The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-11-28
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densed for Our Readers.
The Duluth Tribune the oldest paper
at the head Of Lake Superior is in finan-
cial straits.
At Fremont. o., the Thomson-H Houston
Carbon company's works and McLean's
Spike works were destroyed by fire. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, $4,000.
At Dover, N. H., Henry r. Parker,
Democrat, was reelected mayor by an
increased majority.
General Manager Krutschmidt Of the
Southern Pacific company, has replied to
the grievance committee Of the trainmen,
declining to grant their request for an in
crease Of pay.
Mrs Charles Phillips, who died in Mon
treal bequeathed 100000 to the charitable
institutions Of that city
The Queens Summer hotel at beverly,
Mass. was burned. The fire is believed to
have been Of incundiary origin. Loss,
800 900.
The North Star Boot and Shoe compa-
ny's building in Minneapolis was totally
destroyed. Loss on building, Gl010oo; on
stock, 100000.
Chancellor McGill signed an injunction
| to restrain Jersey City from interfering
with the Jersey City aud Bergen railroad
| in the construction of the trolley system
on Montgomery street, that city
The supreme court Of New Hampshire
has ordered the winding up Of the affairs
| Of the American Endowment association,
an eighteen months certificate scheme.
The Chicago presbytery, by a vote of "a
to Is, resolved to ask the general assembly
| to turn entirely from the project Of revis-
| ing the Westminster confession.
All the surface railroad companies Of
! Brooklyn have united in an application to
the state railroad commission to change
their motive power from horses to the
overhead electric trolly system.
A new steamship line is TO be placed in
operation between New York and Oregon
and Puget sound, to consist Of six YES
sells.
Hon. Joseph Spraker, aged eighty-two
| years, n prominent and wealthy citizen Of
the Mohawk valley, New York, died Nov
p. The deceased was vice president Of the
National Mohawk River bank and a di-
rector OF the National Spraker bank
Leonard Rhone, chairman Of the execu-
tive committee of the National Grange,
which, he claims has a million members,
has made Canvass and says he finds that
the Democrats Of the grange oppose Cleve-
land because of his financial views, and
that the Republicans favor Blaine for his
reciprocity.
Brooklyn is on the verge Of water
famine because Of the break in the East
New York conduit, caused by the cavein
] 1,vry i, ,fn1, e,,r,
Timothy Paterson, block pavior, Of
Philadelphia, was killed on the Union
Elevated railroad structure in Broadway,
near Hooper street, Brooklyn.
The football game between Yale and
Harvard was won by Yale. The score was:
Yale, 10; Harvard, 0,
Gilbert A. Deane, deceased, has been de-
clared elected senator in New York state.
Edward Randall Wright, thirty-five
years old, an agent of the Equitable Life
Assurance society, put n bullet through
his head and an end to his life in the pres
ence of his child and his father at Brook
lyn. Poor business and religious excite
ment were the causes given by his family
for his suicide.
The Rev. Thomas Hill, D. d., LID. ex-
president of Harvard college, is dead.
At Abingdon, Va, r. S. Bingham, a
Methodist minister, surrendered himself,
saying that he had fatally shot Frank
Queensberry during a quarrel
At the Miller Salt works, Warsaw, N
Y, Patrick Gleason fell into a vat of boil
ing brine and was fatally scalded.
Another officer on the San Francisco
says the Chilians have several good YES
sells but not one is a match either for
the Baltimore or the San Francisco They
have 9-inch and 10-inch Armstrong guns,
but the gunners are so unskillful that they
do no effective work.
The president has appointed Dolphin T.
Roberts, Of Evansville, Ind. to be re-
corder of the general land office, vice
James NJ. Townsend, resigned. Mr.. Rob
erts is a colOred man and minister
A number of cars have just been built
for the Canadian Pacific railroad for the
purpose Of transporting troops across the
Dominion to British Columbia, India and
other stations.
A swindler giving the name of C. II.
Reynolds, claiming TO be member in
good standing of the Batavia CN. " Ma
sonic lodge, has been working the Hudson
river towns, asking aid of the Masonic
lodges on the plea that he was in needy
, circumstances
General Ben Buffers physician says his
! patients illness is painful but not danger
/ Gus.