The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-05-06
i WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED


yesterday in different sections Of the
country.
The Belgian senate adopted the bill pro
viding for universal suffrage, with plural
voting In certain cases.
Representative Kilgore, Of Texas, is au-
thority for the statement that President
rleveland will call an extra session of
fongresl early In September.
Eddie Hall, about 12 years old, who was
viewing a fire from a shed at Wilmington,
N. c., fell to the ground striking his head
against the ourbstone, and received fatal
Injuries
The latestand most authentic informa
tion obtainable from the part OF Oklahoma
territory visited by tornsdoeso on Tuesday is
to the effect that fully hundred lives have
been lost, twenty-five persons fatally in
iured. and hundred injured less seriously.
Saturday. April go.
The Second National bank Of Columbia,
Tenn, closed its doors yesterday. It is
temporarily embarrassed.
The Chinese land telegraph line has been
Joined to the Russian system. Messages
can now be sent TO any part Of the world
from any telegraph station in China
The Navajo Indians have donned the
war paint. Eight settlers in the vicinity
Of their lands were killed by the Indians,
and the government has sent troops to
subdue the turbulent red men.
Monday, May 1.
The trial of Lizzie Borden, the alleged
Fall River parricide, will begin on June 3.
E. L. Harper, who wrecked the Fidelity
bank, Of Cincinnati, has been released
from the Ohio penitentiary.
A Melbourne despatch announces the
failure of the National bank Of Austral-
asia, with liabilities of S37, 100000,
A telegram from Laghouat, France, says
that French soldiers and Arabs fought
desperately at a brothel in that city.
Several men on each side were killed.
The Spanish war vessels Infauta Isabel
and Nueva Espana, left New York harbor
today for Havana, whence they will
bring Princess Eulalie and party to this
country.
Tuesday, May e.
The present term of the United States
supreme court will close May 8.
Six inmates of a tenement house were
burned to death in Burlington, Ia, yester-
day
One hundred and twenty slaves were
drowned in Madagascar by the capsizing
of an Arab dhow.
In the British house of commons Sir
Charles Dilke's motion in favor of evacu-
ating Egypt was defeated
Major General Alexander Montgomery
Moore has been gazetted as commander
of the British forces in Canada.
BY decision of the United States su-
preme court railroad companies are not
liable for damages sustained by employees.
The celebration of May day in France,
Belgium and Austria was marked by no
disturbances whatever. Immense meet
ings were held.
The heavy rains throughout the Ohio
valley In the last few days have caused the
river to rise rapidly and some of the houses
along the river front are again submerged.
The supreme court, at the request of
counsel, postponed from the sth to the 10th
of May the hearing of the case to test the
constitutionality Of the Chinese exclusion
act,
Wednesday, May 3.
DR.. George w. Richards, Of Orange, N.
S., died last night.
Bob Fitzsimmons has left a deposit with
the Boston Globe for eight with Alex.
Greggains.
Orders have been issued to government
officers not to arrest unregistered China
men after May s.
Herbert A. Preston, one of Washington's
oldest newspaper correspondents, died in
that city yesterday, aged 81.
The Russian minister has refused to
sign passport issued by the state depart
ment to the wife of a citizen on the ground
that she was Jewess.
The Richmond city council has appro
priated 1000 to defray the expenses incl
dent to the reinterment Of the remains Of
jefferson Davis May 81
A few miles west of Mitchell, Ind, in
Martin county, a sawmill boiler exploded
very seriously injuring Francis Baker and
badly wounding three Others.
The army bill compromise between Chan,
cellor Won CapriW and the Clerical party
provides for a peace effective of 10000 men
l which shall be gradually raised to 10000
: The Centrists repudiate the compromise.
3 In closing his forty hour speech befor,
G the Behring sea commission Mr.. Carte
said that the United States government
, was prepared to prevent pelagic sealing
D even il II became necessary to fight hal
the world.
J, Thursday, May 4.
! The Austrian emperor visited Bud
Pesth yesterday.
- ~ II sdiu lhc hbhAillt9 VI NhS popN " III
{ triple alliance has ceased.
). Steamer h. NJ Norton was burned b
the waters edge at Belmont, Mo-
l. Il is stated that the Cossacks statione,
t in St. Petersburg mutinied recently.
c. G. Case, inventor of the advance
r thresher, died in sanitarium at Battl
J. Creek, Mich.
e The German reichstag declared unan
Is mously that Herr Ahlwardt's charges c
e corruption were utterly false
IS At yesterdays meeting Of the LAX
It Shore railroad directors at Cleveland th
n old board of officers was reelected.
II The state department Is making extel
IT sive preparations 10 welcome the Infant
Y Eulalie, who will represent the royal hou,
K Of Spain at the Worlds fair.
The announcement is officially mad
that the Duke OF York has been betrothe
o to the Princess May Of Teck aud thi
Queen Victoria has consented to II
IT match.
y School Superintondents Elected.