The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-11-13
STATE NEWS.

A bridegroom in Reading left an old
fashioned cent with the minister as his mar
riage fee.
Iron tankage with a capacity of 5000, 900
barrels has been completed in the oil fields
during the last three months.
The Franklin Repository says that every
corn crib in that county is full, and mum
ber of new ones had to be built to accommo-
date the crop.
Harry Steele,a colored boy from Williams
port, was cut in two by shifting engine at
Harrisburg on Friday.
The vote in Clarion county fell Off about
1000 because of that number of men going
of with RATS two days before the election.
Harry Huey, of Reading, and victim of
the wenty. y.eighth street railroad disaster in
Pittsburg, died Of his injuries on Thursday.
William Wells, a laborer in Erie, has
eloped with a widow named Foster Of the
same place, and leaves behind d wife and
several children.
Samuel Fryer has been arrested ot Potts
town, charged with inAIcting probably fatal
injuries upon Alexander Sassaman at Bower
town on Monday night.
William Kendall, mail agent on the
Kendall and Eldred Railroad, in The Brad
ford oil fields, who is an old railroader, has
travelled 100000 miles in his life.
The slab over the grave Of Zachara Con-
nell, at Connellsvlle, has been broken in
three pieces and the letters thereon almost
obliterated. He died in 1913, and came to
the place in 1850
Isaac Kaufman, a conductor for thirty
years on the Pennsylvania Railroad, was
killed by the cars at Elizabeth Furnace on
Wednesday. He leaves a wife aud several
children at Mffln.
Deer continue plentiful in Blair county.
The malleable iron works at Erie are to be
enlarged.
Disston's new rolling mill at Tacony EN-.
ploys 200 hands.
A test well for oil in Canoe township, In
diana county, is down 600 feet.
The Plttsburg papers report the iron mar.
ket in that place as very active.
Eighteen freight cars rolled down an EN-.
bankment near Big Fill, on the Ty rome and
/ Clearheld road, on Wednesday, and were
broken to pieces. The fireman named Hal
ligan, who lived in Tyrone, was killed.
The business Of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road has been so great that passenger con.
/ ductOrs have been severely taxed with work.
| II is stated that one conductor made 1884
miles or fifty-four days work, in one month.
Diphtherla prevails to an alarming ex-
tent in Titusvile.
Duck shooting is reported excellent on the
I Susquehanna.
A flock Of twenty sea gulls were noticed
in the vicinity Of Harrisburg on Sunday.
The storm Of Saturday night was particu-
larly severe in the vicinity Of Harrisburg,
Oil City aud Erie.
A passenger supposed TO be W. G. Cooper,
Of Reading, fell from a train at Auburn,
Schuylkill county, on Monday and was kill
/ ed.
The Norristown Herald says that while
woTkmen were digging a cellar at Rahn's
Station, Montgomery county, they came a.
cross nest Of 80 snakes.
The residence Of Mr. Joseph Horne, a
well-known dry goods merchant in Allie.
| gheny, was robbed OF 81 900 worth of dia.
monds on Sunday night while the family
were at supper.
William Francis and William Henry Ri.
| ley, thought to be from Philadelphia, have
been lodged in jail at Lancaster, charged
with robbing the houses OF Amaziah Brack-
bill and Howard Knox, at Belmonte, Ian.
caster county, on Friday night
A charter was issued at the State DEPART
ment at Harrisburg yesterday n the Combi-
nation Steel and Irou Company, formed for