The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-10-23
GRIN Es AMI CASULATIES.

Jack Pierce shot aud killed Joseph Horn
b ck at Rawlns, W r., on SATURDAY. Both
were teamsters. The mob threatened Iu lynch
Pierce.
Robert II. Wells, clerk Of the Seaboard
ami Roanoke Railroad Company at Ports
mouth, Va, committed suicide on Saturday
10y shooting. lie had been in bad health.
James Kinney, belonging to the Twenli
eth United States Infantry, was struck snd
KILLED with II billet of wood by james Hur-
an II row at Galveston, Texas, on Friday
night.
James Lowery, carpenter residing 1T
81. Pdul, Mnu., IN liz ui temporary in
SANITY sunday shut his wife WIN rrvul-
Ver aud then blew ont his own brains. The
woman may recover.
A fire AT Wyoming, Stark county, H.,
on SATURDAY destroyed stones clothing
store, with several smaller places of bust
ness. Loss from $40 900 tu 100000; insure
ance nominal
George Linn WAS arrested at New YORK
on saturday for alleged completely ina bAm X
burglary al MiidleloSn, Conn. He mani
Tested the greatest reluctance to going tO
Connecticut, and struggled desperately Ia
get away from the detectives on the street,
The body Of little girl named Hasack,
whose parents perished 10y the explosion ol
the Garden City distillery at Chicago on Fri
day night, was found among the ruins Oh
Saturday The bodies OF those rel,urted
missing have been recovered. The deaths
caused by the explosion now number eight.
William Todd, saloon keeper at No. 8
North Front street, Baltimore, on Saturday
1 d..
she held in her arms their infant, a month
old, drew pistol aud fred, the ball enter
ing her abdomen. The pistol was held 81
close to the woman that her clothing took
fire, aud one Of the employees tore the burn
ing PARTON from her. Todd was arrested
aud the ante mortem deposition Of his wife
taken.
A boiler exploded at Massilon. o., on Sat
urday in Russels & Cos paper mill, caus-
ing damage to the building estimated at
$4,000. Anthony Welsh had an arm torn
of aud was buried in the debris; Anthony
Manger was fatally scalded, and Charles
Sands, Charles Forsythe, Benjamin Rosen-
berger and Roman Westhaier was severely
scalded. John Hassles, a boy, was blown
80 feet into the canal, but was unLurt
while boy walking on the canal bank wac
struck by flying fragment Of the boiler
and had his arm fractured.
A hall hoy at the American Hotel, Al
bany, N. Y, named Burt was shot on Sat
urday and is not expected 10 live. lie sayi
he was shot by one John Lyons, of New
York, who complained Of the breakfast the
boy brought to his room. Mrs. Lyons say:
the boy was handhug pistol belonging L
her husband and shot himself. LYONS ran
away and the police are looking for him
The man and women came n the American
/ Hotel on Friday and registered AS from
New York. They both had been on a de
bsuch, and the woiuan's story that the bny
Burt shot himself is discredited. The 10,
/ is only l3 years Of age, and has an excellen
reputation.
A trestle bridge, I2.6O0 feet long and q
| feet high, on the Shenandoah Valley Rail
road, ~ East Liberty, Psge county, Va.
/ tumbled down with crash. last Saturday
/ afternoon, killing one mau and seriousl,
[ injuring another Il is thought this vii
delay the completion ofthe road for severa
months.
William F. Hopkinson. son Of Mr.. Olive
Hopkiusnn, ,of Philadelphiaan great grand
son Of Francis Hopkiuson, a siguer of "a,
Declaration Of Independence, WIS marrie,
al Altoona on the l4th instant % Mics Jean
nette, youngest daughter Of j. B. Hilemsu
Of that -