The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-15
STATE MATTERS IN BRIEF.
The Hest OF news Cuiied From Multi
tude Of Sources.


Abraham Sipling, Of Staskstown,
cambridge, Lancaster county, died on
Sunday from taking two doses Of paris
green.
Ned Irish, superintendent OF the
Cornwall and Lebanon Railroad, on
Saturday rendered his resignation as
general superintendent of the road, to
take effect on November l.
John Bowman, Of Lancaster, died
Sunday night from the effects Of fall
He had been down the street, and on
his way home fell, striking his head
upon the pavement.
Joseph Day, Of Blacbwood, Schuyl
kill county, died Monday morning from
injuries received by falling down a
manway at Blackwood colliery, where
he was employed.
Albert Lentz, brakeman on the
Reading railroad, was caught between
the cars at st. Nicholas Monday after
noon and had his head so badly crushed
that he died few minutes later.
Thomas Cooke, aged 35, a brakeman
on the Lebigh Valley Railroad, while
climbing to the top of a box car at
Pittston Monday morning, fell on the
track and was run over and instantly
killed.
Wallace Strohm, charged with at
tempted assault upon a little girl near
his home at Leesburg, and who had
escaped from the county Jail, was
arrested at Easton Sunday and is now
in Jail at Carlisle,
Il. Irwin Henninger, prominent
undertaken of Reading, a member of
the firm of Chas. Henninger Il Son,
died Monday morning, of heart dis
ease, after short illness. He was well
known in Masonic circles,
f. Finkbaher, railroad employe, of
Coatesville, jumped from a freight
train running at the rate of twenty
miles an hour Monday afternoon and
fell under the cars. Half of the train
passed over him and he was instantly
killed.
William c. Maurer, prominent
business man of Girardville, died at
his home Tuesday OF heart failure.
Monday night the large grist mill
and dwelling house of Henry II. Steh-
man, in Manor township, Lancaster
county, was destroyed by fire.
At midnight Monday masked thieves
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Easterly,
an aged couple living near Hereford,
Berks county, and after shamefully
abusing them ransaclied the house.
They got twenty-five cents.
The cadets at the Pennsylvania Mill
tary Academy, Chester, have reorgan-
lied the football team for this season.
The team is an excellent one, and
promises to do some good work this
fail.
The congregation of the First Pres
byterian Church, West Chester, have
extended a unanimous call to Rev.
William R. Laird, of New Castle, Pa,
to fill the vacancy incurred few
months ago by the resignation of their
pastor, Rev. Dr. j. c. Caldwell.
Thomas Matthews, Of Philadelphia,
a house painter, while at work in Ian.
caster Monday fell from a step ladder
to the pavement, a distance of forty
feet. His head was cut, body, arms and
legs bruised, and he was injured inter
nally, fatally, it is feared.
The special feature of Mondays pro
ceedings in the Pittsburg A. NJ. L.
Conference at Oil City was the matter
of organic union of the African Meth
odist Episcopal Church and the Sec
ond African Methodist Episcopal
Church. The vote stood forty-two in
favor and two against.
Francis Deloy, prominent lumber
man, at Williamsport, was run over by
a Fall Brook train and killed.
Instead of having died from cholera
as was feared, Thos. Gigliott, of Potts
vile, died from congestion of the brain.
While running to extinguish fire at
his slaughter house, VIM. Rhode, of
Johnstown, fell from exhaustion aud
will die.
Rather than be a burden to his fam
lily, 73 year-old Abram Sipling, of
Stackstown, Lancaster county, swal-
lowed paris green and died.
Governor Pattison has granted a
pardon to Francis Sigman, Jr, Easton.
Joseph Day, of Blacllwood, died from
injuries received by falling down a
manway at the Blackwood colliery.
Samuel Bickel, Of Myerstown, fell
from chestnut tree breaking both
arms, fracturing his chest bone aud a
number of ribs, besides receiving Sc
we're internal injuries. He was 40 feet
above ground when he fell.
Indicted for fraud and conspiracy at
the last term of court, Architect If. Z,
Beebe, of Buffalo, n. Y, the architect
of the new court house at Pottsyille,
and Contractor r. B. Taylor, filed
bonds and gave sureties. Beebe's bond
was $4,000 and Taylor's $4,000.
A ten per cent reduction in wages
has been ordered by the Crescent steel
works company. The wages of eight
hundred employees of the firm will be
reduced on October 20.
Frank Finkbaher, employed in the
yard Of the Pennsylvania Railroad at
Philadelphia, attempted to get on a
, freight train running at the rate OF
thirty miles an hour at Coatsville. His
left arm was pulled from his body and
he was thrown under the train and
mangled. He was about 25 years OF
, age and leaves a wife and two children
A epidemic of scarlet fever and dipb
Z liberia has broken out at Juniata, a su
! burb of Altoona. Over 80 cases ar,
D already reported The public schoo
{ has been closed, and at least % pupili
r are sick. Refuse of all kinds has beer
S recently dumped near the public schoo
a building, and the appearance of TN
y disease has been traced to this.
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SERMONS To WORKING MEN.
L. The Hev. Mn, Major of the Nj, E. ChurcI