PLOUGHING MATCH—GORDON CASTLE

... months, the year ri Mr Mortimer, the English architect was engaged in building a new cathedral at Hamburgh, was killed falling from scaffold. One of his sitters in England had had a vivid dream of the accident, and of his death ; and another of his sisters ...

Published: Friday 16 November 1849
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1302 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TION TO THE UNITED STATES. TO THE PEOPLE OF CANADA

... the Chcrch. Mr Mortimer, the English architect, who was engaged in building a new cathedral at Hamburgh, wss killed by falling from scaffold. One of his in England, had had a vivid dream ef the accident, and his death : and another of his sisters also ...

Published: Saturday 17 November 1849
Newspaper: Nairnshire Mirror
County: Nairn, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2845 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... inclos- s(;dl ute, for thie benefit of the widow mi4 0i~icol. tile mason, who was killed il funt a scaffold at the Gas Light Corn- stDA, stte tlime ago. llcsday ?? a mason was killed, by a \sause %Wiicii lie was emphoyed in tg injxovSa-ctnreet, Leith. t Iliegl ...

Published: Thursday 09 April 1818
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3219 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Dam) Swor.—Mr Simon Rennie of this town killed at two shots, on the 19th ult., on the farm of Wester

... Dam) Swor.—Mr Simon Rennie of this town killed at two shots, on the 19th ult., on the farm of Wester Alves, ten wild geeze, seighirg at an average 10 !bs each. TEMPERANCE MEEIINO.-0O the second Tuesday of last month the Quarterly Meeting of the Total ...

troops of the Austrian garrison, that fire persons were | killed and a great niirrher wounded. It was said in

... troops of the Austrian garrison, that fire persons were | killed and a great niirrher wounded. It was said in Milan that Austrian Government vraa so much alarmed at the excitement amon|r the people of I.ombardy, that it bad resolved, the only meana of ...

Published: Friday 14 January 1848
Newspaper: Greenock Advertiser
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1380 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DREADFUL ACCIDENT

... the scaffold was at all in a dangerous state, being composed of strong upright poles, which are rendered secure by long cross pieces of timber firmly wedged to the brickwork and tied with thick cords. They were in the act of running the scaffold up some ...

Published: Thursday 16 January 1845
Newspaper: Stirling Observer
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 291 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ACCIDENT

... thought might have fallen into the water, which was from six seven feet deep, and nearly up the scaffolding. put his foot over the edge of the scaffolding, and came in contact with his brother's head in the water. lie then called out Murder,” which, being ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1844
Newspaper: Glasgow Citizen
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 258 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

'THE MORAL EXAMPLE;

... murder —a carrying out of an unchristian les talionis—exhibited in our vicinity. We witnessed this moral example,' or public killing. We saw the mixed mobthe men, the children, and the women, the latter preponderating—that witnessed it ; and we were subsequently ...

Published: Saturday 27 May 1848
Newspaper: Arbroath Guide
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 262 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

THE _-Leipsic _Gazette states that _Mr Cobdcn arvivcd'afc _Dresden on tlie 20 th , and on the _following' _tiny ..

... _the _,.. _Kill _- _commuted tlie _sentence into perpetual _imprisonment , and the application of _the _punishment called hrandishi » n ' -of _the axe , ' _• which consists _in _making _' a prisoner undergo a _pretended _execution . A _scaffold _was prepared ...

Published: Wednesday 04 August 1847
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 593 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WINDYGATES

... present erecting at Cameron Distillery, and Monday morning one of the scaffolds gave way, when some and labourers were precipitate ...

Published: Thursday 01 November 1849
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 44 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CLUNIE COLLIERY—MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT

... thought he might have fallen into the water, which was from six to seven feet deep, and nearly up to the scaffolding. He put his foot over the scaffolding, and came in contact with his brother's head in the water. He then called out Murder, which being heard ...

Published: Thursday 29 August 1844
Newspaper: Stirling Observer
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 264 | Page: 1 | Tags: none