Refine Search

Countries

Counties

Argyll, Scotland

Place

Oban, Argyll, Scotland

Access Type

88

Type

82
6

Public Tags

No tags available

More Reminiscences By Pipe-Major Meldrum

... Forbes of Castle New in Aberdeenshire. On leaving him lie eomposed “‘Leaving Strathdon'' He fell off a scaffold when working [ Edinburgh and was killed. it was Pipe-Major John Maedonald ¢ the 79th who composed ““The 79th’s Farewell to Gibraltar”, where ...

Mr Frederick Dore has arvived in London‘to assnme the oflice of Emigration Agent of Canada. Jane Patullo, who ..

... including two hotels and several warehouses. The damage done is stated at 3,'0(1),000 dols. (£600,000), and thrce firemen were killed and five injured. The intercational 24 hours’ walking match in the Agricultural Hall, London, has been won by Weston, the ...

Smrxi fUtos

... were supported means scaffold, which was worked by crab winch, when from some oauae which cannot explained the went out of gearing, and both the men and scaffold were burled the bottom the pita distance of 20 fathoms. M’lver was killed the spot. Oibeon. ...

OALORAFT IN DUNDEE

... Guildhall be told Inspector Haskett that it was his intention to kill old gentleman,’ whom knew to b« the devil, but he was too strong for him. After killing him, to slay the two women, and then kill himself. THE BEER RIOTS AT FRANKFORT- Thk of coatooiporiry ...

no one was hurt

... near Accrinton, tub containing fifty bricks fell, a few days ago. from the top of a pit on to a scaffold, which number of men were woikiog. The scaffold gave way, and John Halstead, miner, aged single man, was drowned, and four other men injured. AT ...

RISE IN COUNTY RATE

... Jamieson, whose accidental death in Van. touver, Britich Columbia, was announced last week's ** Oban Times,” was killed by a fall from scaffolding while engaged in his work as a slater. Mr John Jamieson, slater, Oban, is a son of the late Mr Jamicson, To AvGMENT ...

THE OUTRAGE BY AN OFFICER ON AN

... where the overland stage changed horses, and hired myself to cook for passengers, There was very good wages, fur the cook was killed about every five moaths by the Indians; but somehow I got on well with the Indians. I stayed there till I had saved 800 dollars ...

kind, however, made b inroads upon his fortune, and after failing by means of alchemy to turn base metals into

... eels, and eat them too, but the females of the household, I remember, regarded them with horror because of the difficulty of killing them. The story of “ Granny Duncan and Baird and Hardie” is no doubt #till remembered by o few Stirling and Glasgow veterans ...

ENGLAND

... polling days ; and he has been led to this conclusion mainly by his experiences at Oxford. FearFUL Cart AccipENT—Two Gires KILLED.— On Wednesday night, near Bream, Monmouthshire, l three young girls were riding on the pole of a timber carriage, unladen ...

MURDERED BY MISTAKE

... from a scaffolding tu the waterial unlike anything of ® metallic or planetary hottom of a pit 115 fathoms deep, and killed on the spot, gio, and sre of so light and cloudlike a nature, that had been, along with some others, working on 8 scaffolding, which ...

_______•____ LISMORE AND APPIN SCHOOL BOARD

... the that, enemas the bodies of their husbands; the worshippers of juggernaut ' to cast themselves in front of his car to be killed, maimed or crushed as the wheels pass over them. The religions creed of Mr Macfarlane, will necessarily exert a great influence ...