... were instantly killed the falling of scaffold the building at which they were employed in Patterson Street. They had just commenced the day's work when the scaffolding suddenly gave way and precipitated them the ground. Child Killed Falling a Needle ...

... TILLICOULTRY NATIVE KILLED. ALLOA MAN'S NARROW ESCAPE. In the thick blinding enow.-torm, a railway occupied at Elliot Junction, near Arbroath last Friday afternoon which rtaulfed the death twenty-ode persons and the more or less serious injury to eleven ...

... and Satire Courts. Cruelty a Cat.- Fanny Haywood, Birmingham, w&j on Wednesday aeotsneed month’s imprisonment for killing a cat by placing it in a boiler of boiling water, aa she admitted, to spite her sister. Brutal Affair. —An exceedingly brutal affair ...

... upon the scaffold. The Rev. Father Brown, Homan Catholic priest of Lancaster, accompanied him. Bnrke wore pair of white trousers, which had requested his brother to send him, and * blaek waistcoat. He had no coat on. As soon be aot upon the scaffold bis lips ...

... and drunken orgies. He concluded saying, “I had to avenge myself upon a woman. I killed her. Society will avenge that woman ; ought to avenge her. It owes the scaffold. I claim it. Have no pity for me. Ido not desire it. I have told you that I am lazy; ...

... talumis forms one of the articles I of the code of the bagne in cases of murder, every man killing another intentionally being pUt|to death. Huet ( will brought the scaffold in few days. ' ffnlhjttnvt. ...

... ell coal. From the moment the scaffold had been laid, the fire-damp had begun to accumulate, which, on reaching the scaffold, passed up through one of the chinks, lighted their lamps, and exploded. In a moment the scaffold and the unfortunate men were ...

... the accident was caused by one ot the men having lifted a part of the scaffold, and put a lamp I under it for the purpose of fitting a conductor to convey water uuder the scaffold from a cut in the shaft above the ironstone. Immediately after the occurrence ...

... out some cloths pole line from her window the fourth storey. The pole gave way, and she fell to the ground headlong, being killed instantaneously. Potato Rot.— Numerous instances of die potato sets becoming rotten after being planted have occurred in the ...

... she saw the prisoner with a poker in his bond, and saw him strike the deceased on the head. The deceased called out she was killed. The unfortunate woman died soon afterwards. The witness said she saw the prisoner strike the deceased five' times on the ...

... aad'wifh had been quarrelling for a long time, when one night .was shot in the street, near hi* own house. would have been killed the spot, ware it not, a* the doctors affirmed, that hh) heart had so contracted on the sudden alarm, that it had not filled ...

... from the fact of one the wretched culprits being a woman—the first of her sex hung in the colony, Mnrphy, the convict who killed Constable O’Boyle at Warranamhool, beating out his brains with a hammer while his back was turned, and then escaped from custody ...