The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-09-08
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East Mauch Chunk wants to tackle
Lehighion for $50.
Court was in session this week for thu
transaction Of business,
Miss Katie Taylor, of Upper Lehigh,
is stopping with friends in town.
Miss Susan McFadden, Of Catasauqua,
is enjoying a delightful visit to friends in
town.
Miss Maggie Dugan has returned home
TO Bristol after most delightful visit TO
friends here.
The st, Aloysus Temperance Society
cleared about 5000 on their Mountain Park
excursion last week.
The public and Catholic parochial
schools opened on Monday with q fair at
tendance of scholars.
Summit Hill beat Mauch Chunk in a
beautifully contested game of ball last Sat
urday. Score, to G..
Contractor Werner, of Lehighton, has
contracted to build Isaac Chrisrs new
double frame dwelling house in East Mauch
Chunk.
Among the prominent gentlemen in
town on Wednesday we noticed Daniel
Graver, J. S. Miller and Andrew Grayer, Of
IVeissport.
Daniel Sweeney, OF town, aged about
twenty years, died Sunday of typhoid fever.
Interment took place on Tuesday The
St. Aloysius Temperance Society attended
the funeral in body.
Rev. Fulforth, of East Mauch Chunk,
filed the pulpit in St. Peters Episcopal
church at Hazleton on Sunday in the alb
sence of the regularpastor, who was suffer
ing from injuries received in an accident
.ecently.
Levi Hartz, proprietor of hotel at
Weatherly and well known throughout this
section, had a narrow escape from death at
this place on Monday morning. He was
seated in carriage at the Lehigh Valley
Railroad depot when it was overturned
while being backed. Mr.. Hartz was yio-
lently dashed to the ground, receiving Sc
we're internal injuries. His left arm and
hand were badly bruised. The horse break
ing loose from the carriage, ran furiously
across the bridge oyer the Lehigh RIVER
and dashed through plate glass window
of hotel, breaking leg, necessitating his
being shot. The horse was the property of
Nathan Lalller.
On Saturday last Officer Beers, of Eas-
ton. arrested and brought to Mauch Chunk
for hearing, one Samuel Shick, charged
with the larceny of thirty-nine car-iournals
from the Central Railroad yard at Coalport,
ON August 9th He was confined in the
County Jail for hearing on Monday be-
fore Squire Boyle, at which time the evil
dence against the accused was so strong
that in default of bail he was committed to
Jail for trial at the October term of court.
Shick, it seems, along with a confederate
buried the journals in coal car and when
at Black Dams Cut, near Easton, unloaded
the same and hid them in the scrub oaks.
He will probably get a year.
Henry e. Brown, of Bethlehem, the well
known artist, has designed silver medal
which Mr., O'Brien, proprietor of the Wah-
netah Hotel, at Glen Onoka, intends To
present to Mr.. Oates, the young man who
saved Mr.. O'Brien's son from drowning al
Mauch Chunk the other day, full account
of which occurrance appeared in this paper
at the time. The medal is now being en-.
graved by Raul, of Easton. 1t is of silver,
about the size of adollar. The diverse con.
tains the words, "A Tribute TO Heroism,'
while The reverse is in acknowledgement Of
Mr.. Oates services in "saying my son,
Ernest, from drowning, Aug %, 1887
| The medal is to be pendent from silver
chain and is said to be a very handsome
article.-Times.