47 miners were killed at auchengeich colliery, lanarkshire when the bogies carrying them to work ran into smoke, 1,000 feet below ground.
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Home Rule Act on Statute Book but is suspended for the duration of World War
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Theatre Royal, Glasgow, became the first theatre in Britain to be lit by gas.
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