... the building. While so employed they stood on scaffolding belonging to the con- tractor, Mr. sold. One of the planks of the scaffolding having given way, the two men were precipitated to the ground and killed, Claims for compensation were mude by the widows ...

... Engineering Conipany.-Claimant was working in the reepcndents' yard at Roath Basin in October S last, wwhen he fell from a scaffold, crushing his leg. which had to be amputated. He had been paid £1 a week sinoe the accident-Mir. Lloyd P Ileyrick, solicitor ...

... for plaintiffs accordingly. AN inquest was held at St. Bartholomew's Hospital on the two labourers who were killed by falling from a scaffolding in Fins- bury Square on Monday week. Their names were Alfred Bovington, forty- one, 4' labourer, of Rodney ...

... arth-East- ern Steel-works, living at Hutchinson- t street, said about a quarter past five on a Sunday evening he was on a scaffold hb s with the deceased anm. others, straight- ening the. lattice girders. The men who F used the scafiold erected it, and ...

... P.3-. The Lotia is Eying the British flag. SOFIA, August 20.-Twenty persons have been killed and injured in a collision on the railwav near Plevna. A mong the killed was AL Petroff, en en- gineer, brother of the late Minister of War. A SOLDIER'S STRANGE ...

... on the scaffolding, which had been erected by his master, one of the planks gave way and he was precipitated to the ground and killed. The building was admittedly over 30ft. in heiaht. This claim was made by the widow, of the man who was killed agisth ...

... POLICE INTELLIGENCE. _ ?? LAMBETH. i v DESERTED HIS WIFE FIFTY TIms I-David Taylor, thirty-nine, a scaffolder, irho was arrested at Dorking by Warrant-officer Ed- wards, was charged, before Mr. Hopkins. l on a warrant, with deserting his wife and s two ...

... ? of 'scaffolding. The defendant now appealed frour thbt decision, contending that the accident did not take place on a huildiii which was ihl hosuse of coimetruction. or* repair and that ;the trestles and' boards did not constitute scaffolding within ...

... death of Susannah Jessie Millar, who, on Wednesday afternoon, I was ran over by an omnibus at Ludgate hill, and instantly killed. George John Oliver Millar, a compositor, said the deceased was,unfortunatdlj, hiswife,but he had not lived with her for 15 ...

... imanner, killed her eight-year-old son by striking him on the head with a hatchet and afterwards severed the head 4sm the trunk. She then washed the remains and laid them out for burial. The unhappy woman told the police she in- tended to kill her two ...

... gaol premises, near the facade that is out IOf turncd towards Gaol-lane coad thle Itlymaney C for- fleilnay. There is no Scaffold to ascend in Sig the tile oplen air. All thle gallows arrangensente wa of are within a brick house built on purpose on tat ...

... one of the men so ens- ployed and was under the direct control of Messrs. Bowmen. , He fell off the scaffolding in the course of his duty andl was k~illed. These proceedingys we~re then taken by his widow oin bohalf of herself and Annie Percival, and in ...