The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-11-10
NEWS CUT UP.
The Country Over. Something forHasty Read.
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An old salve peddler has been visiting
neighboring towns and yictimizing people
by selling them pure tallow at the rate of
25 cents per ounce. Our readers should be
on the watch for him. He may visit this
locality.
Get out your fiannels. You will need
them. The melancholy days have come,
the saddest of the year, when cold is
| liable to settle on persons lungs and stay
there until pneumonia sets in, IL that per-
son exposes fanneless chest to the raw
br eezes. The sudden happy -go-,uckly
changes in temperature so characteristic of
this delightful climate, do as much to fill
the sraveyards as fiedgling doctor. There
fore prepare for jumps of the autumn
thermometer by wearing flannels. The
man, woman or child who is constantly in
the open air, and who clings to the gauze
underwear of summers breszes blow, is no
descendant of Solmon.
Railroad hands found the body Of a
man on the tracks of the Lehigh Valley
railroad short distance above Sugar Notch
Sunday morning. On examination he was
found to have died from injuries about the
head, indicating that he had been beaten to
death with club and then placed upon
the track to conceal the crime. From pap
era found on his person he is believed to be
VIM. Lauleraux, of Greasy, a small town
near Sunbury.
N Another outrage, somewhat similar to
! the McClure-Flannigan tragedy on the
mountain. was enacted on a lonely road be-
, tween Pittston and Pleasant Valley, Friday
nigh, by which Henry Berow was fatally
injured and George Llewellyn seriously
; wounded by a cowardly assassin who is
known.
Miss Susie b. Leach. the daughter ot
| Lemuel Leach, of Campbell, "a years Of
age, an attractive young lady, has brought
suit claiming $4,000 damages against Fl
Fl. Litchfield, of Boston and Plymouth, fo
breach of promise of marriage.
n "A man, whose body has not yet beef
o identified, fell from the bridge over Ches
ter Creek at Wa-Wa Tuesday and wa
drowned. The 10 o'clock train was stand
ing at Wa-Wa, when the man was heard
b splashing in the water a short distance be
low. The trainmen went to HE assistance
but before they could get him out he wa
dead, and the body was taken to Media
e where Coroner Fairlamb held an inquest.
The passenger train on the Pennsyl
e vania Railroad leaving WilkesbaTe at
:. n. met with another accident Monday
" While running about fifteen miles an hou
70 near Eescopeck, twenty-five miles belo'
Is that city, it crushed into an engine backiu
out of siding on the main track. The en-
gine of the passenger train was badl
wrecked and thrown off the track.
"A mysterious shooting affair, whic
will in all likelihood cause the death of Mr.
Rettie Stokes of 33l Greenwich stree
Philadelphia. occurred Tuesday. Early i
70 the evening three shots we're heard in II
house, and policeman found that Fred
=, Ramos, Cuban, had shot Mrs. Stoke
three times, two of the bullets taking effe'
iu her face, and the third in one of h'
al lungs,
George Haines, young civil enginee
OF and member of the Schuylkill Valley FL
AZ gineers' Corps, was found murdered G
the road between st. CLAIR and Port Ca
bon, Schuylkill county, early Monday NOR
u, ing. The first to discover the body we
SIS James Connell and his son of Port Carbo