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FIREMAN PEER

... FIREMAN PEER. DEATH OF EARL OF EGMONT. The Earl of Egmont died on Thursday at Thames Ditton from neuritis, after an illness lasting only three days. He was fifty-four years of age, and succeeded his cousin in 1897. He was a nobleman with a most romantic ...

Published: Saturday 20 August 1910
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 400 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HEIRESS ACTS AS FIREMAN

... works in the foundry for sixteen shillings weekly. ITALY'S GRAND OLD MAN, SIGNOR SANARDILLI DIES OP CANCER. Signor Zanardelli, the well-known Italian statesman, died on Saturday night at the Villa Maderno. near Brescia, of cancer of the stomach. In himit:AV ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1904
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 389 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FIREMAN'S TERRIBLE FALL

... FIREMAN'S TERRIBLE FALL A destructive fire broke out at the Longton (Staffs.) China Factory on Sunday, and raged fiercely during the night. As there was a danger of other buildings becoming involved, • fireman, named William Merry, volunteered to go up ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1903
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 315 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

EX-FIREMAN LEAVES £66.000

... EX-FIREMAN LEAVES £66.000. The will of Mr. Frederick Collins. of Sherwood Rise, Nottingham. who died last month at the age of seventy-five, reveals a remarkable story of industry and ability. Mr. Collins began work ass railway fireman, and was afterwards ...

Published: Saturday 02 August 1913
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 294 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

INQUEST ON A LONDON FIREMAN

... INQUEST ON A LONDON FIREMAN. In London, on Monday evening, Mr. 8. F. Lang. ham held an inquest at t. Msrtin'e Vestry Hall, Strand, on the body of Henry Berg, aged 24, of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, who died from injuries re-. seised at the fire which ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1883
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 757 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A FINE FIREMAN DEAD

... A FINE FIREMAN DEAD. Superintendent Hutchings, the officer in command of the City of London and Clerkenwell districts of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, died suddenly on Monday. Mr. Hutchings had for years been one of Captain Shaw's most able and active ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1891
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1383 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DIED ON HIS ENGINE

... DIED ON HIS ENGINE. Some important medical evidence was given at a coroner's inquiry at Leicester on Monday concerning the death of an engine-driver who died suddenly on the foot-plate of his engine. The driver was Thomas Wilkins,.aged 53, and the tragic ...

Published: Saturday 26 October 1907
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 163 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DIED AT HIS POST

... and fell into his fireman's arms. Fortunately the train was already at a standstill. Had the seizure occurred during the run a disaster must have followed. Several witnesses, including a doctor, expressed the 'belief that Shepherd died on the footplate ...

Published: Saturday 12 February 1910
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 136 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HOW BROTHER OFFICERS DIED

... HOW BROTHER OFFICERS DIED. ALIMIC ISCIDSNT II A ItErENT MOW& MAIM& Further details of the lir.tish reverse near Telles, on the Niger, last October, have reached Liverpool. It will he remembered that the little force, which consisted of Lieutenant Keating ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1899
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 954 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BOXER COLLAPSES ADD DIES

... BOXER COLLAPSES ADD DIES. After boxing well against another flyweight, George Freeman, at the Judean Club, Whitechapel, on Sunday night for five rounds, Jim Burrows collapsed, and died shortly afterwards. The two men were contesting a ten-round match ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1913
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2493 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SATURDAY, SEPT. 2, 1882. MEDALS TO BRAVE FIREMEN. On July 20, Michael Commerford, a New York fireman, was ..

... constantly growing one. The words died In the discharge of his duty, which are added to the name of each fireman wbo has lost his life in the service, are as eloquent a tribute to heroism and devotion as was the announcement died on the field of honour, with ...

Published: Saturday 02 September 1882
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 480 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A DEAN DIES IN HIS CHAIR

... A DEAN DIES IN HIS CHAIR. The Church of England in Walee has sustained a severe loss by the death of the Dean of Bangor, Canon John Pryce, who died on Saturday at the age of seventy-five. In January he suffered from an affection of the heart, and was ...

Published: Saturday 22 August 1903
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1454 | Page: 3 | Tags: none