The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-09-25
pITHY POINTS.


OhrouicIed for Hasty Perusai.
The State Liquor League win convene at
Reading on Tuesday next.
During am epileptic iit Samuel Downing
was drowned in the canal at Birdsboro.
Catherine Mclaughlin aged, 100 years, Of
Waterbury, Conn, b. visiting her son at
Gimrdvillo
Some as yet undiscovered flaw has para
yzed the entire Edison electric light system
at Lancaster
AZ Gaporte, Sullivan county SMnislaus
Sarcobits was acquitted Of the murder Of
Kate Dovit, his sweetheart
Mt Carmel Citizens q l.. Association at
its meeting Thursday evening received
Sl5,OOO-in payment of dues
Palo Alto Council has granted additional
privileges to the electric railway company
for additional track facilities.
A live wire in Penn Square, Reading cleo
trocuted and roasted dog, aud several small
boys narrowly escaped a similar fate
Harry Fleetwood, of Philadelphia. was
sent to Jail for 30 days Mt Reading for throw
| ing snuff in Policeman Seibert's eyes.
| Charles b. Penman, of Scranton has been
appointed a Collector of Statistics in the
Bureau Of Industrial Statistics at Harrisburg.
| Much better prices have heen realized for
/ horses at recent sales in Berks county than
| have been offered during the last four years
The Western Society of Engineers 200
| strong from Chicago, ILL.,, inspected various
mills at Easton and the Bethlehems yestor-
! day.
An exchange announces that chestnuts are
ripe, As the theatrical season opened some
weeks ago the announcement comes rather
! late,
! X-.;.,,- H., ,;tl 81 1 ...4 4; . Z.
Reading hope to realize something from the
| Kremp estate on January 10 or soon there
after.
The firm of D. G. Yucngling and Sons, the
'ottsvillc brewers, issued an execution
against the estate Of Philip J. Cornell r
S27o.0O.
Brooding over his long-contuued illness,
| Druggist James C.. Sauderson, Of Reading,
took poison and died while visiting friends at
Harrisburg. -
With bread and applebutter as their
refreshments, the Schwenkfeders celebrated
their 163rd anniversary near Clayton, Berks
county yesterday.
Frank Rowe who died on Thursday from
the burns he received at Reliance colliery
/ Wednesday night, will be buried at Mt Car.
mel tomorrow afternoon.
Readings hat factories, stove works
wooden mills and machine shops all report
better business than has been possible foI
many months previously.
For an arm-breaking fall on an icy side
walk at Dubois, Mrs Frank Beebe has
recovered 81, 600 in court, though she at first
offered to settle for 500.
With the same old cornet band that played
for them during the war, veterans of tho
Eighty-seventh Regiment held a notable
reunion at York yesterday,
Burglars, who had robbed several other
places in the vicinity got lot of plundel
from the Marietta residence of Colonel d. b.
Case, who is at Hazleton with the troops
With two donkeys and a dog Frank
Glazor, a native of franklin county has just
finished a 2,5OO-mile overland drive from
North Dakota to Chambersburg in Sc days.
Two men and girl of 20 held up woman
on the highway between Coal Run and
Greenback, near Shamokin, and robbed hel
of all she possessed-three cents, and kicked
her because she had no more.
Breen's Rialto cafe free lunch advertise
meut will be announced daily in the column
of the HERALD. With the advent Of COO
weather Mr.. Breen will again continue thes
lunches both morning and evening.