The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-12-07
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A Budget ofLivo Nows From Lively Ip-
land City.

- HHt&"e oA AfAfo NoWa from AstNoiy IN
land City.
Miss Parsons, Of town, apent SUNDAY
very pleasantly with Weatherly friends.
Saturday $500 loaded cars of Goa
passed down the Lehigh Valley Railroad
Nineteen prisoners in The county jail
and all speak well of the genial Sheriff
LeYan.
The January jurors were drawn on
Monday by Commissioners. Stemler and
Williams in the presence of Sheriff Levan.
Calvin Wilhelm and wife, two OF
Weatherly's most respected residents, will,
fer the present, make their home in our
midst.
According to adyees received It is
thought quite likely that navigation on the
I'ehigh Coal & Navigation Co.'s canal will
close on the 18th.
"A new LehighValley engine, No 522,
just finished at the Hazleton shops, was on
Monday run to this city on trial trip with
the greatest satisfaction.
New bonds issued by the county com
missioners since our last report are as fol-
lows: Nathan Stemler, Stemersvlle, four
four of $3.50 each; Jacob Wagner, Mill
port, one of $3.50.
On Monday tho County Comr1ission-
ers decided, out of batch Of sixteen ap-
plicants, that Frank o. Donnell, of Summit
Hill, should be Mercantile Appraiser of
Carbon county for 1890. The appointee is
a brother Of Commissioner O'Donnell.
-On Wednesday Commissioners Clerk
Thomas Arner issued mammoth order
perhaps for the largest sum ever drawn by
single individual in the history of the
county. 1t was a 'plum" in the shape of
"pay to Nelson & Buchanan S15,600."
Wednesday, was the last day for filing
applications for liquor, restaurant and ho-
tel licenses and as consequence Clerk of
Court Esser was kept humping about.
About 125 applications have been filed,
which number includes several new ones.
An old Republican war horse in town
doing business on Wednesday was John
Fenstermacher, of Lehgh Gap, who for
thirty years has voted the &. o. p. ticket.
Recently he-was q candidate for sheriff,
and in the csnvention made fair show
ing
Suit for damages has been instituted
against Carbon county by Simon Hagen
buch, who was injured by the breaking of
bridge at Hudsondale-which, by the
way, is not county bridge. but town.
ship structure and the county has nothing
to do with it.
Jacob Hendler, of Wilkesbarre, who
was awarded the contract to arch the creek
at Weissport by the county commissioners,
has thrown up the job on account of the
lateness of the season, and il is not at all
likely now that the work will be COM
menced before next spring.
Edward Curran languishes behind the
iron bars of the county prison, charged |
with the larceny of nine gallons of wine !
and keg of lager beer from Frank Nc
Ginley's saloon, one night last week. He |
was captured while in the act of removing |
the liquid the evening afterward.
Mrs. Eliza Hyndman, one Of our oldest |
residents, died Sunday morning. after a |
brief illness of heart disease. Deceased |
was the wife of the late Mark Hyndman,
who was prominent in the development of /
Mauch Chunk and the interests OF the Le- |
high Coal and Navigation Company. The
funeral took place Tuesday afternoon and |
was largely attended.
> Elmer Kotz was found dead in bed on |
Sunday morning. He had been subject To |
falling fits from infancy and il is presumed |
that this affliction was the immediate cause
of his sudden death. He was aged about |
twenty six years and was a son of Mrs. II. !
=. Levan by her first husband. Interment I
was made in the old cemetery at Weiss
port on Tuesday afternoon
Editor Rauch, of the Democrat, was
out Wednesday after ten days confinement
with rheumatism. He is complete ply
steal wreck-both hands being deformed |
with unnatural excrescences and his left |
leg at the knee joint being stiff. He must
use crutch to navigate. Capt. Rauch is |
one of the ablest editors in Eastern Penn
and is an expert in handwriting. |
The report current to the effect that |
Michael Griffin, of town, supervisor of d. |
vision 4. L. & S. r. r., had commenced
the systematic removal of Hungarians and |
Polanders employed under him is without |
foundation of fact. The item was pub
lished in this paper as matter of news, |
and now Mr.. Griffin is out in strong de- |
nal of the charge. He scores the origin |
ators Of the story quite fiercely.