The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-09-15

The new Catholic church in South
Bethlehem will have a stceple one hundred
and eighty feet in height.
Jacob Underlined, seyenty years 81
age, was found dead in Chair Tuesday
morning at Mount Hope, two miles from
Pottsrillc. The old man lived alone in
the house.
Breaker No. 2, at Upper Lehighj one
Of the largest in tuzerne county, was
burned Tuesday night. II was owned and
operated by the Upper 1ehigh Company,
whose loss is estimated at $4,000. Nearly
one thousand men and boys arc thrown out
Of work. The origin Of the FIRE 10 Unknown.
Charles Dodson 4 Co.'s breaker at
beaver Meadow was entirely destroyed by
fire on Monday night, SUPPOSED to be The
work Of incendares. Two hundred men
and boys are thrown out Of employment.
Loss, $4,000.
Captain Isaac, aged %, a soldier of the
war Of 1919, residing at Hellertown, was
stricken with apoLlexy on Sunday evening
a week.
Henry Fenatetmaeher, OF Catasauqua,
last winter received two ordinary sized po-
tatoes of the King OF the Valley variety,
which he cut up and planted last spring.
Last week he dug up Tie hills aud counted
yield of 126 murphies, weighing together
90 pounds.
Charles schneliet,of Catasauqua, pulled
up in his garden the other day the king of
the vegetable creation in the form of a
ihdmmoth blood beet. II measured 10
inches in circumfHtence and weighed six
pounds.
"A delicate Surgical operation was per-
form6h last week on Robert Ried, of Cata
sauqua. The eye ball was removed, just
leaving a stump on which to place the arti-
fetal eye. The operation was successfully
performed by DR.. George Romig, of Alleh-
town, assisted by DR.. Yoder, of Catasauqua.
Mr.. Ried is doing well and sight will be
retained in the retftaining eve.
The Philadelphia and Reading Coal
ard Iron Company is preparing to reopen
number Of abandoned mines near Auden-
ried. They were formerly worked for the
Lohgh and Wilkesbarte Coal Conipunt
and when the veins were exhausted were
closed up.
"A freight train on the tehigh and
Susquehanna Railroad was wrecked We'd
n.;J
Eight cars were demolished and the track
was blocked for several hours, passengers
and baggage being transferred.
Rev. William Loubenstein, for several
years pastor of the Lutherdh Church at
Tamaqua, died at his fathers residence at
Minersvllc on Tuesday night, from Bright's
disease. He was twenty-si1 Years of age
and graduated at Mdhlenberg College. He
leaves a wife and two children.
Two freshmen in the Lehigh Universi-
ty, who knew that their room was to be
foided by some sophomsres 10 capture
wine, put tartar eitietic in the latter. The
raid Succeeded and so did the emetic.
-Pottstown boasts ofa lady. the execut-
i've of one of the largest dwelling in the
town, in whose house pitcher hes not been
broken during the tNenty-ninc years of
her married life.
A reunion'of the Ninety third Regiment
of Pennsylvania Volunteers, part of which
was recruited in Reading, Lebanon and
NorrIstown, will be held in the lstter plhee
on October 20.
Charles Absa!om, young man, fifteen
years old, brother of the late Assistant Post
master Absalom, of Eanticoke, was killed
Tuesday in The mines near Wilkes Barre.
Detective Smith, Of the Letigh Valley
Railroad, arrested John Moyer, of Balti-
more, Md, and James Werner, of Orange,
N. j., while stealing a ride an coal train.
They were taken before Alderman Hankee,
at ssatrgton, who committed them to jail
for ten days.