The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-07-09
STATE MATTERS IN BRIEF


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tude Of sources.
The numerous rainy, damp and
cloudy days during the hay making
season proved somewhat damaging.
There was a storm every few days while
the grass was in driving process, and
necessarily it had TO lie out in soak
until the coming of sunshine for dry
ing. It wasn't spoiled, but by the long
delay it lost its color and some of its
natural flavor, and hence in money
value is not worth as much as hay
made under more favorable circum-
stances.
The City Controller of Scranton has
his report for 1891 ready and gives the
total revenues at S1l5,sOl, taxes giving
slsl,O7G of that sum. The total bonded
debt is 56OG,JOO.
lancaster's new city loan of sl50OOO
at four per cent for new reservoir aud
water works, redeemable i'm thirty
years, with an option Of five years,
brought forward many bidders, but the
Trust and State Deposit Company of
Philadelphia took 314S,OOOat 1925, and
r, A. Baer got the other $1,000 at 103.
The contract for the erection of the
buildings at the State Asylum for the
Chronic Insane, at Wernersville, Berks
county, has been awarded to Frederick
j. Amweg, of Philadelphia, at 100000.
/ William Stewart, ofO City, received |
a message on Thursday from William
Mills, of London, England, making in
quiry as to the welfare of the latter's |
son. Edward Mills. It was Mr.. Stewards |
painful task to inform the father that |
Edward, with his wife and five child
ren, were victims of the flood and fire,
and were buried side by side in one
grave.
The State Department has brought |
suit against Lackawanna county for
s11,5OO arrearages in State taxes for
the year 1883 to 1856 The case grows
out of the division Of Lagkawanna and |
Luzeue counties.
The Chester Times advocates the |
cause of the Chester Hospital, public
institution about to be erected at a
cost of s2l 1856, and its untiring energy
has made the project a success.
Union City's loss is not less than
100000 by the flood.
Squire Jonas Minner, of Huf's |
Church, Berks county, is So years of |
age and has been aJustice of the Peace |
for forty five years. During the haying
season he moved with the best of his
neighbors and cut a double pigeon
wing in the evening.
Bradford is getting ready to cele-
brate Labor Day, September ..
In the disaster of June Oil City had
105 houses wholly destroyed, two dam
aged and forty eight flooded. Titus
vile had ffty-one wholly destroyed,
thirty four damaged and seventy-five
flooded.
The Doylestown people more or less
seriously injured by the wreck of the
Doylestown express on June 10, near
| Oreland, says the Democrat, are ali re-
gage master, is able to sit out in the
open air, although he experiences con
siderable pain in his dislocated shoul-
der. Fireman Hudson has about re-
covered from his injuries. S. A. w.
Pattison visited his office in Philadel-
phia yesterday for the first time since
the accident He is still suffering from
twenty-five bruises on his body, dis
located shoulder and partial deafness
of the right ear. Irwin NJ James has
returned to his desk in the Pennsylva-
mia Railroad office, his cuts and bruises
having healed. Alfred S. Godshalk,
whose back is believed TO have been
permanently injured and who suffers
from partial deafness, takes an occa-
sional walk and is getting better.
According to figures furnished 100
persons perished in the fiery aeluge at
Titusville and Oil City, seventy two at
Titusville and fifty eight at Oa City.
The Union City School Board h..,
decided to furnish textbooks to all
pupils free of charge, and to increase
the salaries OF teachers.
On the Fourth, John Cooper, aged
2G, had both legs shot off by a cannon,
during celebration in Parsons, near
Wilkes-Barre. On the same day, Frank
Holland, aged 13, of Wilkes Barre, had
his head blown off by the explosion of
a cannon.
On the Fourth cable attached to a
dummy used to steady electric cars
going down Potts Hill, east of Lancas-
ter, broke. The cable squirmed up the
hill like an immense snake, and at
great velocity and it wound itself
around the arm of Frank Musser, a
young man, tearing the limb from his
body.
On an out line, to which was attach
ed 300 fish hooks, Martin Leisenring
and two other men of Allentown
caught ninety three eels in one night
The National Bank of Catasauqua
has taken 5000 of the bonds issued by
the Coplay School District.
Miss Mary Greenawald, daughter of
the late A. o. Greenawald, editor of the
Stroudsburg Democrat, recently grad
uated at the head of her class from the
Philadelphia Medical University.
For stealing $1,000 from the Easton
National Bank year ago, Wallie Con
nors was Wednesday sent to the peni-
tentiary for three years and nine
months.
After a fruitless strike for a year
and three days, the 22j employees of
the Pottsville Iron and Steet Company,
at Fishback, have returned to work on
the company's terms.
4 Polander, named Sophia, while up
a tree in Hanover township, Luzerne
county, on Thursday, stealing cherries
belonging to a farmer named Henry
Goner, after being warned TO come
down, and refusing to do so, was
brought down dead by gun-shot fred
from ambush, probably by Goner
HAsE BALL GOSSIP.
Local Base BAN Matters are beginning to