Cage Drops 1,000 Feet in Descending Shaft Johannesburg, Dec. 18.
A white man and 20 natives were Killed to-day in a terrible disaster at the Randfontein Estates gold-mine. cage containing the _vietims descending the shaft broke away and fell 1,000 feet. A crushed mass of twisted wreckage lies at the bottom of the shaft. 7
Only the top of the cage emerged from the water. Human remains jare_ wedged in between timbers, [Baling is beings resorted to in order! to recover the bodies.—Reuter. of '$100,000,000 which Belgium negotiated with the United States. "The second half is being issued early in the New York.
***The local representative of the National City Ca., of New York, which is interested in this flotation, informs us that it is a 30-year loan stoured on an annual sinking find to be paid in New York amounting G. $1,600,000 in monthly instalments starting on Febroary 4, 1025. Bonds of this issue are onl redeemable through the _sinki fund ata price of G. $100, plus Jaccreed interest. The issue ' price fof S72 gives a maturity yield of 7 per cent.
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