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Show Monument lo Cmttr. ly A number of prominent coal nicrljf Pennsylvania have decided to erecjs monument of coal to Philip Olnter lit discoverer of that fuel, at summit lltl near Mauch Chunk One hundred fl nlno years ago Olnter lived In a rojp cabin In the forests on the Maiti Chunk Mountain While In quest M game for his family, whom he-had fcl at home without food of any kind, p foot struck a block stono Ily M roadside, not far from the town let Summit Hill, he built n flro of wrfl, and throw pieces of the supposed stijK about It, so thst the embors might 1M longer while be was roasting a fiM Ho was surprised, after a little wb)U, to see the stones glow and retain tlwlf heat for a long time He carried a W of the coal homo and burned It thrfn, Tbe few nolghbora soon learned of ill discovery, but there was no mlnta to any extent In Carbon county uil'J after the war of 1812 hid begun t |