The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-12-14
NEWS GOSSIP:

An explosion occurred in the Briar Hill
Furance at Youngstown, Ohio, Friday after
noon of last week, which threw the blast
among the workmen, seriously injuring
four of them, one, it is believed, fatally.
Michael German, q Philadelphian, 81
years of age, was killed by railroad train,
near Huntington, Pa, Wednesday morning
The same train killed Theodore Keith, night
watchman ut Union Furnace, thirteen miles
from Huntington.
The action of the Camden Court in the
case of Benjamin Hunter, sentenced to death
for the murder of John NJ. Armstrong, was
unanimously affirmed by the Court of Errors
and Appeals at Trenton, n. j., on Saturday
No family can afford to be without q
bottle of Dr. Haas EXpectorant as there is
often occasion TO use it at night, and if you
have it handy, you have the means to check
and cure, what probably, would be disas-
trous cold.
In the Delaware County Court Friday of
last week, o. +. Gaines, Sergeant-at-Arms
Of the House Of Representatives at Harris
burg, was acquitted Of the charge Of GLOW
ing .. +. Bullard, ex Representative, to es-
cape from his custody last winter.
The latest constitutional eonundrum pro-
pounded to the federal Supreme Court is
this Can a soldier found guilty of murder
by court martial, but whose sentence was
unexecuted, be again tried by State court
under the fifth amendment TO the United
States constitution
Two brothers named Neal, and n young
man named Steilin, quaTelled at Notch
Lick, in Carroll county, Ky, on Wednesday
night of last week, and one of the Meals re-
ceiyed a stab in the neck, which caused
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Mrs. Graves fell down stairs into a cellar
in Killingsly, Conn, and was badly scalded
| by hot water that she was carrying in pail.
| Her cries brought a neighbOr, who fell
| through the cellar opening and broke three
/ ribs. The Mrs. Graves little boy tumbled
after the others and was seriously injured.
Several of tho Philadelphia building and
/ loan associations are in trouble through bad
investments and the depreciation Of values
/ These concerns have extended aid 10 men in
moderate circumstances to buy homes of
! their own, and are a combination Of savings
| banks and loan agencies. In the main they
are regarded as honestly conducted and
! sound.
George Borns, W. A. Mayer and Fanny
/ Van Gordon, living at lIollisterville, in
| Wayne county, Pa, have been arrested for
completely in a recent act of incendarism
and robbery. 1t is expected that the evi-
denoe 10 be adduced ON the trial will throw
I light on a series of murders, robberes, and
other crimes peFpetrated in that region dur
ing several years past.
Joseph Hodthan, before quitting his home
in Hillside, near Pittsburgh, for the evening,
warned his three sisters, whom he left alone,
to beware Of tramps. On his return he
pulled his hat over his face and turned up
his coat collar, in order to brighten the girls,
They took him for a tramp. One Of them
ordered him to 60 away, but he persisted ON
entering, whereupon she fired on him with
gun, killing him instantly.
There is something pitiable in the intelli
genee that Mr.. Christian X. Ross, who foI
so many years has known what ii is by
} turns to feed on hope, 10 pine with fear
and soTow," has just been subjected to O
fresh trial-disappoiatment il can hardly b,
called. His journey irom Philadelphia "a
Tuwauda has shown that the boy brough