The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-08-20
STATE MATTERS IN BRIEF.
The Best Of News ouned From Multi
tude Of Sources.

The Best Of news Cuned From Multi
tude Of Sources.
The new iron county bridge on the |
site Of the former Biery's Bridge across
the Lehigh at Lower Catasauqua has
been crmpleted, and is now open to
travel
A retrenchment of expenses by re-
ducing wages of employees is being
made by Robert II. Coleman, the Leb
anon iron ore and railroad magnate,
by which he purposes TO save $4,000
a month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Sinner, of Leb-
anon, one year ago lost their son Chas.
by death The lad was greatly attach
ed to a bicycle, which, after his death,
was put in a box and placed upon his
grave in the Mount Lebanon Gene
terry Upon visiting the cemetery re
Gently it was discovered that the box
had been broken open, the bicycle re.
moved aud carried away.
A rattlesnake six feet long and whose
tail was adorned with twenty-eight
rattlers was killed by Allen Bricker,
near Greensburg.
The winding of the great Brown wire
segmental gun, which has been in pro
gress at Birdsboro for some time, has
been concluded. Thirty-seven miles
of wire one-fourteenth Of an inch thick
were used. The tensile strength of the
gun is 10000 pound TO the square
inch; elastic limit, 10000 to the square
inch, and the elongation after rupture,
Ia per cent The bore is five inches,
and the gun is intended to the eclipse
all of its kind.
Unknown to ner parents, Miss Emma
Broyna, Of Shamokin, was courted by
Calsar Kenna, a Frenchman, aged Co.
It has been found that he deceived her
He wanted to marry the young girl, but
it was found that he had deserted
wife and family in Paris ten years ago.
Jacob Dertchen, of Spring City,
butcher, had both legs cut off at the
knees at Royersford, on the Philadel-
phia q Reading Railroad. He was
passenger on the train and had fallen
asleep He did not wake up until the
train had started and then jumped
His injuries may be fatal
The well-known wandering gypsy,
Charles Smith, was arrested in Carlisle
Sunday, charged with kidnapping two
of George George Neisley's children.
The little ones say he gave them candy
to induce them to get into his buggy.
He then changed their Clothes and
tried to escape.
The first stone of the Columbus
monument, presented to Scranton by
the Italian residents, which will be un-
yelled on October 81, was laid Sunday.
John omler, a young man residing in
the Western end of Ashland, was
struck by one of the swinging boats at
Washington Park Monday afternoon,
sustaining injuries from which he is
not likely to recover.
Owing to the very general improve
ment in the iron market the steel
works at Stowe, near Pottstown, will
increase its force of operatives several
hundred men, and run on double time,
beginning August p.
Robbers broke into the residence of
Harry Depuy, Jenkintown, Sunday
night, and stole fine gold watch and
a large purse of money. Entrance was
gained through the front door. There
is no clue to the guilty parties.
Keystone Furnace, No. Reading,
owned by the Reading Iron Company,
is about being put in blast. keystone
Furnace, No. l was started up several
days ago, and is working splendidly.
The output of the two furnaces is about
one hundred tons of iron per day.
The Greensburg Press says; "NIrs.
John Welty, of Eicher avenue, is the
possessor Of curiosity in the shape of
pickle 35 years old. 1t was grown by
her mother, Mrs. Jane Craig, on what
is known as the Russell ll-McFarland
farm, near Stony Springs, in 1889. 1t
is encased in a long, slender glass bot
tie, of the style in vogue then, in which
it was grown, having been placed there
IN when only blossom and allowed to
grow until it filled the bottle. It was
then severed from the vine and the
bottle filled with alcohol. 1t is to-day
remarkably well preserved and is very
highly priced as a relic by Mrs. Welty."
One of the peculiar sights that inter
est Upper Gwynedd folk is a circular
corn Held on Joseph Boorse's farm.
Last year this piece of ground was laid
out for race track, but as such was
not a success. Mr.. Boorse plowed it
up last spring and planted it with corn
which has now grown up, making one
of the oldest looking corn fields in
the country.
Mr. and Mrs. Ashton G. Borhek,
members of the Moravian congregation
at Bethlehem, will erect $4,000
chapel on the grounds of the new
Moravian Theological Seminary, in
lhat place. 1t will be called the Helen
Stadiger Memorial Church. The gift
is in remembrance of the youngest
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs Borhek, who
died a year ago.
Two months have elapsed since the
Iitusville and Oil City disasters took
place, and there has been little pro-
gress in the rebuilding of either city.
In Iitusville the two long bridges
across Oil creek at Perry and Franklin
streets were swept away, and, though
the County Commissioners promised
quick rebuilding, nothing has been
done. One refinery aud one machine
works only of the many destroyed are
rebuilding, though some other iadus-
tries may decide TO live again.
Beaver Mea dow as a Borough.
A writer to a Hazleton paper advo-
cate the incorporation Of Beaver Mea-