... ABLE Pir Acorpent.—Two Men ‘fearfal pi accident was on Saturday to the Fal- kirk from Blackbraes, a small oo in the ood of Slamannan, On Friday, two men were y> a pit ina cage, with the view of they left the the rope which was letting were hurled to the ...

... miners in many districts stopped wok to-day because the shilling advance asked for has been refused. Some of the larger Slamannan district collieries are still at work. The masters have taken prompt action against the men, nine blast furnaces having been ...

... matches in which he has appiaretl, and especially Saturday, has made himself a great favourite with the Burnley folk. Born at Slamannan, in Stirlingshire, Bennie spent nearly all his life at Larkhall. There a schoolboy he acquired the first rudiments of the ...

... In Bai II iestou and Airdrie Burgh. The principal addition to the workers on Tuesday was in what may be regarded as the Slamannan district, which includes a number of collieries adjacent to Airdrie. Estimates of the number of men at work vary from 6,000 ...

... Edinburgh and Glasgow, - - - 893,000 Glasgow Paisley, «nd Greenock, . 393,000 Glasgow Paisley Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 659,000 Slamannan - - 28,400 'rling 144,900 home other railway bills have been before arhainenf , but the contracts for these, we presume, ...

... full. Women joined the pickets at Hamilton, ana prevented the men going down, but the pits were fully manned at Airdrie, Slamannan, Coatbridge, Wis haw, Baillieston, and many Ayrshire pits made a start. Official returns showed that 15,000 men were working ...

... Argrle, two goals. Vale of Leven. live goals ; Alloa nited, none. St Andrews, four goals; Cat hkm. one. Cameloo. four goals: Slamannan. none. Melrose, four goals; Industrial School, two goal.. Ayr. one goal; Kllbirnee. five gojvls. Southern, two goals Cambuslang ...

... cab, gave a lift to two men, who took advantage of their opportunity to rob him of a cheque for £lOO and £7 in money. A Slamannan medical man, on his way home from Falkirk, took up into his gig a foot passenger who asked a drive. On reaching a lonely ...

... month. The output of the whole of the Witwatersrand fir Aug., 1895, 203,573 ounces. Lanarkshire, Hathgate, Airdrie, and Slamannan coalmaaters' executive have been summoned to attend a meeting next week, to consider the demand made by the miners for 61 ...

... SAFETY SHAFT. As the result of an outbreak of lins which occurred at the pithead of • pit at Callender, between Shieldhal and Slamannan, and owned by Callender Coal Co., Falkirk, the pithead gear and screening apparatus were on Wednesday WWI? destroyed. Plant ...

... the son of the late Mr. James Nimmo, of Westquarter, a notable Scottish orialmaster of his day, and was born in 18E6 in Slamannan, Stirlingshire. Sir Adam was interested in a group of industrial and business concei ns. He was thairman and managing director ...

... but they did not meet Villa that year. In reply to Blue Shirt : The Barman,. centre forward, Sandy Young, was horn at Slamannan. and joined Everton from Falkirk in 1901. Signed for Tottenham Hotspur in 1911-12. Left Spurs, however, after a two Months' ...