The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-03-25
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED

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Bishop Brown. Of the African NJ r.
church, died in Washington, aged %.
The funeral Of Luke Schoolcraft actor
and minstrel, was held yesterday afternoon
IN the Church Of the Advent, Boston.
j. w Short, ex-sheriG Of Sussex county,
Delaware, was stricken with paralysis and
died.almost instantly at Georgetown yes
terday.
saturday, March rs.
NJ. Jules Ferry, president Of the French
senate, died in Paris yesterday, aged 90
Squire Abingdon, the backer Of Charley
Mitchell for the fight with Corbett died in
New Orleans today Of pneumonia
By the explosion Of ten pounds Of dyna-
| mite in an non mine in the Herr district,
/ Germany, ten fniners were torn to atoms
Hamilton Book a colored farm hand
near Richards station, Ky, committed
/ suicide yesterday by eating poisonous
| roots
| A bomb was exploded az the residence Of
/ United States Minister Potter in Rome,
| which did but slight damage The Italian
foreign minister called to express regrets.
Monday, March 20.
/ Captain Jacob H. Vanderbilt, brother Of
/ Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, died at
his home on Crimes Hill, Staten Island,
aged S.
A mob at Rouhaix, France, attacked
worshippers in "A church, spit upon the
crucifx and broke 1t into fragments and
dragged the priests from the church.
The Freedom Manufacturing company,
a concern organized by colored men to
give employment to their race, has been
opened in Washington Frederick Doug
lass is the president, and the officers in
clude some of the leading colored men in
the country.
Tuesday, March'21.
Carlyle w Harris, the New York wife
murderer, was resentenced to electrocutiou
in the week beginning May S.
During fire in Madrid, Spain, twenty.
one persons lost their lires by suilicatiou
and jumping from burning buildings.
The twelve-round fight at the Coney
Island Athletic club last night, between
George Dixon aud George Siddons, resulted
in draw.
A sawmill near Rome, Ia. was blown
up through lack OF water in the boiler
The mill was blown to pieces and foul
men killed.
Fire at Athens, Ala, destroyed several
stores and small buildings. William Chan
dler, of Mckenzie, Tenn, a student in tn,
Alabama Agricultural college, and Over
Brown, of Athens, were caught under fall
ing walls and crushed to death
Wednesday, March 2e.
In the Maine house the woman suffrage
bill was defeated by vote of 63 to 54.
Jake Schaefer, the champion billiardist
slipped on the sidewalk in Chicago anC
broke his wrist He may not be able [,
play again.
Near St. Joseph, Mo-, hunter found tn,
bodies of four men and one woman IL at
ing in the river in IA dry goods box. The!
had evidently been murdered.
Pugilist Charley Mitchell left New Yorl
for England with the body Of Squire
Abingdon today. Before leaving he eN
pressed his firm intention to come back {,
fight Corbett.
The Rhode Island Democratic conven
ton nominated Daniel 5. Baker, of Nortl
Kingston, for governor; Dalton f. Young
of Newport, lieutenant governor, and 70
congress, Austin Lapham, Of Warwick
and Charles H. Page, of Rochester.
Rhode Island Republicans renominate,
d. Russell Brown for governor; for lieu
tenant governor, Edwin r. Allen, of Hop
kinton; for secretary of state, Charles II
Bennett, of Providence; for attorney gen
eral, Edward c. Dubois; of East Prov
dence; for treasurer, Samuel Clark IRE
uominatetD.
Thursday, March 23.
EN- Senator Eli salisbury, of Delaware
died at Dover, yesterday, aged 70.
! Mr.. Gladstone dined last evening wit
Henry White secretary of the Unite
I States legation in London.
+ In the trip Of the American bark, Nelli
e Smith, from Savannah to Colon Mate Al
derson was swept overheard and drowned
Near Leatherwood, Ky Ed Hinsley wa
: killed and T. A. Bancroft fatally iniure
; by an explosion in Lance's sawmill Thrt
i others were slightly injured.
+ 1t is stated upon good authority thG
t Mayor-elect McKenna, of Pittsburg, h5
II received 81 applications for the five al
pOintments Of police magistrates,
The arrangements for the authors col
n gress at the Worlds fair have at lengt
2, assumed definite form and promise an e
Z ceedingly brilliant and interesting succe
g Daniel f. Webster, formerly private Sc
d retary Of Seward, and who held many pu
o lie positions, including that Of consul
Bradford, England, died in WashingtC
Yesterday, AGED 6l