Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-10-09
STATE NEWS.

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| Der.
The Pittsburg division Of the Balti.
more and Ohio railroad has drawn upon
the main line for about dozen of cx.
ira locomotives, so great hes become
the traffic Of the road.
Huntingdon is putting up hand.
some new public building at cost Of
! $4,000 a thrce.story brick building
| has also been erected on the site of the
Henry & Co. flour mill, burned some
| time ago.
The work at the new penitentiary at
| Huntington progresses slowly, but a
small portion Of the outer wall having
/ reached the surface OF the ground.
The reservoir, however is almost com
/ pletcd.
The inspection of the bridges, iron
work, etc, OF the Pennsylvania railroad
and branches has commenced. The
| general and local engineers Of the
scientific department comprise the in.
spection party.
A little girl named Haney, Of Cam.
bria county, who had been detected in
unauthorized purchase Of articles at
I
/ undertook TO commit suicide. She was
only twelve years Oh
a party OF boys I gathering chest.
nuts, sunday, IN tho woods near Sport
hill, at Scranton, found human skele.
/ ton with two holes in the skull II is
supposed 20 be that Of John Lorson,
who Is said 20 have been murdered.
The publishers Of the Wilkesbarre
/ Union. Lcadrr are nov issuing a eat and
/ sprightly little daily. There was a field
for an afternoon paper in Wilkesbarre
and the iyton. Leasicy lips the ability to
4 succeed. 1t starts with the news. both
local and general. aud that is what
makes paper in these t'Fnes.
II is understood that a Philadelphia
/ gentleman named Whitehead has made
all the preliminary Arrangements TO.
/ ward securing the control Of Elizabeth
/ furnace, about three milds east Of Al
/ toona, for the purpose oY putting il in
/ blast. When this occurs many men
will be thus given employment.
The Lehigh iron company's mine
near East Texas is called the murder
hole" because of th4 many lives lost
there. The workmd8 do not like the
place and the mAchifery destroyed by
the last explosion wild not be replaced.
arrangements having been made 10
wAsh the ore on property near by.
The firm at WilliAmsport which en-.
tered into a CONTRACT with New York
house last summe1}to manufacture So.
600 toy pianos is progressing finely with
the work. These pianos are I9 by 9
inches. neatly made and vanished.
From 500 10 6t0 are turned out daily.
The contract uhust be finished by the
first Of December. One hundred and
ten girls and Women and twenty five
men are employed in putting them Is.
gether. The ifrm expects to hke a
large EuropeASoontrAc, this fsf.
county, last thursday, destroyed Jesse
II. Akers' cigar mandatory, the bank
block and Grsff & Sons dwelling, res.
tsurant and billiard room, besides dam
aging other buildings. The Curwens.
vile Bank occupied part of the bank
bnlaiSf but all their safes, valuable
pITTbzlnd books were saved, and there
viii be no interruption 10 the banks
business. On the third story was the
Curwensville Library Associations
reading room and odd Fellows Hall,
the loss on which is complete, with no
insurance. The aggregate loss by the
fire Is about $4,000 and the insurance
$1,000.
Two years ago these was railroad
disaster on the Pickering Valley road,
near kimberton, a few miles from
PhGnixville. A crowded excursion
train, returning from the Pennypaoker
family reunion at Schwenksville, ran
into a chasm caused by heavy ran
washing out an embankment. Seven
people were killed and about forty
wounded. Some forty suits have been
brought against the Reading Railroad
for damages. That of Harmon Ander
son was terminated on Saturday night
| at Lancaster, and the verdict was in
favor of Anderson. lie was awarded
$500. The case will now 90 to Su.
preme Court.
The report of oil operations for Sep.
tember shows a falling off in the aggre
gate production, although there has
been slight increase in the lower re.
gion. In the Bradford region the wells
completed last month numbered leo.
increasing the production 1860 barrels,
or an average of about % barrels to the
well. The increase during September
was not so great as the previous month,
when $3.50 barrels were added TO the
daily production by the completion Of
500 wells. As compared with August,
September's figures thow that forty. six
fewer wells were completed, and the in.
crease in production fell short of Au.
gusts increase by 1900 barrels. As
compared with July the number of
completed wells il 100 less and the pro.
duction 1859 barrels lcss than Jaly's
increase. The wells drilling and Figa
up number 44S, an increase OF eight
over August's figures. The rigs up are
fewer in number than those Of August,
while the wells drilling are increased by
thirty.one, This indicates that the
drill will be pushed during October TO
greater extent than IL was in Septem.