The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-11-29

STATE NEWS.
James Eimonson, conductor Of shift
ing crew, was killed at Harrisburg, on We'd
nesday night Of last week.
The introduction of cheap at. Louis beef
into Pittiburg, has caused the butchers there
to reduce their prices.
A blast for limestone recently took place
near Bonny Brook, Cumberland county that
threw out |, 200 bushels Of stone.
The tax of Lehigh county for 1879 on per-
sonal property has been fixed by the State
Board Of Revenue Commissioners at $S,726
O56.
The Scranton Republican says that il Is
beginning to look like old times up there
again. Eight persons were araIgned before
the Mayor in one morning.
The demand Of the striking ore miners at
siegersvslle. Lehigh county for an advance
Of twenty-five cents in wages was not grant
ed, and they accepted ten cents.
The Scranton correspondent of theWilkes-
barre Ne,Csdedier has been arrested at the
instance OF of Frank a. Beamish for libel
ling him. The accused was put under
bail.
Don't deceive yourselves. "Dr. Sellers
Cough Syrup" for the cure of colds and
coughs has no equal. Sold by druggists at
25 cents.
Never let cold run. Take II in time. All
that is necessary is to procure bottle oi
sellers Cough Syrup" and be cured.
The fight of Alderman Sebel from Erie
causes great excitement there. 1t is believ'
ed that he has obtained thousands Of dol
lars in trust for widows and orphans.
The Harrisburg Patriot says that Satur.
! day last was the biggest pay day ever known
in the history OF the steel works Over $jg,
900 were paid out to the employees.
Eleanor Reid colored girl, was arrestet
at West Chester Monday upon the charge o
causing the death Of her newly born infant
found in an outhouse at that place.
Mr.. j. J. stocrr and Miss Maggie Muegel
of Pttsburg, while ON the way to a party
masked as Kaiser Wilhelm aud wife, wen
to parson and were mado one while thu
attired.
Michael burke, aged fifteen ycars, wa
killed at the mines at ST. Nicolas, ,Schuylkil
county, ON Monday night.
The Daily San, the new Democratic pape
to be issued in Altoona, will belong TO
stock company, and William D. Furey viii
be the editor.
State Senator George y. jackson, died a
his residence in Dushore, Sullivan county, q
Sunday last, after lingering illness. ii
had served several tcrInsi in the House befor
his election to the Senate, and the presen
was his second term in the latter body.
John Miller, farm laburer, was fuun
dead in the woods near Gilbertstown, Mont
gomery county, on Wednesday afternoon
last week. lie had committed suicide b
shooting himself.
Hon. Samuel Marshall, one Of the assoc
ate Judges Of Butler county, has been take
to the insane asylum at Harrisburg, for treai
ment His insanity is caused by violer
fall received about year ago.
John Lincoln, fireman on the AlleghC
ny Valley railroad, fell between the engin
and tender while the train was making goo
time. He caught by the air-brake hose an
escaped with three broken ribs.
The body of man, found dead In Can
eron's woods, near Harrisburg, on Tuesda
afternoon of last week, has been named Ke
ichner, of Harrisburg. who had become dc
pondent and committed suicide. He leav,
7 a family.
The oil boom" has set the spectators
Pittsburg to talking, and they assert thi
James Keene, of New York, has caused
ALL DR.. Hostetter, is also charged wit
Q building the market. lie is said To hol
= nearly 100000 barrels, the average price
v which is Sl.4O.
s Sllas Gray, who Is now In the wester
;. Penitentiary from Westmoreland county {,
). horse stealing, when his term expires wi
be tried for the murder of Mary McCread
q of Greensburg, in 1878. She disappearC
suddenly and some time aflerward VIII
was supposed TO be her skull was found an
that was the only portion of the body ev,
discovered.
2 In May last Mr. Thomas Plunker of Pitt
burg, lost his wife and one child with dipl
u liberia. Since then he has lost FIVE 9th,
children from the same cause, und is no
e the only one lett of family Of eight.
Z General Grant will visit Harrisburg q
the 18th OF December. His reception wi
be made a non-partisan affair and the Con
mittee on Reception have been sppointe
q without regard to political complexion.
P. X. Berger, confidential clerk for sever
teen years Of Mr.. John Jermyn, an eFtel
sive coal operator, at Jermyn, Lackawanr
county, has been arrested for the embezzl
ment of funds ranging from FIVE 10 fiji
, thousand dollars. He has hitherto borne a
excellent character.
Mr.. William L. Reed, ofMount washini
u ton, suburb OF Pltlsburg, furnished a tram
l. with a supper, gave him an overcoat and a
:, lowed him to sleep in his green house. I'll
tramp, who gave the name of John Fitzge
r aid, and said he was from Philadelphia, 81
the green house on fire and escaped.
b The Pittsburg papers report that the grea
z est indignation prevails against DR.. VOigh
' physician of the Poor Board in that cit
d who, notwithstanding the urgency of III
case, refused, on Thursday night, 10 visit
Miss Emma Hart, who died the next morn
ing. The doctors excuse was that the pai
ty calling had no order from tue POI
Z Board.
A dispatch from Butler announces the al
= rest at that place of Charles McCsndles
9 Charles Dulisy, Louis Stein, A. H.H. Riddl,
, A. G. StOughtnn, Allen Wilson, John N
, Grier, Thomas RobnsunJ Thomas Stehle
and Alexander Mitchell on a charge Oflruu
. in connection with the defunct First Nation
al Bank Of Butler. The men are all prom
nent in Butler county, John NJ. Grier bein
State senator for Butler and Armstron
COUNTIES Charles McCandless has been
State Senator Judge of Arizona under p eel
dent Grant They have all given bail to an
{ swer before the United States DisT.ct COui
a. Pittsburg, the Information having bee
. made by the Solicitor Of the United State
Treasury.
A new bolt works is about 10 be erecte
east Of GTaut avenue and between Mort
{ avenue and the railroad tracks, in Allegheny
laval BE- in oP<ytion in ~ usonssE