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...explosions occurred in a colliery in the Rhondda valley, Wales, Saturday. Six persons were killed and two thousand were thrown out of employment...
...board of trustees have determined to establish a mechanical department in Girard College. Five thousand dollars have been appropriated for a beginning...
Vanderbilt has had two hundred yards of costly silk hangings woven at the celebrated establishment of Cheney Bros., for his new mansion in New York. The hand embroidery on this beautiful material cost nearly four thousand dollars. The silk draperies made by the same concern expressly for him are delicately interwoven with threads of pure gold and cost fifty dollars per yard...
Tompkins & Hill, it is said, have made sixty thousand dollars on "Michael Strogoff...
...YALE AND PRINCETON FOOT-BALL MATCH.Yesterday the long-expected foot-ball match, for the championship of the American colleges, was played by the representatives of Yale and Princeton in the presence of at least thirty thousand spectators, assembled in the new coliseum. A more sanguinary and exciting struggle has seldom taken place, and the list of killed and wounded reflects great credit upon both colleges. The match was played in accordance with the Roughby rules, one of which provides that the clubs used by the players shall each be four feet long, made of the best oak, loaded with lead...