The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-18
INQUIRY FOR COAL
ALABAMA MINES WILL BE OPER-
 ATED STEADILY.
Mobile and Ohio Railroad Places Or dern for More Than 400 Cars
 and Other Corporations are Tn the Market.

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 Birmingham. April 17-tspecial. o- The Mobile and Ohio Railroad has placed orders in this district for be- tween 400 and 500 cars of coal, deilv. cry to be made during the months or iivered to the M and o. through Me ridfan. over the Alabama Great Soutn- ern Railroad. or through Columbus over the Southern Railway. The M :; and o. came to this district to get coal to be prepared for any emergency 'hit might arise from the coal strike in the North and West. One coal com pany in this district accepted part or the order. 200 cars of coal to be ,nr- r- month and during May. Further or up in the North and West.
 W. Kavanaugh, a big coal dealer oI Chicago, is in the Birmingham 1istr'ct today and was In consultation with AS sistant General Superintendent W. M. Foreacre looking for the purchase ana delivery during the next two m9nths this district. one statement being 'nads that he was in the market for some thing like 1000 cars Of the product. It is understood that coal producers n the last few days for many thousand tons of coal and the mines in this State will work steadily all through the sum- mer.
 
 The Methodist Conference.
 The local committee making prepa- rations for the general conference or the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, which meets in Birmingham on May End, and will be in session during the better part of the month, held regu- lar weekly meeting today and eneour, aging reports were received ,,dns iron hona s,a been secured for all the many hundred delegates coming to the conference. Arrangements will be made at once TOT the entertainment of the Chinese and here, at least one of the old Chinese workers and two Brazil missionaries having sent word that they are coming
 A souvenir book of Birmingham and the district is under consideration, the same to be distributed liberally among branch postoffice and branch telegraph office has been arranged for in the convention place. The congregation of the First Methodist Church, in whose house of worship the great meeting will be held have offered every assistance. It is believed that upwards of 1,5o0 leading Methodist ministers and lay men will be here for the conference.
 Sues for Dcputy's Actions.
 H. J. Basque today filed suit in the Circuit court against Constable M w Parsons and his sureties for $1.000 for damages for alleged rude conduct on the part of deputy under the consta- ble in serving levy on his household Reeves, who is deputy under Parsons, went to the house of the complaint fo serve an attachment and that his con duct was such that 1t greatly humiii- : allegation is made that the process served was void and that the deputy was guilty of trespass.
 u.ea n Hatchet
 At Yolande. in Tuscaloosa. County, last night, two negro coal miners be- came involved in difficulty and one f used and Ma ap aanR opeR 9s m 6ea and James Vance Is accused of the deed. Banks and Vance worked to- gether in the mines and the quarrel is said to have started about their coal tonnage. The police in the adjoining county have been informed of the kill ing.
 New Soil Pipe Plant. Men are in the city looking for a site on which to erect a soil pipe plant which will cost more than $15,000, and which will from its start give employ ment to from twenty-five to thirty men. There is a good field hereabouts for a soil pipe plant, the industries in this line already here doing good busi- ness. There appears to be but little secured and work will start immedi- ately on the plant.
 Railway Surgeons.
 The Central of Georgia Railway Surgeons association met in the coun cil room at o'clock and listened to a program of excellent addresses. made an address on Personal Injury Litigation. and several other members of the association read papers. among them being Dr. Britt, of Eufaula; Dr. D. s. Davis, of Birmingham; pr. w. B. Prather. of Scale, and Dr. J. B. Morgan. of Augusta, Ga.
 This association is composed of the surgeons on the entire system of the Central of Georgia system, and it's officers are Dr. Scale Harris, of Union son. of Clayton, vice president, and Dr. J. R. Burdette, of Tennille( Ga, sec