Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-06-12
GENERAL NEWS.

President Gowan, Of the Reading rail.
road, started TO Europe lsst Saturday.
! The General Synod Of the Lutheran
church met at Wooster, Ohio, yesterday.
/ A Mrs. Theodore Young, of williams.
! port, has become insane from the loss Of
two children by diptheria.
Henry F. Jones. aged eiehty.seven,
/ died at Waterbury, VI, on Friday morn.
/ ing. lie WAS an ex.member of Congress.
/ SoloyieH, the man who attempted %
assassinatc the Gar Of Russia, was con.
/ demned TO death on Saturday and was
hung on Monday last
On Saturday the inhabitants OF sew.
eral portions Of Vermont and New
| Hampshire enjoyed that delightful Wis.
! ltOr, June snow storm.
! A severe hail storm passed over Tope.
ka, Kansas, Monday afternoon. A
strip Of country about a mile wide was
traycrsed. Hogs and chickens were
killed and crops badly damaged. At
Wichita hail stones fell weighing from
/ FIVE 70 twelve ounces
Mr.. George Bancroft, the historian, il
| Ill at hls summer residence in Newport,
X. ]. He - able, however. 10 sit up in
bed and dictate 70 his secretary. lie
was prostrAted 10y severe heat in Wash
ington recently. lie had. in his opin.
ion, remained too long at the capital.
THE writer Of letter in the Lon.
don T,mcs points out that an ounce of
bread wasted daily in each household
in Enclnd and Wales means about 2j,.
/ 100000 quartern loaves. the produce Of
10000 acres OF wheat in year; while
an ounce a week Of meat wasted
amounts 10 some 300 90 sheep.
Miss Jennie Mcdonald. Of Allegheny,
has been for the past two weeks subject
ed 10 the prosecutions Of a stranger.
who has met her on the street several
times and threatened her life. lie has
also sent her letters, telling her TO be
careful OF her person, and the whole
t.Iatter is wrapt in mystery.
One day last week respectable look.
ing stranger went TO the house Of Mr..
Philip Schneider, residing near Hunt
lncton, and entered into an arrange.
ment to buy his farm. Mr.. Schneider
invited the stranger to spend the eve
ming with him, and next morning dis.
{
the night, taking a watch and chain
valued at $50.
A lady at Pittsburg, while out house.
hunting on Friday, heard the voice OF
a child in the closet Of house she was
/ looking through. Opening the door
two little girls were discovered i'm
prisoned there, one of whom was in
sensible. The children had gone into
the house on Wednesday 10 play and,
entering the closet, closed the door,
when spring latch fastened them in.
They were restored TO their distressed
parents.
The furnace at Bingen, Pa, was re-
lighted Monday morning, after being
idle for nearly FIVE years. The property
recently passed out OF the hands OF the
North Pennsylvania Iron Company, the
Bethlehem Iron Company being the
purchasers at $50 200. The furnace
has been thoroughly repaired, carefully
retlled and the match was this morn.
ing applied by Miss Angle Johnson,
daughter of the superintendent, Of
/ Bethlehem.
The fourth annual meeting Of the
/ Pennsylvania State Association for tae
/ Preservation of Game and Fish will bs
held in Huntington, Pa, on Thursday,
June IL, at . o'clock p. NJ. The sports.
mems Association Of Huntingdon will
give a hunters pic mic June Is, in a
beautiful locality near Huntingdo...
The features of the picnic will be
glass ball and pigeon shooting. There
will be no prizes, no class shooting and
no entrance money.