The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-05-23
REGION ROUND.
What is Going on in the Different Coal
Towns.

MnaL Is GolnE on IN bhe OAheHohb ~"
Towns.
Miss Lizzie Evans, who lost a limb, has
just recovered S25OO from the Delaware &
Hudson Co.
A Gypsy camp is located near Beaver
Meadow.
Manus Brennan, aged 62 years, died at
Lofty from miners asthma.
The new slope at Coleraine has been
completed. A tunnel will be driven to
the Wharton vein at once.
A Pottsville peddler was held up and
robbed of $50 near Hazleton on Friday
last.
1t is now proposed to build an opera
house and market house combined in
Hazleton.
On Monday morning next O. o. Smith
& Co. will put a gang of men to work on
their contract for grading the electric rail-
road between Mahanoy Plane and this
place. They will start with fifty men and
as rapidly as they can be procured the
number will be increased to two hundred,
The contractors agreement calls for the
completion of the road as soon as it can be
done with that number of men. The work
will be pushed as rapidly coward compile
ton as is possible. The grading will be
done and as fast as possible the construction
gang will follow and lay the tracks, set
poles and hang wires: The trestlings will
also be erected with the other work so as to
have it all completed at the same time
Mahanoy Tribune.
Burgess Roberts, of Plymouth, has re-
ceived a communication from Benjamin
Lee, secretary of the State Board of
Health of Philadelphia stating that the
steamship Belgenland, which recently ar
rived at New York, had on board several
cases of smallpox. Several of her psssen-
gers, Huns, etc., by nationality, were
destined for Plymouth. In view of the
dozens of men of this nationality arriving
daily at Plymouth and the celebrity with
which they are bundled off to boarding
houses all over the town, 1t is going to be
extremely difficult to locate the men
referred to and it is quite probable hat the
disease will soon show itself in Plymouth,
The situation calls for the utmost watchful.
ness by the physicians and health officers
and the first suspicious case should at onct
be isolated.
Last night the Kodak Man witnessed ar
act of generosity such as would make thiI
world a beatifc heaven if all the people
were similarly charitable. Six forlorr
looking Hungsrians were sitting in thu
smoking room of the Union Depot
anxiously awaiting the night Buffalo
express. They had an hour and a half tt
wait. To one side sat a ponderous, pros
porous looking parsonage reading a novel
In appearance he resembled a high type o
travelling salesman. He, too, had an hou
and a half roast, the attendants told him
His eyes gradually wandered from tn,
book to the Huns. He observed then
closely. After several surveys of tn,
foreigners he walked to the restaurant anC
inquired of the waiter what he'd take Il
feed the lot. The prosperous looking mai
promptly planked down the money. TIL
waiter prepared sandwiches and coffee ant
led the Huns to the counter, giving them Il
understand that the fine man who had jus
paid some money was their benefactor
, The crude Huns courteously bowed an
mumbled unintelligjble thanks, which wer
quietly returned by their stranger friend
after which they fell to eating like wolves
-BethLehem Times.