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All the old directors and officers of the Allegheny<br />
Coal Co., owner of the Harwick mine, were<br />
re-elected at a meeting of the stockholders, held<br />
on February 22 at Pitttsburgh. The directors and<br />
officers are: W. D. B. Alexander, Cleveland, president;<br />
U. C. Hatch, J. E. Terry, C. W. Somers, C.<br />
A. Nicola, E. R. Bourne, all of Cleveland, and<br />
E. W. Beach, M. J. Agan and Ge<strong>org</strong>e E. Alter, of<br />
Pittsburgh. E. R. Fancher, of Cleveland, was<br />
elected secretary and treasurer. The Harwick<br />
mine, owned by the company, is the one in which<br />
the explosion occurred January 25 of last year, in<br />
which 178 miners lost their lives. For a long time<br />
afterward the mine was idle. The company now<br />
has 75 men working, and this force will be increased<br />
as fast as the rooms can be cleaned out<br />
and put in shape. There has been a change made<br />
in the system of mining, and this has retarded the<br />
full operation of the mine to some extent.<br />
An extraordinary accident occurred recently at<br />
a large colliery near Ruabon, France. A surveying<br />
party was ascending the pit shaft when the<br />
descending cage, through the guides breaking or<br />
failing, crashed with terrific force against the<br />
other cage. Both became interlocked nearly 700<br />
feet from the surface. Great excitement prevailed,<br />
and two hours elapsed before both cages<br />
were released, five men being consequently suspended<br />
in mid-air meanwhile. During the stoppage<br />
the miners who were finishing work were<br />
brought to the surface by another shaft, but one<br />
imprisoned man climbed the shaft to a place of<br />
safety at imminent risk to himself.<br />
A measure to compel the registration of all<br />
mining companies that do business in Indiana,<br />
but have no property in the state, has been introduced<br />
in the legislature. The certificate filed<br />
with the secretary of state must show the financial<br />
condition of the corporation, the location of<br />
the property, with the plans of the same and the<br />
work done, the amount of cash expended in improvements,<br />
and the condition of the plants and<br />
machinery, if there is any. The penalty is a fine<br />
of not more than $100 for each violation.<br />
THE <strong>COAL</strong> TRADE BULLETIN. 41<br />
of a receiver at the instigation of the National<br />
Coal Co. which claims to be a creditor of the Salisbury<br />
Coal Co. and its successor, the Ruthven company.<br />
It is stated that the defendant company<br />
has debts aggregating $10,000 and is unable to<br />
operate its mines because of financial embarrassment.<br />
The Ruthven company has a capital stock<br />
of $50,000, held in Columbus and Toledo.<br />
The shipment of coal from Great Britain on<br />
account of the war between Russia and Japan has<br />
exceeded 2,000,000 tons, of which nearly the whole<br />
was sent from Cardiff. The shipments from Cardiff<br />
to Russia direct were 687,543 tons and to<br />
Japan direct 81,363 tons. Shipments to far Eastern<br />
ports in 190-r were: Hongkong, 576,150 tons;<br />
Shanghai. 141,062 tons; Singapore, 113,296 tons;<br />
Alexandria, 503,739 tons. All these shipments<br />
were greatly in excess of the ordinary tonnage.<br />
The House of Representatives has passed the<br />
rivers and haruors appropriation bill without<br />
amendment, against the wishes of Chairman Bur<br />
ton. The total amount carried by the bill is $17,-<br />
234,657. Several efforts were made to amend, but<br />
all failed.<br />
The property of the Hazel Kirke Gas Coal Co.,<br />
near Monongahela, Pa., has been sold to Kuhn<br />
Bros., of Pittsburgh, the reported consideration<br />
being about $1,000,000. The plant has a daily output<br />
of 2,000 to 2,500 tons.<br />
Farmers in Northwestern Iowa are burning corn<br />
on account of the severe cold, whose long duration<br />
has exhausted the coal supply.<br />
Colonist Tickets to the West and Northwest<br />
vis Pennsylvania Lines.<br />
One-way second-class colonist tickets to California,<br />
the North Pacific Coast, Montana and Idaho,<br />
will be sold via Pennsylvania Lines from March<br />
lst to May 15th, inclusive. For particulars apply<br />
to nearest Ticket Agent of those lines.<br />
J. K. DILLON,<br />
District Passenger Agent,<br />
515 Park Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa.<br />
The Illinois supreme court, in the case of the<br />
Wilmington Coal Co., sustained the judgments of<br />
the Cook county circuit court and the appellate The committee appointed to examine applicants<br />
court in the case in which the Wilmington Coal rfor mine inspectors for Pennsylvania held a<br />
Co. and 16 other coal companies were found guilty meeting at Pittsburgh February 22 and arranged<br />
of a conspiracy to control the price of coal. to prepare questions which shall be asked applicants<br />
for positions as mine inspectors. The exam<br />
The Ruthven Coal Co., whose plant is located in inations will be held March 14 to 17. There are<br />
Jefferson county, O., has been placed in the hands 15 to be appointed.