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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 ...

Published: Saturday 26 December 1896
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 623 | Page: 21 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

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 ...