Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-01-26
STATE NEWS.

cut in Cumberland county.
Joseph II. Chase, pioneer and we'll
known citizen OF Scranton, died on last
Sunday after lingering illness.
Five men were captured near Bethle.
hem few nights ago who had taken
GO irkins of butter from Lehigh Val.
ley car.
The paper works of Cox & Dagger, at
Bridgeport, Montgomery county, are
turning out ton of MANILA paper dai.
ly.
The Washington Reporter states that
Joseph Chain, of Philadelphia, has pur.
chased $500 acres OF coal land at Frede-
ricktown, Washington county.
The Phoenix Coal Company lof Pitts.
ton is sinking shaft, and at depth of
$50 feet has struck three veins OF coal.
none OF which are less than 1 feet in
thickness.
Hiram Bleim, of Hickorytown, Mont.
gomery county, has twenty daugh.
ters and two sons. He has married off
all the girls, but the boys are single.
Mr.. Bleim is 70 years old and is q wild.
over.
In an interview Rev. Father Grace, of
Pittsburg, stated that at the late con-
ference of the Catholic clergy ofthe dio.
cese it was decided that absolution here
after should be refused to members of
the Knights of Labor.
The Philadelphia and Reading Coal
and Iron Company are erecting works
for the preparation of the small sizes of
coal. IL is contended that at least 20
per cent. now lost in the preparation
of these sizes will be saved by the new
works.
James Graham, farmer of large
means mysteriously disappeared from
Cranberry township, Butler county, early
last mouth. His dead body was recently
discovered in a river near Richmond,
Va. He is supposed to have drowned
himself while temporarily insane.
The Pittsburg papers state that the
financial troubles OF the Semens. Ander'
son Iron Company have been satistacto-
rily adjusted. The employees OF the
works (750 in numbe-) have asked to be
allowed to do months work free to
assist the company in getting on its
feet.
George Cartwright, puddler, of
Sharon, Penn, was badly MANNED few
days ago by the explosion of she'll
among some scrap-iron which he and
others were breaking up. Another man
who was standing almost Immediately
over the shell, watching Cartwright, es'
capped unhurt.
The state temperance convention, in
session at Harrisburg, adjourned on last
Friday, after adopting resolutions, one
of whice declares that their first effort
shall be the election OF members of the
legislature in 1882 favorable to the sub
mission of the constitutional amend.
ments" against liquor.
A general strike is threatened by the
bituminous coal miners of Westmore-
land county. They have been demand.
ing increase of wages and complaining
against existing rules in the manage.
ment ofthe pits for some time. Work
is largely interfered with and general
suspension is not improbable.
The Edgar Thompson Steel Works at
Braddocks has just finished remodel
ling its furnaces, so as TO use the basic
process of making steel from cinder.
The exclusive right 70 this process was
purchased for $3.50. 600 cash some time
ago by the American Bessemer Steel
Association through Andrew Carnegie,
and Is now put to practical use Tor the
first time in this country.
The statement Of the Philadelphia
and Reading railroad and coal and iron
companies for December, which be.
gins the fiscal year, shows that the total
receipts of the railroad company for the
month were 81 $50, ,SSS.T3 !; expenses, in.
cluding rentals and interest, s9s0,277.
~. The gross receipts Of the coal and
iron company were 1880, 1885. and
the expenses, including interest, Sl,3l3,
s57 %, The profit OF both companies
for the month was $937 ,542.54 against
1897 ,0S5.S9 as compared with December,
1880.
A shocking affIir occurred at the
Hampton mines, on the outskirts of
Scranton, last Friday morning. Viii.
liam Cook, who was stricken by small
pox few days ago, was dying. His
wife and babe we're in the same room
on the ground floor. Mrs. Cook placed
n lighted candle in the hand of her
husband and then knelt by his bedside
to pray. No one had visited the house
for days. Overcome By fatigue she fell
asleep and when the candle had spent
itself it burned through the rigid fn-
gers of the dying man, setting the bed
clothes on fire. Mrs. Cook started up,
but tainted on the floor st the sight. A
crowd of neighbors gathered at the
window outside and looked in, but
wouldn't venture across the threshold
Of 4be plague.strieken house. At last
two men more courageous than the rest
arrived at the house, burst open the
door and carried out the suffocating
mother and child. Then the body of
Cook was removed and presented
frightful spectacle, the fesh dropping
from the bones. The FIRE was extin.
guished with difficulty. Mrs. Cook has
so far recovered rs to tell the particu.
lars Of the unhappy affair. She says
she bad not slept for several days be