The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-07-10
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
Robberies are getting to be very frequent |
in Lancaster county.
Rosebugs are destroying the fruit in many
of the Western counties.
Lucius 0sgood, the author of "Osgood's |
Readers" died at New Castle on the 1st |
inst.
The Erie car shops have received an Or
der for 800 box cars from an Eastern rail- |
road company.
Panther tracks are often seen on the Blue |
mountains, near the Berks and Schuylkill |
county line.
Two new shafts are being sunk at Gilbert's |
copper mines, Pottsgrove township, Mont |
gomery county.
Thomas Thuma, of Marietta, is six feet
six inches in height, and he has three broth
ers who are just as tall.
John r. Ryon, of Mahanoy City, Schuyl-
kill county, has passed an examination lor
admission to West Point.
The Erie Observer says; The united pipe
line is building tanks large enough to hold
2,7O0,000 barrels of oil at an expense Of ST.
100000.
The Republicans and Greenbacknrs of
Schuyl5ill county will unite upon Hon.
Charles N. Brennan for Congress from the
Thirteenth district.
DR.. Josiah McMichael, an influential
citizen OF Millerstown, Butler county, and
President of the Medical Society Of that
county, died recently.
-CHCk! CHICK! CHIoK!-See how they run
for Roberts Poultry Powder; warranted to
keep fowls in perfect condition; price only "A
quarter. 20-4
Forest county Republicans have nomi-
mated General Harry White for Congress,
from the Twenty fifth district, and w. d.
Brown for President Judge.
The Westchester Republican reports that
some raspberry pickers on the farm OF Eman-
uel Hoag, on Tulpehooken creek, Berks
county, came across a black snake a few days
ago that was fourteen feet long. They had
not been drI king either.
Charles +. Greenwalt, of Hummelstown,
Dauphin county, owns an Allie ney cow,
which recently gave birth to three calves,
and all OF them are doing well.
Mrs. Sadie Miller, of Meadvillc, Craw-
ford county, has been arrested at that place
for extracting from a mattress in the house
of Mrs, Leighty, widow lady, the sum Of
$l,245.
Henry Saylor, a prominent citizen Of
Schuylkill county, died at Schuylkill Haven
on Saturday, in his 9th year. He wasone
| Of the first boat builders on the Schuylkill
| Canal.
The Hancock and English Club OF Mil
| lerstown, Butler county, raised llagpole on
| Thursday that was l25 feet in height Itis
claimed to be the.frst Hancock and English
pole raised in THIS State.
Auditor General William z. schell has
gone to Colorado,and will spend few weeks
m the mining regions Of that State
While a cannon was being fired in Brook
vile on Monday morning it exploded, and
| Mr.. A. A. Pearson, the gunner, was almost
instantly killed.
| Excursionists on the Pennsylvania road
in the mountainous regions are treated to
observation cars. These are open on all sides
aud furnished with reclining chairs.
On Sunday afternoon James Hughes, Of
Mount Lattice, Schuylkill county, fired at
cat with a navy revolver, but missed his
mark and inflicted fatal wound upon a
young man named John CoEnors, Of the
same place.
Harry Taylor, highly respectable young
man Of West Chester, and an employe ofthc
Recorders Office, at that place. committed
suicide by shooting on Monday night while
walking along the street. He was tempo
rarily insane.
BY the will of the late Wm. L. Uhler, Of
Lebanon, whose life was ended at Quarry
vile, Lancaster county, his estate, valued at
over S2j0,OOG. Is bequeathed to thirty-siX
nephews and nieces, each receiving So 900,
save one, who receives $4,000.
AT the present time when there are so
many worthless lniments In the market, il
| would be well to inquire which is the best
| this Will be found in Nj, b. Roberts celebrated
| Embrocation. 1t is panacea for all ailments
| that require rubbing, either on man or beast.
For sale by all druggists. 2g4
William Lightholder, GO years old, and a
miner, OF Houstonville, Washington county,
drank freely on Sunday last, and, when his
wife refused him money procured a shotgun
and fired upon her as she ran, iuhicting
painful but not dangerous wounds. Light
holder was arrested.
The total amount subscribed for the re-
lief Of the sufferers by the Milton fire was
$50 200, and the relief committee is puzzled
as to how it shall distribute il. 1t is pro-
posed to submit the question to Judge Cum
min, Of Lycoming; Judge Elwell, OF Column
bia, and Judge Rockefeller, Of Northumber-
land county,
Frank Woodring, steuben Allen and Geo.
Lanken, claiming 10 be Philadelpians, were
sentenced TO the Penitentiary for seven
years in Scranton Tuesday for burglary.
Edward Morris was also sentenced for two
years for taking large amount of cash from
the Susquehanna House.
In Pittsburg, on Saturday night, while a
peripathetic corn doctor was crying his mer-
its on the street corner, Patrick and Michael
Matthews appeared and kicked over the
stand for the purpose of robbery. A tin oil
lamp exploded, and Carrie Bird, little girl
who was standing by, was so shockiugly
burned that she d'ed the same night
The dead body of Jacob Deene was found
near South Canaan recently. He had Just
stolen a coat and gun, and it is thought he
committed suicide with the latter. The body
when found was without a head which is
supposed TO have been carried of by ami
mails. Deeue was formerly from Schuyl-
kill county, where he was a friend Of McPar-
Ian, the defective. He had served several
terms in the Wayne county jail and twenty
month in the Eastern Penltentiary.
-Englishmen formerly supposed that Amer
lean running horses were very inferior 20 theirs
but during the last two years Parole, Wal
lenstein ana other fast ones that were sent
from this country 20 England have won huu-
dreds of thousands OF dollars for such Ameri-
cans as Messrs. LOrillRrd, James Gordon Ben
nett, sc. The Eugllshmen have Investigated
the reasons TOR the great success Of American
huTses and mud that they are kept In such hne
condition by the constant use Of nj. B. Rob