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f A . .. " - - ' SEMI-lVEEKtV .1; f . (1(1 ' "7" ' r ' ' Vol: 16. 1 Salisbury, N. CJ March 7, 1 902, No. S2.. TR1ASSIC COAL FIELDS. Sons iBtertsfing Points About the Coal . Areas la the Sontb. , The Southern Triassic or New ark coal areas of the United States, the northern area being not wor thy of discussion, lie in the Pied mont district midway between the Blue Ridge mountains and the Atlantic ocean, and they are dis cussed by Mr. Jay Backus Wood worth, in Part III of tha Twenty second Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey now passing through the press un der the editorship of Dr.C W. Hayes, Geologist. The productive areas occur in two well-marked belts in Virginia and North Carolina, which ex tend for about 250 miles south westerly and are about 100 miles wide. The eastern belt includes the Taylorsville and Richmond areas in Virginia, and the Deep rivrarea in North Carolina. The western belt includes, the Dan river area. Between;! thm lies the Farmville area in Virginia The Richmond area h the mot important of the Triaasic coal fields. It lies in Goochland, Hen rico, Powhatan, and bhesterfield counties, oeginning auout nine miles north of the James river and extending some 8 miles bey ond the Appomatox oik the south. The area is the form) of a broad basin of about 150 square miles in extent. On both the eastern and the western maigins of this basin there are usnally three workable beds, varying from one to fifty feet in thickness. The coal is normally bituminous, and in some of the beds it has been riPUUSTSWILLUEET. Ttey will Uakt aa Effort to Recisltate Tbi Corpse of Tbelr Partj. Memphis, Tenn., March 4. It is now practically assured that the national Populist annual con- nntion will be held in this city. The meeting is scheduled for April 2. and will last three or four days. The attendance will be about , 1,000. Chairman Parker, of the national committee, says the meeting will be held for the purpose of re-organizing the par ty, and adds : "It is the inten tion. of the convention to bring to gether the factions into which the party has been split during the last few years. There will be no more fusing between the Demo crats and the Populists.- The Democratic party is getting fur ther and further away from its two platforms, and if we get what we want we must get it aa Popu lists without the aid of any other party.' a , Hold-up at Durban. . A te'ephone message. to the Times from the Sun in Durham gives the particulars today of bold robbery which was commit ted in that city. Mr. James E Lsa, ticket agent of the Southern Railway, locked his office and started down the railroad track to the home of Mr. , Y. E. Smith who lives m East Durham. This was about 7 o'clock in the even ing. While he was walking on A.1L 1 1 ' ' -"11 1" ine iracK ne was suaaeniy as saulted by. two men. When he was found later and restored to BOERS UAKE A RAID. HEAVY DAUASE TO ROAD. Bing aunouga nis . gom wai.cn ana $25 in money was still in his pocket, j An investigation of the ticket office revealed the fact that it had been entered and the safe robbed of $400. Mr; Lee is not badly injured and is able to be out today. . Hi? assailants are supposed to have used sandbags. Mr, Lee on ly remembered two men suddenly spnugiug on him and knockiug him down. He did not recognize either of them but just as he lost consciousness he heard one of the men tell the other to get the keys. He does not think he could rec- oguize either of them now. Mr. c&rbomtn. .This occurrence- of coal was known as early as 1700. The coal' was used as early as 1775; shipments were made to . northern cities in i789; and a bed 24 feet thick was mentioned by Volney in 1803. During the thir ties and forties the mining opera tions hjre were the most exten sive in the United States. The gaseous nature of the coal has led to a few serious explosions, fires and much loss of life, The esti mated production of the Rich mond basin was, in 1822, 48,214 tons; in 1882, 117.857 tons; in 1842, ' 05,750 tons. The' produc tion has never since equalled th se figures, and now there are but two companies operating iu the field. The Farmville area, about sixty square miles, is practically undeveloped and unknown. The na is regarded as of little promise The eastern or Deep river area, of betweou 250 and 800 square miles, extends from near the Vir- ' ginia line into South Carolina, but the productive beds are in Chatham and Moore counties. The coal makes good coke and il luminating gas and has proved successful as a locomotive and . blacksmith coaL Coal was dis covered in this area in the latter part of the eighteenth century ; but systematic mining may be said to have begun only with the re opening of the old Egypt shaft at Cumnock in 1889. The Cum nock Company owns 4800 acres, carrying, it is estimated, 11,000 tous io me acre, l ne total pro duction in 1899 was nearly 27,000 tons, valued at $34,905. A bor iog through, the coastal plain near Florence, S. C, penetrated Triassic coal, and makes it proba blethat other Triastc areas lie east of the Richmond and Deep river areas. Wanted. A correspondent and agent at every postoffice in the county. We would be glad if our friends at the postomces would as sist us in the matter. Libera commission paid to agents. Tfeej Captsre a Ccstcj cf Wagcss ma Deplete tie Brittsa forces. - London, March 4. In a dispatch rom Pretoria, dated Monday, I Lord Kitchener, sends details of he disaster to the escort of the convoy of empty wagonB at Ton-. donop, southeast of Klerksdorp." frausvaal Colony. The British casualties in killed, wounded and men made prisoners reach the to- tal of 682. In addition the Boersfi captured two guns. . j Lieutenant Colonel Anderson; who commanded the British forcej and who has returned to Kraaipan,j Cape Colony, with nine officers and 245 men, reports that.whenj his advance guard was within ten mile of Klerksdorp, during th& morning of the Feb. 25, the Boer? 1 opened a heavy fire on the troops from the scrub. The burghers' were driven off and the convojr, resumed its march, when a-spi determined attack was made on the convoy's left flank, the Bder4 getting within a hundred yards and stampeding the mules harl nessed to a number of wagonsi The attacking forces were again driven off. - At about 6:30 o'clock in the morning the guard was attacked by a strong forc of Boers, and simultaneous! 7 another body of Boers charged the center of the convoy and stampeded the mules in all directions, throwing the es cort into confusion , during which the Boers charged and recharged riding down the separated British units. The fighting lastd for two hours, during : which the British, ... '. guns ana a pom-pom almost ex ScalisralRannfs Less ca th Ye:tera Qhattanooga, Tenn., March 4. pcil reports received at the .a ? headquarters here show thai the situation in , the flooded district is improved. The South'- ; ' l - . . ... ern'sllbss b'etween JSIorristown and Asheville will aggregate from' tvjwu w tw,uuu jo roaaoea cd bridges -alone. The loss by delayedUnd annulled trains and cutting off of all passenger and height Straffiic since lastThurs- uay, will be very large. About 900 meiAare repairing the road and bridges on the Asheville branch. j There is still a gap of thirty-two miles - between Mar shall, N. C, and Del Rio, Tenn., without! railroad service. - ; Child Labor In UIIIs. '-Oreensboro, N. C, March 5. Th6 chjld labor question is be coming an interesting problem in North Carolina, not only in a po litical sense,. but as it may be ta ken up 'and handled by the courts. There is. a moral responsibility that tne law will seek to place somewhere, whether on the em ployer orpareh. remains to be sen; Even now cases are coming up-in the courts wherein employ ed are sought to be made respon sible for damages solely because they have given , employment to children of voung and tender years A case iii point was tried in the Superior; Court of I David sob county before Judge Thomas tf.Shaw.- ? Sjinf i r'tr 'r'.vvHrS - THE IORFCU STRIKE. Ton esi Urier Ccitrol of tbe unitary ni Treble Expected. Norfolk, Va., March 5. Mayor Nathaniel Eeamau. came to the conclusion ihis morning that there is no necessity of martial law as a result of the strike. He thinks that since the issue of his pro clamation the people will remain off the streets in the turbulent district of yesterday and that there will be little further disor der. Four additional companies of the 7l8t infantry have been or dered out and this will plaoj the entire command an the field, two battalions being already. in-service. This morning all was quiet and the cars guarded by troops wen moving at long intervals. No passengers are be ing- carried. All last night the strikers were busy barricading the tracks, ' but this morning the obstructions were removed by Ihe troops. At midnight the troops were called upon to disperse a mob at Church and Charlotte streets. Bayonets were used, but it is not known that .here were any casualties. This morning before daybreaV as a detachment of the Hunting ton Rifles, Company G., 71st regi ment, from Newport News, under command of .Lieutenant Moore, were marching down Church street to the armory they caught W. R. Rudolph, Tom Marray, Sam Ayer, (all white) and Tom Jenkins (col ored( tearing upthe tracks of the street car line at the corner nf Church and He It streets, and plac thm under arrest. The four SEtEEE SSOY STCEU. Ylrglzla StrcKle: tlti a Tl!rt-bti Zt:i , Stem. Traffic z;iiti. New York, March ' 5. Another snow storm which threatens to do much damage started at 4 o'clock and at 8, two inches had fallen. The snow was wet and heavy and caused much iuoonyenience and considerable delay to traffic on the elevated and surface lines. Oq the river the we&ther U in thick the ferry boats are unable to ruu at more than hslf speed.' The. snow is accomnanifvl hv F j H moderate wind. Huntingtou," W. Va., March 5. A snow storm has been ratrinff in West Virginia for 22 hours. In the Ohio Valley the snow is 14 inches deep. .In the mountain- . m - ons district it is 80 inches. All street car traffic has been suspend ed in Ohio river towns. Railwav traffic is greatly impeded. Yittersoa Alilce ta Desscnte. The Republican party is a party of force and false pretences. Its agencies aw machinery and mon ey. The Democratic partv is the party of the. Constitution and the people. It is the one breakwater between popular liberty and abso luteism. It neer yet won a na tional battle in the character of an extremist. Its strength has ever lain in its enlightened mod--eration. When it has appealed to ; the intelligence and patriotism of the whole people it has been heed- : ed. When it has listened to the counsels of the visionary and the . radical, it has been divided nudy beaten, havingproven indeed fnlA station and locked up. infantry from Klerdsdorp at tempted to reinforce the British but were held in check bv the Boers. Lieut. Col. Anderson adds that the strength of the Boers was estimated at irom A umuei r u i : 4 i I . - t n 11 lull iii luh UMiiiiniiitr wna. H.no h was employed at the very light- of the comoany stated later that now j the redemption of est iorm oi laoor, tne injury Deing aa uiauujpi; uo ujruaujiuug. .iue e ftW The police dpe to his carelessness in putting himself in the way of the machine. The judge charged the jury, under the general issue of neeligence a been killed. tedat trom 1,200 to l,7ai. 18BUCU1 uc8"6 Commandants Delarev. Kemni nVcWM m compauni, max, me nalllAra Tmmor Wnlmar.,.. plaintiff had not made out a case, Potgieter were all-prent. Conf lP tie' mandant Lemmer is said to havfe 'P1CH on ine part oi me aeren-. aaut to nave employed tne Doy in tne factory. The jury decided that it was negligence', for the cor poration to employ a child as young as the one injured and re- a verdict awarding the Changes lo the Sunrene Court. President Roosevelt will p'robal bly soon have an opportunity t appoint three Associate Justice! Lee'snght eye is injured and he of the Supreme Court. The jufI has some bad bruises, but is other- tices who are expected to retirl wise all right now. are John M. Harlan, of Kentucky kfioy The robbers after securng the appointed in 1877; Horace Gray, fque, keys went to the ticket office and pi Massachusetts, appointed m did their work althoueh the 1881, and George Shiras. Jr., of watchman must have been near Pennsylvania, appointed in 1892. cftrned )laintiff damages to the amount )f d,000. ' Now.df it was negli ;ence for the corporation to em- the child, the interesting ion arises, What is to be said e action of that little Doy e tracks had been made. denied the rumor. The Suffolk Company has also arriyedhere. Fifteen strike break ers from Knoxville came on the same train and were guarded by the troops to the barn. The situ ation grows graver as the day ad vances. The arrival of the im ported men. intensifies the situa tion. . . The action of the labor organi zations in calling out the electri cians who are employed in . the central power station of the Nor folk Railway and Light Company making power from the hands of men using it for the en richment of the few at the ex pense of the many, and seeking by fraud and force and chicane, to perpetuate themselves in office. That is the issue of American politics to-day, as it was the issue a century ago, and. it remains to be seen whether we shall, figura tiyely speaking, use ball cart ridges, that is, facts and logic, in our assaults upon the intrench- meuts of powr, or bows and ar rows, that is, mere sound and lury, signifying impotencyand defeat. of th the place Times. at tha time. Raleigh Chi d Born with Two Heads. ; A child with, two head has been Justice Harlan will probably be succeeded by former Secretary of State Day, of Ohio, or by Judge Taft. Both are from the circuit to which Justice Harlan belongs. Judge Day was slated Thrn ia . sinala " nn ran fr isaptto.have the gravest cohse- Democrat9 to purHUQ the coming quences. ine piant supplies prac- two nd three veara. v:,.,. T - J 9 - - parents in putting him to work? tically all the electric power and light used in the city. It is said that there is some doubt about the electricians obeying the order. up the party's wounds, to heal the breaches, to mend the fences, and. when the time to act in 1901 rolls round, to separat3 the possible born iu this city. The secondary . , t j 4M r. u . . , . ? , A, . J for the place by President McKin- "ta o OWUK bnubUUUS UIO S1Z0 I i -r i m r. . - - - iey. gauge iait, ix, is saia, aoes Size and projects from the back of the normal head. WThile the second head is well formed, the features are not well developed. The doc- ror in cnarge is oi the opinion that it is possible to remove the excre8cence,though it will be three months before an operation can be undertaken. Possibly it may not be safe then or at any future time. The child is healthy. Kaukakee, 111., dispatch. Rich Strike Sure Enc:gb. Vancouver, B. C., March 5. A special dispatch from Dawson tells of one of the richest finds report- not want the place, being anxious to return to the Philippines and complete his work there. When Justice Shiras retires, as he is expected to do in the next few months, it is believed the va- cancy win be tilled by the ap pointment, of General John Jersey, although the Pennsylva nia Senators will made a strong effort to secure the selection of a V man from that state. Washing ton dispatch. At Sea with Propeller Broken. London, March 4. The British steamer Ottowa, from Philadel- m phiatfor London, has arrived at i'ayal, Azores Islands, and reports trouble during having sighted the Cunard line steamer Etruria in tow of the British steamer William Cliff, 400 miles west of Fayal. The Etruria had lost her propeller. Another report says the Etruria was picked up when 500 miles from Fayal, wesUnorthwest of that port.' Ail werefwell ou board the Cunarder, i . . i . . ... former Attorney wmcP, acobrding to this , report, W. Griggs bf New nd fer riropeller shatt broten. ohe was of herwise uniniured. rre- Vious to f he receipt of the news r !!! i J I.. J .. . I v .iany eiecincaiiy uprieu iuuub- ffom the impoMible( andf inUad tries are wholly dependent upon f 8triklug out blindIy and in the the Railway and Light Co. for fy moye j C0,Qmn their power. The police think keeping time to the drum beats of that the reason there was no .xmm ueknma u:i.f n u , I nulla 11 , (UO the morning -was flft f th nnimtitntinn ...ti'a that the rain fell in torrents. They only true of the national are apprehensive of later develop- mnA ,i -0.,.:.. ts. .1 ' CI. mem Occ! Knocked aa Elephant Data. Rufus Reed, a great giant of a darkey, has been seen lately pain- tully making his way about our streets. He is a victim of locomo tor ataxia, and his condition ex cites the pity of all who see him. For years he was known as the j 1- I u: . thatkhe Etruria had been Bighted v Y the I oi tbe tate ana won iamo ana a reputation about twelve years ago on Washington,. March' 5. The first step in preparation for the transfer of authority in Cuba to tb new Cuban government was taken by the Secretary of the Navy in giving directions to the United States naval and marine officers in Cuba to transfer all property to Governor General Wood, who will in turn, transfer it to the uban It San j His Leg. d for some time. R.cha.d Bntler, Ga. . Bnffer6jl or eil months with owner of a claim on Bear Creek, a flighttaX maaiDg on hi. , ,. , , t lieS ut writes mat uuctien s when he discovered an old bedrock! C-i un - :i m tow the reinsurance Cnnnrri linpr nt Llovds to-dav was about four guineas per cent. Lit- hJ knockin T down an elephant in om?iaig when they aaume office. liowiituu tutus, ib m uuia v. rion.mA.. I no jcioiviucuk mil icuitu tie business was done at that rate. baby elephant but a full grown 5(28 BsiMisg Bsrssl floating it pur- many feet below the first one from Aikefc, S. C, March 5. Fire 1 . 1 . .-1 - hereieafrly today destroyed nine that they have seen him knock buildioes. comprising a block in the elephant down. It was a fa- Dost48ion of tha ateel beast, and witoesae. to the fight dock in Havana, which between Re and the elephant chased from lhe Spnnih goTenj are UTing W-uaj wuu Wlil mynt .hd nil nKTl rn1 .nnnlu. rr- there. Lieut. Chas. M. McCor- whir.K hA innt nnf lift HHA in nna . . ' w . vuo P M t'lhA hfif m'm in ha day. One pan of earth alone Urorld. Cnw fmnmnt CinW washed $000 ia gold. ' . " 1 25c. Soldi)y all drurgist. five days. For Ulcers, Wounds, cen. re of the city. A gale, was 1 m0us lick, delivered with the bare blowing and the flames were fought I fit on the elephant's jaw. Reed invAr ereat 1 .... w,?r-G no fatalities. X 1 1 however, will never knock another elephant down. Ex. mick, U. S. N.( captain of the port of Havana, and otbor naval and marine' offiori stationed in Cuba hav been ordered to return home. ...
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