The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-02-06
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS.
ITEMS WHICH ARE OF PARTICULAR
INTEREST TO PENNsYLVANiANs.

Brief Mention Of Matters which Every.
bsdy Should Know About--A Weeks
Accidents and Grimes Accurately Rne
Csnoisely Chronioled.
PrrTsBURe, Jan. 2o.--Attorney Willis F.
McCoolg fled a motion in the county COURT
for a new trial in the case Of Senator Quay
against the Post Publishing company, A. j.
Barr and James Mills.
Tasker Dead OF Pneumonia.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 29.-Thomss 7. Task
er, one Of the founders Of the great Pascal
Iron works and of the firm Of Morris, Taskei |
& Co., died Of pneumonia
Two Killed and Thirteen Injured.
AuDENREID, Jan. 29.-About FIVE hundred |
pounds of dualin powder exploded here,
killing two Italians and badly injuring thir |
teen others
Burned to Death in Bed.
JoHNsrowN, Jan. 29.-At Elton, Sam |
usl Kring and his wife were burned VI
in their bed The fire originated from an
eVeEheated stove in the bedroom.
skAted to Death.
WEST CHESTER, Jan 2o.--While skating
on a pond near Glen Loch, Robert Davis,
fourteen years old, plunged into a hole
from which the ice had been cut and was
drowned.
Mcmillan to Die April I.
HARRIsBURe, Jan. 30.-Governor Pattison
ordered q warrant for the hanging Of Ed.
ward Mcmillan, the wife murderer Of Lu-
Eerne county, on April T.
Three Brutes Sent to Jail.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 3O.-John Schweit
zer, Henry Schweitzer and Robert Shirlock,
who brutally beat and kicked William Miller
to death, were sentenced to the eastern
| pepitentiary for five years each.
To Appeal for Ten Thousand Dollars.
| PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 31.-The committee
in charge Of the relief expedition for Lieu.
| tenant Peary will issue an appeal to the
people Of this city for $40, 600 to pay the ex.
| pense of the expedition.
The Elopers Walked 10 Miles.
| HUNTINGDON, Jan. 81. - Levi Benson
and his cousin, Emma Benson, eloped and
walked to Middletown, a distance of ITO
miles. They obtained funds by working in
hotel and went to New jersey and were
| married.
Mr.. Monaghan Starts for Home.
WEST CHESTER, Feb. l.-Mr. r. Jones
Monaghan, the prominent lawyer and Demo
cratic politician, who disappeared mysteri.
ously last September, and was afterward
located in Sydney, N. 8. W., sailed for
home on the 25th inst Letters received
here show that Mr.. Monaghan had been
troubled with insomnia for months before
he went away, and that he has completely
recovered his health. Just how long 1t will
take him to reach West Chester is not
known.
100000 Fire in Jeanette, Pa.
PTrTsBURa, Feb. IAN early morning
| a., 4,,A A1,a 81 4 raH
number Of business houses. The loss will be
nearly 100000.
PennSyIvaniA's Election Law.
PHu.ADHIPMA, Feb. 2.-The petition OF
the Prohibition party for permission to file
In the supreme court bill in equity attack
ing the cOnstitutionality Of the new election
law Of June 10, 1891, Of which bill the court
was asked to take original jurisdiction, was
refused by the court.
Quay's LibeIers Punished.
BEAVER, Feb. 2.-Messrs. Porter and Mel.
lon, of the Daily Star, were sentenced to
pay the costs Of prosecution, a fine of 5000
and imprisonment In the county Jail for six
months for libels uttered against Senator NJ.
S. Quay.
An Adventurous Girls Fall.
READING, Feb. 2.-While climbing in a
furnace stack near Reading Miss Annie
Falk fell thirty feet and received injuries
which may cause her death.
Drugged and Assaulted.
MOUNT CARMEL, Feb. 2.-Mary Hoffey, a
half demented young woman, was found
lying in an unconscious condition near a
. railroad station in that town. 1t is claimed
D that she was given drugged liquor and as.
: sAulted by Henry g. Shopp.
Knocked at the Wrong Door.
HouTzDALE, Feb. 3-John Cox, bosA
mine driver, was ordered from the house oi
: Stephen Kordiak, Hungarian. He theI
' battered at the door and was shot dead by
> the Hungarian.
Horsewhipped an Aged Man.
QUAKERTowN, Feb. g. - In a railroad
1 station here Allen Triesbach horsewhipped
Q Sebastian Horn, aged sixty. Triesbact
a thought Horn was too intimate with the
formers wife.
A Young Lawyers Suicide.
EAsToN, Feb. 3.-Preston n. Gernet, 1
t young member Of the Northampton county
{ bar, fatally shot himself in the court houst
Just as the second days trial of sui
against him for embezzling funds coming
h into his hands as attorney was beginning.
o Pattison Calls for Aid.
y HARRBBURG, Feb. S.-Governor PattisoI
Y has issued proclamation calling attention
!. to the vast proportions Of the famine il
, Russia, recalling the bounty of the worlC
e sent to the Johnstown flood sufferers, an(
/, advising the citizens of the state TO sep(
contributions for the relief of the Russial
peasants to the Russian famine relief com
L mittee in Washington.
o Fired at the Constable.
IS UNIoNTowN, Feb. g. Constable Bigan
Il attempted to levy on the property o
John O'Donneu at Mill Run. He resiste,
70 and when Bigam and a posse returned
5, O'Donrell fred at them. While lying hand
q cufted on the ground two of the men sho
NJ him in the leg and arm.
Two Men Killed by a Train.
TowARDA, Feb. 3.-Two men, said t
70 be John McAllister and William Davenport
y of Rounserheld, Wyoming county, Pa
IS while walking on the Lehigh Valley raj
:, road were struck by train and instantl
Il killed.
10 Yards Bail Increased,
ID PHILADELPHIA, Feb. S.-H. H. Yard, VIII
d was arrested charged with aiding and abet
10 ting Gideon W. Marsh and Charles W. Law
ronce in misApplication of the funds of tn
Keystone bank, was given q hearing, at tn
conclusion Of which Yard was held for couI
and his bail increased from SIS, 900 to so, ,OOI
Of PennSylVAniA and the Fair.
10 HARRIsBURo, Feb. S.-The ehairmen an
a secretaries of the various World's fair con
mittees Of this state are holding . saEsio
here TO advance the interests Of Ponnsy
3, vania's display at the exhibition.
n- A Regulation for FItzslmmOns.
n HARRIsBURo, Feb. s-County Detectiy
Beltshoover, OF Allegheny county, has .
cured requisition from Governor Pattiso
l., on the governor of Louisiana for the deh'
AZ cry to Pennsylvania of Fred Fitzsimmon
a. the murderer who escaped from thu AL
!, gheny county Jail and was recaptured
u New Orleans
30 c4lLps APOLOGY ACCEPTED.
All Danger Of War with the Fiery soutI
OTn Rspublie AVsFtSd.
~ WAsHIRoToH, Jan. 3O.-At the cabinC
OF meeting the Chilian matter was fully dt
i'm | eRSaed Il was decided that Minister Ega