Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-08-19
S. W. VIRGINIA
news ITEMS.
WHAT HAS RECENTLY TRANSFERRED
IN THE COUNTIES OF THIS
SECTION.


In a shooting affray at Dante, Rus
sell county, Va, last week, Clint Trent.
a young white man, shot and killed
three Austrians and wounded two more.
During the shooting George Thompson,
a companion of Trent's was shot by one
of the Austrians, but not seriously hurt.
An attempt by Trent to recover tools
belonging to the company for which the
Austrians were working, is said to have
led to the shooting.
Thirty-six moonshiners from Buch-
anan county, Va, were tried in the
Federal court at Big Stone Gap last
week and were found guilty of illicit
distilling, fined 500 each and sentenced
to Jail for thirty days. That the Illicit
manufacture and sale of whiskey is
fiourishing in Buchanan there can be
no doubt, notwithstanding the activity
of the revenue officers in trying to
stamp out the evil.
Judge Kelly of the corporation court
of Bristol has announced that no license
for the sale of whiskey in that city will
be granted until after the contest now
pending as to the legality of the recent
election has been disposed Of. So con-
fdent are the whiskey people Of having
the election confirmed that many are
now ready to throw open their doors to
the thirsty as soon as a decision has
been reached and license granted.
The Anti-Saloon League of Roanoke,
Va, has decided to ask Judge Staples
to order an election for some time in
September that the voters of that city
may again say whether or not liquor
shall be sold there. At the last election
the drys carried the city by 81 votes.
The vets contested, and Judge Staples
set the election aside, owing to gross
irregularities in the treasurer's voting
list. Since then, however, a new list
has been prepared, and the drys, conf
dent they can win, are preparing to
again bring the issue to the attention of
the voters of the city.
Probably the most important action
taken by the Lutheran Synod of South
west Virginia in session at Bristol last
week, was the decision to employ a syn
odical missionary or field worker. 1t
will be the duty of this minister to de-
vote his time to visiting mission church
es and charges within the bounds Of the
synod; to visit families who live at a
distance from churches; t. organize
churches and Sunday schools wherever
possible and t. provide for places of
worship-in fact, do the work of a home
missionary. No one has yet been Sc
lected for the position. The synod also
went on record as favoring the suppress
sion of the liquor traffic.
While bathing in New River near his
home at Ivanhoe, in Wythe county, sew
eral days ago, Maiden Swecker, sixteen
years of age, was attacked with cramps
and drowned before help could reach
him. Young Swecker took a compan-
ion named Lawson, who was a much
smaller boy than himself, on his back
and swan out into deep water, where
he was attacked with cramps and sank
before assistance could arrive. He
never came to the surface after sinking
and his body was found an hour after
wards at the place where it went down.
Mr.. Tom Blair, who was passing at the
time, seeing the perilous situation ot
the two youths, sprang into the river
and succeeded in rescuing the Lawson
boy, but young Swecker had gone tC
the bottom ere Mr.. Blair could reacl
him.