The age-herald., 1901-09-11
RENTING DISCUSSION
 COAL EXPORT PROBLEM

The coal exportation question is be- ing given much attention by the coal com. panles of this district, and well-planned efforts for securing trade from new points are being made. Officers of local com panies are confident that within a few years this trade will be materially in, creased.
 In discussing the question yesterday, John w. Mcqueen of tn sloss-sheffield Steel and Iron Company said:
 up to the present time the companies selling Alabama coal for export have not succeeded in getting far away from the Gulf of Mexico ports, but we now have strong hopes of shipping to the eastern countries. Alabama coal has been tested all the world over and pronounced satls- factory. Last year I was on a man-of-war from Germany at New Orleans, which used our coal, and pronounced 1t excel lent Many ships from that point to Africa carried Alabama fuel.
 None to England and France.
 But we have not exported coal to Eng land or France as yet. The greater part of American coal to those countries IS shipped from Newport News, Va.' It Is from the Virginia and Pennsylvania dls> tricts. Along this line am informd that England is rather alarmed at the auan- tity of shipments made from America. We have not secured any of this trade, but have had requests for prices and sam ples. It is our expectation that we will soon secure A portion of the shipments
 Regarding the last statement of MT. Mo- Queen. the following editorial from the London Chronicle Is interesting:
 An English Comment.
 .One of those alarming consular reports that periodically break the repose of the British merchant has just burst upon us' A>-%~%A%~%~-%%%~ man with the light overcoat was the man who passed near him. He did not claim that at any time he was out of sight of the shooting. The man with the light overcoat he described as "a small man with dark stubby mustache on his face" (This description does not fit Dun can) He said 1t was not Miller, but cid not say anything about Duncan, He said the other man ran west He could not tell what kind of man he was and did not say that he shot. The man who came by him, however, was the man who shot Adams and was the one who fired the first and last shots.
 He testified that the appearance of neither of the men corresponded with Duncan.
 pr. R. B. Mobley testified that Cahoon had stated that he ran in the alleyway as soon as the shooting began and only saw & man run by; that he gave no de- scription of him. On cross-examination he said that this examination of Cahoon was before the police commission.
 Stepped Into Alley.
 c. c. Chiles, ex-police commissioner, testified that Cahoon had said he stepped into an alley at the time of the shooting and that he saw the two officers, but did not claim to recognize the two men. The witness further testified that at the time Cahoon made this Statement before the board that the attention of the board was directed as to whether Officers Sharber and Manasco had acted cowardly, and that it was not in their minds to bring out how much Cahoon did or did not see
 Lee Edmondson testified that he was at Third avenue and Twentieth street the night the officers were shot Cliff Cahoon was with him. He did not get into Twen- Hath a aftar ha did not remember whether Cahoon did or not He then described the shooting, and said that the man with Kirkley ran up Third avenue and Officer Kirkley fol- lowed. The man passed close by him, but the witness could not recogniz( who he was. On cross examination he stated that if Cliff Cahoon was at the mouth, of the alley the man could have passed within a few feet of him. He himself was watch ing the shooting and not Cliff Cahoon, and did not know exactly where the latter stood or what he could have seen.
 Bullets Close to Him.
 Harry Rensford testified that Cliff Ca- hoon had made statements in reference to the shooting, and had said that he was coming down Third avenue, and that two bullets came close to him, and he took refuge in the passageway. He did not state whether he could identify the men or not. Tn witness also testified he catching Officer Kirkley when he was shot and preventing him from falling
 Oscar Simon testified that he had had a conversation with Cliff Cahoon about the shooting, and he had stated that at the first shot he had run. That he didn't say anything about seeing the man.
 John T. Shugert, one of defendants at torneys. took the stand. and said that shortly after the shooting he had had a conversation with MT. Cahoon. That he was not connected with the case at that time. and Mir Cahoon had stated that the man who did the shooting had run to- wards him; that he had seen him plainly, and that 1t was not Duncan, but another heavier man. That he thought one man did all the shooting. and had two pistols At the last shot the man stopped and rested the pistol on his arm and fired, and that Kirkley fell at this shot,
 Continuance Avoided.
 Judge Greene then decided that in a case like this the only question was whether the defendant had reason to be- -.z.,Ia +~-+t<x, Ao oar