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Dissension has broken out in the Black Diamond
Anthracite Coal Co. and certain stockholders
have formed a "protective committee" to oust
Terence V. Powderly and other officers of the corporation.
Verily the pathway of the labor agitator
never gets clear of the thorns he sows for
himself during the "active" portion of his career.
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Like every other calamity that happens, Rojestvensky's
thrashing is finally laid at the door of
the "Coal Barons." The poor man ordered Cardiff
but the swindling dealers sent him New
Castle and as a result everything went to the bad.
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That somebody has faith in the prospect for the
early improvement of the Ohio is made evident
by the formation of a conipany to operate on a
large scale a passenger steamer service covering
the entire length of the stream.
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The striking teamsters in Chicago seem to have
worn their hammers down to the handle and their
whips to the stump.
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The mining situation in Alabama has cleared
itself nicely and everybody seems satisfied. Time
cures all wounds.
New River Fuel Co., Macdonald, W. Va.; capital,
$1,000,000; incorporators, Phineas A. Sprague,
Maiden, Mass.; Samuel Dixon, Macdonald, W. Va.;
Joseph H. Gaines, W. G. Mathews, T. W. Adams,
Staige Darks and C. C. Watts, of Charleston, W.
Va.; Addison C. Burnham, of Newton Centre,
Mass.; Robert E. Goodwin, Concord, Mass.; George
Hawley, Winchester, Mass.; Arthur S. S. Clay, of
Newton Highlands, Mass.; William Robertson,
Jr., Maiden, Mass.; John P. Tincher and Theodore
M. Plimpton, of Boston, Mass., and W. Joseph
Tracey, of Gloucester, Mass.
Big Run Coal Co., Grafton, W. Va.; capital, $100,-
000; incorporators, W. F. Harvey, J. W. Mitter,
D. E. Brown, of Grafton, W. Va.; James H. Morton,
of Philadelphia, Pa., and Terrence V. Harvey,
of Independence, W. Va.
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Consolidated Coal & Lumber Co., Logan, W. Va.;
capital, $500,000; incorporators, Jacob L. Hansman,
Frank L. West, Alexander S. Behrend, of
Cleveland, O.; Granville Neace, of Peck, and Naaman
Jackson, of Logan, W. Va.
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Empire Coal & Mining Co., Guthrie, Okla., and
Decatur, 111.; capital, $50,000; incorporators, J.
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Maxon, Mattoon, 111.; W. S. Shaner, Marion, Ind.;
M. Maxon, of Decatur, 111.; H. W. Pentecost, Guthrie,
Okla.
Chieftain Coal Mining Co., Clarksburg, W. Va.;
capital, $1,000,000; incorporators, Charles J. VV.
Warnock, John A. Davis, E. Bryan Templeton, O.
E. Swartz, and Charles B. Sterling, all of Clarksburg.
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Nichol Colliery Co., Glen Jean, W. Va.; capital.
$100,000; incorporators, C. W. Osenton, of Fayetteville;
Thomas Nichol, C. B. Lee and O. F. McCoy,
of Glen Jean, and W. H. Stephenson, of Kilsythe.
West Kentucky Coal Co., Trenton, N. J.; capital,
$3,000,000; incorporators, James T. Gardner.
New York; Howard Dutcher, Brooklyn, and Randolph
Rodman, of South Orange, N. J.
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Windsor Mining Co., Wheeling, W. Va.; capital,
$100,000; incorporators, Joseph Spiedel, H. C.
Ulrich, H. F. Behrens, Jr., Jesse W. Spiedel and
A. F. Ulrich, all of Wheeling.
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National Coal & Coke Co., Trenton, N. J.; capital,
$2,000,000; incorporators, H. W. Reeves, William
Bald and C. H. Struble, all of Jersey City.
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Patoka Valley Coal & Coke Co., Huntingburg.
Ind.; capital. $200,000; incorporators, Charles R.
Prill, S. H. Wolfmann and H. L. Klein.
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United Mines Corporation, Newark, N. J.; capital,
$250,000; incorporators, William Esson, Edward
L. Suffern and Henry D. Manson.
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Cornell Coal Co., Freeport, Pa.; capital, $30,000;
incorporators, T. G. Cornell, W. A. Iseman, M. W.
Cornell and C. A. Iseman, Freeport.
NATIONAL WATERWAYS CONVENTION.
The preliminary meeting for completing arrangements
for a national waterways convention
was held at Cincinnati June 28 and 29, all sections
of the country being well represented. The
Pittsburgh delegates to the meeting, all of whom
were in favor of holding the convention at Washington,
D. C, next October, were as follows:
Pittsburgh Coal Exchange, John F. Dravo, J.
Frank Tilley, Pittsburgh; Lake Erie & Ohio River
Ship Canal Association, E. J. Lloyd, J. W. Wardrop,
Pittsburgh; Merchants and Manufacturers
Association, Pittsburgh, John H. Jones, Thomas
M. Rees, Pittsburgh; Chamber of Commerce, Pittsburgh,
John Eaton, George H. Anderson, Pittsburgh;
Ohio Valley Improvement Association,
Captain W. B. Rodgers.