The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-08-16
STATE NEWS,

SAAA II NHINSA
Large shops haye been opened in Read
ing for the manufacture and repai- of boil
ers.
The Pennsylvania Railroad now pays
about 100000 per month to its employees at
Altoona, the shops running on full time.
The Harrisburg Telegraph reports that in
the First and Second wards of that city there
is not a man idle and not dollar of rent
due.
Samuel Blue and Jacob Mann, of Muncy,
Lycolnng county, cut in one day 100 oak
trees. They also cut 1885, 900 feet of oak tim
Der in nine days.
Mrs. Mary Lockard, Of Bradford town
ship, Clcarfield county, celebrated the lO4th
anniversary of her birth Monday of last
week by basket picnic.
Horace McQuay, aged eighteen years, sat
down on the railroad track, near Watson
town, on Thursday afternoon, 18th inst, fell
asleep and was cut to pieces by train.
The One-hundred-a first regiment
Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers will hold
a reunion at Leechburg, Armstrong county,
on the Ist of September. Colonel A. W. Tay-
lor, formerly OF Beaver county but now OF
Washington City, will be the orator of the
day,
Governor IGoyt on Friday, sth inst, ssu-
ed warrants for the execution, October 9, ol
John O'Neill and Peter McManus, the
Northumberland county Molie Muguircs,
convicted of the murder of Coroner Hesser
near Shamokin, Pa, In 1874. Also, for the
execution of andrew Tracey, of Mexican
county,who murdered a ayoung lady to whom
he was paying attentions.
Edward Herbert, Hugh Murray, George
sbuman and Peter Hall, were severely
.-hu,ned by an explosion of gas in the Jig
tunnel at the Pottsville colliery Friday
morning, Sth inst. The explosion was
caused uy the carelessness Of a miner.
A conference of Christian Railroad men
will be held at Altoona from September Is tC
the DIST, inclusive. The conference will be
held in the reading room OF the Railroad
Mems Christian Association, at the above
named place.
The oldest couple, perhaps, in the State o
Pennsylvania, are Pope Bushnell and wife
of Dyberry, Wayne county. They are ninety
years of age. They were married in 1912
and built the house they now occupy in the
heart of the woods in 1917.
In Pittston, Friday night, man named
Hopkins accosted very rudely the wife of q
blind man, who was leading her husband
The latter drew pistol and fired in the di
rechon from which Hopkins voice came
and inflicted upon him a dangerous wound
Meetings of the Pipe Line men have re
Gently been held at Oil City, and it is learn
ed that one of the results Of this has been al
order for heavy shipments. All possible
tank cars have been pressed into service, ,anC
shipments from this time on until the pres
sure has been relieved will be heavy froI
the Northern district.
A DR.. P. NJ. Nelson, haling from Pitts
burg, recently settled at Emporium, Came
ron county, represented himself to be wortl
100000 drove well and dressed we'll. II,
won the affections of lady, and just US tn,
knot was about to be tied an officer from
jefferson county arrested him for numerou
crimes. He persuaded the officer to remov
the handouts, slipped out the back door an,
has not been seen since.
The York Epeniag Dispatch states tina
Professor Lincoln, ,ofthe University OF Penn
sylvana, who is attached to the geodeti
survey of Professor Haupt, in this State, ha
an observatory erected on Round Top, War
rington township, York county, where h
has instruments, reAectors, etc, by which b
can communicate with another corps of sur
veyors who are stationed on the Wells
mountains, along the border of Lancastc
and Chester counties.
A correspondent of the Pittsburg Com
mercial Gazette, writing from Bedfor
Springs, has this to say "The right of tn
Anderson heirs to charge visitors for the us
of the water at the Springs will not be teste
this year. l examined the original in tn
Recorders office, and find that they have
right to charge enough for the use of waite
to keep the grounds adjacent thereto in IA,
that their title Of it is now clear"
These are a few of the evidences Of tn
prosperity in business in the State, take
, from the Labor Tribune, strong Greenbac
organ published at Pttsburs; The mills
Conshohocken are running ON full tim
D The old rolling mill at Scranton will sta
t this week. The rolling mill of Wood 4 Co
C at McKeesport, is running full in all depar
. ments. The rolling mill at DuucansyA
will start up as soon as the necessary repm
can be made. A new rolling mill is to I
= established at Fredericksburg, Leblanc
county. The Hampton mines at Wilkiu
- burg are running with nearly all the men
e. work.
D owen Malouey and John I.aiierty, prime
3 pals in a recent "glove fight near Pitt
G burg, were arrested Monday, and comm
10 ted in def.ult Of $1,000 bail each, for yioI.
r ton of the law against prize lighting, III
b use Of the gloves did not prevent them frol
r in6ictiug considerable injury upon eac
c other.
. The Hope IRON Works, at Fo,lstovu, al
, now in full blast and giving employment
= seventy men.
: Mr. David Weaver, Of Alleptown, who
e seventy years old, Jumped out of a seeon,
p story window on Sunday while sulerin
p from pain and was killed.
Benjamin Fink, Of Reading, died in thr
p city, on Monday, in his elgity-hrt yea