The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-03-01
THE RAIL AND MINES.
Doings in and About the Goal
Regions


Regions
Agents of the Reading Company are said
to have secured control of majority of the
Individual mines in this dist let.
E. b. Ely, the New York agent of Coke
Bros. s. Co., is qsoted as denying the pub
iished statement that that firm had accepted
the proposition of President Mcleod to
buy all their coal. He said the company
mines 2 100000 tons of coal and prefer to
retain their present independent condi
ton.
The sales agents of the coal companies
have resolved to let well enough alone.
The production for March was limited t
the February output, which was 2,bOO, 600
tons, and prices will also remain at the
present circular figures for the several
grades and sizes.
Ashley Observer: The Reading r. r
company has bought an extensive tract of
land near Spring Brook within easy dis
lance of the jersey Central r. R. at
Moosic. On this it will at once begin the
erection of the largest powder mills in this
country. From this mammoth plant the
Reaiing will obtain all the powder for use
in the colieries of the company under the
new deal.
Samuel Re5er, a Reading coal and iron
policeman stationed at Lewisburg, com
mitted suicide by taking strychnine. He
was married and middle aged. The day
previous to his death he tried to jump on a
passenger train at Lewisburg and was al
most thrown under the wheels. 1t is a
question as to whether he did not want to
kill himself then. Melancholia was the
cause.
The Ashland Telegram says: Editor
Cbas. McGorvin of the Girsrdville Star,
not only gets up spicy paper, but is also
one of the pedagogical leaders of his town,
and when he is not busy with one or the
other of these lsbors, he finds time to in
dulge in social duties in which he is quite q
favorite. The other day the editor-school
master was called upon to escort a lady
visitor to his home town to the mines, and
he responded with his usual promptitude,
and this is the story that the guide, the
hold bad man, gets off on McGorvin:
"They were ascending the five hundred
feet shaft at Packer colliery No. 5, after
having spent about an hour investigating &
the interior of the mine, when she said:
Charley, the smell of those horrid mine
lamps is very dssgreeable, can't we ex'
tinguish them Charlie complied with
alacritY, and when they stepped from the
cage at the surface, black imprint of 9
thumb decorated her right check, and she
had the cutest coal dirt moustaohe running
disgonally across her sweet mouth, that
any body ever saw. Funny wasn't it,"
The passengers on the late Pennsylvania
train from Wilkes Barre last night had
quite a roundabout journey to this section.
The train left Wilkes-Bsrre at 4;45 for
Pottsville. When midway between
Nescopec and Hazleton the journey was
cut off by a coal train wreck. The train
returned to Nescopec and went to Hazleton
on the Sunbury and Hszleton route Wis
Catswissa. Connection was made at
Wetherill Junction with the train from
Pottsville, which was held ten minutes tc
make the connection, and the Shenandoah
passengers reached their destination al
1880 p. m.
President McLeod's lieutenants are to bt
rs follows;
General Manager, 1. A. Sweigard.
General uperintendent, NJ. f. Bonanza
Superintendent of main line division, O.
M. LawleT, of Williamsport,
The Jersey Central, Lehigh Valley and
P. & r. will each haYe their own general
superintendents, and those officials, with
the exception of the Reading, will prob
ably remain as at present.
George l.. Bowers, assistant train master
at Port Richmond, Philadelphia, is to be
transferred to Reading.
John Il. Freeh, ysrdmaster in Reading,
is to be transferred to Port Richmond, in
place Of Mr. Bowers.
Adam A. Vogel, assistant yardmsster at
Reading, is promoted to the position Of
chief yardmaster.
Mr.. Bowers was formerly a train dis
patGher on the East Penn and Lebanon
Valley, but was transferred 10 Philadel'
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