Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1885 — THE EAST. [ARTICLE]

THE EAST.

Water flowing from a pool on the surface flooded No. 1 slope of the Susquehanna Coal Company’s mine at Nanticoke, Pa., in which there were at the time nearly 1,000 men and boys. All made hurried escapes save a band of thirty men, working in the Boss 6enm, who were cut off by the water and an accumulation of rubbish. Their condition nt this writing is unknown, but there is said to be no danger of the men being suffocated.... John Hannon, a new York schoolboy aged 12 years, was arraigned in court for the third time upon a charge of attempting to take his own life. His course has resulted from his dislike for school... .Hiland Hall, ex-Governor of Vermont, died very suddenly at Springfield, Mass. He was 90 years old, mid was in his usual heath up to the time of his death. The city of Elizabethport, N. J., levied on the effects of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, and the Works were closed. There is a quarrel between the city and the company, it appears, and the former is largely in debt to the latter and refused to credit the taxes due by the company on account. .. .Henry T. Coleman, a prominent lawyer of Philadelphia, has purchased the Bonaparte estate of two hundred acres at Bordentown, N. J., and will restore the dilapidated houses and preserve the historical features of the place.... In the Court of Common Pleas', at Philadelphia, the preliminary injunction restraining the American Association from expelling the Metropolitan Club of New York, was continued. ->