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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 ...

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 ...

ROME, Feb. 8

... instance of its infallibility was quoted in all the haunts of the people. A labourer fell from the scaffolding of the new hospital in the Corso, and was killed on the spot; his fellow-workman left the corpse in the street, and ran to consult his Book of ...

THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM—ENGLISH OPERA

... for interment. Friday morning a scaffold was ere&ed on the Parade - Taunton, for the purpose of exhibiting the diversion of f playing at sidirle.stick. Fivc standards, all from the e parish' of Wedmore, mounted the scaffold in rotation; the. first was Le ...

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 ...

SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT THE PARIS EXHIBITION

... SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT THE PARIS EXHIBITION-. ELEVATED FOOTWAY COLLAPSES EIGHT KILLED, 63 INJURED. e DISTRESSING SCENES. 0 STORY OF AN EYE-WITNESS. et (FROM OUR CORRF.SPONDENTTJ PARIS, Sunday Night. A very serious accident, causing loss of life e and injuries ...

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 ...