The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-05-28
STATE MATTERS IN BRIEF.


The Best Of News Cuiied From Multi
tude Of Sources.
tLouise Trout, girl from Orwigs-
burg, visiting her sister, Mrs. Bachman,
at Pickering, was seriously injured
Sunday afternoon in runaway acct
dent. She was driving with Mr. Bach
man when the horses ran away, throw
ing her from the carriage upon a pile
of roclts. Her scalp was almost entirely
torn from the head
I Robert c. Sleath, aged 10 years, a
veterinary surgeon and ex-High Con
stable of Tamaqua, committed suicide
by shooting himself He had been mis-
sing since Friday. Searching parties
discovered his body Sunday afternoon
in an abandoned mine near town. He
had shot himselfin the forehead. Sleath
was collector of rents, and before
ending his life he put his accounts in
proper shape. No motive can be ascrib.
ed for the act, except that he had loan.
ed out money, which he was unable tc
collect.
Alonza Swan became suddenly i'll
on Saturday at midnight at Chester
He staggered into residence on North
street and dropping on a chair expired
He was in his 3sth year and was cap
tain of Eckfreat Camp, Sons of Veter
ans, and Worthy Master of Excelsior
Lodge No 8, Independent Order Me
chanics.
+"Jaclk" O'Brien, of Forestville, neal
Pottsville, was fatally stabbed by al
Italian named Buckley, Sunday after
noon. O'Brien had nearly killed tn,
foreigner when the latter drew a razoi
and cut his antagonist.
+ Superintendent of Public Instruc
ton Waller has prepared a circular
which will be sent to School Directors
Throughout the State and the object o
which is to increase the school term il
many districts. The minimum schoo
term in Pennsylvania is six month
and there are 1900 school districts il
the State where instruction is givel
for that length of time only during tn
year.
There is on exhibition at the dru
store of DIR. Bruce, Beaver Falls, a cur
iosity in the shape of a monster TOAD
1t is as large as mans two fists. Abou
two years ago, while workmen wer
laying a stone sidewalk in front of tn
residence of William l.. Brady, one q
the workmen noticed toad about tn
size Of a walnut hop out of the eXcava
ton, and with the remark that h
would consign it to an eternal grav,
he placed it i'm little pile of sand, an
placing a great stone flag upon it neve
gave it another thought. A year afte
this particular stone began to sho'
signs of decay, and finally cracke
clean across. The crack began TO wide
until few days ago an aperture wa
made and out jumped live toad.
was found to be of monster size, anC
as already stated, was placed ON exh
bition.
The Warwick Iron Company's fun
mace at Pottstown is to be blown on
about July i'm order to relieve til
stack and make repairs. 1t has bee
in blast continuously and successful
since October ., 1889, with large iro
output. The furnace was built in 1875.
and its fires we're first lighted in Jun
1876.
THE Lehigh Valley will have a bi
voice in Pennsylvania politics thi
year. Allentown has furnished til
Democratic field marshal in the perso
of j. Marshall Wright, and Easton SUI
plies the Republican leader in Generf
Frank Reeder. Lehigh and NorthamI
| ton are close neighbors, and the Stat
Chairmen are united not only by tn
, ties of friendship, but of kinship als'
: General Reeder and the mother of M
3 Wright being first cousins. Mr.. Wrigl
! forwarded letter of congratulation {
, General Reeder, in which he said h
/ "believed in keeping good thing i
the family"
fJohn Blank, an ore-mineT who ha
been on long spree, during which h
pawned all his effects, told several az
quaintances Monday afternoon that i
half an hour they could find him dea
/ in his shanty. He showed them a pieC
of rope with which he proposed TO d
the hanging No heed was paid to hi
threats, but neighbor who heard {
them and knowing the character Of tn
man, proceeded to the shanty and foun
: that Blank had been as good as hi
word and was dangling dead from tn
end of the rope.
I Charles Myers, of Mountville, Will
Respondent, swallowed quarter of
pound of paris green and died from il
effects.
tGeOrge Mauer aud Edward Sand
of Hazleton, who eloped from that cit
, with Emma Ruch and Sarah Ute
have been arrested in Reading.
tEleven reasons were filed Tuesda
by the attorneys for new trial in tn
case of James H. Coyle, John Rhoad
and Michael Sewers, the lately convict
, ed Directors of the Poor of Cumbel
land county, for malfeasance in ofiic,
THE general conference of the 4
M. +. Zion Church which has been i
session in Pittsburg for several week
adjourned. The next conference wi
be held in Mobile, Ala, in 1896
5 I The case of the receiver of Tia
( Spring Garden National Bank of Phi
! adelphla VS.. L. 4. Yoder, of PittsDurl
> to recover $500 on note indorsed b
t L. loder, was decided in favor of tn
! plaintiff.
, THE applications of Edward NJ,
, Mlillen, the Luzerne county murdere
/ and William IL, Painton, who is unde
sentence of death in York county, wer
heard by the Board of Pardons in Han
riSburg. No decisions were renered.
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Teachers' Examinations.
The Carbon county teachers exam
nations will he beld as folloXVs.