The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-08-05
i'TEllS ON STATE NEWS
Matters Of Interest from All Over
the Commonwealth.
PRESENTED IN BRIBFBsT FORM

PRESENTED IN BRIBFEsT FORM,
Grimes ana Casualties Of Every char
acter Sent by tue News Gaiherers Of
the Different Localities aud Carefully
Edited.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 3.-nuring q row
in Thomas Hurley's thentricl boarding
house on Race street last evening two
men were shot, one Of them fatally. George
Foy soene painter, and Hurley qunrreled
over the eon payment of The formers
board early ln the day. Foy went out and
got drunk, returning while the boarders
were az supper He encountered Hurley
in the back yard, and the quarrel was re-
newed Foy hually whipping out revolver
and firing at Hurley. The bullet missed
its mark and passing through AN open
window, struck Josiah W Richmond, who
was seated ct the table in thedinlng room,
infioting q wound in the neck. A second
shot aimed at Hurley passed through the
same window and struck George Hirsh-
berger, q theatrical man, who was also
eating his supper. Hirshberger will die,
but Richmond will recover.
A DSiaE NTurderer's Confession.
PrTTsBURa, July 20- Austro- Hungary
Consul Mas Schamberg, in Pittsburg, has
received from the courts Of Prague the
confession Of Carl Smetena, Bohemian,
now in prison in Prague for robbery.
Smetena, now on his death bed, confessed
that he had murdered a man named John
Wolkousi, In Pennsylvania, in 1890, that
he robbed him Of t2l0, with which he
escaped from the country. The confession
| nnmnd
kausbi was convicted for this crime and Is
now serving a ten years sentence, although
he Is innocent The Bohemian authorities
are investigating The confessed mur.
derer worked In the Pennsylvania coke re-
gions and ta Allegheny City In 1890.
both Divbroed from the Same Woman.
PITTsBuAg, July 3l.-Two divorce suits
in one day BY two men against the same
woman was an unheard Of thing until
now George G. Thornburg brought suit
for divorce against Mary Clara Disney,
and Charles Asche brought similar suit
agaSsst Clara Disney Asche, the same
woman. Thornburg says an alleged mar
riaqe was celebrated between himself and
Mary Clara Disney about Sept &c. 1892,
which marsiage was procured by fraud IN
that the 6hid Clara had been married
March 4, iHe5, to Charles Asohe, and that
at the time Of marriage to the petitioner
! Asohe was alive, and no divorce had been
, obtained.
! TIVE Treok walkers Run Down.
2 NORRIEFowN, Pa, Aug a--Amos Evans,
aged 10 years, was struck by locomotive
t on the Pennsylvania Sohuylkil Valley
t railroad as Conshohoeken aud Instantly
killed. He was walking on the track, and
being deaf, did not hear the engineers
whistle of warning. Evaps was shrpen'
ter, and Hved In Conshohooken. Otto
4 Swartz, a German peddler, stepped out ol
! the way Of a Philadelphia and Reading
4 coal train above Linheld and was strucl
q by the Williamsport express and hurled
p half way up an embankment The MAI
a was found moaning and bleeding and hur
n internally.
q They stoIo His Earnings.
=. HUNTINGDON, Pa, Aug. AIT midnigh
Chalmers Dubbs, of saltillo, this county
hearing ouspicious noise about bis prem
: ises arose from bed ana walked 10 rea
- porch. On opening the door be was seiEe'
by three masked men, who stuffed pape
> gag In his mouth and then tied him witt
= a olothea iiae TO the porch railing. Dubb
20 had been saving his earnings, amountin
'e to about $500, to build house, and this h
NJ kept under BIS pillow. The robbers, afte
'r tying Dubbs, went 10 his room and secure
j. the money without awahing his wifi,
u' They then hed to jacks mountains
A EOuuc Desperate Jailed.
ed I.ANcAsTBR, July 3l.-CRlvin II. Mile
al colored Desperate, aged IS years, we
he lodged in fail here. Late at night he wer
VA to the home Of Robert Rae, farlner net
nd Georgetown, Bart township, and kioke
ge at the froAb 6oor. Rae went TO the wlndo
tn and asked him who he was, whereupc
M Miller threw a stone threw the windoV
cy knocking Rae iusenslble and quitting
or terrible gesh in his head While Rae WI
unconscious Miller broke in the front do
IN, and after diving the other members Of q
no family mp stairs stole watch and 9th
nd yaluableA.
IS, Employers aRd Employees Come 20 Term
Of PITTsBURs, Aug. The striking gla
he workers at Irwin have accepted the 5 p
nat cent. reduction In their wages and /
IAN turned to work In Pittsburg seven Of t
It Jones & LauEhIin mills closed down.
aus large numhsr OF men are idle, with no Il
be mediate prospect Of work, The mach
the lists who have been making repairs at o
ept yers mills went on a strike against an
ON. crease of frsm nine to a ten hour day. II
.est Seottdale Rolling Mill company, empl'
ing 300 msa, have signed the Amalgamat
scale. work will resume In a few days
e,t Singular Damage Suit In WilliamsPo
igh WILLIAMsPoRT, Pa, Aug. Ia no
ons damage suit was begun here yesterdl
, TO Mrs Clsra Smith brought action agaii
! OF Andrew A. Doney for selling her husbs
ats, LIQUOR that caused his death. She elai
-ds. $40, 600 damhges, and has engaged the b
Dnd of legal talent to push the case The h
band, James II Smith, died in Doney's
.ica loon last March, and the eorOner's j.
rendered verdict Of death from alpot
ism. Smith was a man Of known Int
ter perate habits.
49,. Three Run Down on the Rail.
PITTsBURa, July 3l.-Three men "
1u , a run down hy the eastern fast line on
let PennsylvAAia Railroad at Brinton stat
5 at near here, ead two-Thomas and Mief
Cornalan, 81 this city-Alled The th
an William Diakin OF scranton Pa, was
90, rlbly mangiod, and will probably die.
III men wsre in search Of work, and y
a walking oA the track
An Electric Railway Chartered
HARRnBuRG, Aug The Surbur
Railway company, of West Chester, c
!, he tai t4OO. COO, was chartered 10 build an
and tric line sixty-ilve miles long 1t Is TO
es "a through the principal streets OF v
Chester 70 Kenuett Square, Paoh,
first Lock, HGVaFford, Oyerbrook aud Phila
phia.
Death from a Rats Rite.
Le- AILENTowN, July 8l.-Blood poiso
tied, the result af a bite by rat inflicted Z
months ago on Name Heating, age
caused her death OF the home Of her
besi snts. at IFoh Bridge. near this city
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~ ~ ~ ALTOONA, Pa. Aug 3-tose MI
49, 5iorA aged "a yaers. died after lingering h'
'''''' hours in ts-Iili- suffering from burn
- ceived Ia co.. .,aAE io hssieh Il III
the coos .t. ..tl tle aid of coal oil
The Press5 snt'- g. turu Go Washing
n BUzzAbn's BAY, .da,-., Aug as
IL tary Carlisle arrived ai 6say Gables q