The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-11-03
NEWS CUT UP.
The Country Over, Something for Hasty Read
ers to Freeze Onto.

ers to Freeze Onto.
Benjamin Stoner, of Fairfield, Conn.,,
attempted suicide Monday night by taking
laudanum. A loaded revolver was found in
his pocket and he declares he will yet kill
himself pretty country lass who reject
ed his suit is the reason he is tired of life.
William Flynn who was locked at Potts
vile, on the charge of robbing the store at
Lost Creek, Schuylkill county, of 5000
worth of goods, was liberated Monday night
by his friends, who broke into the station
house, and he is now at large.
-Luzerne county has 97s of its residents
ON Uncle Sans pension rolls and receives
about $l30,0O0 per annum; Lackawanna,
with 61S pensioners, draws about $4,000.
Murderer Showers, who is under sent
ence of death in the Lebanon Jail, shows
signs of insanity.
"A Jewel Andes, square stoye, in good
condition, for sale cheae. Apply to DR.. F.
|. Smith, Bank street. 2t*
"Wednesday morning John T. Bennett
was found on the grave of his wife with his
IuIOdb CuJ lIoiu ctai W cii' DchhctI was
principal of the schools, and, although quite
young, was one of Bloomsbury most trust
ell and honored citizens.
-Limas Bradley, "a farmer, of Kortwright,
Delaware county, had desperate tussle
with hawk Wednesday. Bradley had sci
a trap to capture the bird, which measured
over five feet from tip to tip and was the
finest and largest hawk ever seen in that
vicinity. The birds right leg was caught
in the trap, and in his struggle to escape
was nearly torn from its socket. Before
Rradley killed the bird he was horribly GU
about the face aud arm.
-Rey. Moses Gotshall, leading Bishop
of the Mennonite church, died suddenly OF
Saturday, at Schwenksville, Montgomery
county He was aged about 75 years.
Take your choice next Tuesday. Blu.
} your men and boys oyercoats from Adam
Mehrkam & Sons, Bank street.
Pension Agent George H. Young, o
Easton, has failed to receive his commission
on several pensions granted residents Of tina
town. The checks were sent from Wash
lngton, but Young says he did not receiv
them, and that the endorsements on then
are forgeries. He knows who got the check
and the post-office authorities are investigs
! ting the matter.
5 Miss Maize Mount, 2l years old, CON
5 mitted suicide at the. Conservatory of Musi
: in Cincinnati. A dose of morphine was III
successful, owing to prompt medical attenC
r ance, so she cut herthroat with razor.
: love affair is supposed to have been III
= cause of the act.
: Men and boys, do not forget to bu
your honest, ready-made overcoats frol
l. Adam Mehrxam & Son.
u -Dayld Sellers and wife, living net
II Mount Gilead, Ohio, were murdered an
?, the house fired to hide the evidences of u
n crime. Sellers was known to carry lars
5. sums OF money on his person. There is =
is clue to the murderer.
e Mrs. Mary Jane H'eidler, the woma
lie who tasted over fifty days in the ear
ut pital last Tuesday evening. After 81
e. broke her long fast she continued to e
~ for short time, but gradually got bat
ce into her old habits and since the 1st
September she had partaken of no nouris
ment but milk. She seemed perfectly sal
IN on all other subjects, but in the matter
L. subsistence insisted that she could live
air. Her case was very peculiar one al
completely baiiied the doctors Of the instit
tim