The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-06-24
ITEMS OF STATE NEWS.
Matters Of. Interest from ALI Over
the Commonwealth,
PRESENTED IN BR1EFBsT FORM.

the Different Localities aud Carefully
Edited.
HARRIsBURG, June Ex-Governor Patti
son has vetoed the bill to repeal the special
Sunday law IN Allegheny county, which
provides penalty Of S2b for each offense,
instead Of q ,as under the Sunday law Of
1874 The purpose Of the repeater was to
reduce the hne Of Allegheny county. The
governor says no popular dsmqnd was
made for It's repeal; thst IL is bread, liberal
and flexible; that It has resulted in a better
enforcement Of the Sunday law, aAd the
effort Of sound legislation should rather
bo to make the penalty general than toim-
pair the effectiveness Of the law In par
SECULAR community. He thiaks the ap-
proval Of the bal would be a step back
ward. The governor approved the follow
ing bills Providing for the sale Of the
equitable title Of She commonwealth In
the property known as the Grove City
Armory" in the borough Of Grove City,
Mercer county, and for the distribution Of
the proceeds Of the sale, . supplement- 70
the act to provide for the payment ints
the state treasury Of all fees collected by
the officers agents and employees Of the
state government, for . uniform method
Of keeping the accounts Of the same, and
for paying by warrant Of the auditor gene
raj to the said officers, agents and employees
the several amounts OF said fees which they
are respectively entitled 10 receive; appro-
priating 81, ,T24 80 TO pay the expenses in
ourred by the joint special committee ap-
pointed to consider the reports from the
quarantine station commission Of Penn
sylvania; 81, 900 to the Gettysburg Battle
field Memorial association; 81, 500. 55 to pay
expenses of special legislative oommittes
to investigate the electric light trust Of
Philadelphia; further extending the juris-
diotion Of courts in Gases Of divorce, appro-
priating 5000 TO the Spring Garden insti-
tute, Of Philadelphia.
Murder in the Second Degree.
KITTANING, Pa, June i9.--ChaFlss Spay-
the, one Of the Lseohburg bank robbers
and murderers, who with three others
charged with the murder Of Councilman
William Shaffer In Leeohburg in February
last, while resisting arrest, was yesterday
convicted Of murder in the second degree.
The case has been on trial for a week, and
the jury went out Saturday evening and
yesterday morning returned the above YER
dict. Rhine, one Of the robbers, has been
conYioted of second degVee murder for the
same crime and Is serving twelve years.
| The four robbers, Wyokof, hhines, SpRy-
the and Kroner were placed on trial for
burglary this evening. After the burg
larry trial Wyokof and Kroner will also
be tried for murder
Pluohy Burglar Caught.
NATRoNA, June COW. P. Dysert, q
Philadelphia burglar, held 100 armed men
at bay all night at Cheswlek, Pa, and only
surrendered when fifty determined men
nVsH tho A0ar .FN h. HtUNlGNra, he
| In and overpowered him. For ten hours q
steady fight was kept up on both sides,
and when captured one Of the robbers eyOI
had been shot out and his left arm disabled
by bullet. DysePt Is supposed to have
been implicated In fifty robbsfies 10 west
ern Pennsylvania during the past two
weeks
Killed by a Pitched Ball.
ALTOONA, Pa, June 19.-Max Msindel
who was accidentally struck BY pitched
ball while at the bat late Saturday after
noon on the JuniatR baseball grounds
near this city, died yesterday. The ball hit
him on the left side Of the head, near the
temple, causing fracture Of the skull and
rupture Of blood vessel In the brain
Meindsl was manager of the Defiance base
ball team, aged IS, and highly esteemed by
all who knew him.
An EmbaKEler Released on Dail.
| LANCASTER, June 90.-EK, ,ProthopotarJ
John W. MentEeF, convicted Of OmbsE
element, was sentenced to pay a hne Of
| u ,2S9 "a, the amount embeazled, and II
undergo an Imprisonment Of two years IN
the county prison. As seon az sentence
was pronounced Mentker's counsel pro
sented a special alloOatur. granted bJ
Judge Green, and MentEer was released
from custody on entering 81 500 for his ap
pearanoe.
Iron Men Unable to Agree.
PITTsBURG, June 1a.-The oonfereno,
between the iron and steel sheet manufao
turers and the AmRlgamlted Association
committee haA proven ffultless. No NOR
conferences on this scale are likely, AnC
there seems a strong probability OF tFou
BILE. Neither side will talk, but enough Il
known 90 justify the statement that tn,
men will not accept the reductions asket
by the manufacturers.
Hosler's Victim Dead.
CARLISLE, June e0.-Samuel EoAhart
who was shot by Frank B. HosleT poRT Ii,
ChurOhtown hotel on Saturday night, dist
yesterday. Coroner BriRdlS and fury In
vesdgRted the matter, and the verdict ren
dered WAS that Eokhart came to his deatl
AAbul bub elleobh OF WOuuuh IooelNeu IIOu
. revolver in the hands Of HOsler." Hos
Ter Is in jail and will be tried In September
Must Not Wear the Button.
LANCASTER, June 90.-Ths Grand Army
posts Of this city have appointed commit
tees 90 ascertain the names OF part q
wearing Grand Army buttons not entitled
to wear them. When the list is completed
1t will be published, and prosecutions viii
be entered against all who are illegally
wearing these omblems Of the order.
A Minister'S wife Commits Suicide.
LANCASTER, June a0-Mrs MargAIer
Kunkel, wife of Rev. g. q. Kunksl, pastoi
Of the Second Lutheran church at Ms0hAn
iosburg, this county, committed suicid,
yesterday by hanging to a rafter in th,
parsonage gsFret. Mrs. Kunksl had beer
melancholy for some time
Both Legs Cut on.
EAsToN, June 2i.-Philip Nixon, = brake
man on the Belvidere Delaware railroad
fell from a trsiB in Phillipsburg and hat
both his legs cut of, resulting In his deatl
a few hours later.
A Big Saw Bfiil Burned.
WMLIAMsPORT. June 81. -,phe sKtenSl,
saw mill Of Brown, Clark & Howe was Dc
stroyed by Are this morning between l anC
o'clock, together with a large quantitl
Of sawed lumber.
Death Of an EH-Legislator.
HARRIsBURd, June 2l.-MajoT Davit
MummA, a venerable lawer, died AZ hi
home In this city last night He was ono,
q member Of the house and later elected h
the senate.