The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-05-20
ITEMS Or STATE NEWS.
Matters Of Interest from All Over
the Commonwealth.
PRESENTED IN BaIEFEsT FORM

PRESENTED IN B2IEFEsT FORM
Grimes and Casualties Of Every Char
aotsr sent by the News Gatherers Of
the Different LOCALITIES and Carefully
Edited.
CARLISLE, May H. Charles Salyards,
charged with the murder Of Policeman
George Martin In April last. was brought
into the court Of oyer aud terniner yester-
day and arraigned The prisoner pleaded
not guilty. During the closing argument
by counsel for a change Of venue the pris-
oner arose in the prisoners box and ad
dressed the court, saying: The court
showed sympathy for the murdered man
in attending the funeral and further sym
pathy for his family in contributing TO
fund started for their relief I have all
along feared the court more than have
feared any verdict of the jury" Judge
Sadler overruled the motion for change
Of venue and fixed tomorrow morning for
his trial. Great excitement prevails.
Charged with killing His wife.
HUNTINGDON, May 1s-Edward Hughes
was arrested at his home in Minersville,
this county, yesterday, charged with the
murder of his wife Mrs Hughes, who
was delicate woman, had been suffering
severe abuse from her husband for long
time. A few days ago she was found un-
conscious and when restored she had lost
her reason. She died Tuesday On April 4,
last, Hughes stabbed John McCray, OF
Minersville, in the abdomen with cary
ing knife, and although his victim lowered
between life and death for several weeks
Hughes walked about the streets defying
arrest.
septuaEenarian's Crime.
SCRANTON, Pa, May 1s.-Max Long was
shot four times by an old man named
Peter Frank. Long was going TO work at
the mills when Frank called him one side
and commenced shooting. Three shots
took effect in the arm and the other, the
most serious, lodged near the spine. His
recovery is doubtful Frank is "a year'
old and suffers under the delusion that
Long, who is only SO years of age, alienated
the affections of his wife twenty-thre'
years ago, while he was in the Union
army. He was arrested.
A Chock FOrger Suicides.
WmKEsBARRE, Pa, May 1b.--Arthur St.
Clair Baker, of Brooklyn, committed sui
eide here last night by putting two bull
let's through his heart while walking
through the public square. He had beer
in this city since May 8, stopped at th'
LuEerne house and represented himself a.
a commercial drummer, giving his nam'
as Clarence Coleman, OF Montreal. It ap
| pears that he had been living gay lif
while here and had issued several bogu
checks
No Room for Her Paupers.
WILKEsBARRR, May 10-The state boar,
of charities has notified the directors of tn
central poor district of Luzerne count
that forty eight Of their patients now a
Danville asylum would be sent back Of
account of the overcrowded condition o
that institution. The directors will NEE
tomorrow, and 1t is thought that they will
not accept them. They have no place TO
them but the county prison. and they will
refuse to send them there.
Played at Hanging.
LANCASTER, May 1s.-Maximillian ET
persteln, aged 4 years, was buried on Tues
day and yesterday it was divulged that hi
death was due TO violence. In April DO
named Kostenberger, aged IA, put
moose around Epperstein's neck and hange
him to tree. A little girl told the boy
parents, and when they cut him down
was unconscious. He was resuscitatet
but never fully recovered, and on Monda
died from the results.
aungsrIans Resist Onicers.
UNIoNTowN, May ia pitched battl
took place at w. J. Rainey's coke work
at Dawson between 100 drunken Hungai
iRns and the borough constable and foui
teen deputized officers who attempted t
arrest them. Several Of the Huns wer
beaten into Inconsistencies and left o
the field for dead, while Deputies Vincer
} Gallatin, John Beatty, William Roach an
} Harry Raymond were seriously and PEI
haps fatally hurt.
, Illegal Liquor Sellers Raided.
r CoNNELLsvILLE, May 17.-Constab
Frank Campbell, Of Uniontown, and te
deputies raidsd the illegal liquor sellel
along the LsiSenring road three mil,
south Of Uniontown. Seven were capture,
All except two made desperate efforts
escape. Michael Henry, one Of the pr
priOtors Of the largest establishment in Il
i district, was fatally shot while fleeing fro
the deputies
1 An Electric Car wrsoks n House.
! ALLENTOWN, May i7.-An electric CT
containing several passengers, on nearir
the Lehigh Valley depot, suddenly jumps
the track and crashed into the dwsllir
house of James Kearney, leaving II
T though 1t had been struck by oyolon
I The children had just run into the var
d followed by the mother, which very pro
e ably saved them from fatal injuries.
g Boy Aooidsntly Shot.
l. PITTsBURa, May 1T.-Louis Geier, ag,
n years, was shot and fatally injured
d the careless handling Of Flobert rifle
the hands of Robert Latimer, aged IL. ~
bullet entered the back Of his head at b
base Of the skull. Complete paralysis s
l. In, and the physicians say that the victi
B. will not rally from the stupor in which
4, IL now lying
Fatally Assaulted by HighwaYmen.
HAzLRToN, Pa, May 15--While goiI
to his home in Jeddo on Saturday mig
Az John Senshook was attacked by highwa
"a men, who, after robbing him, threw hi
a into deep mine hole. Pedestrians goi
4 the road yesterday traced blood marks in
the cave and found the unconscious ma
His skull was fractured and he cannot li'
Two Murderers Hanged.
"a WILKEsBARRE, May 1S-The condemn
~ murderers, Jacob Blank and Isaac Rose
n sweig, who killed Jacob Marks, peddl,
a In Wyoming county, were hanged
Tunkhannock this morning. 1t is 81
n that Rosensweig made confession TO
q attorney, Charles Terry It was seall
lo anu wiz hob be opHheh uubll touloAioM'
ae Han Into a Landslide.
Of MEADvILLE, Pa, May IA train
A the New York, Pennsylvania and OF
er railroad ran into a landslide near VenAnl
eight miles north of Meadville, yesterd
afternoon. Engineer Orrin Luke v
n fatally injured and the passengers ba,
IS, shaken up, but none seriously hurt.
d, Fell from a Train 70 Death.
IT, ALTOONA, Pa, May III. Blair Gre
go = well known young man, died in the IA
n pitAl here last night from the effects
n injuries sustained by falling from freii
OF train At Red Bridge, just east Of here.
N; leaves . widow and one child.
u TWO MORE FATALITIES.
seven Meet Death by Explosion and
By Drowning.
lea CLEVELAND o., May ls - Yesterd