... Lock 9, Saturday evening last. She w*» 73 year* Killed near Fife.—On Monday afit-rnuou, while a quarrier, Robert Duff, wae working a limestone Magask, Oere®, a mass of rock fell upon biro from height, killing biro the apot. The deceased was between 50 and ...

... receiver. (1 4 Mr Breathwitt, clerk of the works at Oxford, whilst aseending some scaffolding ‘at Kelbe College this morning, fell to the ground, and was instantaneously killed. ; THE «JEAN ROSS FUND.’ i .+ Ao the Editor of the Oban Times. OIR,~—AN appeal ...

... a of Cbassepot bullet*. Nor had time to finish his cigar. The execution was most clumsily performed, none of the men being killed outright, and all requiring the coup df grace, which was bungled over. Those persons who attended the execution had just time ...

... years penal servitude. THE STORY OF A MURDER AND EXECUTION AT ST LOUIS. A FEARFUL SCENE OS THE SCAFFOLD. William Edwards, a coloured man, who was convicted killing Lewis Wilson, another coloured man, at negro ball, last winter, was executed in the jail yard ...

... following. They are also investigating the discount system, and will no doubt take steps to alter a system that has almost killed the retail bookselling trade. It a portrait of the managing editor of the Ni u.k 11, vibl, and an account of this remarkable ...

... asto which of them was the best man, Coyle made a blow at Acheson, who took np the tongs, and hitting Coyle on the temple, killed him with a blow, Death was jnstantaneons. Coylew as asmall farmer, and Acheson, who is nuder arrest, carn 1 his livelihood ...

... the most crael tortares, »od were commonly dismisced to the Court of Justiciary, and thence, by & rapid transition, to the scaffold. In the mides o{lhc-e eanguinary proceedings the king was seized with a fit of npo'floxy and expired on the 6th of February ...

... prison for two years for robbing fellow-workman and nearly killing him pickaxe. One morning the fellow seemed peifecily mad, broke everything in bis cell, tore bis clothes, ami threatened kill firet mao «ho entered. Fulford went the man, told him would ...

... lighter which crossed its course, off Port Glasgow, while coming down the Clyde Monday. One of the men ou board the lighter was killed, and both vessels went aground but the steamer was got off easily. A public meeting was held the Market Square, Galashiels ...

... eat comfortably with it, and, presume, the idea struck l), iV id Kiddel. gamekeeper Mr Brown, Devol, him that he could longer kill thought by card playing. i» or - James Fairbairn was bis assistant. The When the toilette wa* finished, for the first time ...

... death of Jobn Brown of Priesthili was quite as legal as the execusion of the most notorivus criminal ever bronght to the scaffold. 1 bave now referred to three versions of this story, and mede such remarks on tbem as I thonght necessary. 1f I bave not ...

... Ge ree! k and not English should be the official language of Cyprus. A farmer's son near Northaliertou, in Yorkshire, was killed by lightning on Friday while working a at the same time. reaping machine. Two other persons were injured Nearly 2000 operatives ...