The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-11-14
BRIEF MENTION OF NEWS
Happenings Of the World from
Pole to Pole.


TOLD IB A FEW SECONDS OF TINE
the Developments Of Each nay During
the Week Caught Fresh from tho nusy
Wires aud Carefully Edited and Con-
densed for Our Readers.
Garza, who led the recent revolutionary
movement in Mexico, has fed 10 Central
America.
The prisoners in the Morrow county Jail
at Mount Gilead, o., picked the lock yester-
day morning and overpowered the sheriff.
Every prisoner escaped
Sir Kneval Lubbock, who arrived at
Washington from England, Is reported to
be authorized to negotiate for the free ad-
mission into this country Of coffee and
sugar from the British West Indies in re-
turn for certain concessions.
Edward McNab, recently pardoned and
released from the New Hampshire state
prison after serving thirteen years Of a
twenty-five year sentence, has been found
TO be innocent Of the crime for which he
served time.
The lepers at Vancouver have been re-
leased and are now at large. There Is talk
Of their crossing the American line
A writ Of habeas corpus has been OBJ
tanned in the case Of the German musi-
clans at Boston who have been ordered re-
turned.
A movement IS said to be on foot among
the Chicago national banks TO forfeit their
national charters, believing that the credit
Of national banks has been impaired by
the lack Of supervision manifested in the
Keystone and Maverick affairs.
There is no foundation for the rumor
that President Diaz, Of Mexico, passed
through the United States incognito on
his way to England.
New York and Boston capitalists have
agreed with the Omaha board of trade to
invest 81, ,000,0 900 in beet sugar factories In
and near Omaha.
The body of Mrs. Sophia Weld Fowler,
Of North Guilford, Conn, was found In a
pasture near her home. She was eighty
seven years old.
At Newport, r. l., the will Of Edmund
Schemerhorn was probated. The bequests,
which consist of real estate in New York
principally, are to members of the family
only. The property left aggregates about
Sl2,0O0,0OO
The statistical returns Of the department
of agriculture for November make the
corn crop one Of the largest in volume,
with rate Of yield slightly above the
average Of twenty-six bushels per acre.
At Buffalo Frank Baker pleaded guilty
to attempting to burglarize the house Of
Mrs. Rachel Stewart, of ~ North Division
street, and was sentenced to ten years in
Auburn state prison.
Herbert Dorman, a mailing clerk in the
postoffice at Willimantio Conn, has been
arrested charged with stealing letters from
the mails, and Frank E. Bishop, letter
carrier in New Haven, has been arrested
on the same charge.
William II. Merrill has been appointed
postmaster at Salem, Mass, vice j. Francis
Dlaton, resigned.
The grand jury at Montreal has found a
true bill against Aren't, the New York wife
deserter, who will stand trial before the
queens bench.
The twenty-third annual convention Of
the New York State Woman Suffrage as
sociation was held at Auburn, n Y,
Nov. 10.
General Scott Shipp, superintendent of
the Virginia Military institute, has raised
80, 900 for the purpose of building a me-
mortal hall to Stonewal jackson at Lex
ington, Va
The schooner Marie Vigilant has been
seized near Murray bay Canada, on a
charge of smuggling liquor from the
United States, twenty barrels of whisky
having been found aboard.
Mrs. John Rock was found dead on the
floor of her bedroom in Morrisonville, N.
Y. There was a bruise on her head and
blood on her hands.
ATiae AdoIa Torav,i1lo rvou LiI1aJ e., tba
waiting room of the railroad station at
Las Lunas, N. NJ. She was shot in the
back through window.
1t was announced at Nashville that one
Of the recaptured convicts had confessed
that the guards at Briceville were in the
plot to release the conviets at the attack
by the miners.
Peter j. Carpenter, formerly Father
Jean Pierre Calvez, but who gave up the
priesthood to marry a woman of Hudson,
N. Y, in 1883, has disappeared from Wo-
burn, Mass, and his wife thinks he has
entered monastery to do penance for re-
signing the priesthood.
Stuart Robson, the actor, was married
at New York to May Waldron, the leading
lady Of his company.
The deficiencies of W. P. Bard, the miss
ing Reading (Pa.) lawyer, are now esti-
mated at $4,000.
Private Secretary Halford has resumed
his duties at the executive mansion. He
has entirely recovered from his late ILL
ness.
The bureau of printing and engraving
is now printing the face of the new Win
dom note and will have it ready for circu-
lation within a week or 80.
George H. Boyer, the we'll known "if-
not-why-not" advertising man, committed
suicide in his office at Chicago. Death
was caused by asphyxiation from escaping
gas.
At Fitchburg, Mass, the water supply
is very low and the city council has been
petitiOned to shut off the city water from
manufacturers.
John G. Furman, of Westohester, N. Y,
has bought the entire plant of the New
Bedford Cordage company. 1t is believed
the property was bought for the National
Cordage company.
At Cincinnati the Walter Architectural
works, one Of che best known firms in the
west, made an assignment. Liabilities,
10000.
The president has appointed Peter Scan
della United States consul at Ciudad, Bo-
livla. esssSa
Governor Boies, of Iowa, recently elect
ed, says he will not be a Democratic presi-
Dental candidate for 1892
Ex-Congressman John Quinn, of the
Eleventh district of New York, is an
nounced as a candidate for clerk of the
next house Of representatives at Washing
ton.
Assistant Secretary Nettleton, of the
treasury, will soon visit New York to make
final arrangements for the transfer of the
immigration bureau to Ellis island.
The run on the Five Cent Savings bank
of Boston, which resulted from the Nave
rick bank failure, has ended. During the
six days Of the run nearly $500, 900 was
drawn out by depositors.
LAWYER LAWRENcE's SUICIDE.
/ He 0ambled. Ioat and Than Shot Him,