... yesterday Mrs Harriet Hair was awarded *2OO compensation tor the death of her son George S. Hair. o Tbe young man was killed by falling from scaffold while following his employment with Mr W. T. Weir, contracter, who waa engaged carrying out certain structural ...

... workman in describing the accident to our representative. says it was simply a miracb that tbe men were not killed outrighf. He as the scaffolding was formed by to long planks being stretched from one side the roof io the other -a stretch of about 22 feet ...

... MAN KILLED AT WALKER. An inquest was held in the old Mechanics* Institute, Low Walker, on Wednesday, by Mr Coroner Cockroft, touching the death of John Tomlin, who came by his death the previous evening at the ship launch, from Messrs Mitchell and Company ...

... Thomas Marsland. bricklayer’s labourer, who were killed on Friday last week by lightning at Failsworth. James Lowe stated that was engaged ihe same job as the deceased, and they were working oti a scaffold twenty-two feet from the ground. About three o’clock ...

... WEAR. SHIPYARDS. ONE MAN KILLED AND TWO LNJURED. On Saturday afternoon a serious accident metaled at the shipyard of Sir Janie% laing on the Weer wt. Sunderland, whereby a man named William Rudd, hying in Terrace, was killed, and two other named Thostifs ...

... Yes, I did not intend to kill wife.’ was a sweltering hot dav. and this time several the n.en who st (ound 'h© scaffold had sunk to the ground a faint. No notice, however, was taken of their. The prisoner stepped to the scaffold which was a level with the ...

... chimney. Londin was on the scaffolding when they finished work, jnst before five o’clock, and he slid down rope instead coming down by the ladder. The rope was only fastened at the top, not at the bottom. Witness was on the scaffold also, and down the ladder ...

... 141bs weight, and was lying the scaffold where they had been working, the job in that part of the engine-room being finished. Witness went to remove the in case some one might knock it down. It was lying on a scaffold about 15 or 18 inches wide. He got ...

... grounds, paying his carpenters 50 cents hour, and bis plasterers fivedola. a day. told ms that there have been over 1000 men killed during the construction of the World’s Fair. I asked him for authentic returns, and he said they were not to had, the fatalities ...

... most serious mishap occurred Finsbury Circus, were owing the terrific pressure of the crowd a scaffold was knocked down, and two men standing upon it were killed. During march along Edgwarc »ad man fell off house 60 feet high and broke his leg. The Duke ...

... 32, Clyde Street, said he was rigging a derrick on the scaffolding to lower a plate dowu. He saw nothing fall, but he heard some one shout up, You have let something down; there's a man killed. lie afterwards saw deceased at the bottom of the dook ...

... murder of Mr.Ftilhahi 1 took plate‘in the district gaol Allahabad Wednesday morning. The condemned 'man walked bravely to the scaffold. He signs - flinching, and did not speak a word. His brother, ■ his sons and daughter, and a few friends followed him to ...