Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1907-01-24
Stale Lille and Sullivan Railroad Company
Defendants in Big Ssit.

Ex Senator M. f. Mcdonald of
Scranton, is plaintiff in an action for
damages just filed at Towanda in the
office Of the prothonotary of Brad
ford county. The proceedings is
against:the State Line & Sullivan
Railroad Company, the papers in the
case have been served upon Presi-
dent O. A. Baldwin. Tho damages
claimed are 81 100000.
The defendant company owned
and operated tract of land in sulli-
van county, which is estimated to
contain at this time 10000, 900 tons
Of coal. The State Line &,,.Sullivan
company operated a mine there
prior to 1902, Charles Henry Davis
being president. BY resolution of
the directors and with the consent
of the stockholders, Davis is said ,sto
have been authorized to enter into a
lease for the coal under this land,
sell the coal yards aRd.other personal
property of the company, and Davis
was given full power to make the
lease.
On December II, 1851, Dnviss Il.
claimed to have met M. j. Murry,
Of Dunmole, who is operating mine
near Lopez, and Mr.. Mcdonald at
the Office of Davis, by appointment,
and theysagreed:to.enter into.a lease
by which Murry and Mcdonald
were to take over the coal lands
upon consideration to be afterwards
agreed upon. Then, it is further
claimed, that on September 20, 1902,
the defendant company, through
Davis, made an agreement to lease
he lands for period Of ninety y-nine
years; on October 8, the plaintiff Mr..
Mcdonald, met a Ar. Cofin associat-
cd with Mcdonald in the business
for.the company, and talked Of the
plans, upon the understanding that
Mcdonald would have the lands.
But after meeting of the direc-
tors of the company, held on De
cember "a, 1902, the plaintiff alleges
that Davis refused to turn over the
property or any part ri it, and on
April l3, 1908, Davis wIote Mr.. Nc
Donald that physical possession of
the mine had been delivered over to
the Connell Anthracite Mining Co."
The Conneil Company is now the
biggest coal producers in Sullivan
county fields. The suit is the largest
in the figure of damages wanted
| that has ever been instituted in the
Bradford county courts, and the trial
of it Is expected to be full of interest,
Something decidedly unique in
sawmille construction and operation
will be the new mill of the Central
Pennsylvania Lumber company, to
be located near Sheffield,in Warren
county, for whitch the site has been
secured and cleared and on which
work will be started as soon as Spr-
ing opens and building operations
can be pushed along. 1t will be lar
ye structure of solid concrete, and the
mill will be driven by electricity,
both the nature of the plant and the
power that will be used being new
for the sawmill purposes.
The proposed structure, for which
plans are completed, will be three
band mill, with capacity of 2OO, ,0OC
feet day for a single crew or 400,-
600 feet day for double crews, day
and night. From so to IS millions OF
feet of timber year are to be cut
this giving an idea Of the magnitude
Of the mill, which will exceed in size
any that the Central Pennsylvania
company now has. The mill of the
company at Laquin may be stated
by way Of comparison,i is = two bsno
mill and will cut from 125, 900 to l40
900 feet day
Terry McGovern, former idol o
the fighting world, the winner of I
quarter of million dollars, is today
probably hopelessly insane in q san
itarium, his fortune of $2O3, 300 gone
and his family in want
That his daughter may have the fret
use of her right arm, which she is a
present unable to move, Samue
Clemens win suffer a large strip O
his skin to be taken and grated tt
the little sufferers arm.
His daughter Sara, was burned b!