The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-12-27

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Company, confirming the company's title to |
a large tract of land known as the Wilson
tract, much Of which is valuable coal land.
take "Dr. Sellers Cough Syrup" and no
one in the city keeps clearer Of coughs and
colds than /. Druggists sell it, Price 25c.
There are several artists in Reading, and
all of them are busy.
Evan Jones, blacksmith, Of Reading,
with the aid of an assistant, put one hun
dred and fifty shoes on horses on Saturday.
An Irish lady of Harrisburg, who IS an
octogenarian, astonished number Of friends
by doing jig TO the tuno o" f"Pins and nee
dies by the Dozens" etc.
There snearly foot ofsnow on the ground
at Milford, Pike county. On Saturday the
thermometer was FIVE degrees below zero.
The Readiug Times and Dispatch says that
most Of the boats on tho Schuylkill canal
have gone into winter quarters. A number
of repairs are to be made to the canal during
the winter.
Work has just begun in Reading upon 400
coal and l 900 freight cars for the Philadel-
phia and Reading Railroad company. All
the shops Of the company in Reading are to
be enlarged and otherwise improved.
One hundred coke ovens are in full blast
at the works of the Mahoning Coke compa-
ny, Dunbar, Fayette county. All Of the
product is at their furnance.
TheLogan iron company, near Lewistown
have shipped several hundred tons of char
coal pig iron to Altoona during the present
month. 1t is used in the manufacture of
car wheels.
There are in Pittsburg and its immediate
vicinity rs glass works, "a Of which make
tableware, rs window glass, 8 fruit jars 10
green and black glass bottles and phials and
o chimneys. The factories contain 700 pots
employ some $500 people and turn out q
product valued at above $6,000,000.
Sunday afternoon, at Franklin, an explo-
sion of gas at the Eclipse Lubricating Oil
| Works caused the destruction by fire of six
tanks, machinery and fiye or six hundred
barrels of oil. Elmer Smith, one Of the en-
ployes, was badly burned. Loss, $4,000 to
$4,000.
| 1t has been discovered that the subject re-
Gently cremated at Washington, in the L.
moyne furnace was Charles McCrary, the
son of q well-known New York merchant.
! lie was twenty-four years old, died of con-
| sumption, and expressed the wish before
death that his body should be disposed of as
| it was.
A mass meeting of ofctizens was held at
Erie, on Friday, for the purpose of ofmemori-
alizing Congress to establish soldiers home
in Pennsylvania. A committe was appoint
ed to carry out the project. There is a large
| building at Erie that was erected by the
United States Government for marine hos
| pital, but never used, that would suit for q
| home.
Tho Pittsburg papers report that the card
rate in the nail trade has boen advanced to
| 81, which is an increase of 35 cents, making
a total advance since the panic of 1920 per
keg.
j. W. Fleck, alias "Swab," and G.
Myers, alias Thomas, were arrested in Pitts
bnrg Tuesday whio engaged in passing
counterfeit trade dollars, standard dollar:
and half dollars. FloclI had just arrived
from Denver, and met Myers by appoint
ment, who came from Clarion. They had
S4OO of coin about them, which was well
executed
There are reports from Pittsburg ofunusu
al bris kness in the non market, the price o
pig having advanced to $40 per ton. One
Pittsburg firm of iron brokers has contract
ed TO deliver to different parties in the STATE
100000 tons Of foreign ores.
Information has been received at Oil City
of the suicide of Mrs. Mary Hershperger, a
Mayville N. Y. Her husband, Mr. Samue
Iershperger, was killed in Philadelphia
about year ago, while experimenting witt
an ice machine.
The pudding departmental the Etna Iror
Works is running double turn. Four new
pudding furnaces are to be erected.