The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-05-21
STATE MATTERS IN BRIEF.


for the statement that boot and shoe .
factory is to be established at that .
place in the near future. The new en-
terprise is to be run by "a stock com I.
pany with $4,000 capital Thirty
thousand dollars is to be used in buy
ing land and equipping a tannery at
and $4,000 will be used TO
equip the factory at Freeland.
IA piece of wood an inch long and
half as thick as common lead pencil
was, on Thursday, removed from the
cheek of Harry Kline, son of Police
man j. II. Kline, of Reading, by DR..
Bachman. The splinter entered his
cheek six years ago, when young Kline
met with a coasting accident.
Leroy Glump, Of New Freeport,
Greene county, blew into the muzzle
of his gun to see if it was loaded. 1t
was. The ball entered the back of
young Glump's throat aud penetrated
the base of his brain, causing instant
death.
+ Berks county has one of the few
Young woman mail carriers in this
State, in the person of Miss Katie
Leyan, who carries the mail daily from
Pricetown to Fleetwood. Miss Levan
has just passed lG years of age and is
an expert horsewoman.
+ A Meadville despatch says that "the
trial of G. w. Delamater for embezzle-
ment has been postponed until the
September term of Quarter Sessions.
Recently the accused bank President
went to Titusville and was taken sick.
Two doctors from that place appeared
i'm court and testified that Delamater
was physically unable to attend the
trial"
+ A storm of great destruction passed
through Canoe Valley, Huntington
County, Monday, laying barns and
fences low and uprooting whole or
chards in its path 1t formed in the
shape of an inverted cone and its veloc-
ity was estimated mile minute. The
wind was accompanied by tremend-
GUS down-pour of rain.
John Overdorf, a farmer living near
Pottstown, secured two laborers from
Philadelphia. lie afterward found that
his bedroom had been robbed. When
he accused the men of the theft one of
them ran, but was overtaken by the
farmer, who gave pursuit, armed with
gun. His wife, with n weapon in
hand, guarded the other laborer until
her husband returned. The men we're
held for court.
+ An epidemic of diphtheria prevails
in Erie.
A scheme is on foot in Pittsburg TO
form trust of the big plate glass
manufacturers of the country.
+ Several Minersyille stores we're
robbed recently and there is no clue to
the thieves.
+ The Crescent pipe line now being
laid from the oil fields to Philadelphia
is meeting with much opposition from
people through whose property it
passes.
THE capacity of the Mckinley tin
plate works at Williamsburg is to be
trebled.
THE annual reception to the senior
class of Grocer Theological Seminary
rendered by DR.. Weston, of Chester,
was attended by many Philadelphians.
John Klotka, living in a little min
ing village near Mt Carmel, fatally
shot his wife and wounded her com
panion, Anthony Kincoris, Tuesday.
He found the two in his house together.
| Tuesday, small son of Robert
| Byers, near UniontOwn, dropped a
lighted match into keg of powder. In
the explosion the lad was fatally in,
jured.
TAT a meeting of the Pennsylvania
State Agricultural Society, in Harris
burg, Tuesday, J. Schall Wilhelm, of
York, was elected secretary to fill the
uneXpired term of ID. w. Seller, deceas-
] NAAs II NtAn htAlAANAA W Nb"bINliNt NlNll
the Worlds Fair Board in every way
possible A committee was appointed
to fix time and place for the State
Fair.
7 III. II. Barr, of Chester, who was
under bail ON the charge of emblezzl-
ing $4,000 as agent of the Reading
Railroad, died of heart failure, on
Tuesday.
I Archbishop Ryan confirmed 100
candidates at st. Stephens Catholic
Church, Port Carbon, and 100 at St.
Mary's English and St. Bonifacius'
German Catholic Churches, st. Clair
The great council of the Improved
Order of Red Men is in session. Fa-
vorable reports were made ON the fin
ances and membership of the order.
The officers were installed Wednesday,
THE Mayor Of Lancaster was re
strained by the Court from carrying
into operation an ordinance passed by
City Councils establishing police pa
troll system. The injunction was grant
ed on motion ola number of taxpayers.
THE Keystone Northern Railroad,
to run from Wurtemburg TO Rosepoint,
Lawrence County, has been chartered
by the State Department A charter
was also issued TO the Kessler Street
connecting Passenger Railway Com
pany of Philadelphia.
THE forty annual session of
the State Medical Society began at
Harrisburg, Tuesday. Addresses of
welcome wereHmade by the Governor
and Mayor. Several important papers
were read. At night a reception was
held at the Executive Mansion.
+ Fire broke out in the Grand Opera
House, Hazleton, shortly after > o'clock
Saturday morning, and destroyed the
entire building. In short time the
Lehigh Valley freight depot, the large
building and stable of the Hazleton
Machinery and Supply Company, the
| Valley Hotel, Richards beer refrigera-
tor Bowlander's livery stable, d. Bow
mans residence and office, and the
office of Keonig a Company, dealers in
organs aud etc, we're soon in flames
and all excepting the hotel and the
machinery and supply company's store