The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-10-22
Sr1rE NEWS.

The Reading Hardware Company is maxi
ing $50 stoves day.
The cigarmakers of Pittsburg have won
in their strike for an advance in wages.
There are at present 25O,OOO 900 brls: Of
crude petroleum stored IN iron tanks in the
oil regions of this State!
Samuel Fox, Lying near Pricetown, ,Berks
county, died in his carriage on Friday while
attending funeral.
j. Martin Robinson, of Erie, Was killed
by the accidental discharge of his gun while
out hunting on Thursday o! last week.
The body of Miss Cress, who died at Erie,
on Friday, was almost eaten up by rats, af-
ter being prepared for burial.
James Davis, a prominent man Of She.
mango township, Lawrence county, was
Killed by a runaway horse, on Friday.
Wages of the employees Of the E. h G.
Brooke lion Company, at BirdsbJro, have
been voluntarily increased 10 per cent.
The house of David Craft,in Morris town
ship, Washington county, was burned down
on Thursday Of last week. Loss, $4,000 no
insurance.
- The large sawmill Of Lees Holt. at Lei
perviIle, near Chester, was burned down on
Saturday. Loss, $46,O00i insurance un-
known.
David F. Williams died at York on Fri
daY. aged SO yeurs. II . was prominent in
journalism and in the politics of York
county.
George England, colored, jumped fran
moving tram on Saturday while being
taken to Reading by eonstables. He was
seriously hurt.
One hundred Swedes are receiving sup
port FROM the authorities at Blairsviile Cam
bria county. They went there under the
impression that they could get work.
Wrecks occurred TO freight trains at
Christiana and Collins Station, on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, on Saturday. AT
the former place four cars were destroyed
and at the latter three cars.
Samuel H., Miller, hotel keeper and
merchant at Union Station, on the Reading
Railroad, shot William GInsemer on Satur-
day night, because Ginsemer and his friends
demanded admission 10 the hotel. Ginsemer
died Sunday. Miller was arrested.
William F. Wray, idrmer, of Salisbury
township, Lancaster county, aged n years,
was found dead in field on Saturday night.
Heart disease.
James Murray, a we'll to do farmer oi
Wattsburg, Erie county, has been charged
by his l6 year-old niece with heing the
father Of her illegitiniate child. Murray has
been arrested.
James McCracken fell from window in
Pittsburg on Monday night while asleep
and was instantly killed.
Robert Cameron, an aged citizen Of Up
per Merton, Montgomery county, dropped
dead Of apoplexy on Tuesday
The body Of an unknown man, badly
charred BY forest fires, was found on the
mountains near Ligonier, Westmoieland
county, few days since.
Mrs. Mary Z. Dewitt, relicl Of the late
Rev. DR.. Dewitt. most amiable and well.
beloved woman, died at Harrisburg on Sun
day. She WINS "a wears old, and was a
! daughter of william Maclay, ono Of the first
United STATES Senators chosen in Pennsyl-
Yania.
The parents 6f the late Bayard Taylor are
living at Kennel Square. The mother re-
cOnay passed her SD year and the father
his 65th. They have been married sixty
seven years.
Ralph Corr, large contractor of Erie
was buried 10 bis shoulders by fall Of earth
on Monday. While he was being dug Out
another break in the eafth occurred, crush.
ing him 70 death