Accidental Death verdict over Bignall Hill gas blast
Seventeen men died in the Bignall Hill colliery gas explosion on Christmas Eve. The jury found accidental death and urged safer working practices including licensed lamps only. In Paris, a new opera opened with Marshal MacMahon and other dignitaries present. Lord Mayor of London visited the Elysée with the Sheriffs, exchanging remarks with Marshal MacMahon.
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Bignall-hill
North Staffordshire
Paris
Marshal MacMahon
Comte - Paris
Duc d’Aumale
Hanover
Peterley
London
the Elysée
Lord Lyons
Madame MacMahon
Endowed Schools Acts reform and railway tragedy update
A Victorian periodical reports a general meeting of an institute, lectures by J E Howard and notices of Professor Henslow. It covers Endowed Schools reform transferring duties to the Charity Commission, a Ningpo witness to Christian power, and the Great Western Railway disaster with thirty four dead plus inquest details, plus frost breakup and severe snow disruptions across Britain with ships damaged and ten lives lost on the Tyne.
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Whitsuntide
Cooper
Inquirer
Charity Commissioners
Commissioners of the Treasury
Educational Department
China
the Times
Jesus
Sureton
Great Western
Oxford
Oxford Infirmary
Attree
King’s Arms Hotel
Scotland
Dundee
Tyne
Wear
Tees
Humber
Paris Garden Pears and Curious Victorian Anecdotes
Readable items describe the Jardin des Plantes hosting over 1400 pear varieties in Paris, interwoven with a string of short vignettes. A teacher tests memory with Joshua’s fire remark. tombstone warnings for single women. fashion smuggling by American tourists. mummies auction notice. umbrella theft humor. Bacchus drinking tale. servant grumble tale. a New Jersey cat concrete scare. and a proposed professional conversationalist Baron de H- in London with high fees.
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Jardin Des Plantes
Paris
Latimer
Joshua
Saratoga
Emma, Dau’r
Abraham
Matilda C
Theodore S
Europe
Ptolemy
Antiochus
Alpima
Saleucus
Bermondsey
Dovustrut Evrpencr
Aberdeenshire
Bacchus
John
The
New York Tribune
America
Miss X
New Jersey
Baron de H
London
Versailles
Aris
Pall Mali Azette
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