The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-06-13

The County Capital spiritedly Eritomized
by Special Correspondent Personal
and Otherwise.
The First National and the Second
National Banks of this city each hold
$4,000 of the States money.
Daniel Burns, one of Carbon coun.
| ty's oldest residents died Tuesday in
this city at the age of 96 years.
j. Il. Breslin, Summit Hills popu.
lar contractor and builder, was prom.
inent visitor in town Wednesday,
The viewers appointed by the court
j. w. Raudenbush and Fred Schmidt
Lehighton; Tom Arner and Levi Harle-
man, Franklin; Josiah Musselman,
Mahoning; j. w. Heberling and Her
man Stroll, of town assess damages
in the proceedings instituted by
Jonathan and Stephen Lauchner VS..
the Schuylkill & Lehigh Valley r. r.,
will meet on the 30th instant and decide
conclusions.
Tho downfall Of e. r. Siewers is
certainly to be regretted, if for no
other reasons than the furnishing of a
name for half century honored and
respected, and the disgrace to an old
mother, wife and daughter. Siewers is
not TO bo pitied; he was aman Of strong
mind and keen perceptions and might
have anticipated the inevitable result
of his crime. Nothing so far developed
in his downfall shows aught for com
miseration, but much is shown for his
condemnation and punishment.
Samuel alexander, for the past
year division passenger agent of the
Lehigh & Susquehanna division of the
Central Railroad OF New Jersey, has
rendered his resignation to the officials
of the road, to take effect on June l.
He will shortly leave for his home at
Hartford, Conn, and after two months
recreation will control one of the larg-
est and most important theatrical pro
ductions as manager next season, for
which company he has already been
engaged. In Mr.. Alexander the Cen
tral company passed an excellent and
trying official. He is a popular gentle
man, and has hostsof friends through
out the district who will regret to learn
of his sudden departure,
TO the long list of self-murderers
is added that Of Christopher Little, a
well-lnown lawyer and insurance agent
of Pottsville, and District Deputy Grand
Master of the f. & A. NJ, in Schuylkin
county, who was found dead in bed
shot through the head, in room No. 8
in the American Hotel, ON Broadway,
about nine o'clock Wednesday morn
ing Tuesday evening he attended a
meeting of the Masonic order in this
city and appeared in the very best of
spirits. He retired about ten o'clock
or little later, and not answering when
called the following morning, step
ladder was procured and Landlord
Jarrard on looking through the transom
saw Little lying dead. DR.. Irwin and
l.. II. Barber were called and entrance
to the room was gained by letting a
small boy through the transom and un-
locking the door Immediately after
ward Squire j. J. Boyle empanelled the
following jury: John O'Brian, foreman;
George W. Mortimer, q. A. Kelley, B.
S. Reading, @. E. Bertch and p Il. Muir
ray, before whom the evidence was sub
mitted which was about as follows:
Little retired between and 10 o'clock,
and sometime during the night fired
the fatal shot which ended his life. The
firing of the fatal shot disturbed no one
in the house-the report being deadened
by pillow which he had placed over
his head, evidently for that purpose.
ne IelI HOJuluB Deuluu tIOHl which Il
motive for the terrible act could be de-.
duced The revolver with which Little
shot himself was Smith & Wesson
self-acting, 38-calibre. The ball passed
through his head, entering about one
inch back of the external angle of the
right eye and coming out at external
angle of the left eye and entering the
the wall five or six feet from where he
was lying in the bed. Death must have
been instantaneous.