The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-04-02
STATE NEWS.


on short time.
John Prescott Knight,the portrait painter,
is dead.
James Fowler, a brakeman, was instantly
killed by cars Of Altoona on Saturday.
Steel nails are being made at the Chesa-
peake Iron Works.
sleighing is still omongs sports in some
Of the northern countries.
There has not been a licensed hotel in
Potter county for twenty years.
a refrigerator company has been organ
lied in Lebanon for keeping eggs the year
round.
Iryin Trout, aged 10 years, was killed by
cars in Pottsgrove township, Montgomery
county, Wednesday.
The "Darling" well. on Tionesta Creek,
near Sheffield, is promising oil strike in
Forest county.
Mice destroyed S45 in bank notes for Mr..
Samuel Fayenger, of East Coventry, Chester
county.
Miss Naomi Mengel, of Reading, has been
missing several weeks. She was last seen
in Philadelphia.
An immense body of very rrch iron ore
has been discovered in MIlburn Valley, Fay
ette county.
John II. Sweeney, the oldest native-b born
citizen of West Chester, died on Saturday,
aged &c years.
Miss Kate Lehan, of Erie, was burned to
death on Saturday. Her clothing acciden-
tally took fire.
James M'Dade has leased 500 acres on
Tionesta Creek, near Kane, which will be
developed for oil.
Rey. Mr.. Morgan, of Kittanning,was sem
fenced to the Penitentiary on Saturday for
fornicaiion and bastardy.
Thrty-fou thousand pounds of tobacco
werc raised ON twenty acres of Senator Cam
eron's Lochiel farm. II sold for $4,000.
David Lddick, sr., aged rs years, living
near New Buffalo, Perry county, committed
suicide on Sunday by shooting himself.
Michael Musser died at the York County
Almshouse on Thursday of last week lie
was insured for 81 900 the day before.
There are about 2S7, 900 OOO feet of logs in
the Williamsport and Lock Haven booms,
4O,OOO,OOO Of which are at the latter place.
1t is estimated that between lS,OO0,OOO
and 20 COO 900 feet of boards and mauulac-
tured lumber will be run out o. Tionesta
Creek this spring.
DIR. Christopher Hope, Of Mansfield, ALE
gheny county, crushed David Fosters skull
at that place on Thursday night of last week,
Hope is in Jail.
Mrs. David Donner, Of Pufiiington town
ship, Indiana county, has fallen heir to
$4,000 by the death of her uncle, Judge
McCann, of New York.
A child named Koons, living in Centre
township, Snyder county, was SO badly
frozen last month that both of its legs and
arms had to be amputatad.
Martin Flick, a prominent citizen of
Edenburg. was arrested at Pittsburg on Mon
day while in the act of eloping with Mrs.
Shepherd, charming widow.
A bantam hen belonging 10 Jacob Gay
man, of Dauphin. laid an egg in pigeons
nest. The pigeon hatchcd it out and the
bantam, now full grown, consoits with the
pigeons.
A jury in Reading has returned veadict
of $72G6 against the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railroad Company in'favor of f. Obert
for trespassing ON that gentleman's proper
ty.
Mrs. Beals,an old lady living near Ebens-
burg, was found alone in her house few
days ago and nearly staryed to death She
had had nothing to eat but hard corn for a
week.
Sixteen thousand acres of coal land in
the northern part of Mexican county, be-
longing to the Buffalo Coal Company, are
to be connected with the McKen and Buff
falo Railroad by narrow-guage road, to
cost $500 900.
Three pots containing 200 in gold and