Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-08-11
STATE NEWS.

about IS years was found in the woods
near his home on Friday in an uncon.
scious condition and died soon after.
Robert Porter, aged &c, of South liar.
risburg, was drowned in the canal Fri.
day while teaching his son how TO swim.
lie was taken with an cpilcptie- H. while
in the water.
Mrs. Whalen, of Millvilc, Cambria
county, died suddenly week ago, leav.
ing two sons, one OF whom died from
grief on Thursday and the other ia pros.
trated and not expected to live.
a new oil field is anticipated in Elk
county, where the oilbearing rock is
found in abundance. Fifty thousand
acres have been leased for oil purposes
and several wells will be drilled at once.
| There are thirty two Indian scholars
| from the Carlisle Training School spend.
ing their vacation on farms in Bucks
county. The boys assist in the farm
work and the girls in dairy and domes-
tic labor.
The army worm is in Brady township,
Cleariield county. They have destroyed
the oats of John Du Bos and To protect
his corn he has dug trench Is inches
deep around the field. The worms have
nearly filled it in places.
Five hundred driver bows and slate
pickers, employed by the Susquehanna
Coal Company at Nanticoke, are on
strike and all their colleries at that
place are idle in consequence. They
demand full time and an advance OF
10 per cent.
Mrs. Georgiana Ricksecker, aged 80
years, died from the effects OF the heat
at her home at Litiz, Lancaster county,
on last Friday. She had just finished
the family wash when she complained
OF feeling i'll. A physician was sum
moned, but the woman was dead in a
few minutes.
Burglars robbed the house OF Charles
Edwards, Lancaster, on Thursday night,
and he caused the arrest OF his son,
George Edwards, on suspicion of being
connected with the robbery. Wednes.
day n complete alibi was proved, and
the Lancaster papers comment very
severely on the unnatural action Of the
father.
At work on the new court house at
Ebensburg is n laborer who daily carries
a hod Of pressed brick, sixteen in mum.
Der, each brick weighing nearly five
pound, up ladder forty feet Highland
repeats this operation once every ten
minutes II he don't draw seven dol.
lars a day and mileage there must be
something wrong,
The people on XiuzcndorT Hill, Lu.
zerne county, were startled on last
Thursday afternoon with the crushing
noise OF a cave in which was embraced
two blocks owned by the late John
! Warren. and which at night was rapid
ly extending in a northern direction,
indicating the destruction OF all the
buildings along the alley. Reckless re
moyal Of the props in the coal mine
underneath caused the care.
General Grant has accepted an invita-.
tion to attend the Aztec Club dinner,
which takes place September II, at the
new hotel built by George W. Chiids at
his new town near Wayne Station on
the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Club
was founded IN the City OF Mexico by
General Scott, and includes in its mem.
bership the leading commanders who
fought on both sides in the rebellion.
/ Right Rev. Boniface WINNER. Of st.
I Nincents Abby, Latrobc, the head Ab.
/ bot Of BenedictIne Ordered Of the Unit.
/ ed States, reached the iittIeth annIver.
sary Of his consecratlon to the priest.
[ hood on MonGay OF last week and the
/ day was celebrated with interesting
/ ceremonies. over forty dlgnitaries OF
| the Church we're present and the ven
cradle father received many handsome
| presents.
Mrs. Ann McHale, Of Pttston, is 81.
| ing the Southern Pennsy ylvania Mutual
/ Relief Association of Hanover, for two
| thousand dollars, the amount OF
| policy Of insurance issued in Septem.
ber, 1850. by that company on the life
/ OF her father, Mr. Peter Cunningham,
/ who died some seven months ago. Mrs.
McIIsle had paid $50 in assessments,
and the company only sent her $50,
saying that was all she was entitled TO.
The Easton Argu says that the old.
/ time superstition OF "pow wowing,' or
/ visiting ply sicians who profess to- cure
/ by supernatural means. holds largely in
that region to this day. On the first
Friday after new moon, It asserts, crowds
of people visit "Dr. ]. II. Wilhelm. at
/ RaubsviIle. who inherited his "practice"
from old "Dr." Saylor. lie has from
three hundred TO FIVE hundred patients
a month, mostly on "moon days"
Nine tanks. two agitators and 200
foot condenser. with 1900 barrels of re.
fined oils, were destroyed by FIRE at
Freedom on Thursday night. Loss,
$4,000 to $4,000. The property be-
longed to the Standard OIL Company.
An explosion in one Of the tanks was
the cause. No trains could pass that
point for some time on account Of the
heat. At one time there was continu-
ous airing OF trains four miles long from
Rochester to Birmingham.