The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-09-24
STATE MATTERS IN BRIEF.

The Rest OF News Cuiled From Multi
tude of Sources.
John Steininger, an employe of the
A. b. Farquhar Agricultural Works,
fell dead Monday afternoon of heart
disease.
A company has been formed to fur
nish Williamsport,R ,Renova, Lock Haven
and other points in Northern Central
Pennsylvania with natural gas for fuel
An unknown man was found dead
at the east end of the Pennsylvania
Railroad bridge at Coatsville Monday
morning Papers ON his body indicated
that he came from the West.
Twenty freight cars were smashed on
the Lehigh Valley Railroad near Le-
high Tannery Monday by one coal
train running into the rear of freight,
which had been suddenly stopped by
the breaking of an air hose.
The National Light Infantry and
Washington Artillery, Pottsvilles two
companies of First Defenders, left
Monday morning for Washington, ac-
companied by Gowen Post, No. %, G..
A. r., and the Third Brigade Band
The employees of the Reading Iron
Company are signing a petition for a
ten per cent. increase in wages. The
wages at present paid are; Head weld
ers, s3.15; second, Sl.S0; head straight
eners, s1.65; second, sl.40; flremem,
s1.7O; poke-in, sl.l0; laborers, sl.OO.
James Stable, of Reading, while
crossing the Pennsylvania Railroad
bridge at Nichols street, Pottsville,
fell thirty feet to the railroad beneath
Sunday afternoon, striking on his
head, and, although unconscious sew
eral hours, received but slight injury.
William Cox and Harry McCauley
had hearing before Alderman Hill at
Lebanon Monday morning, charged
with placing distractions on the cleo
trio railway tracks. They were COM
mitted to prison in default of 81, 200
bail each. Cox, on being taken to Jail,
said he would shoot himself if he got
chance.
The survivors of the Ringgoid Light
Artillery left Reading Monday morn
ing for Washington to participate in
the national G. A. r. parade, They
were joined at Reading by the survi-
vers Of the Washington Artillerists
and National Light Infantry, of Potts
vile; the Allen Infantry, of Allentown,
and the Logan Guards, of Lewistown.
The Lancaster Board of Health is
making every possible effort to put the
city in a good sanitary condition. In
spectors have been appointed for every
ward They will inspect every house
and yard in the city, place standard
disinfectants in every school building
and have all garbage removed daily
and burned.
Several officers of the State Board
of Health spent Sunday in Reading
for the purpose of deciding what to do
in the way of preserving the water sup
ply of the Schuylkiu Valley if cholera
should break out in the towns and
cities of the valley. A meeting of rep
resentatives of all the Health Boards
in the Schuylkill Valley will be held to
take concerted action in regard to
keeping pure the SchuyllSill river and
its tributaries.
John Fritz, general Superintendent
of the Bethlehem Iron Company, is to
be given dinner a by his friends at
the Hotel Wyandotte, South Bethle-
hem, on September 28, in honor of his
10th birthday, which he reached a
short time ago. The dinner and recep-
tion is to be given under the auspices
of the Engineers Club of New York
The invited guests ON the occasion in
clude Secretary of War Elkins, Secre
tary of Navy Tracy, Commodore Fol
ger and many military, professional
and business men. The affair has been
arranged by a committee consisting of
Eckley b. Coke, Drifton; s. w. Bald
win, New York; Robert p. Linderman,
Bethlehem; f. d. Leavitt, Boston; Oil
yer Williams, Catasauqua; S. T. Well
man, Thurlow; James Moore, Philadel-
phia; Robert w. Hunt, Chicago, and j.
f. Holloway, New York.