The new era., 1911-01-19

fdSSeuSeTS trains were snow DOund
in heavy drifts in Michigan and traf-
fic suffered serious delays through
out the state.
Census returns from Illinois:
Wheaton, population in 1910, 3,432;
1900. 2,345. Decatur City, population
in 1910. $780, in 1900 24,S62
Suits against five salary loan COM
panies were started recently under
the supervision of the Russell Sage
foundation.
Fifteen miners were badly burned
and fifty others narrowly escaped
when an explosion occurred in the
Big Hill Coal Company mines in Lee
county, Kentucky.
James A. Patten. retired millionaire
grain broker of Chicago, whose sue
cessful operations in the cotton mar
ket led recently to federal grand jury
indictments, is being sued for $6,000,-
600 in the Superior Court. DIR. Paul
Burmaster brings suit under an Illi-
pois statute whereby any person hav-
ing knowledge of a gambling transac
ton may sue and recover to the
amount of three times the total lost
by any of the victims.
When the special grand jury which
for nearly month has been probing
the election frauds in Adams county,
Ohio, reconvenes, thirty witnesses
will be taken before it, most of whom
have previously testified. The total
of confessions up to date are LAOS.
Money, too, is coming in rapidly, in
checks and currency, which brings the
total collected to nearly $4,000. In
one district of $50 voters, all except
one have been disfranchised.
Restitution of s1,3OO.OoO and the
surrender of warrants aggregating
100000 upon which payment had
been stopped, were made in the
Dauphin County Court by the men
convicted or otherwise implicated by
Pennsylvania in the capitol frauds.
Previously restitution of S1,595, ,740
| had been made by defendants. In
consideration the commonwealth
agreed to drop further criminal ac-
ton against the defendants indicted
The United States Geological Sur
yey has received reports fixing the
production of coal in the United States
during 1910 between 475,000,0O0 and
1909 was 459,715,704 short tons, and
in 1907, 4S0,363,424. Colorado fur
nished nearly 100000 tons last year
The states in which notable increases
in production were made are Colorado,
| Ohio, West Virginia, Alabama, New
Mexico, Montana, the western coun-
| ties of Kentucky and in western Penn
| sylvania. Illinois, Kansas, Missouri
and Oklahoma lost in production be-
cause of pending strikes. A general
| advance in the price of anthracite
coal has ben noticeable and any de-
cided increase in its production is
hardly to be expected. Strikes in the
| southwestern states gave exceptional
| impetus to coal mining in Colorado,
| New Mexico and Alabama. An in
creased production was obtained in
! Colorado Notwithstanding that the
| strike of April 1st affected the lig-
mites or semi-bituminous producing
districts of the state. The coal pro-
| uuSCu III lJIU oOlI lOI d ulBuel
| price than the previous year. Colo
RADIOS total production in 1909 was
1G,722,746 short tons. The increase in
1910 was about 20 per cent. The
heavy demand for Colorado coal dur
ing the last year was for the use of
railroads between Colorado and the
Missouri river
| Seventeen men were drowned in a
wreck of three barges of the Reading
railroad tug Lykens at Provincetown
Mass, according to officers of the
three life-saving crews that made a
heroic fight to reach them. They de-
clare that there were seven men on
one barge and five on each of the 9th
er two. The life-savers state that all
seventeen men of the three crews un-
doubtedly perished.
Six deaths have occurred and many
persons in Telfener. Victoria county,
Texas, are i'll as result of eating
! bread containing poison.