N&W in 1910--Explosives

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[This article should have preceded the August 3, 1910, article that was sent a short time ago.]

Bluefield Daily Telegraph
July 29, 1910

IN CITY AND COALFIELD
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James Martin, Miner, to be Tried in the Federal Court
    Roanoke times:  Despite the fact that the Norfolk & Western has taken special pains to warn people against shipping high explosives in violation of the law, cases arise now and then in which persons fail to pay attention to rules governing the matter.  In seven different languages instructions concerning explosives have been published in public places.  Not long ago Joe Martin, a miner, was arrested, charged with sending in his baggage from West Virginia to Virginia a large quantity of dynamite, sufficient to have blown the train into smithereens had it been subjected to any shocks.  Martin's trial is to take place in the federal court in West Virginia.  He shipped the explosives from Maybeury, W. Va., to Boissevain, Va., and the fact that it passed from one state to another brings the matter within the jurisdiction of a federal tribunal.

[The use of seven different languages in the instructions illustrates the ethnic diversity in the coalfields during that era.]
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Gordon Hamilton
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