The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-01
STATE MATTERS IN BRIEF.


The Hest OF News Culled frutu Multi
tude OF Sources.
Lancaster will have the State Fair
during the week Of Oct. 10.
A county game and fish protective
association has been formed at Potts
vile.
All but three Of the iifty-hve school
districts in Berks county have in
creased the salaries Of school teachers.
Wp. Homan, young hack driver
of Reading, shot himself in the breast
because Matte HaRgerty rejected his
suit. His recovery is probable.
Impure drinking water at Ashland
has developed several cases Of typhoid,
and physicians are alarmed.
In the Delamater trial at Meadville,
Tuesday, objection was made to evil
dence as to the confessions of G. w,
Delamater and the court reserved its
decision.
In trying 20 make Jacob Malot,
colored, of Johnstown, apologize for
having been a slave, a white man
named Storm, in his rage, fatally
stabbed him.
Alexander McElroy struck William
McElroy on the head with a plate and
fractured his skull, near Williamsport,
Tuesday.
The Cooley gang made decent up
on the house Of Jacob Prinkey in
Fayette County, near the West Virginia
line, Tuesday. Seven men were in the
party and Prinkey's son shot one of
them. The robbers ransacked the
house, but got little booty.
President Baer, of the Reading Iron
Works, replying to a request of the
employees for restoration of the re-
cent 10 per cent. reduction, said he
would make the advance as soon as
the condition IN the trade warrant It.
Driven crazy by his s-year- -old-son's
death, Charles Harmer, of Andalusia,
committed suicide by swallowing
poison.
Struck by dropsy, which had reached
his heart, Thos. Terry, of Chancefore
township, was found dead on the floor
Of his house.
An abusive response from Edward
Snyder, of Easton, and Robert Ferril-
ing, of Bethlehem, who were charged
with assault and robbery, caused
Judge Reeder to send them to the
Eastern Penitentiary for four years.
A petition circulated near the homes
of murderer VIM. f. Keck and his
victims, William and jeanette Nibch
contains almost 800 signatures asking
the Board of Pardons not to commute
Keck's sentence to Imprisonment foI
life. Similar documents are out and
in all contain about 1000 names.
Isaac Workheiser and Edward Martin
brothers-in-law, of Easton, were drown.
ed in the Delaware Monday morning
by the capsizing of boat hauling
stone from "Flat Rock" to repair vii.
sons dam. William Rockafellow, a
third occupant, was rescured just in
the nick of time. Martin leaves a
widow and three children.
Shortly before 6 o'clock Monday
evening a Philadelphia & Reading
passenger train ran into handcar
containing eight trackmen, near the
Port Clinton tunnel, killing one of the
men and throwing the others about
promiscuously, but not fatally injur.
ing them. The accident occurred in a
curve, and the train was behind time
the men supposing it had gone. The
name of the man who was killed is un.
known.
VIM. Tanner, Young man residing
at Phillipsburg, is again in trouble
He was arrested Tuesday evening by
officer Bitter. Tanner is charged by
Wayne Kratzer, of Allentown, with
larceny and embezzlement. KratzeI
was engaged in erecting advertising
charts in depots. Tanner was employ
ed by him. At Scranton Tanner col.
lected money belonging to his employ
er and left with it, so it is alleged. A
warrant was then issued by Alderman
DeLong, of that place, and sent to
Detective SimOns, of Easton. The
latter instructed the officers to watch
for Tanner, and his arrest followed
Tanner is being held at the station
house to await the arrival of a Scranton
| officer.