A.J. BLOOR.

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ROCK UPHEAVAL CAUSED BY HYDRAULIC PRESSURE.--There was a remarkable

occurrence at the mills of the Combined Locks Paper Company at Combined

Locks, Wis., on Saturday. From some unknown cause there was an upheaval

of rock upon which the mills are located, throwing the mill walls out of

place, cracking a great wall of stone and cement twenty feet thick and

making a saddle-back several hundred feet long and six inches high in

the bed rock beneath the mill. An artesian well two hundred feet away on

the bluff has dried up. The damage to the mill and machinery will

probably amount to several thousand dollars. The upheaval is supposed to

have resulted from some hydraulic pressure between the seams of rock

beneath. A panic occurred among the mill operatives at the time of the

shake-up, but nobody was hurt in the stampede from the mill.--_Boston

Transcript_, _September_ 10.

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