The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-04-08
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED


II Is officially announced that Emperor
william will visit the pope on Sunday,
April 23
At fire In Kansas City Fireman Sanlan
fell three stories to the sidewalk, and was
fatally hurt.
Il has been definitely settled that there
will be an extra session of congress for a
revision of the tariff, and that said bill
will be passed and signed before Jan. l.,
1894
The president yesterday nominated EX-
Secretary Of State Thomas 4. Bayard as
ambassador to Great Britain; James d.
Porter Of Tennessee, as minister to Chile;
James A. Mckenzie. Of Kentucky, as min
lister to Peru.
saturday, April 1.
Louis Lewis, a negro, was hanged yes
terday at the Bibb county Jail, Georgia, for
the murder Of his wife
Ida Oltar, years old, was burned to
death yesterday while playing around a
fire in garden at Carlstadt, n. J.
Ex-C Congressman Thomas f. Watson, Of
Georgia, says the reported withdrawal of
his contest for the seat of Congressman
Black is unfOunded.
The Joint convention Of the Nebraska
legislature adopted resolutions Of i'm
peachment against the attorney general,
secretary Of state, commissioner and
treasurer.
Monday, April 3.
Michael T Shiney, who was TO have
been electrocuted this week at Sing Sing
prison, has had his sentence commuted to
| life imprisonment by Governor Flower.
While FIVE men were excavating for a
stack in Ensley, Ala, the walls caved in
I A
and John Dorsey were buried alive.
The residence Of Joe jefferson at Buz-
| zard' s Bay was destroyed by fire on Satur-
| day. Helen McGrath persisted in the
/ flames. Miss Colinson, Clarence Whip.
pie and Charles Ashport were seriously
! burned.
Tuesday. April :.
The Duchess of Fife, eldest daughter Of
| Prince of Wales, gave birth to "A girl last
| evening.
-Four. women were drowned on Lake
Ponchartrain, La, by the upsetting OF d
sailboat.
1t is rumored that Count Munster will
retire because he failed to prevent the ex.
! pulsion Of the German from Dahomey.
Two men charged with the shooting of
the chief OF police OF Havana ON Thurs
day night last have been taken into Gus
tody.
John H. Fimple, of Ohio law clerk in
the general land office, and Richard A.
Durham chief of the western division in
the pension office, have resigned,
wednesday, Aprl ..
In the elections in Kansas yesterday the
Republicans made clean sweep in all the
principal cities.
William Blunck, aged IA, and Thomas
Luvienne, aged 10, of Chicago, were sen.
fenced to forty years in the penitentiary
for the murder of Albert Eckroth.
Secretary Morton yesterday appointed
Michael Blenski, of Milwaukee, Wis, ex
ecutive officer Of the weather bureau, vice
w. 5. Stanley, of Wisconsin, resigned.
The president has cOmmuted to impris
onment for life the sentence of death i'm
posed on Edward Smallwood, a negro
convicted in Washington of the murder OF
Edward Tinney, another negro.
George and John Evans went to the
house Of Jerry Skelton, at Alexander
Tenn, drove him from the house and out
ragged his 17-year-old wife. A posse of citi
zens have tracked the men to forres
near by.
Thursday, April o.
Ex-Governor David Meriwether, of Ken
lucky, a contemporary Of Henry Clay, il
dead at the age Of 80.
The body Of man, supposed TO b.
James McQuillan, of South Bethlehem
was recovered from the river at Philadel
phia yesterday.
Commissioner Blount arrived at Hawai-
on March 20 and the buildings of the cit,
were decorated with the American anC
Hawaiian flags in his honor
Judge Barrett, of New York, yesterda,
dissolved the temporary injunction wante,
against the United Garment Workers ant
the American Federation of Labor.
The court of arbitration on the BehrinJ
sea differences held its second session yes
terday. Discussion as TO the admission o
certain papers occupied the entire session
The entire property of George Arlington
Baird, better known as Squire Abing
ton" is left to his mother, nothing what
ever being bequested to Mrs. Langtry, a
renOrt ed