The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-05-25
HERE AND THERE,
Interesting Items Concerning Different
Sections of the Region.

Interesting Items Concerning Different
Sections of the Region.
N. B. Matthias, an aged citizen OF Maha-
noy City, died at that place yesterday.
Deceased leaves a wife and seven children.
John Fulton, formerly of G~irardville,
died in Chicago OF Saturday. The de.
ceased was a son of Foreman David Fulton,
of the former place.
louisville has two saloons run by Polan-
ders, and the county seat papers are kick
ing.
@. o. Burket and and Miss Emma
Msurer, both of Ashland, we're married on
Monday.
Joseph Cough, formerly engineer at the
Logan colliery, has accepted q position as
rope splicer at Mshsnoy Plane.
The employees of the Logan oolliery al
Centralia are busy trying to prevent the
spread of a fire that has started in one Of
the culm banks.
The committee of the Gwilym event
monumental eisteddfod committee met in
the Cambro-American rooms, Pittston, on
Saturday. The members of the committee
from Wyoming and L~ackawanna valleys
were all present. In consequence of the
approaching heated term and the difficulty
in getting choirs to rehsarse, it was resolved
to postpone the eisteddfod from July 4 to
Thanksgiving Day.
The Panther Creek Valley Power and
Light Company, recently organized, has
purchased the electric light plant in
| T.oneGord Tho oOpnnopu o. E,,,;zL
the borough of Lansford with q arc lamps
at $50 each per annum
Hszleton has put the long distance tele-
phone into use.
The Grand Lodge of the Royal rcanum
have set apart June 23rd as a day of gem
eral observance of that order, June being
the month in which the order was founded.
The local lodge is making arrangements
accordingly.
The loss by reason of the fire at Lansford
on Saturday last has been figured at 81 5000.
1t was caused by a defective Aue.
The Schoppe orchestra has been engaged
to furnish the music for the "13" social
club of Mahsnoy City on the evening of
May 90th. ,
The Ashland base ball club will play at
Mshanoy City tomorrow afternoon.
The change made by the P. s. r. COM
psny at Ashland in making its depot the
passenger station has resulted in what may
be called an omnibus 'cinch."
The Washington Fire Company, of
Ashland, is making a large hand-ball court.
The Union Coal Company will erect two
breakers between Shamokin and Mt. Car
mel in the near future.
A madened Hungarian at Shamokin
plunged into a crowd of young men at
Shamokin and stabbed an innocent party.
The following item clipped from the
S~ua6ury Daily has caused considerable
merriment in town. 1t is an excellent
sample of journalistic Imagination: Far
mer Kulp, of Shamokin, caught a wild
cat in Centre county and gave it Tom
Larkin,. of the Larkin House, at Shamokin.
Tom soon tired of the dangerous feline and
when Pat King, of Shenandoah, asked for
it Tom gave it to him and he took it to his
home. On Saturday afternoon with sew
eral friends Pat went to the barn where
the cat was kept and in order to show how
tame the cat was released it from the cage
in which it was confined. The cat at once
sprang at King and bore him to the floor,
scratching and biting him. After a hard
struggle Pats friends got him away from
the dangerous beast. He is in a critical
condition and may die, One of the cats
fore legs was broken in the struggle and it
was killed to end its suffering"
A strangled infant female child was
found by the Shsmokin police, and a coro-
ner's jury has failed to bring out a clue to
the guilty parties, The authorities have
also failed to CLEAN satisfactory evidence
regarding the child found in a store box in
an Ashland cemetery,
East Franklin colliery, near fremont,
which had been idle since March last,
resumed operations to-day.
Thomas Sharp, of New Philadelphia,
was covered by a fall of coal at Eagle Hill
colliery yesterday, and was sufiocsted
before his body was taken out.
Mrs. james r. Deegan is dangerously
i'll. Her friends are very spprehensive re-
gsrding her condition.
A game between the Mahanoy City and
Tamaqus base ball clubs will be a Mem
orial Day attraction at Mshanoy City.
Shamokin people are circulating a petit
ton to have the wards of the town reduced
from six to four.
A fire in Freeland yesterday destroyed
three dwellings owned by William Rugans,
David Hanlon, ST., and Patrick Hanlon.
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