Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-12-03
S. W. VIRGINIA
news items,
WHAT HAS RECENTLY TRANSFERRED
IN The COUNTIES OF THIS
SECTIOE.

Dale Musick, brother of Aaron and
Ross Musicf, who we're shot and seri-
ously wounded by Henry Kesner. at
Wallace, in Washington county. recent
ly, was shot on Kesner's farm on Thurs
day night of last week, a charge of shot
taking effect in MS body. Musick is
SAID to have been hauling corn away
from the field where Kesner had had a
corn-husking, when be was shot by the
guard.
The Barrowman Coal Corporation is
the name of another coal conpany re-
Gently organized in Wise county. 1t
Is capitalized at $4,000. The officers
OF the company are James Barrowmap.
president; r. P. Bruce, vice-president:
W. II. Bond, secretary. The new COM
pany controls leases on a large boundary
OF coal lands at Banner, Va, the mines
ar this place having been in oueration
for some time. II is the intention of
the new company to build coke ovens
and manufacture coke at an early date.
An extensive land deal was consum-
mated at Abingdon, Va, last week
when James, Robert and Lowry Kelly
became the owners of Somerset" ." and
the greater portion of the large farm
owned by Mrs. Pocahontas Trigg.
WIDOW OF the late Connally F. Trigg.
The farm Is located one mile south of
Abingdon and contains about nine hun
dred acres. The Kelly brothers got
seven hundred acres including the dwell
ling and ali of the improved lands. The
price paid for the seven hundred acres
was $50, 600. The remainder of the
farm, consisting of something over two
hundred acres of knob lands. was Dur
chased by Mrs. W. R. Robertson and
George Sprinkle for the sum of $1,000.
The Supreme Court of Virginia has
granted a writ of error in the case Of
William Sutherland, who appeals from
decision of the circuit court of Dick
enson county, rendered November l3.
1908, whereby he was fined $50 and
costs for carrying concealed weapons.
The prosecution was under section $3.50
o1 the code, as amended by the acts of
1908, and some novel but important
points are involved in the appeal Suth-
erland's concealed weapon" it an
pears from the record, consisted of "a
pistol enclosed in a scabbard within sad
die bags with the lid fastened down. in
the hands of bearer and not fastened to
ms person" He thinks that under the
circumstances the law should not be
made to apply to him, and his counsel
argue the point most ingeniouslv in
their petition.
Columbus Ritchie, fifty-eight years
OF age and a wealthy retired business
man of Bristol, Va, committed suicide
In his room in the Richie building. or
State Street, last Wednesday after.
noon. Dependency over continued il
health is assigned as the reason for his
act of self-destruction. Martin Nc.
Hale, steward at the Holston Club. who
heard the report of the gun, hurried
across the hall to witness a gruesome
spectacle. The head was torn almost
OFF by the discharge. A double barrel
shot gun was used, it being found lying
beside his body on the floor. He had
been a great sufferer from rheumatism
Tor many years and often expressed the
belief that he would never recover.
The body was taken to Meadow View
the old home of the deceased, and in
TERED on Thursday.