The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-09-01
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STATE NEWS.

Bedford county's heaviest man is
Michael Stitfler, who weighs $40 lbs.
Joseph Pape, a Pittsburg temper
ance orator. has been jugged for steal-
ing cantalOupes.
Five hundred coal miners In Vest
mOreland county are on a strike for
higher wages.
-Incendiaries have destroyed three
houses in Stone valley, Huntington
county, within month.
The value of the stolen goods re.
covered in Plttsbuig is over $4,000.
The goods were carried away during
the riots.
- Richard Bell, OF Sharon, convicted
Of manslaughter, has been sentenced to
two years imprisonment in the western
penltentiary.
Last mohth 3,150, 800 bushels Of
coal, and 718, 700 bushels of coke, were
shipped from the various pools on the
MOnongahela river.
The attorneys of Northumberland
county have signed petition askingthe
Legislature to create an additional
Judge in that county.
William A. Yerger has been con-
vlcted in Lebanon county for commit
ing a rape on a mulatto girl aged ten
years.
The workingmen of Blair county
intend nominating county ticket,
convention for that purpose having
been announced for September II.
There are 1894 miners in Alleghe-
ny county, 1,140 In Fayette, 1,130 in
Washington, and 2,5S8 In Westmores
land, making total in the four coun-
ties OF s,70l.
Nearly all the coopers In Pittsburg
and Allegheny have struck for higher
wages. They were getting twelve
cents barrel and demanded fourteen.
"A Clarion county paper remarks /:
1.-THE Oldest man in Clarion county has
only two months longer to live ere he
will be centurion"
Mrs. William M'Kay, Of Sharps-
burg, on Tuesday attempted to cross
railroad track and was crushed between
bumpers of two cars. Her injuries were
supposed TO be fatal.
"A detail from the Duquesne Grays
has arrived In Pittsburg from Ply
mouth, with instructions to arrest and
forward to the headquarters of the regi-
ment all absentees of that organization
to be found.
More than one.half OF the Wash.
ington and Waynesburg railroad has
been completed. The daily progress Is
about half mile OF track. The road
will be completed about the middle OF
October.
The LlgonIer Valley railroad lead
ing from Latrobe, on the Pennsylvania
railroad, TO LigonIer, a distance of ten
aud three fourth miles, will be cOmplet-
ed during the winter.
"A number of colonies of railroad
strikers are reported as forming in
Pittsburg, Johnstown, LatrObe, Green's
burg and other points along the Penn
sylvania railroad to 60 westward.
AT late hour on Tuesday night
eighteen tramps escaped from the Lam
caster work-house, including six be.
longing to the gang who fired on Mr..
Bowers and the police officers few
nights since. ..
"A gang Of masked outlaws, who
have been commlttinga a number of rob.
berries recently. are reported to be Ope-
rating in and about Ridgeview and Mt.
Pleasant. Westmoreland county.
Harry D. Patch has declined to
serve on the Allegheny county Repub-
lican Committee, for the reason that he
) Is a wOrsin2man and Intends Identify
ing himself fully with the worklngmen's
party.
1t Is believed that the damages
claimed FROM Allegheny county, outside
OF the railroad property destroyed by
the fire of July 2lst and 22d, will not
exceed $500, 900.
;. Out of twenty two foundrles and
manufacturing establishments In Pitts
burg and vicinity, employing from
eight to seventy men, only three report
business unusually dull.
VIM. johnson, editor of the Lines-
vile Gazette, while attempting to board
a freight train near Mead Vile the other
day, tailed to get foOthJld and was
. dragged some distance, when he struck
a bridge and fell distance of 81 xteen
feet, sustaining fatal injuries.
Sawyer City, M'Kean county. con-
oiolON VI III Olu 80 lulit auh bWO hpuoco
. four weeks ago. Now 1t has six stores,
a hotel, postofiice, thirty new houses
and a population of 500. A big oil
! strike wrought the change.
There will not be any United
States court at Wllllamsport In October,
, the officials finding that the appropria-
, tion will not be sufficient to hold court
there and go on with the regular ses-
siOns in Pittsburg. The cases usually
tried at WIlliamsport will be disposed
, Of In Plttsburg. I'D
! Waiter Booker, a man of nineteen,
Is in the Montrose jail awaiting trial for
I the murder Of his brother Addison, q
1 fireman on the Erie railway. The
9 trouble arose from q game Of base bail.
Q The murdered man was the sole support
D OF an aged father and mother, and also
: supported the brother who killed him,
. he being a worthless vaRabond. having
3 been already twice in jail. A prisoner
Z in the Jail asked him when he was put
Z In what he WAS there for uOnIV for