Over 20 miners ave believed to have been killed, a fow minutes after starting work to-day, in the explosion of a Francisco mine in the south-west of Indiana, The explosion was due to gas, which blew joi the top of the air shaft and Toreed the cage to the top of the Coat Output Morea aeroplane flew over the district and!
The firs: official returns since the general resumption of work the coalfields show that the output coal for the week ended Novem-bet 27 totalled 2,324,000 tons. The jumper of men working was 455,000.
The output for the week ended May 1, that is, before the stoppage, }was 5,097,000 tons—Reuter.
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