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All the old directors and officers of the Allegheny
Coal Co., owner of the Harwick mine, were
re-elected at a meeting of the stockholders, held
on February 22 at Pitttsburgh. The directors and
officers are: W. D. B. Alexander, Cleveland, president;
U. C. Hatch, J. E. Terry, C. W. Somers, C.
A. Nicola, E. R. Bourne, all of Cleveland, and
E. W. Beach, M. J. Agan and George E. Alter, of
Pittsburgh. E. R. Fancher, of Cleveland, was
elected secretary and treasurer. The Harwick
mine, owned by the company, is the one in which
the explosion occurred January 25 of last year, in
which 178 miners lost their lives. For a long time
afterward the mine was idle. The company now
has 75 men working, and this force will be increased
as fast as the rooms can be cleaned out
and put in shape. There has been a change made
in the system of mining, and this has retarded the
full operation of the mine to some extent.
An extraordinary accident occurred recently at
a large colliery near Ruabon, France. A surveying
party was ascending the pit shaft when the
descending cage, through the guides breaking or
failing, crashed with terrific force against the
other cage. Both became interlocked nearly 700
feet from the surface. Great excitement prevailed,
and two hours elapsed before both cages
were released, five men being consequently suspended
in mid-air meanwhile. During the stoppage
the miners who were finishing work were
brought to the surface by another shaft, but one
imprisoned man climbed the shaft to a place of
safety at imminent risk to himself.
A measure to compel the registration of all
mining companies that do business in Indiana,
but have no property in the state, has been introduced
in the legislature. The certificate filed
with the secretary of state must show the financial
condition of the corporation, the location of
the property, with the plans of the same and the
work done, the amount of cash expended in improvements,
and the condition of the plants and
machinery, if there is any. The penalty is a fine
of not more than $100 for each violation.
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of a receiver at the instigation of the National
Coal Co. which claims to be a creditor of the Salisbury
Coal Co. and its successor, the Ruthven company.
It is stated that the defendant company
has debts aggregating $10,000 and is unable to
operate its mines because of financial embarrassment.
The Ruthven company has a capital stock
of $50,000, held in Columbus and Toledo.
The shipment of coal from Great Britain on
account of the war between Russia and Japan has
exceeded 2,000,000 tons, of which nearly the whole
was sent from Cardiff. The shipments from Cardiff
to Russia direct were 687,543 tons and to
Japan direct 81,363 tons. Shipments to far Eastern
ports in 190-r were: Hongkong, 576,150 tons;
Shanghai. 141,062 tons; Singapore, 113,296 tons;
Alexandria, 503,739 tons. All these shipments
were greatly in excess of the ordinary tonnage.
The House of Representatives has passed the
rivers and haruors appropriation bill without
amendment, against the wishes of Chairman Bur­
ton. The total amount carried by the bill is $17,-
234,657. Several efforts were made to amend, but
all failed.
The property of the Hazel Kirke Gas Coal Co.,
near Monongahela, Pa., has been sold to Kuhn
Bros., of Pittsburgh, the reported consideration
being about $1,000,000. The plant has a daily output
of 2,000 to 2,500 tons.
Farmers in Northwestern Iowa are burning corn
on account of the severe cold, whose long duration
has exhausted the coal supply.
Colonist Tickets to the West and Northwest
vis Pennsylvania Lines.
One-way second-class colonist tickets to California,
the North Pacific Coast, Montana and Idaho,
will be sold via Pennsylvania Lines from March
lst to May 15th, inclusive. For particulars apply
to nearest Ticket Agent of those lines.
J. K. DILLON,
District Passenger Agent,
515 Park Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa.
The Illinois supreme court, in the case of the
Wilmington Coal Co., sustained the judgments of
the Cook county circuit court and the appellate The committee appointed to examine applicants
court in the case in which the Wilmington Coal rfor mine inspectors for Pennsylvania held a
Co. and 16 other coal companies were found guilty meeting at Pittsburgh February 22 and arranged
of a conspiracy to control the price of coal. to prepare questions which shall be asked applicants
for positions as mine inspectors. The exam­
The Ruthven Coal Co., whose plant is located in inations will be held March 14 to 17. There are
Jefferson county, O., has been placed in the hands 15 to be appointed.