The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-04-17

Mike Mckee, a well known chrracter in
Oil City, committed suicide on Friday by
taking hydrate of chloral.
A correspondent writes frow Pittston that
there is no prospect of strike in Luzene
or Lackawanna county among the coal
miners.
Charles Gibbons, IL years old, and resid-
ing at South Fork, Cambria county, at
lempte'Io. .baArl-o moving train on Satur.
day, and, falling under the wheels, nad ad'in,s n,,ss
head cut oil.
The Grautier Steel Wo ks, at Johnstown
were almost entirely destroyed by fire on
Saturday morning. The loss will amount
to $50 900 and five hundred men are thrown
out of employment
In Pittsburg, on Saturday, Thomas Cor
coran, the boy who killed his youthful com.
panion, lad named Joseph Hough, in
fight over a chew of tobacco, was convicted
OF murder in the second degree.
a correspondent writes from Columbia
that the Susquehanna Rolling Mill at that
place shut down on Saturday.. to remain
closed until the outlook is brighter. The
Shawnee Mill is running steadily.
The planning mill of the Harrisburg Car
| Manufacturing Company and ten dwellings
were destroyed by fire at Harrisburg on Sat
urday afternoon. The loss was about $40 900
| upon which there was an insurance Of $l5,-
| 600.
By the explosion of n blast on the Penn
! sylyania road, east of Downngtown Chester
county on Thursday John Powers was killed
Robert Taylor fatally injured and a number
OF other were badly bruised and cut by fly
ing stones.
The Osceola ReUeiRe estimates the loss to
the Cleariied region by reason of the miners
strike at not less than 100000 per week.
The late General james L. Reynolds be-
queathed to the city of Lancaster $1,000 in
trust, to be invested and the interest applied
to the purchase of fuel for the poor.
The Reading Times and Dispatch thinks
that the coming census will show that Berks
county has a population of 1000 persons,
and if so it will be the fifth county in the
State.
johnson Coulter, of Edenburg, Clarion
county, while hunting near Beaver City on
Friday, was accidentally shot and killed by
the discharge OF his gun while crossing q
fence.
William Brown a sOmnambulist, Of Me
5 keesport, Allegheny county. jumped from Q
window ON Saturday morning aud was i'm
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recover.
A Lancaster dispatch states that on Sat
urday night the body of colored mar
named James Titus, who lived at Parkes
burg, was found near that place in a terri
bly, mutlated condition. 1t is supposed tha
he was run over by a train and Killed.
The Reading Hardware Company ha
nearly completed the purchase of a tract o
R,,h
1t will remove its works. to avoid the an
L noyance so frequently suffered by it from
strikes in Reading. 1t Is proposed by tn
p company to build 800 homes for their men
e DR.. Hostetter, of Pittsburg, bought in on
9 day last week 500 900 barrels of oil, whicl
, he will carry until better prices prevail.
Rev. Deniel BerGer, of orwigsburg, VIII
u is 50 years old, was paralized last Saturda,
= while conducting funeral services and vii
q die.
o A 10 year old daughter of Mr.. Sylyeste
, Crum,of Portage township, Cambria county
= caugh fire ON Saturday aud was burned I
e death.
+, The clothing of Mrs. Samuel A. March o
West Chester,took fire from stove on Tues
day, and she was so badly burned that sh
d:ad the next day.
M,s.s shdlO, OF Ross IoWnshlp' AlleShen,
y county, who has been derangcd for som
1 time, eomnitted suicide on Monday b.
i drowning herself in a horse trough.
e On Monday, willie Mrs. Henry Wiley
! living near Langhorne Montgomery county
Il was attempting To dip water from a eisterr
c she lost her balance, and, falling into til
c tank, was drowned.
;, Captain George Oldmixon, who died las
q Thursday, at his residence at Super Valley
Chester county, was the youngest sou Of tn
four sons Of the late Sir John Oldmixon, al
Is of whom obtained rank in the Royal navy