... before eight o'clock six men took their places on a scaffolding erected on the inside of the west gable of the building at a height of about forty feet. They had scarcely commenced to work when the scaffolding suddenly gave way at one end and fell with a loud ...

... WEST HIGHLAND AUCTION MART, OBAN Wednesday, 28th July. “’IBLY SALE of PAT STOCK, KILLING and KEEPING CALVES, YOUNG PIGS ctc. Note-—-Entries of Fat Stock for certification must be made on official entry form at least seven days prior to date of sale. OPENING ...

... A RAI AY RRIDGE FORTY PERSONS KILLED. Tre Rhine Gazette says the iron bridge yet unfinished of the Railway Company of Berg, acroas the Rhine, has fallen in of a laden vessel having come into collision with the scaffolding of the construction. Aboat forty ...

... of trouble, aod she took todriak ; aad, my lord, to add two all this, last night her brother fell from a scaffolding fifty feet bigh, aod was killed.’ As sooa as the prisoner heard this of ber sister she gave a most piteous aud piercing scream, and, running ...

... as to w and meeting the deceased on morning of ge 27th of September Powell beat him about q:o head with a Kuvy chisel, and killed him on the spot. Since his condemnation Powell has been visited by his wife and other friends. The Rev. W. Gilbert, the chaplain ...

... regular order round the scaffold, and besides these targe number of persona bad been admitted within the jailyard enclosure. Shortly after was seated, Holmes that somebody would pray for him, and the snggc-suoo a party near the scaffold, the condemned bad ...

... and a scaffold across the down-cast ws* therefore used. The deceased was placing butch on this scaffold for the purpose of being drawn up the surface, bat unfortunately th® scaffold gaae way, and was precipitated the bottom, of the shaft and killed ins ...

... Cadder, was killed No. Sinking Pit, Cdder Moss, near Biabopbriggs, belonging the Carton Company. It appears the pit is about fathoms down, and deceased, along with another sinker named James Henderson, were down the abaft standing on & scaffold about fathoms ...

... at work on a scaffolding near the top of the bailding, when a labourer named Stewart, who had been sent to the top to colleot some ropes, but who seems t 0 have mistakea his instructions, loosened one of the ropes which held the scaffolding, precipitating ...

... Lighthouse was unexpectedly laid on Wednesday by the Duke of Edinburgh. Max axp Honrse Kiuuep BY Ligarsive.—A man and horse were killed by lightning on Lord Bateman’s estate at Shobdon on Saturday. Consi‘derable damage was done to property. Her Masesty AND Generan ...

... The Duke of Argyll has been left on his throne, but it has been shaken under him. Local treason has been scotched, but not killed. We may expect rather that it will derive fresh furce from the degree of fortune that has attended on it, and that it will ...

... the executioner, and precisely ■ the procession came from the jail into a small court yard, where the scaffold erected. After ascending the scaffold. Smith immediately adjusted the rope shook hand* with the wretched man, the bolt was drawn, and in a few ...