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 

CANNIBALISM IN A BRITISH COLONY

... crimes. A forcse of frontier police with the prisoners and scaffold accordingly went doven to the Impern country, which is about 50 miles from Sherbro, in the Colonial Govern.- meet.. The scaffold was erected in a public - street, and the bodies of the three ...

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 ...

SUBURBAN NEWS

... MitctuyZ fitter, rssiding at Burnbank Street, wsseir-. at work a vessel in Fairfield Shipbuilding While carrying a board along a scaffold the boon! came to contact with man who was carrying . bag of rivets, overbalancing Mitchell, aad hiui fall over the side ...

BIRMINGHAM TRIENNIAL MUSICAL FESTIVAL

... the main coal seam, a distance of 60 fathoms. At this point a scaffold was hanging for thepurpose of carrying out the repairs on the pit shaft leading to the Virtuewell seam. The scaffold is raised and lowered by means of a steel wire rope attached to ...

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 

1 THE MARTYRS.. STON

... libation poured. For morethan thirty years this-old tombstone to the nine martyrs who suffcred at the cross of Glasgow in the Killing Times has lain neglected on the north side of the Cathedral. The CounciUors of the city have very properly declined to consentto ...

MR. C. HALLE'S ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS

... despairing paroxysm rai of unrequited love, seeks relief in death, and cei poisons himself. The draught, however, fails to H, kill, hut plunges him into a long sleep, filled with Ab strangest visions, which reproduced, in varied Ala strains of music, the ...

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 ...

THE PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE

... on the outer side of the cell can be seen the scaffold, the cress-beam, and the rope. Gray is at length pinioned and led out to execution, but just as he is about to mount the steps leading to the scaffold, Wishra the noose is wviaiting for him, the super ...

THE THEATRES

... HEART AT THE GAIETY. orat e From ' Catherine Howard; or the Throne, tihon sthe Scaffold, and the Tomb, to The Dead the 1Heart which also smacks strongly of scaffolds rhot and tombs, the change, in point of substance, is fron not great. Of the two ...