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AMERICA. FOURTEEN MEN KILLED

... AMERICA. FOURTEEN MEN KILLED. Sheffield, Tuesday.—American advices received here to-day report terrible ironworks calamities at Pittsburg, America. At Totten & Co’s foundry an explosion of molten iron killed ten workmen. They fell into the casting pit ...

Published: Wednesday 22 August 1877
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
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KILLED BEFORE THE ALTAR.—A shocking fatality occurred last week in Miamian Roman Catholic Church, Dublin. A ..

... KILLED BEFORE THE ALTAR.—A shocking fatality occurred last week in Miamian Roman Catholic Church, Dublin. A number of painters were renovating the lofty and beautiful ceiling of the edifice, when James Jellett, a painter, fell off the scaffold, and landed ...

DUMFRIES AND

... two yonthfal murderers, Doré and Ber- early on Monday oe guillotined | 's mother was the night broke down on reaching the scaffold, but Berland for a time displayed great bravado, On reaching the guillotine, however, he violently, ‘and had to be held down ...

Published: Wednesday 29 July 1891
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 129 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Ireland

... unfortunate man, who was found guilty at the late Westmeath Special Commission, of shooting at Sir Francis Hopkins with intent kill, was executed at Friday last. Seery declared his innocence the most solemn manner to the last, and the people of and tho s ...

Published: Wednesday 25 February 1846
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 137 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GMAT FIRE AT OLDHANI

... here& with the .1041 io Irma • prig train. Vag 41110.. --Darner, the a tootwl oo Laßosa% milord now Ligonier toile • scaffold fell killing aims panne ..d i•jeriog II others. LICB WAKEFIKLD OAK. Usder the of colder weather we hove bed ae dared for wheat all ...

Published: Saturday 31 May 1884
Newspaper: Galloway Gazette
County: Wigtownshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 152 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

attural Altb3s

... remainder 499 killed and 3122 injured were persons employed by railways. There were 77 suicides on railways, and of trespassers 262 were killed and 123 injured. were killed and 36 injured at level crossings, aid from misielleasens causes 47 were killed and 80 ...

Foreign Miscellany

... Execution. A man named Peter Braun, aged 24, was executed, on the 27th ult. at Bayreuth, Bavaria, for murder. arriving the scaffold fainted and fell at full length. Two assistant executioners raised him, placed him his knees, bandaged his eyes, and then ...

Published: Wednesday 19 March 1851
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 301 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

GENERAL MEliNll.7l'

... demand a ransom of £40,000. ACCI DENT. A Munich telegram reports that a scaffolding used in the erection of the King of Bavaria's palace iu the island in Chiem Lake, fell yesterday, killing 23 men and injuring IT, THE MISSING CLERGYMAN. Enquiries in Paris fail ...

Published: Saturday 25 August 1883
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
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THE AFGHAN WAR

... scene. A Teri, condemned to be (legged, shouted to the men on the scaffold that their death would be avenged. The Daily News Peshawur correvondent, by telegraph, says The llillmeu killed two way fitters in Kbyber Pass and temporarily arrested the communication ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1879
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 279 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

6encral

... her face was blown away and the sight of the right eye destroyed. FARMER KILLED ON THE ItAILWAV.—On Saturday afternoon James Young, farmer, Spring. hank, Eat Kilhride, was killed on the railway, a short distance from the village. It appears that he had ...

KIRKCUDBRIGHT ACADEMY

... James Prophit. FATAL SCAFFOLDING ACCIDENT.—WhiIe five men were working on a scaffold fifty feet high at Spring Vale Works. Bileton, on Tue-day, the scaffold collapsed. Richard Cooley, aled twenty, fell on his head and was killed on the spot, and Thoma• ...