The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-03-05
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ITEMS WHICH ARE OF PARTICULAR
INTEREST TO PENNSYLVANlANs.

Brief Mention OF Matters which Every .
body should Know About-A Weeks |
Accidents and Grimes Accurately and
Concisely Chroniciod.
SCRANTON, March 2.-Tho snowstorm is
the heaviest Of the winter in northeastern
Pennsylvania. Reports state that over a
foot Of snow has fallen at New Milford and
points north, while at Pocono and Toby
hanna fourteen inches had fallen before
noon. In Scranton the fall averages seven
inches All trains are somewhat delayed
and street car traffic is interrupted.
Cleveland Won.
SrRouDsBURG, March 1.-Grover Cleve-
land easily won the delegates to the Har-
risburg convention from Monroe county.
The delegates elected are ex-Congressman
John b. Storm, ]. Greenamoyer and /. S.
Case. The Hill men made no attempt to
defeat the resolution passed instructing for
Cleveland.
He Carried Queer" Coin.
RBAU1D, March 1.-Jerome Hart was
arrested here for having counterfeit coin
in his possession.
Accused Of Bobbing the Mails.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb 29-Jacob L. Rel
CERT, an eighteen year old lad employed in
the Lebanon, Pa, postofice has been placed
under 81, 200 bail TO answer the charge Of
abstracting money from letters.
A Pilot Drowned.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb ga pilot belong
ing 10 the New York pilot boat Edward
Cooper fell overheard and was drowned
while attempting to board the disabled Brit
ish steamship Vandyck, bound to New Y ork
in tow Of the steamship Carl Rathkens. The
accident happened twelve miles east south.
east Of Barnegat at noon His body was
recovered and is on board Of the Cooper,
Poisoned by Supposed sassafras Root.
PITrsBURG, Feb pa terrible case OF
poisoning is reported from Rochester, Pa,
twenty-five miles west Of this city. Carl
Hartman, aged eighteen, and Ed Chaffee,
sixteen years old, ate what they supposed
was sassafras root and are now dead. Hart
mans mother and his sister Louisa aged
six, are very low, but will likely recover,
from eating the same poisonous roots.
A Steamship Launched.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2D.-With appro-
priato ceremonies, and in the presence Of a
large crowd Of people, the new steamer An
tinonjes Menendez, built for Menendez &
Co. a firm Of Cuban shipowners, was
launched Saturday from the blocks in the
yard of the Neafe g. Levy Ship and Engine
Building company, this city. She is an iron
screw twin propeller, and her Dimensions
are: Length, 23s feet; beam, 80 feet depth
Of hold, 20 feet inches,
Powderly's Manifesto.
HAzLEToN, Feb. 2S-General Master
Workman Powderly has issued an appeal
dated from here to the laboring men Of the
state, asking them to crush the Reading
conspiracy. 1t has created great excite
ment among the 40,O 900 mine workers, and
many Of them assert that all that is needed
now is a leader Powderly's closing SEN
tence has caused a sensation. "Let us as
certain whether we can legally redress our
wrongs before resorting to- What he
meant exactly nobody knows There was no
demonstration.
SCRANTON, March 1.-General Master
Workman Powderly, in an interview today
with United Press reporter, said he would
appear before Attorney General Hensal
on next Thursday to maintain his protest
against the violation Of the constitution by
the Reading railroad in its recent deal. Mr..
Powderly is now engaged upon the argu.
ment he will present in the case.
Senator Quay's Son Arrives.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. s.-Representative
Richard r. Quay, son of Senator Quay,
reached this city from st. Lucia, Fla, where
his father is recuperating his health. He
says the senator is very much better and is
now indulging in outdoor exercise. There
was time, he says, when his condition was
very alarming, but that is all over now.
Can't Sell Papers on Sunday.
PITTsBURG, Feb. 2s.-Seven newsdealer
and carriers were fined twenty-five dollars
and costs each for selling newspapers on
Sunday. Willis Palmer, a newsboy, who
said he sold newspapers to support Grip
pied brother, was discharged for lack Of
evidence
Mil Men Strike.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2S.-The broad loom
weavers at the Pequea cotton and wooden
mills Of William Wood & Co. have struck
for advanced wages. The strikers number
about $50 men and women.
StrangIed in a wrestling Bout.
BRADFORD, Feb 27.-William Gibbs, the
Kansas demon, and Dennis Gallagher, OF
Buffalo, engaged in a wrestling match al
the Opera House here. Gibbs was strangled
into insensibiity, and may die. In the first
bout after twenty minutes work, Gallagher
got Gibbs neck in his right arm, with the
windpipe at the elbow, and choked him
until he was black in the face. The audi.
ence, under the impression that the strangle
hold was barred, arose with cries of "Foul
foulW Gallagher kept his eyes upon the
audience, and evidently forgot his opponent
until he was insensible Gibbs was carried
out almost dead.
One of the MoGretts Shot.
SHIPPENsBURG, Feb. 27-One of tho no
torious Mofett brothers was fatally shot
in a fight with the Hurley brothers neal
here.
Delamater's Jury DIsagrees.
MEADvILLE, Feb. 27.-The jury in the
case of G. W. Delamater, after being out
thirty-one hours informed the court that
they were unable to agree Nine were fol
conviction and three for acquittal
The Reading Gets Thom.
WmKEsBARRE, Feb. 27.-The agents OF
the Reading company have secured control
| Of a majority OF the individual mines in this
section. Negotiations which had been go
| ing on for some time with view to con.
trolling two Of the largest mines in the sec
tion have been closed. The Pennsylvania
company was a competitor Of the Reading
company for the control Of these mines, but
| the latter bid higher than the Pennsylvania
/ company and secured the mines.
A Postal Clerk Arrested.
LEBANON, Feb. 27.-Jacob F. Riegert,
/ an elghteen-year-old clerk IN the Lebanon
| postohice, was arrested, charged with rob
| bing the mails, He made full confession.
A Gang Of Dangerous Tramps.
PrTrsBURG, Feb. 27.-Seven tramps were
arrested a few days ago near Burgetts
/ town for blowing open safe, but two
were discharged. It is believed that the
| tramps belong TO a gang Of about thirty
men, who have been operating in western
! Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio during thu
| past four months, and in that time have
stolen nearly $4,000 worth Of property
| One'of the two tramps discharged is thought
/ TO be James hickman, of New Haven, a no
/ iorious bank robber.
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