Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-05-06
S. W. VIRGINIA
NEWS ITEMS.
WHAT HAS RECENTLY TRANSFERRED
IN the COUNTIES OF THIS
SECTION.

IN Ihs COUNTIES OF THIS
SECTION.
The town of Norton, Wise county,
We, Tuesday by a majority Of ninety
nine voted to issue bonds to the amount
OF $50, 900 for the purpose of improv-
ing the streets, sewers. ETC.
Mr.. R. F. Mcconnell, a prominent
lawyer and business man, of Gate City,
Va, while talking with friends on the
street of his home town on last Satur-
day, suffered severe stroke of paraly-
Sis, and is now in critical condition.
Because the property owners along
the route of the proposed macadam pike
from Norton to Wise are asking dam
ages of the county, it now seems quite
probable that the board of supervisors
will utilize the appropriation made,
800, In bettering the roads elsewhere
IN the county. 1t is reported that the
supervisors have given the land holders
until the tenth of the month to with
draw their claims and that if they do
not respond will abandon the proposed
improvement.
On last Sunday the Carolina. Clinch-
field and Ohio Railway, the new coal
carrying road, inaugurated a through
passenger schedule from Dante, Rus
sell county, Va, to Wilmington, N. C.
The route will be via the Seaboard Air
Line and Charlotte from the present
terminus of the C. C. and o. at Bostic,
N. &. The company recently received
a large consignment of handsome and
commodious new coaches, baggage, ex-
press and mail cars, and will operate as
handsome trains as may be found any
where in the South.
Pat and Arthur Craig, the 9 and IL
year old lads, who have been confined
In the Wise county Jail for about three
weeks on charge of having murdered
their father, have been sentenced to
the Laurel Industrial School, the State
reformatory. Craig, the father of the
little youngsters, is said to have sub
Jected them to very inhuman treatment
on several occasions just prior to the
killing; so one afternoon about three
weeks ago, while he lay asleep, the lads
procured pistol and sent bullet into
the fathers brain, death ensuing in
stantly.
There is quite an excitement at and
around Max Meadows, nine miles east
of Wytheville, over the discovery of
strong oil indications. An expert has
visited the place and pronounces the in-
dlcation exceptionally good. The earth
taken from the place where first noticed
at depth of only few feet below the
surface is strongly impregnated with
the odor of oil, and as stated by the ex-
pert, is certainly a drain from foun-
tain source, which may be near the
place or several miles distant. Plans
are on foot for a thorough prospecting
of the field.
1t is announced that Bristol is to have
large and modern car wheel manu-
featuring plant, which will employ sew
erai hundred skilled workmen, with
heavy pay roll. The Enterprise Foun-
dry and Machine Works, one of Bris-
tolls leading industries, will establish
the car wheel plant. 1t was decided to
locate the car wheel industry in Bristol
on account of its advantageous geo
graphical location. Mine car wheels
and general mine equipment will be
manufactured to supply the mining ter
ritory which is being opened up by the
Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railroad.
the Louisville and Nashville, Virginia
and Southwestern, Virginian and other
roads.
Charles Young, supposed to have been
killed by train at Dry Branch, Va. on
April 9th, and buried near the Merrimac
Mines, near Blacksburg, two days later,
turned up at his home in that place last
week. Just who the man killed was
that so much resembled Young NAV
never be known, although every effort
Is now being put forth to establish his
identity. So great was the resemblance
between the two men that Young's wife |
and father-in-law when they viewed the
remains pronounced them to be those of |
Young, and had them prepared for buri- |
al. Since then Young has been mourn
ed as dead by his wife and children, so
when last week he alighted from the |
train at his home there was great re-
Joicing among the members of the fam
lily circle. He had been at work at Lind |
say, w. Va, since leaving his home on
April 9th, the day he was supposed to
have met his tragic end.