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AMUSEMENTS IN AUSTRALIA

... Theatre of Varieties, now being erected for Mr George Adams, to be managed by Arthur Garner. A faulty scaffold gave way, and a man was killed. The scaffold eves loaded with bricks and men. The latter clung to wall and supports, and all escaped without injury ...

Published: Saturday 09 May 1896
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4101 | Page: 20 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE CERISTS OF TRADE

... THE 1IEUPUIS OP TnADS. [From January, 1899, to October, 1893, 154 men employed on the Idanoheoetro Ship Canal wore killed; 186 were perma- nently crippled; 1,401 were temporarily disabled,] Christs of the Age of Trade I Martyrs of beams and of bricks ...

Music

... and the footman is killed. The third act is Andrea's trial before the Revolutionary Tribunal, a striking stage picture in which also it is said the choral element is strong. The heroine resolves to accompany Andrea to the scaffold. She takes the place ...

THE MUSICAL UNION

... ACCIDENT AT BORNLEY.-THREBE MEN KILLED.-Between five and six o'clock on Monday evening a shocking accident occurred at Mr. J. Kay's weaving shed, Burnley-wood. A new end is being erected, and eight men were on a scaffold, and had just landed upon it a ...

THE CHAPEL IN THE TOWER

... in number ore of whom, however, was not a prisoner. Of the remaining thirty-three, twenty-three were put to death on the scaffold and ten died in prison. Of these twenty-three, sixteen perished between the years 1534 - 554, while the remaining seven are ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... erection by the defendant, a builder. in Chesham-gardens, Chelsea, last September, fell from a scaffold and was killed. It was alleged that some portion of the scaffolding, called a ledger, was improperly fastened, or not fastened at all, to another piece of ...

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

... opponent upon the shooting of the fifty birds on the previous day, only killed twenty-nine birds to-day; 'while Foster killed thirty-two, and thus I won. The fact of Johnson being backed to kill the moast in the first fifty, led to a strongish expression amongst ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. G

... curtain to be raised, whereupon the two combatants were seen drooping over a clothes line raised a few feet from the stage. The scaffold scene is omitted, but the burlesque requires com- pression, and especially in the long delirium tre- mens scene of Coupeau ...

STORIES FOR THE PEOPLE

... stringent laws against the possession of arris-soon compelled the latter to retire. They were-pursued, and- many of them were killed. The remainder ?? afterwards, disheartened by the miserable organization and the slender provision made for supplies, dispersed ...

NINETY-THREE—WHEN THE SUN ROSE

... Gauvain. Gauvain walked towards the scaffold. As he moved on he looked at Cimourdain, and Cimourdain looked at him. It seemed as if Cimourdain leant for support upon that look. Gauvain reached the foot of the scaffold. He mounted it. The officer who commanded ...

EXAMINATIONS of the SOCIETY of ARTS

... mar, B. named George Snooth, aged thirty years, was accidentally re killed He was at work on a scaffold at Fulham, when the ik labossr placed an extra quantity of bricks on the scaffold, 3, which broke it idow, and the deceased fell from a very i- considerable ...

THE AVENGER

... wife, refuses to live after her dishonour, and commits suicide. Dave is demanding justice when Paul turns up. Dave trys to kill Paul, but is prevented, Paul being locked up, and Dave going back into the Bush with the body of his wife. The company then ...

Published: Saturday 07 October 1899
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 981 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture