... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Mickailoff, Perofskaja, and Kibaichich, connected in the murder of Alexander 11., were executed on the previous day. The scaffold was a rough woeden structure painted black, consisting of a high platform, upon which were three posts, each with a ehain ...

... self-control. Palmer, by the bedside of the friend he was slowly murdering, in the dock when tried for the crime, and on the scaffold when about to expiate hi 3 guilt, was the same homogeneous criminal—pitiless in the one case towards his victim, desperately ...

... :—Caledonian, 11 killed, 19 injured; Dundee and Arbroath, 2 killed, 2 injured; Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen, killed ; Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee, I killed ; Glasgow and Paisley, 1 killed; Glasgow and South-Western, 1 ...

... and several of the workmen were killed or seriously injured. The builders are Messrs John and William Walker, Birkenhead, who will, of course, suffer great loss. We have also heard that a man was blown off a scaffold in the park, and both his legs broken ...

... at about a league from the city. A scaffolding had been erected to support the beams, over which were to pass the enormous blocks of stone necessary to form the last arch, when a gust of wind made the scaffolding fall with the workmen then standing on ...

... became a priest, I never attended convicts on the scaffold, but on one occasion. Two men were executed in Montreal, 1832, for the murder of a soldier. The two were guilty; one of them said nothing on the scaffold: the other declared his innocence, although ...