The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-04-23
STATE NEWS.

All the mills in Sharon, Mercer county,
are running on full time. e
About 100000 bushels of coal per week
is being shipped from Pittsburg by river.
Desmond Donahue, aged IL, was acciden-
tally drowned at Bradford on Sunday.
Joseph Coleski, coal miner, was killed by
a fall of coal near Johnstown on Saturday.
The freight shipments from Pittsburg via
the Ohio river last week amounted to $780,
600 tons.
Jacob Eby, aged rs. of Chambersburg,
committed suicide on Tuesday while tempo
rarily insane.
The Pottsville Iron and Steel Company's
rolling mill is turning out 5000 tons of rails
per month.
The jackson Hotel and two adjoining
buildings were destroyed by fire at Hunt
ingdon ON Friday. Loss, $4,000.
William Folmer, German, fell from a
wagon at Bird in Hand, Lancaster county,
on Saturday and broke his neck.
John Fulton, aged 80 years, was killed by
fall of ore near Flourtown, Montgomery
county, on Wednesday OF last week.
Cook Hall has been convicted Of murder
in the second degree for shooting Esmer Fos-
ter in house of i'll fame in Piltsburg.
Sneak thieves robbed the house of o. II.
Allerton, of Pittsburg, on Sunday, while the
family were at supper, o! 5000 worth.
A pistol accidentally exploded in the
hands Of Fran kiln Bechtel, aged II years, at
Lebanon on Friday, killing him instantly.
Father Maloney, priest of Erie, who ia
accredited with performing number OF
Burns of paralysis.
The Willismsport Gazette and Bulletin
says that timber is coming down the river
in such quantities that ii is feared the boom
will not be able TO accomodate it.
Mrs. Smeltz, wife Of coal miner living
in Plum township, Allegheny county, Sun
day committed suicide by jumping into
a well. Domestic infelicity was the cause.
Police Officer Samuel Hoffman Tuesday
morning shot and killed a young man
named John Siedehl in McKeesport, under
the mistaken impression that Siedehl was q
burglar.
A wood-pulp paper mill has been put in
operation al Lock Haven which utilities the
slabs and edgings of the lumber mills. A
heavy paper is manufactured, suitable fol
flour sacks, which is turned out at the rate
of a carload day.
Frank BechtOld, aged l6 years, residing
with his parents at Lebanon, was found in q
room Friday evening with a pistol shoi
wound in his head, from the effects of which
he died shortly after. 1t is not known
whether the shooting was intentional or not
G. B. Allen, Of Leesburg, Mercer county
has received letter from his son C. B. Al
len, in Texas, stating that he is TO be hung
for defending himselfagainst an attack from
his prospective father-in-law. Allen asks
his father TO have his body taken home fol
| burial.
Colonel E. A. L. Roberts, the torpedo in
Ventor, Of Titusville who died not long since
len nothing 10 his two children. They wer'
living with their mother, who separated
from the father seine years ago. To hi
nephew, Owen NJ. Roberts, he lel, S25, 900
aud this young man magnanimously offer
10 divide II with the children. The bulk o
Colonel Roberts fortune was LEFT 10 hi
sisters and brothers and their children.
Adviees from Pittston, Pittsburg, Potts
willie, Wilkesbarre, WilllamspOrt, Erie, Titus
willie, Altoona, Chester and Easton say tha
spring trade has begun in earnest in all thos
places. Purchases are being made with
freedom indicative Of q plenty Of money
Lumbermen are infusing a new life int
places along the susquehanna. The Ma
rietta 1smes says that money is plenty, anl
the merchants in good hnmor all along tha
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