The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-05-21
STATE NEWS.

Lewis Prev, who lived near Oil City, has
been missing for a month;
William Moore, aged 76 years, was killed
by cars near Pomeroy on Monday.
Louis Berg, a newly-arrived immigrant
was drowned at Johnstown on Friday while
bathing
J. Yance Criswell, railroad and canal
contractor, died at Harrisburg on Thursday,
llth inst, aged GS years.
W: W. Wilson, of Sunbury, was drowned
ON the 18th Of March. His body was re-
covered on Friday.
William j. Gatchell, ofthe Bradford Star,
has sued the proprietor of the Bradford Net0s
for calling him fool.
Daniel Gehris, S. years old, of Reading,
was insured on the speculative plan, on last
Friday, and died on Saturday.
The effects of James Cassim, the clown,
killed at Altoona last year, have been for
warded to his wife in England.
Michael and Bridget Mcbride; small chill
dren, arrived in Oil City alone on Thursday
on fruitless search for their father.
Father Maloneyj the alleged miracle
worker of Erie, offers to wager $4,000 that he
can perform miraculous cures publicly.
William Dorsey, of Baltimore, was killed
! by cars between Coatesville and Parkers-
burg on Tuesday.
A white rabbit With only one ear, and
that located in the centre Of his ioteheadj il:
a Titusville curiosity.
Several hundred houses were erected in
Bradford during the winter, and yet tene-
ments are in demand.
Auditor General Lemon is laid up at his
home in Hollidaysburg with a severe attack
! of rheumatism.
The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Company paid out $4,000 IN Reading on
Thursday of last week for labor.
Albert Myers, of Cubertson's Row Frank.
lin county, was dragged around and kicked
to death by vicious mule on Monday.
Two buildings owned by John Dabbs, in
Franklinj were destroyed by ERE on Mon
day. Loss, $S5OOj no insurance.
Professor j. F. Thompson, of Erie, brott
a fourteen days fast on Monday, which was
undertaken for scientific purposes.
Mr.. Jesse Yingert has sued the Harris
burg Independent for associatng him un.
pleasantly with speculative insurance.
Mr. Henry Oliver, of Pittsburg, has pur
ahased the Lawrence Iron Works, at New
Castle, and will put them in running order
Mrs. James Kelly, of Napier township
Bedford county, examined bucket Of roch
! powder while smoking pipe and was near.
ly burned to death.
W. S. quigly, tax collector in Eas
Nottingham township, Chester county, wai
robbed Of S450 by highwaymen on Friday
night
Jacob Fondersmith died in the Lancaster
County Almshoase on Thursday, aged 50
years. He was born and raised In that il.
stituton.
Rev. John White,a minister living neal
Titusville, was arrested on Saturday while
clipping with his sister-in-law, Mrs. Gibson
a married woman.
The clothing of Miss Ferringer, living al
Freedom, Armstrong county, took fire acci.
dentally on Wednesday, llth inst, and sh,
was burned to death.
George H. Lang has been sentenced il
Blair county to pay fine of $2OQ and un
dergo an imprisonment of three month fu
selling liquor without license.
A young man named Nuss, living il
Deep Valley, Greene county, was vaccinateC
recently, and his arm became SO inaameC
that it had to be amputated.
B. F. Gethings, who was arrested at New
York on the charge of indecently assaultny
two little girls at Pittston, arrived at the lat
ter place Friday evening in custody, anC
threats of lynching were made.
A number Of families bearing the namt
Of. Holmes, and living in Blairsville, Indian,
county, will unite in endeavoring to secur
part of the e40,O00,O00 said to have beel
left by Englishman of the same name.
Charlie Green, 11-year-old boy, wa
taken from tramps at Loretta, Alleghen,
county, on Wednesday of last week. Hi
parents live in Brooklyn.
A test case brought by colored people a
Meadville for the admission of colored chill
dren TO white schools has been decided il
favor of the plaintiffs. The decision was b,
Judge Church.
Twenty-one cannon balls, weighing sew
enty-fve pounds each, were recently un
earthed on the peninsula of Erie harboI
/ There was block house at this point dur
D ing the war of 1872.
Bishop Payne, of the New England NJ. Z
Conference (colored), is negotiating for th
, purchase of the old Marshall College in Mer
l cersburg, which will be convertrd into
theological college for colored students.
A log house on the farm of Isaac Bohr
I in Lower Heidelberg, Berks county, said I
! be / IA years old, was torn down a few day
ago. The flooring, made of yellow pin
; was found to be in a sound condition.
/ A dead infant, evidently just born, wa
: found on a doorstep in York on Sunda
morning after the rainstorm.
e j. Creagh Smith, unmarried and aged 2S
f committed suicide by poison at his sister
e house, in Paradise, on Sunday. No cause
e assigred.
, The annual report of the Board of Trad
= of Erie shows So, Gao 900 invested in manu-
o laetuges, employing 1892 men and produC
S ing 80 100000 worth of manufactured good
George W. Hotfmaster, schoolboy {
Lancaster, was accidentally struck in tn
f stomach with stick while at play a fe'
q days ago5and is now dangerously ill and ex
! pected to die.
= A case Of speculative insurance is report
S ed from Reading, in which Daniel Gehri
: aged s5 years, was insured on his death be
/ for $4,000. DR., Yorgey is the examinin
physician Of the company.
9 MARRIED.