve loss of hundreds
of thousands of dollars.
We have been informed that all the LAND
bordering on the stream has been ruined
by the soil being washed of; and that the
narrow bottoms that were once fertile
fields are nothing more than beds of rive
rock.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-06-27
Saves Two From Death.

"Our little daughter had an almost fata
attack Of wbooping cough and bronchitis" )"
writes Mrs. w. X. Haviland, Of Armonk,
n. Y, "but, when all other remedies fail
ed, we saved her life with DR.. Kings New
Discovery. Our niece, who had Consump-
ton in an advanced stage, also used this
wonderful medicine and today she is per-
fectly well." Desperate throat and lung
diseases yield to DR.. Kings New Discovery
as to no other medicine on earth. lnfalli'
BILE for coughs and colds. SOC. and $l.OO
bottles guaranteed by Joha E. Jackson.
Trial bottles free.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-06-27
Valuable Land
For Sale.

| offer for sale 119 acres OF
valuable land, by survey, stu
ated on the headwaters OF
Clinch, three miles east Of
Tazewell. The land lies we'll
and all, except about 10 acres,
can be plowed with a turning
pIow. There are 80 acres in
good sod, and all the balance
in excellent timber. One good
spring on the land, There is
no house, except a large log
stable. PRICE 1900. For
further particulars apply to
]. Floyd Gillespie,
Grafton, Virginia.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-06-27
THE COUNTY ROADS.

1t Is hard to estimate how much damage
has been done the public roads in the
county. In every neighborhood where
the rain was so heavy the roads have been
nearly destroyed How these roads are to
be rebuilt or repaired is problem. The
Board of Supervisors have no authority to
act or raise money, and the road boards
have but limited means at their commanj.
The only way to make the roads passable
will be for the citizens who use them to
give their time, labor and means 10 remove
the trouble. There seems to be a DISPOSE
ton among some of the leading citizens to
take steps in that direction. The people
west of Mr.. John St. Clair's, on down to
the county line, are cut off from the rail-
road, unless they travel on horseback. No
vehicles can travel the roads. This condi'
ton exists in several parts Of the county
Something must be done quickly.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-06-27
ELL, VA, THURSDAY, JUNE 81, 1901.

jured. the fences being washed away aud
the crops ruined. The tramway of the
Chilhowie Lumber Company, which bad
been completed about eight miles down
the valley, is terrible wreck and The
wagon road is about destroyed. No houses
were destroyed and no liYes were lost; but
the property losses will mount up into the
thousands.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-06-27
THOMPSON VALLEY.

The upper part of Thompson Valley did
not suffer to any extent from the heavy
rains, but the lower portion of the valley,
from Plum Creek to the vest end, very
great damage was done to the fine grazing
farms by heavy washouts and landslides.
VIM. T. Thompson, A. ]. Steele, Mrs
John I. Smith John and VIM. Thompson,
K. T. Bowen, j. S. and A. P. Gillespie,
Clinton Barns, p. H. Williams and others
large land holders in that section, had
their farms badly damaged.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-06-27
Groceries, Groceries;
NOTHING BUT GROCERIES !
@S=
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Our whole time is given to this lne we're always look
ing where make money for ourselves and save
money for you We make boast of selling cheap groceries
but we do sell the VERY BEST THAT CAN BE
BOUGHT and prices you often pay for goods that are
inferior We want call your attention to only cne
thing this time. OUR LINE OF EXTRACTS"
These put up expressly for avorng cakes etc
Lemon Orange Bitter Almond Raspberry Vanilla, Pine
Apple Nectar Strawberry Cherry in g. 10 and 25c bottles
Every bottle guaranteed to give satisfaction your money
refunded.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-06-27
POOR VALLEY.

We have been unable to get any detail
ed accounts from Poor Valley; but are told
that the farms along the stream that flows
through that valley have been greatly in.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-06-27
ABOUT TOWN.

Near the town no very great damage
was done, when compared with other Sec
tions of the county. The gardens that
border on the branch on the west side OF
town were about ruiued by the flood
which poured down from the side OF Rich
Mountain. There were number OF land
slides in the pasture fields Of Col. May, G'
w. Doak and others just south OF town.
Persons WHO live near the branch bad TO
temporarily abandon their homes, the
water filling the lower stories and sweep
ing away fences and outhouses. On the
east side of town the small branch was
swelled into a torrent, and at the lower
mart of Railroad Avenue the streets were
covered to such depth with water that
they could not be passed in safety on
horseback. The road between the corpor'
ate lines of Tazewell and North Tazewel
looked like river; and for some hour;
could not be travelled even on horseback
Some time Saturday evening the watel
had fallen sufficiently to permit the stree
car to make a trip over its line.
During the day the river at North Taze
well was very high, many feet higher thai
il had ever been known to be before. Ih'
water raised at the rate of four feet IL
twenty minutes and portions Of the tow
were flooded but no serious damage wa
done.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-06-27
VAN DYKE FAMILY SWEPT AWAY.

The disaster first reported in town was
one which occurred at the east end OF
Paint Lick Mountain, four miles west OF
this place. Paris Van Dyke lived in a
cabin which was located in gorge CT the
maintain. half a mile from the base. His
family. consisting of himself, wife and five
children we're resting peacefully in their
humble home when the storm began,
never dreaming of the fearful calamity
which was soon to come upon them. A
man by the name of Raleigh Helmandol'
lar. who lived near by, had been forced
with his wife and child to flee from theli
cabin, and had gone to Van Dykes fol
safety. About eight O'Clock a. M. Var
Dyke stepped outside the door and look
ing up the ravine saw a terrible, rushing
mass of water, earth, stones and log'
nluneing down toward his cabin. He sale
the water would leap in the air twenty
feet or more. He screamed to the lnmate
nj the mouse W uSC lOt IllCh ANOSS WV ~
fore they could get outside the house wa
struck by the mass Of water and swep
away, nothing but the chimney remaining
TO show that house had ever stood Of
the spot. The inmates were carried dow
the gorge at fearful velocity, and thos
who survived the catastrophe, were e.
shocked and stunned that they can Civ
no intelligent account of what transplre
after the house was carried away.
Two of Van Dykes sons, one seventee
and the other four years old, were CARRIE
mile and half down the stream, an
their dead Lodies were found several hour
Afterwards. Another son, six or seve
wears old. was washed down stream abou
fourth o. mile and was found badl
bruised and injured about the head, but
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-06-27
CEDAR BLUFF SUFFERS GREATLY.

There was no loss of life at Cedar Bluff
but the loss of property is very consider
able. A large portion Of the town was
flooded and a number of houses carried
off. Four tenement houses owned by X.
F. Cecil and occupied, respectively, by
Cox. Thomas Lowe, and two
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-10-17
Street Car Collision.

Atlanta. Special.-Two cars on the
Consolidated Street Railway were in
collision at the corner Of Fair and
Washington street Sunday evening, in
juring eighteen people. Both care were
crowded and were under considerable
Roadway, on a down grade, when the7
met.
The injured are: Motorman w. P,
Gaddy. serious; H. S. Johnson, presi>
dent of the Chamberlain ohn-Duboise
Company; Miss Lumpkin, Motormen
G. w. Shaw. Conductor P. d. Alexan-
der, Conductor J. R. Finch, Mrs. w. b
Love, Mrs. w. A. Love. Helen Bagley
Mrs. f. f. Bagley, Mrs. Eva Dempsey
Mrs. ShCn. Thomas Lamar, Stuart
Woodson, Frederick Foster, Frank
Stonakia, John Ke;chersky, Sister Mary
Peter, John Joseph's Infrmary. All are
from Atlanta excepting Miss Lumphn
whose home is in Columbus, Ga. The
cars were off schedule.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-10-17
Killed in LuZOn.

Washington, D. c., Special.-The
War Department received a cablegran
Sunday announcing that Second Lieu
tenant Allen T. Crockett was killed
near Candelaria, LuZou, September "a
Crockett was appointed a second lieu
tenant of volunteers in June of 1900
having entered the regimena as a pri
vate, and was sent to the Philippine
Islands In 1901 he was appointed a
second lieutenant in the regular arm
and assigned to the Twenty-Arst In
fantry He was on duty with the
Ilocan scouts from December, 1900 q
August last, and met his death while
serving his regiment.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-10-17
STEAMER FIRED ON.
south Americans Taking Liberties
With the British Lion.
ONE BALL WENT THROUGH THE SHIP
ENGLAND VIII Send a War Vessel to
Protect Her interests Some Com
piications Probable.

Colon. Colombia, By Cable.-(Pre-
vious cabling of this matter prevent
ed A force OF Liberals, numbering
at least $50, attacked Moro Island,
commanding the entrance to the port
of Tumaco, September "a. The island
had all along been garrisoned with
fewer than a hundred troops, well
supplied with arms, ammunition and
commissary stores, including more
than $50 head of cattle and other pro-
visions in proportion. The landing
was effected before daybreak by
means of canoes. simultaneously the
island was stormed from the other
end by Liberals on the mainland.
MORO Island is surrounded by shall
low sand banks and the only means
Of approaching Tumaco is by the mar
row river which is within easy reach
Of the island.
The British steamer Quito, bound
from Guayaquu, Ecuador, Panama and
touching az ports between, anchored
off MORO Island, On the night of Sep
TENDER 20, ana weighing duCuOI dt
daybreak, started up the stream to,
ward Tumaco. The Liberals fired a
shot across her bows. Suspecting the
situation, she Immediately turned,
but rifle shots and one cannon con-
tinued to be fired at her, the former
striking her several times and latter
once, the ball making a hole right
through her above the Watermark,
though the damage in other respects
was slight The Quito then steamed
to the fartlest point the tide would
permit and again anchored. The FIR
ing was now resumed, but it quit
after few minutes, the Liberals see
ing the imprudence of their action.
It is significant that shortly after the
Quito incident became known, the
British warship Icarius left Panama
for a destination not made public.
but presumably Tumaco.
The steamship agents have been
officially notified not to accept freight
at that port. The situation on the
isthmus is unchanged and quiet.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-10-17
Something About the De Wet Family

The Dutch antiquarian Peter va.
News gives some information about
TIC De Wet family. 1t appears the most
eminent predecessor of the famous mill
tarv leader in the South African Or.
arge Vrystatt" was painter OF consii
cradle note in his day. Jaccbus Willem:
Le Wet lived in Harlem at the enc
of the Sixteenth Century and the b.
ginning of the Seventeenth. The nam.
OF the artist stands first in the family
registers OF the old Kaapland families
Jacobus De Wet. his descendant and
nancsake. settled on the River Lies5eck
in South Africa, where he married +.
Josins Jreto-ious, and died there in ,7Ir
leaving FIVE children.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-10-17
60 600 600 improvements.

Pittsburg, Special.-1t is announced
on good authority that H. c. Fink and
the Mellon interests, composing the
Union Steel Company, will build at
once a 100000 plant at Donora, on the
Monongahela river, to make broom
and mattress wire and other special
ties. The Matthews Woven Wire
Fence Company, controlled by the
Union Company, will build a woven
wire fence to cost 100000 with Is tons
daily capacity and the com pany will
double the capacity of the barbed wire
department by installing 81 machines.
Altogether the present outlay will
reach s500,O00 and future improve
ments which the Union Steel Conpa-
ny has in view will cost between slS,-
900 900 and $4,000, 900.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-10-17
Four Killed in Collision

Utica, N. Y, Special.-One of tht
worst wrecks in the history Of the
Mohawk division of the New YORK.
Central & Hudson River Railroad oc-
Cured Tuesday morning in the village
of Oriskany, seven miles west of this
city Four railroad men were killed in
the wreck and one was injured. An
east-bound freight engine collided with
a light engine which was crossing from
track three to track four. thus cans
ing the wreck.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-10-17
THOUGHT SMOKING A CRIME.

In Former Times Tobacco Was Under
the Ban CT the Law.
There are few tobacco haters of the
present day who sigh for the return OF
the time Of old when the use of the
weed was punished as a crime and the
users OstraciZed from society. Both
the use and the planting of tobacco
were forbidden, the cultivation of II
being permitted only in small guam
titles, for mere necessity, for phisick.
for preservation of the health and that
the same be taken privately by ancient
men" But the creature called to-
bacco" seemed to have an indestruct-
ible life. Landlords were ordered NO:
to suffer any tobacco to be taken into
their houses" on penalty of a fine to
the "victualler" and another to tho
constantly altered and enforced. and
still tobacco was grown and was
smoked. No one could take it pub
licquely' nor in his own house nor
anywhere else before strangers. Two
men were forbidden to smoke together.
No one could smoke within two miles
of the meeting house on the Sabbath
day. There were wicked backsliders
who were caught smoking around the
corner of the meeting house and Others
on the street, and they were fined and
set in the stocks and in cages. Until
within a few years there were New
England towns where Understanding
in the streets was prohibited, and in
nocent cigarette-loying travellers were
astonished at being requested to cease
smoking. Mr.. Drake wrote in 1885,
that he knew men, then living, who
had had to plead guilty or not guilty
in Bostol police court for smoking
in the streets of Boston. In Connect
cut in early days a great indulgence
was permitted TO travelers-a mar
could smoke once during journey OF
ten miles.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-10-17
ArithmeticS Seized.

Washington, Special.-The represen
tative of book publishing house call
ed on Assistent Secretary Taylor a
the Treasury Department to ask for re
and arithmetics by the Secret Service
These arithmetics were printed for US
in the schools of the Philippines ani
AS any printed fac simile of al
American obligation is in violation o.
the counterfeiting laws, the arithme
tic was suppressed.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-10-17
The Presidents Mat.

From the dat: on which the President
begins his annual message until the
close of each se:siol of Congress, from
1000 to 1900 letters are received daily
Even in summer the daily average is
rarely less than 900. The President
sees only the letters OF his friends and
those of high Official. in regard to per
sonei matters. Only hose of Cbvicus
Importance rea1h even Mr.. Cortelyou
who makes q memorandum Or brief OF
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-10-17

A veritable quick luncheon" II is
said, is to be had at a restaurant In
Paris. where a dinner Of several cours-
es composed of concentrated food in
tina form Of tablets can be consumed
in a few minutes. The entire meal.
indeed. can be carried about in the vest
pocket or pockstbook.
There have been 2,100 explosions Ia
coal mines In the last fifty years, in
yolying a loss of $500 lives.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-10-17
Great A speu Tunnel CONNECTED

Salt Lake, Special-The great AS
pom tunnel, on the Leroy-Bear river
cut off Of the Union Pacific Railroad
was completed Tuesday night and
trains will be running over the new
route next Sunday. The tunnel ha.
been two years in the course Of con-
struction and cost over $4,000. 900.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-10-17

cTArE OF ONO, CITY OF TOLEDO, ..
LUCAS COUNTY.
FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he g the
senior partner of the firm Of F. J. CHENEY
Co. doing business inthe City ofToledo County
and State aforesaid and that said firm will pay
the sum OF ONE HUNDRED DoLLARs for each
and every r%se Of CArARaH that cannot bs
cured by the use OF Halls CATAnHH CURE.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
sworn to before me and subscribed in nv
, presence this 9th day Of December.
SEAL A. D.. 1885. A W. GLzAsoN:
'-~) Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces
Of the system. Send for testimonials. free.
F. J. CHENEY Il Co.. Toledo. Q
Sold by Druggists, T5c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.