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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 

ANOTHER ACCIDENT AT THE WORLD'S SHOW

... ANOTHERt ACCIDENT AT T'iE WORLD'S SHOW. ,. . SCAFFOLDING FALLS WITH WORK- MEN. THREEI MEN KILLED. (FHOM OUR COUlRESPO-DENT,) PARIS, Monday Night. Yet another Exbibition accident, in which three persons were killed and one hopelessly injured. All four wstre ...

CANNIBALISM IN A BRITISH COLONY

... crimes. A forcse of frontier police with the prisoners and scaffold accordingly went doven to the Impern country, which is about 50 miles from Sherbro, in the Colonial Govern.- meet.. The scaffold was erected in a public - street, and the bodies of the three ...

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 ...

SUBURBAN NEWS

... MitctuyZ fitter, rssiding at Burnbank Street, wsseir-. at work a vessel in Fairfield Shipbuilding While carrying a board along a scaffold the boon! came to contact with man who was carrying . bag of rivets, overbalancing Mitchell, aad hiui fall over the side ...

PARIS EXHIBITION

... owing to the collapse of a 't scaffold. t All four viathas were painters, and were working on the top scaffolding at the decoration e of the upper galleries. According to the latest f accounts, the accident was due to the scaffold- i ing having been faultily ...

BIRMINGHAM TRIENNIAL MUSICAL FESTIVAL

... the main coal seam, a distance of 60 fathoms. At this point a scaffold was hanging for thepurpose of carrying out the repairs on the pit shaft leading to the Virtuewell seam. The scaffold is raised and lowered by means of a steel wire rope attached to ...

THE PARIS EXHIBITION

... victims were lsainters, and were wvorlking on lhe top of the scaffolding at the decoration of the upper galleries. Accord- ing to the latest accounts, the accident was due to the scaffolding havinlg been faultilv erected, so that it could not bear the ...

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 ...

1 THE MARTYRS.. STON

... libation poured. For morethan thirty years this-old tombstone to the nine martyrs who suffcred at the cross of Glasgow in the Killing Times has lain neglected on the north side of the Cathedral. The CounciUors of the city have very properly declined to consentto ...

FATAL ACCIDENTS AT THE PARIS EXHIBITION

... of the& Salle des Fetes in the Machines Gallery. Osving to a prop on the scaffolding giving way they had ai fall of neary fifty feet. The skull of the many who was not killed is split open, and he is not exn- pected to live through the night. He fell ...

MR. C. HALLE'S ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS

... despairing paroxysm rai of unrequited love, seeks relief in death, and cei poisons himself. The draught, however, fails to H, kill, hut plunges him into a long sleep, filled with Ab strangest visions, which reproduced, in varied Ala strains of music, the ...