The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-11-04
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED


Friday, Oct ~.
Tho Illinois supreme court decided the
weekly pay law unconstitutional
Mrs. Grant, widow Of General Grant,
will winter in Santa Barbara, Cal.
"speedyn Taylor, who participated in
prize fight near Champaign, Ills, has been
sent to Jail for ninety days and fined e260.
Rev. Samuel W. HaddawAy, chaplain
Of the house of representatives and pastor
Of Marvin chapel, M. E. church south, Is
dead.
Doc Taylor, an sx-preacher, who was
hanged for murder at Wise Court House,
Va, preached his own funeral sermon on
the soaffold.
Fire destroyed the workshop connected
with Nebraska's state prison near Lincoln,
causing a loss Of ssOO,OOO to the state and
900 to the contractors.
Saturday, Oct. es.
DR.. F. c. Vincent, the wife murderer,
was hanged at Fresno, Cal.
The St. Paul street car strike has ended
IN a victory for the company.
James Kirk, for twelve years state
printer Of Delaware, died at Dover, aged
81 years.
Ex-vioe President Levi P. Morton, ac-
companied by his daughters, has arrived
at Paris
The remains Of Gounod, the great COM
poser were buried in Paris yesterday with
full civil and military honors.
Miss Daisy Garland, aged "a years
daughter of ex-Attorney General Gar
land, committed suicide at her home in
| Washington by shooting herself through
the heart.
Monday, Oct. 80.
Ex-Judge Cunning S. Bedford died yes
terday at the Windsor hotel, New York,
| of pneumonia.
Ex-Collector Albert Scott. Of Louisville
KY, charged with making false salary
certificates, was acquitted.
William Morton, Frank Williams and
James Moore have been arrested for rob
bing the postolfice at Orient, s. d.
The three unknown victims of the Penn
sylvania railroad wreck at Harrisburg
were buried there in potter's field.
For killing Engineer Edward T. Tohill
in wreck the Evansville and Terre Hautt
railroad must pay his heirs $1,000.
Cast of by his former sweetheart, Let
tie Jackson, James Rainey, Of Osawato
mie, Kan, shot her dead and escaped.
Tuesday, Oct. 81.
John Joseph Caldwell-Abbott, ex
premier of Canada, died in Montreal.
The trial of the cruiser Columbia will
take place Nov. 10 off the Massachusetts
coast
1t is reported that President Carnot, o
France, has finally decided to become
candidate for reelection.
Fire on the stock farm of j. b. Everly
I -.
valuable thoroughbred horses.
Sunday elections in Switzerland resulte
in a crushing defeat for the socialists, ,onl
one Of that party being elected.
Sam Jones, the evangelist, is preaching
to crowded houses at Memphis. Their
were 1000 in the Auditorium last night.
The trial of ex-Detective Dan Coughlir
for completely in the Cronin murder, ha
been again postponed until after Mayo
Harrison's funeral.
Wednesday, Nov. 1.
} Quebec, Ont, is being ravaged by virr
lent typhoid fever Bad drainage is SUI
/ posed to be the cause.
, The private banking house Of Martir
esoo, in the City of Mexico, has failed
Liabilities exceeds assets by $4,000.
Two trotting horses, valued at S10,0C
each, were burned to death in fire at tn
st. Joseph, Mo-, exposition grounds.
! Angry citizens are hunting for fiendis
negro who made an unsuccessful RttemI
l to assault Miss Lille Laubaoh at Orlando
Fla, and then set fire TO the house,
Secretary Gresham denies an allege
? statement of the Brazilian minister {
London that there is an arrangement wit
> this government to prevent the restor
Q ton of the monarchy in Brazil.
= Thursday, Nov. 3.
! The receipts of the Worlds fair wi
amount to nearly $l4,00O,O0o.
] The senate confirmed Edwin f. Uhl,
: Michigan, as assistant secretary of state
a Charles Hampton fell into a cotton SEE
crusher at the elevator at Dallas, Te1
and was ground to pieces.
Albert History, president of the Her
i. inner County bank, dropped dead in tl
= bank building at Little Falls, N. Y. +
q was 81 years old.
= In fire at Detroit several firemen we
4 injured by falling wall, and an engine
4 had his left arm torn off below the elbo
> IL the gearing Of fire engine,