Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-10-08
S. ". VIRGINIA
news ITEMS.
WHAT HAS RECENTLY TRANSFERRED
IN THE COUNTIES OF THIS
SECTION.

NOSSh SOohIy, One niSnI lASC week, u.
b. Laforce was shot by Lowry Kiser.
dying on Tuesday. Knives were freely
used in the mix up, and Kiser received
several severe cuts about the body.
c. 81. Price, a justice of the peace.
and C. R. Price, a deputy sheriff, of
Giles county, were both indicted on a
charge of embezzlement by the grand
jury of that county at Pearisburg last
week. They are charged with appro-
priating fines to their own use instead
OF turning them over to the clerk. The
cases will be tried this week.
A reunion of the descendants of the
old pioneer families that settled the
Pennington Gap section of Lee county,
is to be held at Slemp today and tomor-
row, the Sth and 9Th. the exercises
are to be held in a grove with dinner on
the ground both days. A number of
speeches are to be made, and interest
ing bits of family history will be re-
lated.
A hand car on which men were rid
ing on the Interstate Railroad, near
Blackwood, last week ran into a train
as the hand car was rounding short
curve instantly killing Ed Estep and in
Juring John Everidge, about the knee
and shoulder. The other men including
section foreman Tumlin, who was on the
car at the time of the accident, escaped
serious injury.
Work has been commenced on the
macadam road from Blackford to Elk
Garden, in Russell county. The Luck
Construction Co., of Roanoke, has the
contract, their bid having been $S2, 400
for seven miles of road. A force of
forty men are employed grading the
road bed. The road will be the equal of
any macadam road in the State, and
one that will Withstand the heavy lum-
Der haul to which this road has hereto
fore been subjected.
l.. ID. Phettyplace, who has been
trainmaster on the Pocahontas Division
of the Norfolk & Western Railway for
the past three years, has accepted a
position as superintendent on the Caro-
lima, Cfnchfield and Ohio Railroad. He
will go to his new position on the 11th
instant. His territory will reach from
Dante, in Russell county, to Spartan
burg, S. c. His offices will be at John
son City, Tenn, and from there he will
direct the work of his division.
When Booker T. Washington, the
great colored educator, visited Roanoke
during the recent fair, it had been Just
forty-one years since he had visited the
scenes of his boyhood home, which is
near that city. He stood in front of the
cabin in which he was born forty-nine
years ago and addressed a large crowd
of people who had gathered to welcome
him. While at his birthplace he visited
the grave of his former owner, James
Burroughs, and placed a flower upon
the neglected mound.
Ed Roberts, the wiry little horsethief
OF Grayson county, who gained so much
newspaper notoriety a short time ago
by escaping from the sheriff and four
deputies of that county while he was
handcuffed and tied, has been sentenced
to five years in the penitentiary by
Judge Hutton, at Abingdon. He at
tempted to play the crazy act &hen
brought before the Judge, but the ruse
failed to work. He then plead guilty
to the charge of horse stealing and was
sentenced to five years in the pen.
The commissary of the large coal
operation at Dorchester, in Wise coun-
ty, was destroyed by fire early last Sun
day morning, entailing a loss of about
seventy-five thousand dollars, forty
thousand dollars of which was a stock
of goods in the store. Besides the COM
missary, the Doctors Office, barber shop
and company offices were DESTROYED.
The company carried thirty-five thou
sand dollars insurance, and will rebuild
at once. The fire is said to have origin
ated from defective electric wiring.
General Manager j. II. McCue, of
the virginia q Southwestern Railway,
In recent statement said the coal
traffic of his road was heavier now than
1t had ever been. 1t has increased so
rapidly that every one of the men re-
Gently laid off b. reason of business de-
preston has been taken back and new
men are being employed daily. The
demand for coal, it is said, has increased
from % to 40 per cent. within the past
80 days. This he attributes to the open
ing OF many southern mills and the
general resumption of industries.
Three Judgments, aggregating ST.
600 were entered in the circuit court at
Abingdon last week against the South
ern Mining and Manufacturing Com
pany, Bristol corporation. The first
OF these is in favor of w. B. Bennett
and is for $5,s23. 80. The second is in
favor Of r. ]. Richardson for $4, $3.50.
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