Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1885 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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A mine of the Susquehanna Coal Company, at Nanticoke, Pa., was flooded by water which broke m from the Susquehanna River. Most of the miners were warned in time and escaped, but it is feared that thirty miners who were in the lower levels wero drowned. The American Base-Ball Association was restrained by order of court in Philadelphia from expelling the Metropolitan Club. David Miles, of Milford, Conn., was gored to death by a Holstein bull. Edward Miles would have mot a similar fate had not a spectator put half a dozen bullets into the brain of the enraged animal. Edison, the inventor, has resumed his work on the phonograph, which ho is confident of perfecting to such an extent that it will take the place of stenographers. Small-pox has appeared at the lunatic asylum on Blackwell’s Island, New York. The disease also exists in New York Ciiy, whore twelve cases and one death were reported the past week.