The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-05-20
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED


Friday May IL.
W. w Tracey, of Illinois. succeeds Gen
ersl Clarkson as president Of the National
League of Republican clubs.
Many additional bank failures occurred
throughout the west as result of the
failure Of the Columbia National bank Of
Chicago.
At Springfield, Mass, Emma Butter
worth aged %, was killed while trying 90
save her 70-yesr- old father from suicide,
receiving bullet in her brain after it had
passed through her fathers head.
Saturday, May Is.
George Victor the sovereign Prince ofl
Waldeek, died at Marienbad, Bohemia, Of
pneumonia, aged % years.
The Wholesale whisky firm OF W. n.
Thomas & Sons, of Louisville, KY, sus-
pended payment yesterday.
The Republican members withdrew
from the Spanish eortes as protest against
the action of the government in EushingI
through the bill posrponing the municipal
elections.
Francis II. Weeks, lawyer ex-president,
ex-secretary and ex-treasurer of the Land
and River improvement company, OF West
Superior, Wis, and ex-treasurer OF the
West Superior Iron and Steel company, is
fugitive from Justice
Monday, May Is.
Charles Francois Gounod is confined to
his room In Paris By illness.
The pope will send the gold rose of vir-
the this year to Marie Hemiette, queen Of
the Belgians.
Miss Rose Cleveland sailed from liver
pool for New York on the steamer Etruris
on Saturday.
The steamship City of Hamburg e2llided
with the ship Countess Evelyn on Ifsvosse
Head, coast Of Cornwall, and twenty-five
were drowned.
Pope Leo has confirmed theapnpintment
Of Mgr. John Joseph Kain, of Wheeling,
w Va, as ooadjutor to Arch hbishop Ken
rick, Of St, LOUIS.
Tuesday, May 16.
An interesting event is expected In the
family OF President Cleveland in July,
Julius Lord, 6s years old, died at Will
JAMESTOWN, n. Y, after suffering three
years from hiccoughs.
A boiler exploded in cloth factory in
Sedan, France, and twenty men are said
to have been killed.
The Queensland National bank and the
Bank of North Queensland, limited, both
in Australia, have suspended HsynSat.
James II. Stuart has been appoinf6d in
speetor Of the bureau Of animal industry
at Cleveland, at a salary Of 81, 600 year.
The following Delaware postHSh Shi- .
have Just been appointed;,J. S, Casp on,
at Clayton; Mrs. V. Hayden, Fieldsboro.
Charles Lendherg, Peter johnson, John
Larsen and John Swanson were drowned
by the oapsizing of yacht in Lake Miehi-
gan.
wednesday, May ~.
The City of Melbourne (Australia) Bank
has failed.
K. Hodson & Sons, the we'll known Lon
don stock brokers, have failed.
Efforts are being made to establish a
United States legation at the Vatican.
The members of the whisky trust met in
Chicago yesterday and decided TO issue
! S5,0OO,OOO worth Of bonds.
Erastus Wiman, the well known railroad
promoter, made an assignment at New
York for the benefit Of his creditors.
George Abbott, alias Frank @. Almy,
was hanged at Concord, n. H., for the
murder of Christie W,aIden in July, 1891.
| The execution was.R'tt ing affair.
Thursdgy, ~ Is.
The anti-pooling bill was defeated In the
honIuckg legislature.
Private adylces from Rome state that
Bishop Chappele, of Santa Fe, has been
made ooadiutor 70 Archbishop salpointe,
Of the Arch diocese OF Santa Re,
The names Of Claudius NJ. bradshaw Of
New Jersey, and Peter Otey, Of Lynch
burg, Va, have been added to the list Of
applicants for appointment as register OF
the national treasury,
The president has appointed Colonel
William p. Carlin, of the Fourth United
States infantry, 20 be brigadier general, to
Ill the vacancy caused by the retirement