People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — SHORT WEIGHT GIVEN. [ARTICLE]

SHORT WEIGHT GIVEN.

Spring Valley, 111., Coal Company’* Scale* Condemned. Spring Valley, 111., July 25.—For the last two years the miners of this city have been loudly crying against a shortage in the weight of the coal they mine. As a consequence, yesterday the inspector of weights and measures swooped down on the scales at No. 2 mine and found them weighing only 1.500 pounds for a ton. He promptly condemned them and ordered the company not to weigh on them until they were made correct, an order, it is alleged, that was not obeyed. In consequence General Manager Dalzell, Superintendent John B. Stone, Weighman Murry, and Pit Boss Stone are under arrest. The trial takes place this morning.