... deaths at from* ■eight to twenty; but after diligent inquiry our reporter® ■could only ascertain that two persons hud been killed,® ■viz., Mrs. Bean and Mrs. Cook, as above stated. A gentle-® ■man was said to have had his back broken, but as trace® ■of ...

... claim of salary by a Dissenting minister was adjourned. Death from a Fall Down a Coal-pit.—A man named Joseph Lindley was killed on Monday last fall down a coal-pit, at Stone-dough, Kearsley, belonging to Messrs Knowles and Stott. Lindley, who was employed ...

... injury to the hip and chest.—An to the cause of the scaffolding giving way, it was, for could ascertain (the whole of our inquiries the subject being hastily made last evening), follows-—The scaffold consisted of planks, placed upon “paddle-hooka,” or ...

... About a quarter put o’clock on Friday morning the deceased was on some scaffolding, assisting other men to put on a wall-plate. Through their forcing the plate on to the wall, the scaffold was sprung from the wall and dropped from underneath them. Deceased ...

... left her, and she continued her incantations. But, the fire did not return, Mieieh and bis companions swore that they would kill and bum her if she did not succeed, and they assured ber that they had axe and furnace ready. At the same time they heaped ...

... morning Barbour was removed from the condemned cell to room on the opposite side of the castle yard, and adjoining to the scaffold, in the fixing of which workmen had then been employed for nearly three hours. When it wu intimated to him that most removed ...

... Charlestou with Havana advices to the Bth instant. The lives of the political prisoners had been spared. They were taken to the scaffold, when their pardons were read. The United States Senate adjourned on the 11th instant. Previous to adjourning, the nomination ...

... since, while three men were engaged in painting the front of a lofty house in Vesey-street, the scaffolding gave way, and one of the men was instantly killed. On Monday bia remains were followed to the grave by his widow and her three orphans, two neighbours ...

... so; and six or eight bricklayers and labourers were workingon scaffold between them when the casualty happened. The first thing they observed appears to have been the fall of the scaffold, shortly after which the back wall gave way and fell partly into ...

... Lites Lost—On Wedoesdsy night nn accident occured at Strangeways Hall Colliery, Low Green, Bindley, by which two men were killed. The colliery, which consists of three pits, has not been worked for long time, but recently Mr. Henry Taylor has taken one ...

... attached to a cart, which was used in conveying material from one part of the building to the other, and the scaffolding falling them killed them upon the spot. Late in the evening, Sir Charles Fox, of the firm Fox and Henderson, the contractors of the ...

... to gloat over it with fiendish satisfaction, repeating again and again that he was a good shot, and that he aimed at the killing place. During the time of his imprisonment, however, be changed his tale, averring that the unfortunate occurrence was accident ...