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Fatal Colliery Explosion

An explosion of fire-damp took place in a colliery at Pemberton, near Wigan, on Friday evening last, by which no less than ten lives have been sacrificed, and six other colliers have been placed on beds of suffering, with scarcely a possibility of recovery.

The colliery is that called Norley-hall, and is worked by the executors of the late Mr. Danglish, of Pemberton. The coal-bed is one of considerable extent, and belongs partly to Reece Bevan, Esq., and partly to the estate of the late Duke of Bridgwater; but Mr. Daglish had power only to take the coal to the boundaries of Mr. Bevan’s estate.

Posted inDaily News Maritime & Naval History True Crime

Serious Insubordination on American Clipper

LONDON, April 24—The American clipper-ship Sovereign of the Seas, Warner, of New York, from Melbourne, reports that a serious affray occurred on board during the passage from Melbourne, arising from the insubordination of some of the crew, who are at present confined on board in irons.

On the 17th March, the ship on the Equator, long. 32, a quarrel took place between two of the steerage passengers, of whom there were seventy-six on board, and one of the crew. The mate interfered, and ordered the seaman on deck, but he refused, and became abusive, when he was put into irons by direction of the captain. After the lapse of about fifteen or twenty minutes, all the crew mustered aft, and demanded of the captain the immediate release of the man, an Englishman, or they said they would take the ship from him, amid loud murmurings and threats. Previously, it should be mentioned, reports had reached the captain of a contemplated attack to seize the ship.

Posted inAviation Daily News Engineering

Airplane Able To Fly To Moon, Says Inventor

Italian Claims Craft Would Go on Indefinitely After Leaving Earth’s Atmosphere.

By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.

ROME. April 27.—An airplane which its inventor claims can fly to the moon has been designed by an engineer named Gussalli at Brescia. The principle involved is entirely different from that of the air propeller.

Gussalli’s machine will make use of exhaust gas exploded violently against the fans of a turbine revolving 16,000 times per minute. The reaction against this explosion is calculated to make the plane move independently of a propeller.

Posted inDaily News Maritime & Naval History

Norseman Sails for America in 40-Foot Vessel Patterned After Viking’s Boat

Viking Replica of Leif Ericson ship, August 12, 1926 (Source: Naval History and Heritage Command)

BY BJORN BUNKHOLDT.

By cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.

OSLO. April 27.—A new viking voyage across the Atlantic has been started by Capt. Folgeroe of Sandnessjoen, who, after careful studies, built a viking ship, which is a copy in every respect of the viking ships of old—from beautiful curved stern and stem to exquisitely carved dragons’ heads alongside. The ship is 40 feet long and 13 feet wide.

Capt. Kolgeroe’s aim is “to fly the colors of Norway at the Philadelphia exposition.” The hearty send-off he was given shows that he is backed by the entire nation, although economic conditions prevented official representation of Norway at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial.

Posted inPolitics

Antidote To The Slave Trade

We submit to the amputation of a limb for the sake of life ; we hang a man for the benefit of society; we remit punishment, for the sake of truth, when evidence is furnished against accomplices. The appliances for obtaining and rendering justice must be coincident with its demands. When bad men conspire, good men must combine. For national crimes there must be national remedies. Those nations that dare the world’s scorn deserve the world’s execration, and when humanity bleeds it behoves the humane to act with energy. The slave-trade is now indelibly branded by civilized Europe as infamous in those nations that allow it, iniquitous towards man, and a wicked defiance of the Almighty.

There are no guilty deeds without guilty men. The hardened piratical crew of a slaver are not the only sinners, nor indeed the chief sinners. The breeders and owners of slaves; the builders, owners, and equippers of slave-ships; the rascal dealers in our race, the bargainers for blood upon the coast, the marketing buyers in America, Cuba, Brazil; the inhuman taskmasters in each exacting, not only sweat from the brow, but blood from the flesh. These are the beings that Europe execrates.

Posted inDaily News Maritime & Naval History Transportation

British Syndicate To Acquire Control Of White Star Line

New York April 23.—(AP)—The famous White Star fleet of trans-Atlantic liners, including one of the world’s largest ships, the Majestic, probably will pass to the control of British interests, who have submitted an offer for the line to the International Mercantile Marine corporation. The transaction, it is understood. will involve approximately $35,000,000 and will eventually place the White Star ships under the operation of the Cunard Line, although the Furness-Withy interests also were reported to be bidders.

Directors of the Marine Corporation considered the offer today, but J. H. Thomas, vice president, announced after the meeting that there were no developments which called for comment.

Posted inPublic Health & Medicine World War 1

Spanish Flu Spreads All Over Europe

(By Newspaper Enterprise Ass’n.)

London. Aug. 11.—Influenza “Spanish flu,” as it is called is spreading throughout Europe.

In Europe alone there have been more than 600 deaths from the disease in less than two months. One week in July the deaths in London reached 287. Quinine queues are common sights.

The Fourth and Sixth German armies were out of the fighting for weeks with the disease and great “flu camps” have been established in Belgium and France, where the Germans were sent to receive treatment and to prevent the disease from spreading through the Hun armies.