The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-11-21
BRIEF MERTIONOF NEWS
Happenings Of the World from
Pole to Pole.
TOLD IN A FEW SECONDS OF TIME.

young banker Of Dallas, Tex, and DR..
James Orr one OF the leading physicians
Of Terrell, have been arrested charged
with obtaining fraudulently $4,000 insur-
ance on the life Of Clinton II. Page who
died Of consumption.
John Langlois, Jr., prominent Racine
CNis) man, was burned to death at that
place.
At Ottawa ex- Mechanical Engineer j. N
Arnold, OF the public works department
was arrested on the charge Of conspiring
to defraud the government.
Eta w. Harris, better known as DR..
Ludgate, who has figured prominently in
criminal annals for the past two years in
connection with abortion cases, died at
Linden, Mass
The report that ex-President and Mrs.
Cleveland and baby Ruth were to visit
their Massachusetts, summer home, Gray
Gables, this autumn, is denied by Mr..
Nickerson, who has charge Of thC place.
Miss Annie Campbell Gordon, daughter
of Mrs. Douglass Gordon, was married to
Paymaster John G. Lowell, U. S. N, a
grandson Of General Quitman, ofthe Mexi-
can war, at Baltimore.
A court martial has been ordered for
Major Charles b. Throckmorton, Of the
Second artillery, charged with duplicating
pay accounts.
Along the lower Hudson the ground is
frozen hard and ice is plenty. El
Auditor General McCamant, of Pennsyl-
vania, estimates that the cost Of the recent
extra session will be about 100000
Comptroller Lacey has decided to ap-
point a receiver for the Cory Pa) Ma
tional bank, which recently failed. The
shortage is now said to be Sl15OOO.
A Salvation Army lieutenant in Keokuk,
Ia, by the death Of his father in Germany,
becomes Baron Won Kutzeleben, and in
herits a fortune.
c. e. Gilbert a brakeman, was killed,
and several were injured by the collision
of three sections Of a freight train on the
Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad,
near ellison, Ills.
An unsuccessful attempt was made at
Mount Airy, Ala, to lynch Martin Scott
and four companions charged with killing
| Postmaster Church, Of that place.
The treasury officials have discovered a
dangerous counterfeit Of the twenty dol
| lar gold certificates.
Miss Bessie Blossom, one of the prettiest
girls Of Geneo, Neb, has eloped with an
| Indian Of the Washoe tribe.
! The National Association of Carriage
and Harness Manufacturers met at Spring
! field, Mass
Republicans state that an alleged scheme
to count out Levi E, Worden, Republican
assemblyman-elect in Rensselaer,, New
York. failed of a few votes.
The New York Herald says that Tam
many Hall will not make fight to secure
the speakership Of the assembly.
John Wesley Edmonds, a decamped
Bridgeport Comm scamp, is found to
have deluded many young girls, whom he
advertised for to fll positions or become
his wives
At New York the committee on buildings
Of the board Of education have reported
serious deviations from the specifications
Of new buildings, connived at by the in
spectors and superintendent Of buildings.
INSCRIPTIONS contractors have literally
stolen public money while venal officials
said nothing. The robberies have been
carried on upon such an enormous scale
that their real extent can only be guessed
at now.
An eastern philanthropist has endowed
Colorado college with library fund OF
$4,000.
Postmaster Winters, of Logan, Ia, has
disappeared. His accounts are supposed
to be entangled.
Angelina Delutta, sixteen years of age,
disappeared from her home in Boston
with 81 300 belonging to her mother.
Ten prisoners escaped from the new jail
at Trinidad, Colo, by cutting out a sec
tion of the wall.
Three Yuma Indians were sentenced tc
death at Los Angeles for numbering an old
medicine man, who failed to bring rain
when told to do So
Reports presage trouble in Alaska, the
people being tired Of corrupt official prac
tices under successive administrations.
Horace G. Allen, ex-president of the
Boston common council, has been nomi
mated for mayor by the Republicans.
The American Society of Mechanical
Engineers elected Charles II. Loring, o.
} Brooklyn, president,
The report that leprosy existed at Bing
hamton, N. Y, was a canard.
Incendiary fires at Chattanooga, Tenn.
caused a loss OF S56,OOO Released con
victs, many Of whom are prowling arounC
the city, are suspected.
The Episcopalians Of the United State
began their annual congress in Washing
ton.
A 100000 fire in st. Louis destroyed
almost the entire retail business center o
the city,
, The Second Presbyterian church, corne
of Union avenue and South street, Peeks
4 kill, n Y, celebrated its flftieth anniver
i sary Nov, II,
I An order to show cause why n tempo
rary mandamus should not be issued wa
served on the board Of canvassers Of Onon
daga county, n. Y, to compel them t,
canvass the vote and issue a certificate Il
8 Rufus I. Peck rs senator for the Twenty
fifth district.
s At New York Mrs. Ferdinand Hayman
p wife of a prosperous wholesale spong
r dealer, was locked up in the Tombs on tn
e charge of receiving stolen goods.
s Secretary Foster asks Ohio Republican
r to return John Sherman TO the Unite'
{ States senate.
q There is some wild talk in Belgium of
= supposed desire of France to annex tn
e lesser country.
, A gale at Syracuse Monday night bley
p down large two story frame building
wrecking it completely.
Anthony Aren't, OF New York, has bee
found guilty at Montreal Of failing to pre-
D vide for his wife Sentence has been sus
+ pended.
I One hundred and two morphine pill
y were swallowed at Washington by Bell
! Adams, who said she did not wish TO liv
= longer, Physicians placed her out Of da1
4 ger,