The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-10-22
STATE MATTERS IN BRIEF


The best OF Nsws Called From Mutt
tude Of Sources.
Edwin rrexler, Of Allen lun, besides
being successful lumber merchant,
is also above reproach as a farmer On
his model farm, near Emaus, he has a
turnip patch which ought to be trans
ported to Chicago and put on exhIbi-
tion at the Worlds Fair, says the
Cbronicle-News.s It takes a stump eN-
tractor to pull the turnips out by the
roots lie has one of them on exhibi-
ton in his office which weighs eight
pounds, and this is only small one,
comparatively, as he has one at the
farm which weighs eleven pounds.
It is seldom that live deer is seen
in Milford, but Sunday afternoon a
doe appeared in the meadow at the
foot of Grey Towers, and later in the
day it crossed the road between Arthur
r, Pearson's and George B. Quinn's in
Dingman township, tells the Milford,
Pike county, Dispatch. The deer was
so tired that its tongue hung out and
the animal had evidently been chased
by dogs from the backwoods.
John Buchanan, aged 80 years, an
engineer on the Shenandoah branch of
the Reading Railroad, was killed Mon
day While passing Kohinoor juno
ton and leaning from his cab he was
thrown out by sudden jar of the
engine. His skull was fractured aud
one leg cut off above the knee. lie
died shortly after the accident.
SO great have been the ravages of
diphtheria in Norwegian township,
Schuylkill county, that the School Di-
rectors of that district, at special
meeting, resolved to close the schools
at Hazleville.
Preparations are being made to re-
sumo operations at the two furnaces
of the Reading Iron Company at Read
ing which we're blown out recently.
Repairs are now under way and the
furnaces will be lighted in few days
John f. Collier, aged 30 years, for
merly part owner and business mana.
ger of ths Pittston Times and lately a
bookkeeper in the Scranton Republi.
can Office, died at his home in Pittston
Monday morning, after brief illness
of typhoid fever.
Lawrence Burns, a miner, aged 40
was crushed under fall of coal and
instantly killed at Giberton colliery
near Shenandoah, Monday.
One hundred cigarmakers at Dunn
& Co. factory in Ephrata struck Mon
day morning for higher wages. Work
at the factory is temporarily sus
pended.
Clarence Kuhn, Chas. Eisnacher anC
Peter Kull, three boys of Pottsyille
we're badly injured Sunday while ex
ploding a dynamite cartridge.
Diptheria has been prevailing to I
considerable extent in COnshohocker
for some weeks and the deaths from
that cause have probably reached I
dozen or more.
Clemens Loskowski, of Allentown
aged 1G has been held in $1,000 bail fo
firing two shots from revolver int,
the face of Albert Koch.
Coal washed from the mines at Ply
mouth, Nanticoke and Shickshinny i
being taken from the North Branch a
Northumberland at the rate of twent,
tons day
The Board of Control, of Carlisle
has issued decree that school teacher
must pass an annual examination il
all branches taught in their depart
ments. 1t is met with some dissatis
faction by the teachers.
Levi Boyer and his son, Emory, ha
an encounter with horse thief in thei
barn in Point Township, Northumbei
land county, in which the boy wa
beaten to death.
Determined to fight to the death fo
the love of girl they both were aftel
Samuel Stone and VIM. Reed met nea
Mechanicsburg, and in the duel tina
followed Reed was frightfully slashe
with razor. His death is expected
Stone has disappeared.
= The continued drought in and aroun
Williamsport has dried up many {
. the mountain streams and thousand
10 of brook trout, which had gone u
stream, have perished. In many il
stances the dry beds of the streams al
3 covered with the decomposing bodit
D of fish. The streams are lower tina
they have been for many years.
j. The charges made by Rev. VIM. /
S Meyers, ia his sermon on "The Gu
Houses of Reading" has created
3, sensation. He enumerated A club
> frequented by nearly 1000 young me
e and said that with few exceptions the
we're the outcome of the high liceni
+ bill. They are crowded on Sunday
and are responsible for the ruinatic
T. of many men.