The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-05-15

Peter Haehn was suflocnted by gas from
an oil tank, at TitusYille, on Saturday.
The Bradford Era estimates the loss by
the recent fire in the northern oil field at
$25O,OOO.
The monthly pay roll Of the Pittsburg
division of the. Pennsylvania Railroad |
amounts TO Sl50,00O.
James Carter,18 years Of age, was crushed |
to death in the wheel foundry at Altoona on
Saturday morning.
Lybrandt & McDowell's furnace at Nose
lem, Berks county, was burned down on
Saturday afternoon.
Hon. Benjamin whitman, Of Erie, IL is
understood, will soon commence writing
history Of that county.
General Kane, Of "Bucktail" notoriety, is
selling large quantities of land to Swedish
settlers near TIE place named after himself
John Mccullough, aged 81 years,fell from
a new building in Upland on Saturday alter
noon, and received injuries from which he
died in few hours.
Mr.. Joseph George, a prominent citizen
of Uhlertown, was thrown oyer an embank-
ment by an unmanageable horse, on Satur-
day, and instantly killed.
General W. II. II. Davis has issued a call
for reunion of the surviving members of
the One-hundred- and fourth Pennsylvania
Regiment at Doylestown on the Goth inst.
John j. Mckee, q well-known real estate
dealer aud wealthy citizen of Harrisburg,
died suddenly on Friday night Of heart
disease.
A grand military fete is to be held at Potts
Vile this summer, under the auspices of the
First Defenders. OF the 244 First Defenders
who went from Pottsville only sixty are
alive.
A Pittsburg correspondent Of the New
York Herald, under date of Saturday, says :
james Campbell, an employee Of the Fort
| Wayne Railroad, Friday received a letter
| from his son william, who is now in Peru,
which brought the startling news that an
other son, James, had been captured by the
| Chilians in a rad, and after being subjected
TO various cruelties,h had been tried and shot.
John Clancey, convicted at Clarion of
manslaughter, has been sentenced TO the
penitentary for eight years.
Fifteen freshmen were expelled last week
from Westminster Collegeat New Whining
ton, Lawrence county, for breaking the
rules.
Bones which are supposed to haye be-
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the farm of Mr.. VIM. IL. Gales,near Girard,
Erie county.
Rev. Mr.. Woodside preached in Pittsburg
ON Sunday night, notwithstanding that he
was suspended the day before by the North
ern Presbytery.
Father Hugh Harvey, OF st. Agnes Cath
olic Church, at West Chester, fell from a
second-story window ON Sunday night and
sustained serious injuries.
Gen. j. S. Negley and Galusha A. Grow
nave been appointed on the National Com
mittce of the Union League Of America to
represent Pennsylvania.
Daniel Conry, of Eric, who became tenn.
porarily deranged over the gem puzzle, and
was released from Dixmont Hospital few
weeks since as cured, has again lost his rea-
son.
Reports from the counties in the Western
part OF the State; published in the Pittsburg
CONNER ,al- Gazette, show that the growing
crops there were uninjured by recent irosts
While the recent oil fires were burning
+ in one part Of RiXlord the burned district
was being cleared up, and the next morning
five new tenements were ready for occupa-
ton.
The little daughter Of Benjamin Yost ,whC
was reported several days ago to have beeI
abducted from New Hanover, near Potts
town, has been found with friends Of the
family.
Thos A. Wiley, Collector of Internal Rev
enue for Lancaster, and Frank Griest, Of tn,
same place, had a street encounter Tuesday
+ GU account Of political differences. Damag,
slight
4 A dispatch from Mt. Pleasant says tina
the strike ia the coal regions will probably
| end in few days.
Chas. Harris and Chas. Grouse, laborers
had prize fight in Johnstown on Sunday
1t ended in a draw.
There vera 10000 barrels of oil burned il
, the fire at RiXford which has spent its fury
and the aggregate loss foots up 100000.
Frank Hawk and Edward Detling hay,
{ been imprisoned a. Euston TO await trial fo
| burglary. They were captured in Indiana
In the Hoffman Nolan case, at Pottsville
the jury rendered "a verdict in favor of tn,
plaintill,who was the mother Of q child saiC
to be Noan's.
: A disastrous fire started Wednesday il
| the timber land at the head of Foster Brool
Valley, eight miles, from Bradford. TIL,
flames swept over the ridge and down Tran
HOLLOW, destroying tllnDer ana OIL 'rlgS' III
their path and almost entirely burning dOwl
I the villages of Oil Centre and Middaugh
vile. Wednesday night two oil tanks a
different points in the path of the conhag
S ration--one containing $4,000 barrels of pc
I troeum, the other 5O0O-were on FIRE, ant
q the town Of Duke Centre, containing abou
1000 inhabitants, was threatened. A mil
! above Duke Centre, nitro glycerine maga
| zine, in the path of the flames, eXplodet
S with tremendous force. 1t is estimated tina
o 200 "rgs' had been destroyed up to tha
night Only one casualty is reported;
; man, named WIN. Reed, was dangerousl.
= injured by falling tree.
The Dannville rolling mill, purchased b,
Y John Roach, will be removed TO Chester.
4 While the fire ragged at Coleyille, a lahore
named John Clark, went upon a $50 barre
- tank and smothered small flame tina
c would soon have caused the oil to explode.
It The Bradford Era tells briefly as follow
S how some recent fires occurred in that re
= gion: A man visited $4,000 barrel oil tan
with a naked lantern and Red Rock wa
> burned. A man built fire near well an
It went u dinner; the destruction of Rev Cit
was the result. A woman upset a gas stov
and RiXlord went up in smoke aud 60,O0
barrels OF oil were lost.
FOREIGN.NOrES.