Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1902 — COAL IS SCARCE. [ARTICLE]

COAL IS SCARCE.

Railroad* Unable to Meet the Demand for Thia Commodity. Shortage of care and motive power on the rallroada haa reaulted in a acarcity of coal throughout a large part of the United State*, and in New York and other large citiea where the conaumptlon ia great a coal famine ia threatened. There actually la leu coal on hand here now than there wae at the name time laat year, when a prolonged atrike in the anthracite region had paralyaed the laduatry.