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44 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
dered by Peter Hanraty, president of the United
Mine Workers, when the owners refused to accede
to certain demands, among which was an increase
of wages.
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The Nottingham colliery, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., resumed
September 11, after two months suspension.
The colliery shut down to prepare for the mammoth
new breaker that was erected at a cost of
nearly a million dollars. During the suspension
the old breaker was torn down and nothing was
left but the iron tower over the shaft.
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There was a large decrease in the number of
men in the Central Pennsylvania field paying tax
to the United Mine Workers in a month past. In
the Pittsburgh district it is reported that the
membership materially increased in the same
period.
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Joseph Leiter has relieved from duty the entire
force of guards at the Zeigler mines. The property
is now without an armed guard for the first
time since the strike, inaugurated about a year
ago.
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The miners of the Home-Riverside Coal Co.,
Leavenworth, Kas., have returned to work and will
settle their dispute with operators by arbitration.
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John F. Ream, till recently of the national
executive board of the miners, is reported to have
become a coal operator in South Dakota.
Anthracite is retailing at Hartford, Conn., at
$6.25 per ton. which is 50 to 75 cents less than
the selling price of this grade of fuel in the surrounding
towns and cities. This condition of
affairs is said to be due to friction and ill-feeling
among the members of the trade.
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The dealers at Portland, Me., for the past two
or three weeks have had their hands full filling
the bins of consumers who wish to get in their
winter fuel before the cold weather sets in.
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The grain, lumber and coal firm of A. L. Duncan
& Co., of Oakville, la., has sold its lumber business
to the Oskaloosa Lumber Co. and its grain
business to J. A. Duncan.
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G H. Downing & Son and F. H. Gilchrist & Son
of Kearney, Neb., have been awarded the contract
for furnishing the state coal for the Kearney Normal
School.
A new retail association was organized at Albany.
N. Y., on the 19th ult. under the name of
the Central and Eastern Retail Coal Merchants'
Association.
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York ( Pa.) dealers have decided to sell for cash
only in future. A concession in price will be
made to offset what might be an inconvenience to
some.
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The Peoples Ice & Coal Co. has been incorporated
in Omaha, Neb., with a capital stock of $25.-
000, by S. D. Patterson and others.
D. N. McDonald, a lumber and fuel dealer of
Phillsburg. Mont., has consolidated his business
with that of Valentine Jackey.
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A. K. Pottenger has purchased the interest of
R. R. Kyd in the coal business of R. C. Giddings
& Co., in Beatrice, Neb.
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The Newton Lumber & Coal Co. has succeeded
to the business of the D. G. Brooks Lumber Co..
in Fort Collins, Colo.
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At Washington. D. C, the dealers are over-run
with orders to supply the domestic trade with a
goodly store of coal.
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M. G. Patterson has been succeeded in the fuel
and grain business in Clay Center, Kas., by Patterson
& Pingee.
H. McClain has been admitted to partnership
in the coal business of J. T. Barnes, in Emerson,
Ia.
The Rees Bros. Coal Co. has given a bill of sale
to its business in Madrid, la., to A. M. McCall.
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J. F. Carr has succeeded to the coal and grain
business of Wolfe & Carr in Springview, Neb.
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Boone Kirk has succeeded to the business of the
Rock Island Coal Co., in Fort Worth, Tex.
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K. B. Shaw has purchased the fuel business of
the J. H. McDonald Co.. in Denver, Colo.
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Frank Callahan has sold his coal business in
Waitsburg, Wash., to C. P. Perkins.
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At Providence, R. I., bituminous prices have
been marked up 20 cents the ton.
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Dealers at Joplin. Mo., are advancing prices.