The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-06-03
ITEMS or STATE NEWS.
Matters of Interest from All Over
the Commonwealth.
PRESENTED IN BRIEFEsT FORM

PRESENTED IN BRIBFEsT FORM
Grimes and Casualties Of Every Char
aotsr Sent by the News Gatherers Of
the Different Localities and Carefully
Edited.
PoTTsvILLE, June loving TO dullness
In the coal trade aud IN pursuance OF econ.
omies inaugurated by the new manage.
ment Of the Reading railroad, general or
/ ders have been issued by head officials for
the suspension OF all classes Of employees
not imperatively needed. From thirty 10
| City men have been ordered suspended at
each Of the following pointAAn the mining
region; Palo Alto, Tamaqua, Mahanoy
/ Plane Gordon, Shamokin, Pine Grove and
| Cressona, and comprise engineers, firemen,
train and railway hands, clerks and tele.
/ graph operators. In addition to suspen-
sions am onG subordinate operating EN-
ployes II is given out here that all Of the
higher grade officials getting 800. 5000 and
$500 a month have been notified of heavy
reduction in their pay.
Unregistered Cinnamon Arrested.
PHILADELPHIA, June LIN accordance
with a circular issued by Secretary Of the
| Treasury Carlisle United States Commits
sioner Edmunds yesterday issued warrants
for the arrest Of six chinese laborers The
warrants were issued under the act Of
congress Of Aug. 6, 1899, and not under
the Geary act The law of 1889 forbids
! Chinese to be in this country who are not
registered and provided with certificates.
/ But four of the warrants were served and
in one case the commissioners oontinued.the
hearing until another date. Lee Key, a
laundryman, and Young Wing and See
Young cooks, were given preliminary
! hearing and bound over In $500 for a
further hearing tomorrow
Mr.. Eiohslberger's Public Requests.
GETTYSBURG, June 1.-The will of the
late Matthew Eiohelberger, of this place,
bsqueathes the following legacies To Get
tysburg college, g., 1000; Lutheran Theo
logical seminary, t9e, 900 II it remains here
II removed to lose It all. and go, 600 then
to 80 to Gettysburg college; to the General
Synod OF the Lutheran church for the
board of missions, to be divided equally
between home missions, foreign missions
and church extension, 80, 600, and to Christ
church, $1,000. The interest Of 50, 800 is tc
go perpetually to the support of the de
serving poor Of Gettysburg. The bequests
are to take effect at the death of his wife
The Louise Pleague.
LANCASTER, May 27.-Dr S. f. Weber
has discovered that the lice which have
been a great plague for the past eight
months In the eastern end of this county
are wood lice belonging TO equatorial coun
tries. They belong TO the sub-family
Psocid@; genus Ulothilla; variety, Cloth
lila Pulsatoria. How they got here is a
mystery. DR.. Weber Is greatly alarmed
l. NaNaa
tary Edge, Of the state board of agricul
ture, invoking state aid at once. The doc.
tor says the lice are the forerunnsr of 9
plague, which he fears will be cholera.
Three Of Their children Porlshed.
CANoNsBURG, May 90-Early In the
morning the dwelling of Samuel Skiles,
who resides in CHARTERS township, was dis
covered to be on fire by two oilwell driller,
who were passing The men rushed to tn,
house just in time to rescue Mr. and Mrs
Sklles and three Of their six children. Three
Of the smaller children could not be res
cued, and they perished In the flames Mr.
and Mrs. Skiles were badly burned about
The face and hands. The FIRE originated
from an overheated gas stove.
An Accidental Homicide.
YORK, May Sl.--John H. Foose, a youns
man, last night In skylarlIing with a com
rade jabbed at him with pocket knife
when the companion ran away aud Foos,
struck instead with the knife Claytor
Eisenharte, 18-year-old boy, who wa,
standing near, inhictlng injuries from
which he died few hours afterward
FOose gave himself up TO the authoritie,
and is in jail awaiting the verdict of tn,
coroner's inquest.
Closed Down by a Strike.
HUNTINGDON, June The furnaces o
the Rock Hill Coal and Iron company, a
Rockhill, this county, have been CLOSED
down indefinitely, owing to a strike of tn,
employees, who demanded the reinstate
ment of several discharged leaders of TN
local labor union. The company refuse,
to dccede to the demands of the men, II
the hope of breaking up the influence o
the union. About 800 men are effected b.
the shut down
boy burglars Confess.
LANCASTER May 29-Walter MeClarin
Christian Broome and George Cole, VIII,
were captured while committing "a burg
larry in Columbia a few days ago, hav,
confessed that they, with William Davis
who so far has eluded the officials, haC
committed between thirty and forty burg
laries since January last, all Of which wer,
ascribed to professionals. The boys rang,
in age from to l3 years.
Two WOrkmen Fatally Injured.
CHESTER, May 29.-Two workmen at th,
Bear Greek Oil works lost their lives b,
making mistake. Daniel Flynn, of Bay
onne, N. j., and Parker Marshall, of Lin
wood, undertook TO remove the head o
still No s, but in mistake took off No Z
which had fire burning under It, In
stantly there was loud explosion, ant
Flynn was thrown about fifty feet Boil
died from their injuries.
Mother and Daughter Killed.
PIrTsBURG, May 8O-Mrs. Nancy Nc
Carrigber and her lS-year-old daughter
were struck by fast train at Shoustown
on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroa d
The mother was instantly killed and tn
daughter died subsequently. The unfor
tunates were walking on the track on thei
way home from church.
Mammoth Hailstonss In Perry County.
NEWPORT. June l.-About 300 feet of tn,
Newport and Sherman Valley railroad
track was washed away by a waterspou
at Cisna's Run. The water was six inchei
deep on the level Hail the size of wal
nuts fell and did much damage to grow
ing crops.
To Save the Corn Crop.
WEST CHESTER, June 1.-The Doe RuI
Farmers club at a special meeting, coz
sidered measures for the determination q
the black bug which is destroying the corr
all over the county.
Death Of Veteran EH-LsgisIator.
WEST CHESTER, Pa, June Nathan J.
Sharpless, an eX-member Of the legisla
ture, aged 20 years, died at his home in
West Grove
Death OF an EH-LeEislator.
, WEST CHRsTRR, May B0.-T. K, Bull, ex
msmber Of the legislature, died at his resi-
denos In Warwick, aged a.
The Cars Gratitude.
PHILADRLPmA, May e7.-On the deck o.
the Russian warship Dimitri Donskio tes
timonials from the ozar were presented I,
several gentlemen who had been instru
mental in forwarding and distributing 70
lief during the famine in Russia last wear
The gifts bestowed were, To DIR. Tai
mage, tea set; DIR. Klopsoh, butter dish
and salyer; Rudolph Blankenburg. bowl
and salyer; O. NJ Reeve, a tankard; DR.
Hubbell, decanter and drinking cups; f.
y. Reeves, punch bowl and drinking CUPS;
W. C. Edgar and A. J. Drexel, Jr.. Rus
Sian loving cups; Colonel Biddls, a tank
ard; Z. j. Phelps, silver drinking mug
After the National Banks.
WAsHINNToN, June lie. Ashley Mears
the North Dakota, banker, whose banks