The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-09-18
STATE NEWS.


Northumberland county has recently had
a frost.
Chauncy Eaton, of Erie, took poison by
mistake on Monday and died.
A man in Beaver has patented glass
lined tank for the preservation OF oil.
The Lawrence Iron Company will stsrt
up their works at New Castle OH Monday
next.
There will be two trials for murder in
Schuylkill county during the present term
of Court.
The Hazard Works, at Pitsston, made a
wire rope on Saturday Weighing twenty
three tons.
John Higgins, a miner at Wiconisco,
Dauphin county, was fatally Injured by a
fall of coal on Monday.
William Durnbaugh, aged II, was struck
by train at Steelton on Saturday evening
and Instantly killed.
Ashael Clark, who had been justice Of
the peace thirty years, died at Meadville on
Saturday, in his Seth year.
William II Rhodey real estate sgent oil
! Reading, made an assignment on Saturday
Liabilities, 900; assets, $4,000.
Richard Lee, Of Harrisburg, fell off q
| scatf0ld in tobacco house on Saturday eve
ming, and received injuries which proved
fatal,
The works at the Amos Manufacturing
Company, at Titusvlle, are working day
and night, and the pay roll amounts to 81 )
500 week.
Ephraim Spar, cattle dealer of Pittsburg
on Monday shot William Peters, a butcher
for not paying him a debt. Peters was moi
dangerously hurt.
A pedler Of tinware named John Eshle.
man, was found badly wounded in stable
at Reading on Monday. Foul play is Sus.
pected.
Hugh and John Cosgroye, while drunk
quarrelled near Lancaster, on Saturday
night and in fight that ensued the latter
was badly stabbed.
The Lackawanna Iron and Coal Compsn7i
steel works made last week $3.50 tcrrg Of Ia.
gots exceeding the work of tho week pre-.
yious by llO tons.
The executor Of the estate Of Genera
James L. Reynolds has sold his Mannheim
farm, in Lancaster county, consisting Of l6;
acres, for Sl76.25 per acre.
Philip Vollmer, constable Of st. Mary'
borough, Elk county, who was shot by Harry
English at the time he made his escape L
Michigan, died on Friday last from tn,
effects of his wounds.
The Wilkesbarre Uri5a Leader saws tina
there are 800 voter among the boatInen OF
the Delaware and Hudson Canal, but the,
are not all Garfield men by good deal.
The Greenbackers of the Nineteenth Con
gressional district met at York Springs
Adams county, on Saturday, and unani
mously nominated John Moore, of Dickin
son Post Office, Cumberland county fo
Congress.
The performers Of the London Circu
while at JOhustown last week, decorated tn,
grave of James Cassim, a clown, who wa
killed there a year ago. The band played
dirge,and the cabin singers sang "The Swee
By-and. By"
The committee to settle the dispute be
tween Messrs Miller and McJunkin, in th
Twenty sixth Congressional district, ha
been selected as follows; DR.. A. W. Crawfor,
by McJunkin, II. B. Bower by Miller an,
Hon. j. NJ. Dlckey by the two first name,
of the committee.
Seven tramps, who robbed warehous
at Mapeton Station, Huntington county ol
IlludJ ulEulf NCIS ohl piAoSu 'N pdbulud
morning at Cove Station, Dauphin county
by Harrisburg officers. A fight took place
I the tramps being armed with revolvers. On
Of the traInps was captured, and the other
fled into the mountains.
The tobacco crop of this state, this yeai
is estimated 10 be worth from $4,000, 600
$4,000, 900.
: The Philadelphia Net0S has kind hear
1t comes TO the defense Of the much abuse
clergymen with the remark that poor ven
=. tilation in charches puts more Christian
J 10 sleep than poor sermons, True as gOspe
On the night of the sth inst, Albert Gris
! valid, prominent citizen of Pike county
{ was killed by the cars at Rowlani's, Pa, o
the New York Lake Erie and Western Rail
: road
Quite an acreage was planted in tobacco
in Northampton county, this year. Alon
: the l.. q S. and the Bath Railroads i'm
3 fields Of tobacco may be seen growing
; Venuor has uttered another prophec
I from jerome, Canada. He assures us tbs
s "there is every indication ofuuusually earl
. cold weather and snow, and afterwards
! good deal oGrain.
: The farmers Of Pike county are thresl
! ing out their grain, and, as Is the case j
r this county, Gnd the product an unusual
1 heavy cne.