The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-09-24
STATE rEws.

Bridget Tracy, aged 90 years, died sud
denly Of heart disease at Woat Chester on
Monday evening.
John spath, aged 70 years, fell through
railroad bridge at Allegheny on Saturday
and died the same night.
A largo boiler in the United pump station
at Rixiord, Mexican county, exploded,
wrecking the building. No one was killed.
Edward Anthony, car repairer at Sun.
bury, was caught between two cars in tho
yard aud crushed 70 death one day last
week.
James Close, prisoner in the Erie coun.
ty penitentiary, on Thursday Of last week
cut his throat with razor, aud died in
stautly.
An s-year-old daughter of William HoI-
land, Of Benezet. Elk county, died on Fri
day from drinking some bed bug poison q
few days before.
A boy named Mcguire. 10 years old, tried
to board a shifting engine at Pittsburg on
Friday, and fell under the wheels and was
cut to pieces.
A boiler in the Dunbar Furnace at Union
town exploded on Friday morning, killing
James Mcdonald, the fireman, and injurinR
several others.
Benevolent Lodge Of Odd Fellows, the
oldest secret ganization in Delaware Co..
celebrated its tftieth anniversary at Chester
on Saturday.
John O'Brien, section boss on the rail.
road, was fatally crushed while coupling
cars at TaylOrstown, Washington county on
Saturday.
The last half mile Of the Meadvillie and
Linesville Railroad was completed on Sun
day, and regular trains will begin running
this week.
Thomas Evans, aged IS years, Of Mex eea-
port, drowned himself in a pond on his
fathers place on Sunday night. He was
subject TO fits OF dependency.
John II. Donnclly, a fireman on the
Pennsylvania Railroad was killed on Thurs
day near Summerhill by falling from his
engine under the wheels of the train.
Mrs. Sara Zieber, aged As, while chang
ing passenger cars at Reading on Friday az
ternoon, was passing from one car TO an
other, when an engine backed up against
the train and she fell between the two cars
and was caught by the head and killed.
The body Of Reuben Lock, young farm
er who has been missing since Thursday
last, was Sunday found in the canal at
ner indicated that he had fallen while
drunk from the platform Of car while
crossing the canal
A Board Of Arbitration in Lancaster has
decided "no cause for action" in the case OF
Adam r. Bear, who sued Levi 5ensenig for
SANDER setting the damages at $40 900. The
local politicians were much interested in the
case.
A fire at Pittsburg on the South Side on
Monday morning totally destroyed Johnson
4 Co.'S glass warehouse and a portion Of
Hayes lumber yard, on Twenty fourth
street. The loss is estimated at $250, 600 I;
fully insured. The FIRE originated in an oil
she'd
John Billet, respectable farmer Of
Spring Garden township, York county. died
in the county hospitable at York on We'd
nesday evening or prostratioh. Billet was
a religious enthusiast, and attended num-
Der of camp meetings during the summer,
taking an active part in the services, and
finally became insane upon religious mat
ters.
It is reported that q syndicate has been
formed by men thoroughly competent and
acquainted with the manufacture of iron to
lease the mills and furnaces Of the Reading
Coal and Iron Company. The party having
in charge the furnaces at Swedeand have
been notified to set the place in readiness
for work, and to inform the hands formerly
employed there that their services would be
needed at once.