The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-08-12
Executive Mansion, Aug, I, 1898.
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED


Friday, Aug. 4.
During a reception given by Boston
boat club balcony fell and four people
were killed
Nine German sailors were killed on the
warship Baden, at Kiel, by the bursting
Of grenade.
Dr. McGlynn, the recently restored New
York priest, has been authorized 20 say
mass for one month at St, Finbar's church,
Bath Beach, l.. 1.
II the testimony Of Joseph Duggan before
the Chicago grand jury be true, the Cold
Storage building horror was caused by an
organized gang who had been stealing
from the building for months,
Saturday, Aug. ..
General Fitziohn Porter has been ap-
pointed cashier in the New York postof-
fee.
Logan f. Blecllley, chief justice OF
Georgia's supreme court, IS years old, was
married in New York to Miss Chloe Her.
ring, a handsome woman of 2s
The steam yacht Rachel ran into a
sunken pier in Lake George New York
state, and sunk. Nine of a party of twenty.
nine summer boarders bound for a dance
were drowned,
In the battle between the forces of King
Malietoa and MstaRfa, the prstender
twenty were killed and twenty-nine
wounded. Mataafa surrendered on the
demand Of the American, British aud Ger
man consuls
Monday, Aug. 7.
George Herbst, a Baltimore letter car
rier, is in Jail for stealing letters. He CON
fessed.
The Chicago grand jury adjourned with
out bringing any indictments in conneo-
tion with the Cold Storage building hor-
ror.
By the bursting Of a dam Of the Port
land (Me.) Water company 10000, 900 gal
Ions of water were released in fifteen min
utes. Two dwellings were crushed and
| four persons drowned.
BY a wreck on the Lake Shore road near
| Fremont, o., three railroad men were
killed and several passengers injured
] Among the most severely hurt Is Professor
Emerson, of Amherst college.
Ling Sing, the Chinese cook Of Captain
Roth, of the revenue steamer Waloott, has
been arrested az Port Townsend, Wash
for smuggling opium, He has been bring
ing the stuff In on the Waloott for years.
Tuesday, Aug. 8.
By the sinking Of a pleasure boat OF
Port Talbot, Wales, twenty-five wor'
drowned.
General George B. Bingham, q veteran
Of the war and prominent g, A. R. man
died at Westboro, Mass, aged ~.
President Smith, o. the Louisville ant
Nashville railroad, has issued a circular
notifying employees Of sweeping reductions
In wages.
It is reported that William r. Horn
blower Of New York, will succeed the lat
Associate Justice Blatohford, of the su
preme court.
In the prize fight betweeu George Dixor
and Eddie Pierce at the Coney Island clul
last night Pierce was completely knocked
out in the third round
Wednesday, Aug. 0.
The Valkyrie will race no more until sh
contests with the oraok yachts on this sid
Of tho ocean.
BY an explosion Of metal At the Besss
mer steel works In Cleveland Eve work mel
were fatally burned.
In October ne1t at Denver. DR.. Grave
will again be trisd for the alleged poison
ing Of Mrs. BaFnaby
The Catholics Of Columbus, o., yesteI
day celebrated the twenty-hfth annivel
] naAg VI RAaA'R "Nnu n " aNteAauA , Aanul
as a priest The bishop is a brother Q
Hon. Henry Watterson.
Thursday, Aug. 10.
Slight shocks of earthquake were fel
In California yesterday.
The mother Of Senator Jones, Of Nevada
died al Santa Monica Cal.
Escamhia, Fla, has a yellow fover scar,
and 800 people left the place last night.
, Luoien A. Holmes. an electric hnemal
, Of Mobile, Ala, was killed by a shool
while climbing pole.
! The county court house at Isabella, Ga
I was destroyed by fire, with all the reoord
d Incendiarism suspected.
Three giugham mills az Fitchburl
p Mass, employing noe hands, will for th
p present run but three days a week
, Buried in a Gravel Bank.
> MILLvILLE, ~ j., Aug. ie.-Four HUI
o garians employed In buildiHg a new ele
> trio railway between this city and hridr
p ton were buried " ne eavinR In Of
i gravel bank. they were all taken OF
y alive but are seriously inigEed, and OF
. Of them, q is thought. WIN die