Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1890-02-08 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE PRICE OF COAL. The opinions of the colliery proprietors in different parts of the kingdom have (says the London Ticnes) been asked with respect to the present and future of the coal trade, and their answers, as might be expected, have been cautious and guarded. It is admitted, however, that the only means by which the present exceptionally high price of coal can be sensibly reduced is by making the production and the demand more equally balanced. 'f his can only be done by the working of thin seams of coal and the opening out of new fields, and this is now being done, and on what appears to be an extensive scale. In the West Riding, where the thick coal has been worked for a great many years, and exhausted at several places, the seams above it and at a moderate depth from the surface are about to be opened out. Taking the Barnsley seam at 210 yards from the top, there is above it the Melton coal Aft. thick, the Abdy seam 31t. thick, and then the Kent thin and thick beds, in thickn-ss 21 t. and 3ft. respectively. These beds have been passed through in sinking to the main coal, so that the cast of opening them out would be comparatively light. Close to the Old Oaks Colliery, near Barns:ey, the two first-named seams are about to be opened out, and at Kockley. in the same dfitrict, the thin coal is to be developed at once In Barnsley there are two colleries standing where sel the seams alluded to are as yet untouched, and a short distance to the south of the town named there are several in the same position, and in which the thin beds are now likely to be opened out. lathe South Yorkshire die. trict the Flockton coal has lately been won at Tankersley, the 'l' horucliffe at Clarke's Old Silkstone, and at Wharncliffe a seam above the Silkstone, and another one below it, has just been reached. At Silkstone. common, four miles from Barnsley, the Whinmoor Colliery, after standing for upwards of 28 years, is now about to be reopened, the coal being well adapted for coking. Near to Rotherham, the Silkstone coal by one shaft his token sunk to from the Barnsley learn, whilst a large s'kettield company is also going down to the former, the area being a very large one. In Derbyshire a new field is about to be opened out near to Dronfield and Undone, and at a short distance from Chesterfield, Making is about to be commenced that I will extend into Nottinghamshire, on the estate of the Duke of Portland. More to the south, as well as in I several other mining districts, new seams are being opened out. When these seams and fields are dentI loped, or even partially so, there is no question that, as was the race in 1573 and 1574, the production will more than overtake the demand, and the coal trade by this means return to something like its normal state. This, too, is likely to be accomplished much earlier than many persons anticipate, and such is the opinion of those practically acquainted with the Coal trade.  UNJUST SUSPICION AND SUICIDE A tragical suicide has taken place at Vienna. The clerk of a beer agent cashed at the Vienna Clearinghouse 37,600 florins for his master, putting them into a black pocketbook. As he passed out of the Bank be felt faint, and suddenly swooned. When he came to, he immediately missed the black pocketbook, and supposed someone must have taken it out of his hand. Suspicion fell on the clerk, whose name is Leiner, and who was formerly a major. His employer, however, declared to the police that he could not possibly suspect Leiner of having committed the theft. Leiner, subsequently published an advertisement saying , that if the person who had found the pocketbook returned 30,000 florins to him anonymously he might keep the other 7600. Alter writing several letters he went in an omnibus to the Central Cemetery, and, standing on the grave of his first wife. he shot himself dead with a revolver. Early in the afternoon his employer received an unpaid letter, which when opened was found to contain the 30,000 forms. The address was printed, and cut from one , of the advertisements published in the morning. Had the poor fellow waited a few hours longer before committing suicide the proof of kin innocence would have I been seen from the letter. There are, however, some ' persons who think that it was he who, bef ore shooting himself, put the money into the post-office.