The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-10-25
PITHY POINTS.


happenings Throughout the Country
Chronicied for Hasty Perusai.
fremont Is to have q now stocking Factory
Local business men note an improvement
ia business.
The Tamaqua Herald says Mrs. J. Malloy,
Of Newkirk is lO4 years old.
One hundred and cighty-dvo prisoners now
occupy cells at the county Jail.
A special meeting Of the Borough Council
will be held tomorrow evening.
Coal in large quantities is being taken from
the Susquehanna river at Harrisburg.
Mrs William T. Beck, Of Centaia was
thrown from her carriage breaking her arm.
The J. j. Tempest dramatic company will
play at Giardyille the latter part of this
month.
"Unclo Toms Cabin" was at Bloomsburg
last week. Here is a chance for the local
theatre.
The Tamaqua Banking and Trust Company
has declared dividend of two and one half
per cent.
The Pottsville Steel Company is offering
for sale SlOo, 900 six per cent, first mortgage
gold bonds
Iu the cricket match on Saturday, Potts
Vile defeated the Wadesyille team by the
score of 103 10 60.
Louis f. Schneider, of Potlsville, leaves
for Germany during the present week to be
absent several months
/ The Lehigh Valley railroad has decided to
return to the use Of hard coal 1t should
never have used any other.
A premature blast at Oak colIiery, Miners
\ Vile, killed Andrew Hariiauk, who had bent
over il to see what was the matter.
John Bobolick and David Campbell. two
Shamokin youths, have left their homes and
are wandering around the country.
The Schuylkil Ministerial Association will
+ hold their next meeting at st. Clair to-mor-
| row. A fine program has been prepared.
Authority has been granted for the organi
zatou Of the First National Bank Of Berlin
! Somerset county, with capital of $50, 600.
/ Henry Albright and his family of FIVE
were poisoned by eating cheese in Delaware
/ township, Pike county, and Albright may
die
Orders have been issued by the Mineral
aud Union Coal Companies to work their
collieries at Mt. Carmel and Shamokin full
time.
The Miners Journal says Pottsyille has
many families that would actually starve to
/ death if it were not for the benevolent
association.
| The Fifth ward assessor secured thirty-six
names in one house This alone will give
/ the School Board S129 80 year as their
| proportion of the tax.
| Patriotic organizations of the Lehigh
/ Valley unfurled fine flag with great cere-
mony at the new high school building in
/ Slatington
! The Trinity Lutheran church, at Potts
vile, which has been undergoing repairs,
will be re-opened and re-dedicated on
November 7tb
J. II Mitchell, of Uuiontown, committed
suicide near home by throwing himself be
fore a railroad train, just as his father had
done six years ago.
1t is expected tn; Stehli & Co.'S big new
Swiss silk milk, to be established at Ian
/ caster carly next year, will employ 500
/ hands at the outset
Marriage licenses were issued to Arthur
| Hughes, of Glen Carbon, and Margaret
Murphy, of Cass township; Nels S. Hansen
aud Ella RICHTER, both of Delano.
Gailen Fedderman, formerly in the employ
of Z. X. Becker, the lumber dealer Of
Giardville, has been appointed night watch
man at Packer No. colliery.
As secretary of the Luzerne county
Humane Association, Rev. Horace Edwin
| Hayden, an Episcopal clergy man at Ashley,
has been appointed constable.
There will be 200 applicants for the three
positions as letter carriers and one clerkship
that will result from establishing the free
delivery system at Bloomsbury post office.
Eight girls from Shenandoah entered the
cap factory at Northumberland on Wednes-
day 1t is said that twenty-seven more from
the same place will go to work next Monday.
-Shamokin Herald.