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“The extraordinary prosperity of
Kéhsas is revealed this year in the
récord of births, in which an unusual
number of triplets appears.
Now who will dare say that Chica-
go has no eyes for the beautiful. She
is going to spend $25,000,000 to im-
prove the looks of her lake front,
Question is raised as to the per
manency of American humor. Why,
when the jokes of mother-in-law and
the boarding-house are enduring, world
without end? ;
The recent Spanish election was at-
tended by riots and murders. Con-
sidering how little an election in
Spain really amounts to, it seems un-
reasonable to have so much difficulty
over it.
The regularity with which the bobo-
links return annually to their New
England summer resorts seems to ex-
cel even that of the featherless bipeds.
An elderly citizen of Kensington,
N. H., who has kept a diary since his
boyhood, says that the bobolinks
“came around” this year on the 13th
of May, and that they have never ap-
peared later than that date in the last
50 years, nor earlier than the 7th of
May.
# sjtria is planning a system of
for internal transport as com-
that which is being developed
ny. The plan calls for a
.ntinuous waterway from the North
and Baltic seas to the Adriatic and
the Black sea, to cost 750,000,000
crowns. It is proposed to begin work
in 1904 and it will take 20 years to
romplete the system. The object of
Wese capals is to increase the impor
tange of Budapest and Fiume as cen
treS of international traffic.
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While in ¥ngland no income tax
is levied on incomes of less than $800,
in Prussia, on tho. other hand, the
limit of exemption is drawn at in
comes of less than $225. Yet even with
this only 8.46 percent of the jjopulation
of Prussia are income taxpayel's, over
91 percent having to live on less'than
$225 per annum. Again, the prope:ty
of over $1500 capital value shows that
only 14,000 individuals out of a total
population of 32,000,000 possess prop |
erty of over $175,000 value.
The death of “Gentleman Joe,”
tramp, musician, poet—some of whose
verse had the note of genuine inspira.
tion—and that of Skoog, the expert
counterfeiter, who was of good family
and posessed fine talents, are sad ip
that their perversion to evil seemed
wholly uncontrollable. With such ex:
amples of life's failures the effort now
being made by the schoolauthorities tc
deal intelligently with abnormal chil
dren—the apparently incorrigibles, as
well as the dull and deficient—seen
worthy of encouragment. The menta’
twist if discovered in early youtt
might be treated like a bodily ill til!
health of mind may perhaps be finally
restored. It is an experiment wel
worth trying, thinks the New York
Herald.
At the present rate of the manufac
ture of spools and other articles of
women’s use, the immense white birch
forests of Maine cannot last many
vears. Although the birch forests are
extensive, the fact that 17 spool mills
and a large number of so-called novel
ty mills are eating up the timber ai
a rate of from 35,000,000 to 40,000,002
feet annually excites the apprehensior
of foresters and manufacturers. The
spool mills use about 30 cards of birch
annually, turning out 800,000,000
Each spool is large enough to carry
200 yards of thread. The amount of
thread that could be wound upon these
spools would- reach 3600 times around
the equator and leave a little for mend:
ing. About as mugh spool wood is
sent. to Purope ev year as is man
ufactured into spools in| Maine. Las
year. Maine exported about 15,000,00¢
feet of spool bars, chiefly to Scotland.
and of this quantity about one-half was
shipped to Bangor. / Several million
. of spool bars are also shipped te
parts of Ue United States, where
hills. notably those
| ADELBERT HAY ~~
KILEED' BY A FALL
‘Oldest Son of Secretary of State Meets
With Patal Accident. : )
‘SERVED'AS U. S. CONSUL AT PRETORIA
Hie Falls From a Third-Story Window of ‘the
i . New Haven Houge to the Sidewalk, Fifty
.Feet Below~-Desth Almost; lnstantageous-=,
His Father Breaks Down: om Reaching the,
Scene of the Tragedy. Jpn at
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New Haven; Conn. (Special.)-—Adel
bert Stone. Hay, former. Consul of the
‘United States at Pretoria, South Africa;
‘and eldest son of. Secretary of State |
John Hay, fell from a window ‘inthe
third story of the, New Haven House in
this city shortly before 2.30 o'clock Suixi-
day morning and was instantly killed:
Tie death oecurred on the eve of the
Yale comméncement, and in which, by
virtue of his class office, the young mar
wotlld have heen one of the leaders, = i:
The tragedy has cast a gloom over the
whole. tity, and will undoubtedly “be
felt. throughout the ‘day, - which has
heretofore been so brilliant and full of
happinéss for Yale and her sons. i
‘he full details of the accident may
never be known.
Hon John Hay, Secretary of State;
arrived here from Washington at 5.43
p. m. Mr. Hay was unaccompanied and
gave signs of great grief. He entered
a carriage and was driven immediately
to the residence of Seth Mosely.
out with the long trip and once within
the walls of the house that sheltered the
remains of his son, the Secretary col-
lapsed. His prostration was so com-
plete that Dr. Gilbert was summoned.
FOURTEEN DEAD AFTER EXPLOSION.
Flames Spread and Cremated Inmates of
Tenement--House Wrecked.
Paterson, N. J. (Special).—Fourteen
people are believed to have been killed
and a number injured as the result of
a fire following an explosion among a
quantity of fireworks in the store of
Abraham M. Rittenburg. The store
was on the ground floor of a tenement |
building. The cause of the explosion
1s nat known and the property loss will
not exceed $35,0co.
he explosion occurred shortly after
noon and many of the occupants of the
building were out at dinner. The build-
ing in which the fire took place was a
frame tenement, four stories high, with
stores on the ground floor. The midd'e
store was occupied by Rittenburg. Ten !
families occupied flats in the building.
. So great was the force of the explo- |
sion that a boy playing in the street half |
a block away was lifted from his feet and |
hurled against an iron fence. A trolley
car was directly in front of the building. |
The burst of flame blown out into the
street scorched the sides of the car and
singed the hair of the passengers.
A number of those who were on the
upper floors of the building were either
stunned and then burned to death Se
found escape cut off and were suffo-
cated. After the first explosion there
were a series of smaller ones and then
came a second big explosion, which was
muffled and deadened and probably oc-
curred in the cellar.
Terrible Leap of Sing Sing Convict.
New York (Special.)—John Coogan
was taken to Sing Sing prison from this
city to serve a nine-year sentence for |
burglary. Iie had served time there be-
fore. Being left alone in the barber
shop for a moment he darted up three
flights of stairs to the fifth gallery and |
leaped over the guard rail onto the |
flagging, five stories below. He landed |
upon his feet and badly sprained both |
ankles and then pitched forward and |
struck has head against a door, cutting |
it badly. He is in the hospital. Coo- |
gan will have to serve out his good con-
duct allowance from his last term be- |
fore he can begin his new term.
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Thousands Are Destitute.
Kansas City, Mo. “(Special).—Thou- |
sands of people—men, women and chil-
dren—camping on the border of the |
Kiowa-Comanche-Apache reservations in !
Oklahoma awaiting the opening of that |
land to settlement are in destitute cir-
cumstances, according to Dr. J. J. Mec- |
Kenna. who has just returned from the |
scene. ‘Dr. McKenna said: ‘Twenty |
thousand men, women and children are |
massed on the border, and half of them
are utterly destitute. At leagt 5,000 of |
them have been there a vear and a half.
V'reck on Atlantic Coast Line.
Spartanburg, S. C. (Special).—The |
north-bound train on the Atlantic Coast
Line from Augusta jumped the track |
below Roebuck, Spartanburg county.
The engine, tender and all the cars were
derailed.
Engineer Zeigler was severely injured
in the head and chest. His recovery is
doubtful. Baggagemaster Wallace was |
hurt internally. Three other employees
were badly bruised and otherwise in-
jured. The train was two hours late, |
aving broken down at Troy.
Sulcide in a Cemetery.
Columbia, S. C. (Special).—]J. Frank
Clyburn, 25 years old, went to Elmwood
Cemetery at 6 o'clock and, going to the
inclosure where the Confederate soldiers |
are buried, shot himself through the
heart. He was a son of the late Colonel |
Clyburn, of Lancaster, commander of the |
Twelfth South Carolina Volunteers. In!
his pocket was a letter to his mother |
telling of the praise given his father by |
the veterans returning from Memphis. |
Cape Rifles Captured. i
Cradock. Cape Colony (By Cable). — !
In an engagement at Waterkloof, June |
20, the British lost eight men killed and
two mortally wounded. and had four |
men seriously wounded. In addition, |
66 men of the Cape (Colonial) Mounted
Rifles were captured. The captain of a
Boer squadron is reported to have been
wounded, and one Boer was killed.
Men Fall From Niagara Bridge. |
Niagara Falls, N. Y. (Special.)—A
ladder on which three men were engag-
ed in painting the iron work of the steel |
arch bridge over the Niagara Gorge
slipped irom its fastenings. % One of the
rien was dached to deata on the bridge |
abutments, is body falling into the |
rushing waters of the rapids, another |
was caught by the legs in the lattice- |
work of the bridge and escaped with a !
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broken leg. and the third escaped un-
injured by clinging to a rope for what
seemed to the spectators to be hours,
but whieh. it reality was only a few
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| dynamite the
| the joints.
| ers hissed the
| stoned a monastery.
|an axe at Cadun, B. C.
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"SUMMARY OF THE NEWS,
fis vq Domestic. :
The Pynchon National Bank, .of
Springfield, Mass., was found by the ex-
aminers to be insolvent and was closed
by ‘order; of the Comptroller of the Cur-
rency.
and ‘a number of persons wounded in a
train catrying colored
Baptists to ‘a picnic near St. Louis, Mo:
An express trait, ;rom Pittsburg for
Cleveland was wrecked, the fireman and
baggagemaster killed and a number of
the passengers injured. :
Gregoria Cortez; a Mexican, was ar-
‘I rested in the mines above Laredo Tex.,
and admitted having killed iwo. sheriffs
and a posse man.
|. “The commencement exercises at the
| Virginia Military Institute included an
{artillery drill and dress parade and a
final german at night.
All work on the Pacific Mail steamers
and other lines at the Newport News
shipyards was stopped by the machin-
| ists’ strike.
Richard Freeman,
| of insanity, shot his sister
| killed himself.
Rev. Clarence Young, of Newark, N.
J.. was sent to State prison for five years
for bigamy.
The Baptist ministers Norfolk
of Boston, in a fit
and then
in
ture “Nana.”
| Richmond, was sold to the Virginia
Club.
John Harbolo, 20 years of age. was
igrowned in Codorus Creek, at York,
a.
The registration of Chinese in Hawaii
shows that there are 27,000 there.
| ing Railroad continue to spread. A let-
| ter from President Baer in reference to
| the strike situation was not well re-
[ ceived by the strikers.
| Cleveland Holster, Ira Dowain, and
| George Walker, sons of prominent fam-
ilies of Newport News, Va., were arrest-
ed on suspicion of having set fire to the
| Hampton Sash, Door and Blind Factory.
Rev, Franklin H. Kerfoot, D.D., cor-
responding secretary of the
Home Mission Board, died at Atlanta,
Ga.
A number of resolutions bearing upon
vse of money in elections and school
finds were introduced in the Virginia |
Constitutional Convention.
Collisions have occurred between the
striking miners and the guards in the
Thacker-Matewan coal fields of West
Virginia, and the strike is assuming
serious proportions.
The controversy between the town
officials of ‘Winchester, Va.. and
county officers over a pile of bricks re-
sulted in the arrest of county. employes
by a police officer.
Senator Chauncey M. Depew wrote an
ting him about withdrawing from his
{ third-term interview and defending the
third term.
Miss Adeline L. Mayo, a Richmond
(Va.) society girl. eloped to Washing-
| ton with Lloyd A. Turner, of San Fran-
cisco, and sent a telegram announcing
her marriage,
| Sheriff S$ iker and posse arrested six
men near Mount Jackson, Va. on sus- |
picion of having set fire to the mill of
S. H. Lonas and to have killed Lonag’
son.
An attempt was made to wreck with
First Methodist Church
of Manhattan, Kan.,, whose pastor, re-
| cently elected Mayor, has waged war on
A receiver was appointed in
and Guarantee Company, for the Nash-
ville Street Railway.
Mrs. Louise Thomas,
tion being that her property was to be
taken from her,
Mrs. Emily Heck, of Allentown, Pa, |
| sued to recover $10,000 from Mrs. Alice
Hitchings, who shot and stabbed hei.
Opposition has developed among the
Harvard graduates to the granting of
a degree to Secretary of State Hay.
Foreign.
Serious anti-clerical disturbances oc-
curred in Spain. In Madrid the riot-
Infanta Isabella and
At Alicante a moo
attacked a religious procession, wrznch-
| ed a crucifix from the priest's hands
and tore it to pieces.
Jean de Bloch, member of the Rus-
sian ministry of finance, in a paper read
at the United Service Institution in
| London, stated that the South African
War had proved that military service as/
practiced to-day was absurd. J
The trial of the Marquis de Lua Sa-
luces, a well-known Royalist, who rje-
turned to Paris after having been bain-
ished, was begun before the Frenich
| Senate as a High Court of Justice. /
M. de Witte, the Russian finance njin-
ister, says Secretary Gage does not/ un-
derstand the situation with referenjce to
| the countervailing duty controverky,
Lieut. L. Greenshields, jof the
{ Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry, ,died in
London from wounds received in the
South African War. Z
Charles Kensington Salarjan, the
composer, died in London. /
A Chinaman killed five gardeners with
Six men were lost with the British
| bark Falkland off the coasf of France.
A Russian dispatch sAys ignorance
| among females in some Sections of that
country is at such a pfemium that one
who can read is jeered fat as unwomanly.
Spain is making yAgorous efforts to
repair her depletion fof armament.
Earl Russell will be tried at the next
session of the Cemdtral Criminal Court
on a charge of contracting a bigamous
marriage.
Emperor William emphasized his
opinion of Bismfarck and his displeasure
of Von Buelowfs tribute to he Iron
Chancellor by dejpositing a wreath at the
| foot of the statue bearing the inscrip-
| tion of “To the} Great Emperor's Great
! Servant.”
Another lot
: fof $3,000,000 Russian
railway bonds i
offered to American
investors.
Pennsylvania J& Northwestern net
éarnings for AY were $17,182 and for
four month #301, an increase of
$2701. Na
I'he production of Cody in Scotland in
1900 was 19,000,966 tons; against 17,-
749.504 tons in 1899 and 17,020,468 tons
in 1808.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has paid
off its $20,650,000 loan in the
purchase of B. & O. 3
ties.
Mrs. Samuel Hart, colored, was killed’
assed resolutions denouncing the pic-
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| The historic Van Leer property, in|
The strikes in the shops of the Read- |
Baptist |
suffrage, reform of the judiciary. the |
the |
open letter to General Grosvener twit- |
Nashville |
Z i i e FUSE |. pee ”
at the instance of the Baltimore Trus | S'x Hundred Insurgents, With Arms, Stie-
of Newport |
News, Va., became insane, her hallucina- |
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“SIXTY LIVES LOST
Several Towns Swept Away By Floods at Night in
the Pocahontas Valley and Elk Horn
Mining Region in West Virginia.
PROPERTY LOSS WILL REACH MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
Roanoke, Va. (Special).—It is now
reported that not over 60 people are mis-
sing in the coal fields as a result of Sat-
urday’s flood.
The town of Keystone, while much
damaged, is not wiped out, as was re-
ported. No estimate of property loss
has been made either by coal operators or
by the railroad officials. The loss, how-
ever, is far up in the thousands. No
definite news has been received from the
coal fields, as all wires are still down
and there is no means of communication.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
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| Company's loss will reach $500,000. Men
| and materials are being hurried to the
| coal fields from all over the line of the
| Norfolk and Western.
A telegram dated Ennis, W. Va., from
| General Manager Johnson, of the Nor-
| folk and Western Railroad, says:
| “The best information is that about 60
people were drowned in the North Fork
t of the Elkhorn. Property loss about
| $300,000. The Norfolk and Western
Railroad suffered severe damage to its
tracks and trestles. Expect to be open
for traffic some time Wednesday if we
have no more storms.”
One train came in but not much new
information could be gained from the
passengers. The trains are running from
Bluefield and Ennis, which places are
just outside the territory visited by the
cloudburst. The wires are down west
of Bluefield, save one which goes
| through to Ennis, but this is being used
{ as a train wire, which prevents the pub-
| lic from gaining any additional particn-
( lars. The damage to property will
{ amount to hundreds of thousands of dol-
| lars. Miles of railroad track are washed
| out and great gulches have been created.
{ The devastated section covers an area
| of about 20 miles west of Bluefield. It
| is a very narrow valley, not much wider
| than a broad street in some places.
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Coal mines are scattered all along the
road. Keystone, the town reported to
{ have been so greatly damaged and at
| first believed to have been wiped out of
| existence, is a village of between 2,000
| and 3,000 people and is built along the
| narrow valley and on the sides of the
| bluffs. There is a creek which runs
{ through the town, over which most of
| the houses are built on piles and rock-
| work. This creek runs in a zigzag way
| through the narrow village a Re a
| gradual fall. The mountains either
+ side loom mip-for_ hundreds
| the town is so narrow in places th n
is obliged to go into the middle of it to
see the sky. All reports agree that be-
{ tween 200 and 300 houses were swept
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CAILLES TAKES OATH
render in Luzon.
Santa Cruz, Province of Laguna, Lu-
zon Island (By Cabl ¥Y._General Cailles
| surrendered here with 650 men and 500
rifles. J
{ Oaths of alfegiance to the United
| States were @dministered to the former
| insurgents,
[ Colonel Caballes, who fled to the
| mountains with a portion of his com-
{ mand, likewise surrendered.
Cafilles did not sufficiently control the
| populace to bring in all the insurgents
{in his district. The proczedings of sur-
i render were orderly.
| Colonel Caballes, who, with 120 of
Genjeral Cailles’ command, fled to the
| mofintains in fear of being hanged by
| the' Americans, has been overtaken by
messengers from Cailles, conveying the
(General's orders to surrender. When
iCailles’ messengers caught up with and
explained the situation to the fleeing
| colonel, the latter apologized to his wen-
| eral and returned to Pagsingan with
still another 120 men, whom he persuad-
ed to come in and surrender. Caballes
brings at least 500 rifles from the out-
lying posts beyond Pagsangan.
THREE KILLED IN WRECK.
Railroad Engine Jumps Off a Bridge With
Terrible Results.
Hendricks, W. Va. (Special).—A
work train went through the Laurel
Fork Bridge at Stover on the Dry Fork
connection of the WestVirginia Central
and Pittsburg Railway 14 miles south
of this place.
The accid:nt was caused Ly a flange
on the pony truck breaking the bridge
being on a sharp curve, causing the
engine to jump the track, pulling sev-
eral cars and a portion of the bridge
{wih it and burying the men under the
| debris in the rock bed of the Dry Fork
| river. Superintendent Booker was rid-
ling on the engine and it took several
| hours to remove his body from under
| the mass. The fall was 20 feet. All the
| dead men leave families.
Killed Over Board Bill.
Pittston, Pa. (Special).—John Nis-
back, a miner, was killed here by Mi-
chael Diasko as the result of a quarrel
over a board bill. Diasko boarded at
Nisback’s home, and when the latter de-
manded- payment Diasko grasped a
idespread Destruction in the Valleys of the Mountain State--Cloudbursts
Cause a Mighty Rush of Wators--A Train Caught in the Flood
and the Passengers Rescued by Ropes.-Mahy
Miles of Track Torn Up.
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away in the Elkhorn Valley, but, of
course, not all the occupants were
drowned.
The railroad people are rushing mate-
rial and supplies the Elkhorn.
J. W. Crotty, eman on the Norfolk
and Western toa® who lives in this city,
received a message from Bluefield that
his father, mother, one sister, two bro- | Ge
thers and sister-in-law, with her two | tion
children, were lost in the flood Saturday | Amer
at Keystone. Mr. Crotty’s people lived | ing t
in the center of the town. Th
Mr. E. H. Stewart, the well-known [to a
furniture dealer in this city, was in the |latio
midst of all the storm and traveled on | car
foot nearly the whole of the route devas- | ca
tated. Mr. Stewart had been to James- | te
town, N. Y., on business and was return- | dee
ing via Columbus. When his train reach- | me
ed Vivian, W. Va,, about 9 o'clock Sat- | mg
urday morning, water already covered a
large portion of the yard, and the train-
men knew that no further progress could
be made. The train was placed at the |
highest point on the yard. Rain was
coming down in torrents, and while in |
the train Mr. Stewart saw about thirty |
cars washed from the yard and carried |
away by the rushing torrents, large trees
uprooted near by, while houses, bridges,
furniture, went whirling by in the water.
As the flood increased the water cut a
channel on the other side of the train,
leaving it between two streams.
Then it was decided to take out those |
passengers who wished to leave the train
and a rope was attached to the platforn:
of one of the cars and to a tree on the
bank. Among the passengers was a lady, |
who, with the assistance of several men,
was gotten safely to the bank. A num- |
ber of men had narrow escapes from
drowning in making the trip.
There was a let-up in the rain aud the
floods subsided about noon, and at
o'clock Mr. Stewart and another passen-
ger left the train and started to the nex
station, Keystone, five miles distant.
Much of the track and several bridge;
had been washed away and the trip wa
made with great difficulty, a portion
the way on the track and the balance gj
the bluffs along the route.
Mr. Stewart says he saw a number «
corpses along the route, but does n
think more than 40 people were drownd
When he reached Keystone, about
o'clock, he found that a number of bui
ings had been washed away, and it
estimated that along the whole route
the storm between 200 and 300 hou
had been carried away, but the occup
of many of them had escaped to the h
He_saw on every hand large buildi
go down with the ff
buildings, however, v
The coal companies
bridges and supplies.
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AWFUL DEATH
Pet Dog Bit Child
Hydrophobis
Baltimore, Md. (
23, six-year-old Lud
Oxford, N. C., was
nose by a pet dog
playing. On June
hibit symptoms of
reparations were at
her to the Pasteur
Hospital here.
The journey had
Saturday before thd
wild with rabies.
pursued and bark
around her. In t
her mother’s flesh
also scratched her
Dr. Williams, of
strange gentlema
assistance.
If the child's fin
with any of the s
are also in dangg
with the dread m
in the city awaitin]
are being carefully
sor Keirle and his
teur Institute.
At the station t
waiting; fighting
flicted child was hl
She was immedia
ment, but without
increased as the
after midnight
agony. Her mot
grief.
This is probabl
kind in the local P
a human being a
tacked others so t
afflicted with hyyq
velopments are be
terest.
Mrs. McKiale
Washington (Sf
ley's condition co
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House grounds,
weekly occurrence
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resumption was g
McKinley's esp¢g
First Con
Harrisburg,
Stone has allo
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come
10 da
the (
pitchfork and stabbed Nisback in the
head. killing him almost instantly. The
murderer escaped to the woods.
$10,000,000 for Flat Top Coal }.ands.
Philadelphia (Special).—The United
States Steel Corporation is negotiati
for the purchase of the Flat Top Ca
Land Association properties, and it
believed that the deal will be cons
mated within a few days, the pricg
the land being fixed at $10.000,004
short time ago negotiations were
ed by parties said to be unknow
officers of the Flat Top Coal
tion for the purchase of the
a $50,000 forfeit was put up
Top Coal Ass@iation was fg
the laws of Wilt Virginia