The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-09-15
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Mary Curns, a 10-year-old daughter
Of Kyran Curns, fire boss in the
Cameron colliery, left her home on
Scotch Hill, Shamokin, and for two
days and nights wandered in the
mountains. Searching parties were
sent out and she was found. Her mind
is unbalanced by her stay in the
mountain.
Nicholas Weaver, a wellknOwn en-
gineer on the Lehigh Valley Railroad,
died at his home on Pine street, East
Mauch Chunk, on Wednesday even
| ing. His last employment was on the
Mahanoy branch as engineer of loco
motive No. "a, drawing No. 2s2 freight
| between Packerton and Mt Carmel.
| Mr.. Weaver had been sickly for some
! time but had almost fully recovered.
He came home from work in his usual
health on Saturday evening, August
| 29th. During that night he was
stricken with paralysis TO which hemor-
rhages were added later and these
caused his death. Nicholas Weaver
was born in Germany and was forty
nine years and five months old. His
parents came to this country when he
was only four years of age. He waa
railroader all his life and an engineer
for twenty-six years. The deceased
| leaves wife and seven children. The
eldest son, George n. Weaver, is mar
ried and lives at no.-Mduch
Chunk Times.
Insurance Commissioner Luper has
returned to Harrisburg from his trip to
Luzerne county, in which he had four
men arrested for acting as agents for
the Peoples Mutual Benefit Society of
Elkhart, Indiana, which the State
Insurance Department refused to
g, license A large number of people are
out Of pocket the premiums they have
paid.
L. Thomas Lourin, clothier of Halle
ton, Pa, went to see the McAnliffe-
Gibbons fight at Hoboken on Friday
night. He met man there who
pictured the beauties of the Bowery
in New York. After the fight they
crossed the ferry, and got three glasses
of beer in Pearl street. LOurin Gays
0 the beer must have been drugged, be-
! cause his head began to sing at once.
In the saloon another man joined
them. Then they went out anC
walked up the street short distance
t when one of Lourin's new acquaint
j. ances leaned over and said, "YOul
clothes aren't fixed right" With this
, he snatched $400 diamond pin from
Lourin's crsvatand ran. Then Lourir
fell into the gutter unconscious
p When he awoke he went to the Oal
street police station, where he made
' known his loss, and was locked up fol
intoxication. At the Tombs he was
discharged.
John McNurtrie, book canvasser
; went into the Henry Clay mine to sci
3 book and as he was leaving the place
: he was crushed to death by min'
y car.
Mt. Pleasant, LuZerne county, ISM
any more. The name of the villag
n has been changed to Harwood and tn,
colliery is now the HarwOod colliery
The Board of Directors of the lie
d high Valley Railroad Company ha
declared a quarterly divideId d of on
and one-quarter per cent, payabl
Thursday, October IS, 1891.
ia At about o'clock Friday evening
the body of Mrs. Kate Downs, Q
. Alden, was found in the Lehigh river
near the old bridge below Penn Havel
a Junction. The body was found b.
y her son, Martin Downs. 1t wa
wedged between rocks. Mrs. Down
disappeared from a Lehigh Vale
train at Penn Haven Junction on
" night last week. The cause Of he
d disappearance is a mystery.
d Mahlon Gerber, the superintendent
Ia of the Sidney Coal Company
~ washery, at Maizeville, has purchase,
a part interest in the colliery known a
Zerby's, at Gilbertou, and propose
N screening the banks surrounding il
A new breaker for the purpose ha
}6 been erected nearly year ago, bu
At owing to disagreement between tn
partners, Messrs. Zerby and Seaman
the plant has been inactive ever since
- Mr.. Gerber assumes Mr.. Zerby's inter
= est in it, transfer being made on
y day last week, and with the assistanC
le of Mr.. Seaman, of Frackville, wi
T. commence operations Immediately.
The employees of the United State
Express are to be uniformed at the eX
pense of the company by October
g. The uniform consists of a double
r breasted coat of dark navy blue, wit
brass buttons containing hemonogrRI
- ~. s. e" On the lapel of the COS
will be worn the trade mark of til
company, a horseshoe and fire-pro,
safe with eagle wings extending there
from.
The remains of the late Joseph {
Rasbridge arrived at Ashland Satu
day night on one of the late Lehig
trains and conveyed to his parent
home at Gordon. He died at his hon
o.. at Keokuk, Iowa, last Tuesday nigh
10 from injuries he received in wTec
on the Keokuk and North-Wester
Railway on the morning of Sep
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