Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1894 — FIFTY MINERS KILLED. [ARTICLE]

FIFTY MINERS KILLED.

Frightful Results of an Explosion of Fir e Damp. A disaster is reported from Karwto, Austrian Silesia. An explosion of fire damp occurred in the Joannand Franziska mines. Over fifty miners are said to have been killed. Both mines are on fire, the ventilator shafts destroyed and the flames spreading in all directions. The mines are owned by Count Von Larisch. A dispatch from Troppau, June 16, says that 120 men were killed in the Franziska mine and eighty in the Joannand pit. The first explosion occurred Thursday night, June 14, and was followed by others until the extent of the calamity could not be accurately estimated. The mines were on fire for several days. I Pension Commissioner Lpchren. July I,| will return to the United States treasury! 125.000,000 unexpended balance of the pen-1 sion appropriation for the current yeakl This appropriation was Si Ci,0)0.000, made) on the estimate of Commissioner Ranm.j Mr. Baum's first estimate was for SIB(J,-l 000.000, but he was asked to reduce this® amount, which he did, but predicted that there would be a deficiency of at leasl 115,000,000 at the end of the present fiscal year. The effect of the Democratic ‘’revision” of the pension rolls is therefore seen in the fact that Qie deficiency die not occur, but instead a surplus of fai. 000,000, making a difference of U0.00O,C0( in the estimate submitted by the two com missioners ’■'■’’sion-j One Way of Identifying It. Colored Attendant—Hi! dar, whaf-for you smash in’ all de gemmen’i hats?” Young Oafs (very unsteady)—Pn (hie) lookin’ fer my (hie) hat It’s i crush hat. When find (hie) one tha crush right, that’s my hat.—Texa Siftings. rne pa"d*acc--cspartmcnt uCconsTUtJrrnj Ute question of increasing the stnndin; re ward of 1211) for each copturo of highway men who rob mails. That sum is deomo utterly inadequate to induce men to undei take such dangerous service, as the captor must pear all incidental expenses.