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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...
...reason for his resignation as he repeatedly gave it in public, was, that his salary was too small here, and that he was going where he could get ten thousand per year, - and yet, he has accepted the presidency of the Agricultural College - with no salary the first year, and agreeing to accept what is offered him after that; surely a strange proceeding in a money point of view. Various rumors were afloat at the time of his resignation. Some said that he had been asked to resign by the trustees, while the more general and well authenticated belief...
...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...