The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-04-16
STATE n EvvS.

The pottstown Car Works ara making 100
cars for the Jersey Central Railroad.
A Court House, to cost sl4s,s79, is to be
erected at Scranton.
The wages account OF the PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad shops at Altoona for March footed
up $4,000.
John Knefesy was killed by fall Of coal
at the Minersville mines, near Hazleton,
Monday.
Nearly all the farmers in the lower nor.
ton Of Chester county will raise tobbcco the
coming season.
j. r. Young, publisher Of the Tribune, at
Wampum, Lawrence county, has mysteri-
ously disappeared.
The Reading Iron Works have received
contracts for the manufacture OF three Morse
cotton cOmpresses.
Mr.. John Newman, of Oakland township.
Butler county, was gored to death by bull
on Saturday last.
Jacob and Peter Metz, living at oakdale,
Allegheny county, fought Monday when
Jacob was badly injured.
Clinton county; although young in the
production of tobacco, claims to have ship.
ped 81 0,000 worth last season.
Isaac Quigley, aged 60 years, of Mechan-
icsville, Lancaster county, fell down stairs
on Saturday and broke his neck.
The Sportmens Association of Western
Pennsylvania killed over 900 hawks and
owls last year. -
William Evans, saloon keeper in Pitts
burg, fatally stabbed his brother Ellis with a
butcher knife on Thursday of last week.
William Higgins, of Lsnesboro, susoue-
hanna county, fell from bridge at that
place last week and was xii ell.
Frank Esengart, of fsharpsburg. Allegheny
county, blew out the gas in piltsbuig ho-
tel the other day and was sullocate,l.
Raftsmen are in demand in the lumber
regions of this State. 1t is stated TINT the
amount Of lumber yet to be RATED is enor-
nous.
Large flowing wells are now being com
pleted daily in the new Stoneham field,
which bids fair to rival the famous Bradford
district.
A tract of l4c0 acres ofland has been pur-
chased near New Florence, WestmOreland
county, by the Western Game and Fish As.
sociaton. 1t will be stocked with game.
The shedding in the coal yard of J. E.
Ziegler, at Pennsburg, Montgomery county.
was set on fire by spark from locomotive
on Saturday and destroyed: Loss, $4,000; in
sured. 4
The attending physicians OF the Berks Co.,
Almshouse reported Sunday evening thirty
cases of smallpox at that institution, prnci-
pally among the children, and of mild
variolod form.
Peter Trimmer. a heavily-insured man
living at Manchester, York county, believes
an effort was recently. made in poison him
10y placing drugged bottle of whisky where
he would find it.
John Fitch and Miss Ella Townsend, of
Coal Bluff, Allegheny county, ran off to Me-
Keesport TO get married. The elder Fitch
arrived in time tp prevent the ceremony.
The young folks got him drunk and then
had the knot tied. - va.s
Henry Erliardt, Of Rr'ic, noticed pimple
on his arm on Friday LIST inst, about noon
Before night it had swelled tn an enormous
size. and he died in great agony on the fol-
lowing Wednesday. The doctors were un-
able to tell what the malady was.
Recently Mrs. Lydia Ridgeway died IN
Centre township, Greene county, aged 9s
wears. In 1906 she aud her husband. John
Ridgeway who was shoemaker, left Philn.
delphia I'm foot To seek home in The West.
She carried young baby aud RIdgeway his
kit Of tools. They settled in Greene county,
where they raised thirteen children. Her
descendants altogether now number over
100.