AN
OLD VETERAN'S SAD DEATH.
Special Dispatch to
The North American.
CARLISLE, Pa., Feb. 1.Albert Williams, a Canadian, fell into Mountain
Creek at Hunter's Run last night while drunk. He was found almost dead
from cold by a young man named Powley, who hurried off to get aid. When
Powley returned with a Mr. McBride, they found Wiliams dead. Deceased
was sixty years of age. He was a veteran of the Mexican as well as the
late civil war and was a pensioner. For many years he was one of the
Reading Coal and Iron Company's ore miners.
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