The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-01-24
STATE NEWS,

The car shops at Berwick are in active op
Grafton.
The planning mill at Berwick is buzzing all
day long with plenty of orders.
Tie Berlin mines, Somerset county. atter n
lengthy suspension, have resumed operations.
Tho Mincrsville furnace after an ldleness
OF several years, IS to be put to work III few
weeks.
The kittanning. Armstrong county, Roll.
ing Mils' after suspension Of fifteen years.
Will soon begin operations
The working time has been increased from
eight to ten hours in tie Philadelphia and
Reading round houses and East Penn shops,
and thlrty-three additional hands have recently
been taken on.
John Lefevere, OF Winfred town ship, But
Ter county, has been arrested charged with the
murder OF his wlfe on the 18TH of last month.
The information Is made by the dead Woman's
sister Miss lIhrbtSon. At the time of Mrs.
Leioyere's death tne husband stated that she
leli down Stars and brOk her neck.
-Great excitement prevailed in Reading
Tuesday on account of the seizure of all the
cars, horses and harness of the City Passenger
Railway Company, locking them up in private
stables, and thereby stopping all travel ON the
road The seizure was made by Evan Mishler
who holds that he purchased the road and prom.
| eriy at sale by the United States Marshal
/ which the company claims was not a legal sale
The FRANKLIN Spectator SAYS that in the In
DIlcating for heavy oil region, of which Frank
/ I'm 10 The centre, there were l23 wells dr:lled
last year aud 10 wells cleansed. The number OF
wells pumping on the first of January was 475
an increase OF IS over the same time last year
The average production the past year was {. 90,
barrels per month.
-Captan Z. L. Pierce, a young lawyer o.
Ere city, formerly a Clerk OF Court choked Il
death at dinner Sunday. while trying TO swal
low a large mouthtul of meat A bottle O
brandy was found In his pocket, ana il is sun
posed he had been drinking
John Nye, boy in Lancaster, who hat
both legs cut OF on Thursday, by cars died OF
Saturday.
Daniel McCaigue. an old citizen of Remove
was Iun over and instantly killed by cars a
That place on Thursday Of last week.
The puddlers at the Palo Alto (sohuyIkil
county, Rolling Mills have struck for an ad
vance of 81 per ton for pudding. Taey ais,
charge that the iron furnished them Is infer
ior.
Samuel Arnold received injuries on Thurs
~ - A'@'s VIVA " AhS NhNluk III OF earth
quarry near Springfield township, Montgom
cry county, which resulted In his death sool
aiterward.
A Pittsburg firm has made Sl5oOcO by tn
recent rise In iron, and MIR. John Scott, PresI
, dent OF the Allegheny Valley Rrllroad ha
cleared 100000 ON O01 shares OF Peunsylyani
Railroad stock, which he bought previous 1
the rise
"A dispatch from WihiamspOrt says that Il
the Criminal Court of that county on saturda
sixteen prisoners were sentenced ten of WHOM
> so the PositentiarY for periods ranging fror
twelve and a half to two and q half year,
samuel Collins and Arthur Richie, Tor larcen
were sentenced TO eleven ana half years.
e Daniel Fahey, assistant engineer in Andel
p son q Co.'S steel mill, PittsburR. met horribl
death on saturday. II was Oiling machiner
and, being caught IN the betting. was draw
down into pit and squeezed between the drl,
ing wheel and the bottom OF the pit, the spac
q not being more than eight inches. He was "A
O orally disembo wollod. and lived but few nj
ments after the accident
On Thursday Night OF last week, eigl
masked robbers entered the residence OF Jaoo