Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27
Odds and Ends OF
the Struggle for Fuel.

Cocoanuts are being burned for fuel
in Baltimore.
The coal situation at Canton, Ohio, is
becoming serious.
A scarcity of cars has stopped all the
big mines at Danyille, Ill.
In Philadelphia the coal famine is in
creasing pulmonary diseases.
The American Steel and Wire shops at
Sycamore, H., closed for lack of coal
Several of the schools at Aurora, H.,
have been forced to close for lack of coal.
The coal dealers in Jeffersonville, Ind,
limit the orders to twenty-five bushels
for each customer.
The board of trustees of the Toledo
Ohio workhouse released all prisoners
sentenced for stealing coal.
Loading soft coal into grain cars and
marking it wheat is the scheme some Of
the coal operators have adopted.
The Novelty Wood Works at La
Crosse, Wis. laid off its large force on
account of being unable to get coal.
TIE Western Tube Company at Ke-
vance, Ill, employing $500 men, shut
down its plant because of coal scarcity.
Mayor w. C. Maybury of Detroit is
sued the call for the reassembling of the
''get coal' convention at Washington.
The House of Representatives of the
Illinois General Assembly adopted res
olution for the appointment of a COM
mittee to investigate the coal situation in
the State.
No relief from the present Kansas coal
famine is in sight. Dealers are helpless
and the people are without coal An
effort will be made to have the Legisla-
ture take action at once looking toward
a correction of the evil
The Chicago grand Jury investigation
has had little effect on the price list for
coal The following wholesale prices
were quoted: Illinois and Indiana. mine
run $3.50; lump, $t.E5; eastern soft Goals,
$3.50 to S5.75; hard coal, $40.
The public heating plant at Ackley,
Iowa. experienced trouble in getting coal
and the managers have raised the price
of service 80 per cent. No anthracite
coal is procurable in parts of Iowa and
farmers are hauli-g wood twenty miles.
Punk soaked in coal oil is even better
than n brick TO make heat with. if you
can get the punk. Saturated with the
oil it produces a fine. steady fame.
Burglars ransacked the residence of
Mrs. Adelaide Anderson in Minneapolis,
Mimi, and carried OFF 400 pounds Of an
thraeite coal in sacks. They did not
touch the jewelry or plate.
Chicago people paid $4,000 more
for the 81 800 tons of coal used in the
city Wednesday than they would have
paid a year ago. The greatest increase
has been in the cost of the common In
diana and Illinois Goals.
Bellevue (Ohiol officials, seeing much
suffering in the town from lack of fuel.
called conference. The Mayor snd
Councilmen met the ex-coal dealers snd
learned there were eight cars of anthra-
cite in the yards of the railroad. and il
was decided to confscste the coal. This
they did.
Mine Inspector Reynolds of the fourth
anthracite district at Wilkesbarre. Pa,
says the present output of coal IS the
largest in the history of the district s1ld
the transportation facilities were Aever
better. Coal taken from the areSker -
the morning. he says. is on Us gay -
market before noon of the sant day
The Paris court Of app.ahs has con
6rmed the sentence Of Eve yeas imaris-
onment imposed on William Seymour,
who was found at midnisst Nor. = Sc
creted in a closet Of the residence Of