The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-06-11
STATE NEWS.

A plough factory is in full blast at Litiz,
Lancaster county.
Rachel Lester died in Allegheny City on
Saturday while laughing.
The Middlesex Furnace in Mercer coun-
ty, is idle owing TO a strike Of the firemen.
Five thousand young trout have been
placed in streams in Chester county.
The General Synod Of the lutheran
Church met at Altoona on Wednesday.
Rev. Father Maloney, the alleged miracle
worker Of Erie, has been arrested on the
charge Of fraud.
Seven hundred black bass taken from
Lake Erie have been placed in the reservoir
near JOhnstown.
Lightning killed sixty-nine sheep for
Blochley Sindley, of Prosperity, Washington
county, few days ago.
A bright and attractive weekly called The
Central Ne1cS has made its appearance at
Perkasie, Bucks county.
The body of Patrick Rooney, living at
Spartansburg, Erie county, was found in a
creek near there on Tuesday.
William Grail, brakeman on the Penn.
sylvania Railroad, was crushed TO death by
cars at Pittsburg on Tuesday.
Samuel Fry was crushed to death by cars
at Enon Valley, Allegheny county on Mon
day.
The strike among the coke miners in the
Connellesville regicn threatens to become
general.
owen Millhouse has been arrested at
Harrisburg for embezzlement from Chi
cago house.
Governor Hoyt will attend the Allegheny
College commencement at Meadville on the
2lst inst.
The Schuylkill Valley Creamery, at
Bridgeport, consumes 1878 quarts of milk
! per day.
Bricklayers in West Chester have been
| given an advance of 25 cents per day in their
wages.
There are $50 hands employed at the
French Creek iron ore mines in Chester
county.
The store of William Kinkead, in LIVER
more, Westmoreland county, was robbed Of
500 on Friday.
The picnic Of the Iron and Steel Work
ers' Association at Beaver on Saturday was
attended by 10000 people
Isaac Moorhead, prominent Republican
politician of Erie county and postmaster al
Erie, died suddenly on Saturday. n
An unknown man was found hanging tC
the limb Of tree in New Hanover town.
ship, Chester county, on Saturday.
Emma Louisa Smith, of Ardmore, Mont
gomery county, aged years recently died
from the effects of eating sour grass.
Willie, the 5-year-old son of Robert Pat
terson, of Washington, fell into a well al
that place on Tuesday and was drowned.
Thomas Powers. OF Harrisburg, was kill
ed at Steelton, Dauphin county, on Tuesday
while trying to board a moving train.
Mr.. Henry Loucks, an old fisherman, Of
Lancaster, declares that he has frequently
seen mermaid in the Susouehanna, neat
Dugan's Point.
Fossil bones, apparently of human origin
were dug up last week in East Franklir
Colliery, Schuylkill county, 1000 feet below
; the surface of the earth.
The second day of the State Uniyersalis
, Convention at Reading opened with a con
ference meeting, conducted by E. Q. Sweet
ser, of Philadelphia.
A large female college at North East, Fri
: county, has been purchased by the order o
f Redemptonists, and will be used far edu
cational purposes.
Operations in the Vaudeville shat nea
Pottsville, have been suspended becaise o
the fire there. The fire in Keely Ru, Col
r liery, near Shenandoah, is to be drowned
r out.
A strike has been inaugurated amorg tn
coke drawers of the Connellsville Rgio
I for higher wages. Three hundred mel al
e idle.
8 An unknown man, said to be from Ihila
= delphia, committed suicide by hanging i
, the barn of Jacob Armitage, near Jsnkiu
u town, on Sunnay.
A resolution was passed in the Venahg
i County Republican Convention ON Monda
= instructing for Hon. j, L. Connolly for Stat
y. Treasurer
" Andrew c. Crozier, of Milerstown, VI
8 mango county, has been held for Court f
d indecent assault upon Miss Kate Gilbert,
IS that place.
q William Edmonds was caught in the rol
ers at the Cambria Works, in Johnstown. q
Saturday, and had his left leg ground oil
s. the thigh.
E. Hannah John, a domestic living in W.
lie Bradford township, Chester Co., attempt
q suicide on Sunday by cutting her thro
> with a razor.
" A hammer in the Harrisburg Car Work
is weighing 2j00 pounds recently came doN
" on the hand of Stephen R. Cupples, ar
: mashed it to jelly.
The Blair Iron and Steel Works at Gle
81 wood, near PIttsbuIg, have been put in ord
ir by William Mckinney & Sons and will
an operated in few weeks.
is At Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland cou
g. ty, on Monday evening, Harry LaRue 81
and killed miner named "Shorty" Coli
as during a difficulty.
ms Mrs. Mullen, aged 20 years, living nc
n Gulf Mills, Chester county, committed 81
Id eide on Monday morning by cutting 4
=. throat with razor.
y. During fight at Mllerstown, Venan
AT county, on Saturday, between Prush c:
Sc. nathan and George White, the latter was
,s- badly injured that he will die.
to Jared Price, farmer residing in Ber
township, Berks county, committed suic
Monday by cutting his throat with a raz
nd lie leaves wife ana four children.
an Shredder & Bon's tobacco warehouse,
*. Lancaster, was set fire TO on Sunday BY
a. ncendiary. The damage, mainly by smc
No and water, will reach $50, 900; insured.
w The following counties in this State
Io' out of debt; Adams, Butler, Cambria, F,
in cite, Fulton, Greene, Lycoming, Northan
,as ton, Snyder, Susquehanna, Union, Wa
Of ingtOn, Wostmoreland and Wyoming
"a At the commencement of the Grocer II
ological Seminary, near Chester on Wedn
eu day, fifteen young men received certi6ca
he to preach. The John P. Grocer Hall, cost
ed $40 900, was dedicated the same day, II
IN j. L, NJ. Curry, of Virginia, delivering
u" grafton.
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