Colliery Explosion Twenty-four Killed. London, June 24
A great colliery disaster is reported from Pennsylvania. An explosion occurred in tho Well rum Colliery, and 65 men were entombed. Most of the men were…
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Goal Trade Crisis Eight Hours in Mines Act. No Friction in England. London
Although the coming into force of the Eight Hours in Mines Act to-day, has so disturbed the coal-mining industry in both Wales and Scotland that a most serious…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining at Rutherglen
Gratification is expressed by the Minister of mines at the satisfactory character of the report just issued by the Prentice and Southern Deep Leads…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in Canada. Mining Town Half Destroved London
A disastrous fire has occurred at Cohall, the new and rich silver mining centre in the Canadian prevince of Outaric. Damage to the extent. of 500,000 dollers (£100,000)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Embargo Upon a Coal Mine
Representative of the Hetton Coal Company interviewed the Minister of Mines to-day, making the request that the official embargo which had been placed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Amalgamation of Colliery Employes. Newcastle
At a meting to-day the Newcastle Collivery Employes Federation appointed a representative to confer with the [?] Association in order to take…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Helton Colliery
The Mines pepartment in pro[?]ting the working of Helton Colliery has been guided by the fact that is inspector cannot certify that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queensland Copper Mines
Mr. H. F. C. Keats, of Tolhurst, Keats, Co., and a director of the Chillagoe and Etkeridge Goldsfields Companies, who is returning south, and Mr. E. A…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →How a Coal Wheeler Was Killed. Newcastle
A young man named George Johnson, 25 years of age, employed as a colliery wheeler, was accidently killed in the Wallarah pit at Cahterine Hill Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dispute in the Coal Trade Fifteen Thousand on Strike. Collisions with Non Strikers. London
The hope that the Eight Homs Art would be brought into force in the Black County without any trouble has not been realised an [?] Warwickshire is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Strike in Canada. Strikers Attack Blacklegs. the Riot Act Read. Troops and Machine Guns to the Rescue. London
Serious trouble has occurred amongst the employes of the Don Union Coal Company at Capte Breton, Nove Scotia, Canada…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Mining Dispute Lockout Threatened in Scotland. London
Owing to the dispute in regard to the application of the Eight Hours' in Mines Act, which came into operation on July 1, as a result of the mineowners insisting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →English Coal Mining Strike Disorderly Scenes in the "Black Country." London
The "Black Country" is in a state of turmoll and excitementowing to the situation created by the introduction of the Eight hours in Mines Act on July 1…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining at Rutherglen
At the Great Northern Estended Censols good [?] are being obtained from the South leading drive while the wash in No. 3 west drive is also of a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Scottish Coal Trouble. 17,000 Men Give Notice. London
The trouble in the Scottish coal mining industry has developed suddenly. As a protest against the proposed [?] in their wages of 6½ per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gas Explosion in a Mine Large Numbers Entombed. Recovery of the Dead and Injured London
A distance explosion of late occured in the Makewaka mine in the Don District of Russia at the end of last week, which so wrecked the working, that large…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Explosion in Spain. Seventeen Corpses Recovered. London
A severe explosion has occurred in a mine at Behnez, near Cordova, in Spain, which resulted in large numbers of the miners underground being buried alive…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scottish Coal Trouble. Ballot for a General Strike. London
The Settled in Miners Federation, which has called out 17,000 of its members in File and Kinross, to resist a reduction in their wages of 6[?] percent. has appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Strike of 80,000 Scottish Miners
Notice have been given by 60,000 miners employed in the Scottish cont trade, that, and the alti[?] by the mineowners receiving waver by [?] per cent. be with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Trade Depression. Another Reduction in Wages. London
The coal mine [?] in the federated all tricl[?] of England and Wales have asked their employes to agree to a [?] in wages of 11 per cent…
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