Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-04-14
LEGAL ENTANaEMEH1S
OT PROMOTER NEWMAN WILL NOT
AFFECT THE BELMONT COUNTY
COAL DEAL
ACCORDING TO MR.. NEWMAN.
Says the Legal Proceedings Against
Him Are a Species of Blackmail.
Money Will BE Placed in Banks
Monday to the Credit of Owners
of the Respective Properties.

Louis F. Newman, financial promot-
er of the Empire Coal Mining Com
pany, states that attachment proceed
tngs which have been brought against
him can in no wise affect the consum-
mation of the deal for the extensive
coal properties in Belmont county. The
suite of rooms at the Mcclure. occupied
by Mr.. Newman and his associates pre-
scented a busy scene yesterday and
late into the night Attorneys were ar
ranging the different deeds to the prop
critics when a Register reporter call
ed.
"We are in excellent shape tonight"
said Mr.. Newman. "All our abstracts
and titles appear to DE correct, and
unless something which is now unfor-
seen happens, we expect to pay for all
the coal properties on Monday. To pay
Off the individual owners would require
fully two weeks. That will not be our
plan. We will place the money in the
banks to the credit Of the persons max
ing the deeds, and subject to check by
them.
The requisite amount of money is
all here. 1t is on deposit in the Ma
tional Exchange Bank of Wheeling,
the Dollar Savings Bank, of Bellafre,
and the First National Bank, of St.
Clairsville."
Mr.. Newman was acquainted with
the contents of the following Associat-
ed Press kilograms:
PITTSBURG, Pa, April 1S.-George G.
Duy has had a foreign attachment issued
IN common pleas court No. 2, against Clar-
ence f. Birdseye and Louis F. Newman.
In the two cases bail in the sum of $4,000
is demanded, and a number of prominent
firms and business men are named as gar
nishee, among them being Charles NJ.
Schwab. No statement as to the indebt-
edness was made in the paper, but the
sheriff is directed to attach the property
of the defendants found in the hands of
the Empire Coal Mining Company, Isaac
FRANK, as trustee, and as individual, the
Fidelity Title & Trust Company. W. H.
Kama, w. p. De Armitt, David e. Park,
Jacob Kaufman, Charles Schwab, Andrew
Moreland and Herman kaubell, as trustee
and individually. All these are named as
g~arnishees and Louis f. Newman, as trus-
tee and as an individual, is named as a
garnishee In the suit against Birdseye.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, April 13.-Louis
F. Newman, Of his city, has successfully
engineered a big coal combination with a
capital of $50 600. The company will con-
troll 5000 acres of undeveloped coal land
in southeastern Ohio. George G.. Duy. of
New York City, has filed an attachment
of $l50,0o against Mr.. and Mrs. Louis f.
Newma in an action of contract to re-
cover a claim for alleged services in con-
nection with the coal combination.
MI. Newman showed a disposition to
talk about the contents OF the tele-
grams, but was advised by his attor-
neys not to try his case in the news
papers.
You can quote me as saying, just
as emphatically as you please" ad-
dressing himself to the reporter, that
this is merely a species of blackmail."
More than this Mr.. Newman's adj
visers would not permit him to say.
He admitted that he had received no.
tice of the attachment proceedings,
but he said he was perfectly indiffer-
ent in the matter, and added, as stated
above, that the suit could havesno bear
ing upon the Belmont county coal deal.