The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-01-29
TEE STATE.

There Is talk Of starting a National Bank
at Canton, Bradford county.
The first train was run over the Somerset
and Cambria Railroad ON Sunday.
Joe Ritter died in Norristown on Monday
in his gSd year. He had never lost tooth.
A large deposit Of iron ore has been dis
covered in Rockland township, Berks coun-
ty.
Mrs. Ettie Ewing died OF Elders Ridge,
Indiana county, few days ago aged los
years.
There are twenty-five creameries In Bucks
county, with an aggregate capital stock Of
Sbs,4l2.
Miss Belle Bladen has been elected tres.
surer of the Waynesburg and Washington
Railroad.
Joseph F. seiders, well known citizen
Of Poltsvile, died Of heart disease OF Sum
day afternoon.
Edward E. Henkson, aged "a years, died
suddenly at Chester on Saturday night from
paralysis Of the stomach.
A barn on the Allegheny County Aims
house farm was burned down on Saturday.
Loss, S550Oj partially insured.
John Beckwith, an old citizen Of Brooks-
ton, Warren county, was killed by the cars
near Sheffield on Thursday of last week,
Herman Hershey, Of Pittsburg, has lost
his reason because of grief over the death of
his two children with diphtheria.
The residence of Solomon Bear, at Vir.
ginsville, Berks county, was burned down
on Saturday. Loss, $4,000; fully insured.
A correspondent of the Erie Observer
states that S350,00O are spent in that city
annually for liquor and only SlS5,O0O Tor
churches.
Jacob Shirk, a rag dealer Of Lancaster,
has eloped with n Miss Shreiner, of that
place, leaving a wife and four children be-
hind.
Mrs. Joseph Markley, Of East Nantmeal
Chester county, died on Saturday night. It
is said that she took poison with suicidal in
tent.
Scarlet fcver and diphtheria are reported
to be prevailing to an alarming extent in
Lehigh, Northumberland aud portions OF
Schuylkill county.
Oliver Dehart, of Harrisburg, aged 90
years, attempted suicide on Friday last by
hanging. Dependency over his poverty
was the cause of the act.
The house of Benjamin Snyder is built
across the line dividing Lebanon and Schuyl-
kill counties. Mr.. Snyder eats in Lebanon
and sleeps in Schuylklll.
II. Gold Rogers, ot one time brilliant
lawyer in Plttsburg and prominent poll
tican, has lost his reason, and is now an in E
mate of the Perry County almshouse.
Two thousand dollars have been raised
in Reading for the surviving members of the
Moser family. Two of the family were
burned to death by a coal oil accident.
Jordan Cope, butcher of Buckingham
township, Bucks county has eloped with
Fanny Cosner, of the same place. He leaves
wife and several children behind.
Ira Frankenbarger, of Point Marion
Greene county, drove his children into the
yard Thursday of last week and then hung
himself Domestic Affections are assigned
as the cause.
Peter Keller, a barkeeper in Pittsburg,
died in great agony on Saturday IRON ex-
cessive use of liquor. He was at one time
Chief Clerk in the Prothonotary's Office and
an instructor in Latin in the High School.
A meeting of the Bar oil Dauphin county
was held in Harrisburg on Monday to pro-
test against the passage of the bill for the
removal ofall Supreme Court proceedings to
Philadelphia and abolishing the sittings OF
that Court at Harrisburg and Pittsburg.