Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-01-22
GENERAL NEWS.

Vincent i. Bell, until recently Collec.
tor Of Customs for Detroit, Mich. com.
mitted suicide by shooting himself
through the head.
A Coroner in New York is blamed
with neglecting 10 investigate the case
of the death Of an infant until five
months after the occurrence, the body
meanwhile remaining unbur ed
Judge John V. Painter. Of Kittsn.
ming, Pennsylvania, died on Wednes.
day Of last week, after an illness of
several months. lie won considerable
prominence at the. bar and on the
bench.
James Cain, millwright at the Veau.
vius Iron Works, Allegheny, while ad.
justing a belt on a puliy fell s&teen
feet, alightDg on his head on pile Of
metal, breaking his neck. lie was 4j
years of age and left family.
The Farrandsville fire brick works a. o
running night and day, with orders
enough ahead to keep them going for a
year or more. They intend 10 enlarge
their dry house sixty feet the coming
spring, which will make room for more
employees.
Walter +. Brown, 10 years old. the
son Of an opulent citizen of New York,
shot himself through the heart on the
step Of his fathers house on Friday
night. NJ cause for the tragedy is
known, except that he had suffered
somewhat from morbid melanchoiia.
The new Senatar from Alabama. Mr..
Pryor, had never been 10 Washington
before last week. On returning from
the Capitol on Thursday he lost his way
in the magnificent distances of Wash.
ington and had to ask somebody to
show him the way home.
On the 18th instant His Holiness
Pope Leo XIII approved the appoint
ment Of the Right Rev. DIR. Elder, here
tofore Bishop OF Matches, to be coadiu.
tor, with right Of succession, TO the
Archbishop Of Cincinnati, and to be ad.
ministrator Of the archdiocese.
Richard q. Alexander. of Delaware
City, New Castle county, Deleware, who
was bitten by dog about six weeks
ago, died of hydrophobia on Friday
night, after an illness of five days. The
strength of six men was required to
hold him, and be had afterward to be
bound to the bed. In lucid intervals
he begged to be killed.
Samuel Drummer fell dead on Maine
street, Bethlehem, Friday evening, of
apoplexy. He had been Coroner of
the county for fifteenyearg, a Justice of
Peace Tor the same length or time aud
Town Clerk for nearly thirty years.
Though seventy.three years old lac had
been in good health.
Sunday morning a fire broke out in
the engine room Of the Russell Paper
Company's mill, at Lawrence. Mass,
and quickly communicated with the
cutter, drawing and finishing rooms.
The loss on the building, stock and
machinery is estimated at 5000, which
is covered by insurance. The fire
throws sixty hands out of employment.
The works will be repaired at once.
The eleventh annual report of the
Railroad Service in Massachusetts, shows
that during the year ending September
80 last only / miles Of additional rail.
roads were completed in the State. The
gross income for the year of ell the cor.
porations amounts to thirty million dol.
lars. The whole number of persons
injured during the year, including the
accident at Wollaston, was 405: fatal
injuries, IS. t..
In the New York Assembly a commu.
nication was received from the Govern.
or, covering the report of the agent of
the State relative to infectious diseases
among cattle The Governor SAYS
expenses amounting to $1,000 have
been incurred, for which there was no
appropriation and, Notwithstanding
the recommendation Of the Secretary of
State, he had directed the work TO 10
stopped until the Legislature took fur.
ther action.
IL was recently ascertained that the
Rev. Ezra ID. Winslow, the Boston forg.
er, had been living at Bueuos Ayres.
but when his identity became establish
ed he left and his whereabouts are now
mknoEn. While there he became the
publisher of newspaper, obtained a
subordinate position under the govern. d.
nent, was a Sunday ay-school teacher and
leading member in the Methodist
Episcopal church. lie left behiEd him
q number of unpaid bills,
James Ellis and his son John were
drowned in the st. Lawrence River at
Morristown, n. Y, on Saturday night.
Ellis had been across TO Brockville,
where he purchased some goods. which
we're brought over in q rowboat, and
left on the edge of the ice. Ellis return
ed home for his son, who put on his
skates, and pushed his father before
him on a sled. In This manner. they
proceeded until they reached the water
when both fell in. Cries were heard,
but when assistance arrived father and
son had disappeared.
Blast furnace Stag, that uiosl hopeless
Of all waste substances, i nos utilized
to a great extent. Ii is converted into
sand, mixed with a certain proportion
of scientific lime, and manufactured in
to bricks which possess many advan.
tages over the ordinary bricks OF com
meTce. BY reducing the slag to a fb
rous condition material is produced
which Is usefully employed as non.
conductor of heat in closhing, steam
pines and boilers IL il uaed in Al,