... Queen has granted a pension of ten shillings a week to the widow of the late James Blake, the workman who was killed falling from a scaffold Osborne House. The two children are also to b placed t school in London. c The Queen has approved of Mr. J. Groom ...

... middle of which the current flowed, is already half-destroyed, and on its site the carpenters are erecting a scaffolding of strong pine -boards, 100 feet high, which will direct and form a channel for the water's rising to this height. Paris will now ...

... EX ECUTION OF A MURDERER, TWELVE PERSONS KILLED. AEOUST 6. _ This morning the awful sentence of death .113% carried into effect, in front of the cuunty !gaol, upon William tim ille, aged 28, who was convicted at the late assizes of the murder of his wife ...

... shire, last week, a labourer, who had sought shelter under tree, was killed the lightning. the 2dnd. ult.. poor man, working a field near Sligo, was struck, and his tongue split the shock. Wednesday week, inquest was held the Marlborough's Head, Colchester ...

... ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. Sunday se’nnight servant, belonging toT. G. Katon, Esq. was killed oil tile road near Harford, by waggon going over him. Salisbury, July 31. —Samuel Tucker was indicied for the wilful murder ot Aim Tucker, bis wife, at Bradford ...

... thousands, and to the few other persons about be scaffold at that early hour, lieu mes braves! 'he only regret he expresed, from the hour of his arrest last minute of life, was tho• he had failed to kill /ace ,e king. It is plain that the punishment of ...

... Hoddesdon. —Fatal fall from a Scaffold —On Monday last, a man named George Turner, employed as bricklayer's labourer, at the brewery of Messrs. Christie, Hunt, and Co., now in progress of erection lloddesdon, fell from the scaffold, a height of between thirty ...

... engaged upon a scaffold at the top of the building, in raising a pole, when near the landing place, one of the guide ropes broke, and the pole suddenly and violently revolved; and, in its course, struck one the men, named urtis, from the scaffolding. He fell ...

... gentleman was engaged m his usud manner superintending the works, and by some means fell from the scaffold, and was killed by the fdl ; or, if not killed instantiy.did not long survive. A letter, confirming the fatal result, baa been received by the afflicted ...

... Ampuynani, was killed. His brother Micheli, and a farmer of the name of Cruciauo, were suspected of being the murderers. They were both condemned to be beheaded. On the day of execution, Cruciano, who was about 60 years old. marched to the scaffold with firmness ...

... upon a scaffold at the top of the building, when near the landing place, one of the gui ropes broke, which caused the pole suddenly and violently to revolve, and in its course it struck one of the bricklayers, named Curtis, from the scaffolding; he fell ...

... respectable young man, who, the preceding evening, being on scaffold at the brewbouse of Benjamin Cotton, Esq. was in the act of taking hold of a feet deal to remove it and missed his hold ;• the scaffold was 40 feet high. The deceased caught at rope, but u ...