Gas explosion entombs hundreds in Darr mine disaster
In Jacobs Creek PA an explosion at the Pittsburg Coal Company Darr mine entombed between 200 and 250 miners. Rescue teams report mutilated bodies and headless remains among thirteen recovered, marking a deadly December across Western Pennsylvania and nearby West Virginia mines with total victims between 550 and 600.
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Jacobs Creek
Darr
Pittsburg Coal Company
Naomi
Fayette City
Monongah
West Virginia
Epigrams and aphorisms spark odd car talk
In a Cleveland street car, three men discuss epigrams and aphorisms as a sanitary officer posts a red card with Epigrams Within. The stranger intrudes and baffles the group with folkish lines while other passengers react with wary humor.
Prince In Israel: Rev. Henry Quigg D D Dies in Conyers Georgia
The Rev Henry Quigg D D longtime minister and educator died December 2 1907 at his Conyers Georgia home after a long life of service He was born in 1825 and emigrated to Quebec at 16 where he led St Andrew's Institute He later studied at Erskine College and seminary and served with the Associate Reformed and later the General Assembly Presbyterians He was married twice first to Bethia Moffatt and then to Sarah Craig survived by family and noted as a prolific writer and Confederate chaplain He preached in Conyers and Smyrna and earned an honorary D D from Emory College.
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Henry Quigg
Conyers
Georgia
Quebec
St. Andrew’s Institute
Robert C. Grier
Due West
Erskine College
Erskine Theological Seminary
White Oak
Coweta County
Newton County
Associate Reformed Presbyterians
General Assembly of Presbyterians
Conyers and Smyrna
Emory College
Bethia Elizabeth Moffatt
Chester
John Hemphill
Quigg
Sarah Anges Craig
Alabama
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the Weather Bureau
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Israel
Cannon Streets
Highmarket
Duke and
Highmarket Street
Orange Street
J. H. Fraser
Agt
Sergetown Furniture Co
China
Carolina Hardware Co
Gibraltar
Southern Mercantile Go
Noth
S& the Bank OF Georgetown
State of
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County of
Gacandenes
City of
Fogels
Harry Fogel
Cowley
Ice
Georgetown, S. C
L. D. Wiggins
Callat W. W
West
New York
York
Geo. Easton
G. H. Watts
Ouis Poniatowski
P. O
Red Store
Hartnett & Day
Cales
Front St
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