Confiscated Two Carloads Of Ann Arbor's Coal

Mayor of a Dinkey Ohio Town Takes Law in His Own Hands

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Robs E. B. Hall, of Ann Arbor, of Two Carloads for Hard Coal Consigned to Him and En Route for Ann Arbor

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Two carloads of coal consigned to Ann Arbor have been confiscated by the mayor of Bellvue, Ohio, a little town near the soft coal district and which cannot need this coal as much Ann Arbor.

The coal was consigned to E. B. Hall and Mr. Hall received a letter this noon from Assistant General Freight Agent Webster of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis R. R., at Cleveland, Ohio, telling him of the confiscation of cars No. 11385 and 21599 of anthracite coal consigned by way of the Lehigh Valley to him, by the mayor of Bellvue Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Hall had already sold this coal on the strength of its shipment.

The Bellvue officials had no legal right to seize this coal. Mr. Hall fears, however, that should he sue them for their unlawful acts, in the present state of feeling, a jury composed of Bellvue citizens would not give him a favorable verdict. But Bellvue is much more favorably situated for getting coal than Ann Arbor, and where her citizens gain by the unlawful act, ours suffer a greater loss than their gain.