Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-09-15
STATE NEWS.

hOYt brothers, Ol Lake 'omo, W afne
county, have completed at Morris, Pa,
= new tauuery with a capacity for tinisb.
ing 1000 sides Of leather a day. Five
forty horse power engines nre used to
run the machinery and 900 men are
steadily employed.
The large engine at the Chesapeake
Nail Works, Harrisburg, broke down
last Friday afternoon. causing the ut.
most consteruation in the mill and
thowing 500 employees out Of work for
"A month. Tn" puddlers. who had been
getting 81 per ton. had just handed IN
notice demanding s. so. and the request
would probably have been complied
with.
Inceudares are at work in Fayette
county. On tuesday night the stables
Of the Mahoning Coke Company. at
Dunbar. were entirely destroyed by
fire. Six mules and two horses were
burned. besides grain and harness. The
barn of Richard Braithwaitr, Of Red
stone township, same county. was burn.
ed with all its contents on Monday
night. Lose, 50, 600. Insurance, 5000.
IL Is the work of incendiaries. A fire
broke out in the Weltner house, at
Unioutowu, yesterday. but was extin.
guished before much damage was dCae.
4 gang Of tramps, numbering some
seventy tive on Sunday morning hoard
eel freight train on the Pennsylvania
railroad below Middletown aud threat.
ened the crew with violence II not al.
lowed To ride. A special train and
posee OF officers were dispatched TO
the scene from Harrisburg. Twenty.
one were arrested and brought TO that
city in the evening. Considerable ex.
element was occasioned when they Ar.
rived. They are supposed to be por.
ton of the gang which have been rob.
bing and burning in Lancaster county.
A charter was granted at the State
Department last week to the Rostraver
Railroad Company, the line of which
will run from Bellevernon, Fayeite
county, on the Monong,hela river. TO
near Big Sewickley creek, Westmore
land county, a distance Of ten miles.
The capital stock is 500. 900. d. II.
Davidson, of PIttsburg, is the President,
the other corpora,ors being II. G. Frick.
Charles II. Spencer. @. h. Bosworth,
PIusburg; John Guify. W. c. Guary.
westmoreland. The principal Office is
10 Pittsburg.
Previous TO Auditor General Schell's
leaving office he settled an account Of
over S3,OO0.0O0 against the Standard
Oil Company for taxes which the corpo.
ration refused to pay. Before the sixty
days were up in which the company
was allowed 10 take sn appeal its attor.
ney asked for a reopening Of the mat.
ter in order that resettlement might
be made. The Board of Public Ac.
counts considered the application, and
withheld itz answer until last week.
when ii informed the Standard Com.
panys attorney, N. +. olmstead, that
the application for a resettIement is re-
fused. The case will now be contested
in the Courts.
Franklin b. Gowen, who IL In Eng.
land, has issued circular to the share.
holders OF the Philadelphia and Read.
ing railway, offering himself for re cleo.
ton as President of the company at the
annual meeting on January . next, and
giving directions in regard TO registra
ton so that the votes shall be valid.
The London Daily Naos cautions share.
holders against listening too readily to
Mr. Gowen's arguments, and says that
the condition Of the company's affairs
IL improving under the present man.
sgemeut The Daily TeiegTeph, on the
other hand. says that the relative pros
perity Of the company at present is
really due to the efforts of Mr.. Gowen
and not to the men who obstructcd him
In carrying out bis plans.