The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-10-26
PITHY POINTS.
happenings Throughout the Country
Chroulclsd for Hasty Perusal

Chronlcled for Hasty Perusal.
A movement is on foot to establish bank
at Frackville.
Mary 4. Mason, Of Mahanoy City, has been
granted widows pension.
St. Joseph's Legion will hold ball at
Girardville on the goth inst
| The widow of the late ID. d. Phillips, Of
Gordon, has been granted a pension.
Several valuable cows have been missed by
their owners, in Mahanoy township.
The bonds of the tax collector Of Kline
township were certified in court for colec-
tion.
The next convention Of the Young Peoples
| Christian Eudeavor Association will be held
in Shenandoah
The store of Clay w Evans, at st. Clair,
was robbed and a large quantity Of dress
goods and groceries taken.
Three farmers near Minersyille have each
sued the Lytle Coal Company for $1,000
damages for culm deposits on their lands.
Chester county court postponed till the
January term the trial of Ralph Moore, the
youugster who shot his grandfather dead.
| Simon Zarhoski was killed by falling coal
at Coxe's Beaver Meadow Mine, near Halle
ton, yesterday and three men were injured
in adjacent colieries.
The Tamaqua & Lausford Electric Street
Railway, connecting Tamaqua and Summit
Hill with all towns in the Panther Creek
Valley, has begun operations.
Following conviction at York Of an at
tempt to kill William II Miller his son-in-
law, Adam Patterson, shot himself in the
head, at Winterstown, but will recover.
As Northampton county has more than its
proportion of inmates in lunatic asylums,
Judge Scott will require more rigid examina-
tions hereafter before declaring persons in
sane.
Directors of Independent School district,
Lebanon county, have decided to prosecute
John Pity uuless he sends to school again
his son Oscar, who was suspended as punish
ment.
A plea of voluntary manslaughter was
accepted at Lancaster in the case Of Arm
stead Sanders, charged with the murder Of
Rev. William Wyatt, colored, of Charles
town. W. Va.
/ Joseph Mackey, member of Doubleday
/ Post No. 1s9, G A. X, of Tamaqua, enjoys
| the proud distinction of being the oldest
member of .he Grand Army in Pennsylvania
/ having been born in 1902.
The p & r. Coal and Iron Company are
preparing to bore through to the inside work
ings Of Mahanoy City colliery, near n.
Garretts residence. They will insert steam
pipes through the apertures to the pumps
Ask your grocer for the Royal Patent
dour, and take no other brand. 1t is the best
-four made.
The Delineator
And its wealth of good things is headed by
nearly a hundred pages devoted to styles for
l. L
plates. Among its literary features, Octave
Thanet's analysis of Social Life in the Small
Cities and Towns will be found especially
discriminating The Quaker heroine of
Harriet Riddle Davis stirring story "A
Chance of War, - is not more entertainiugy
original in her way than is the
dashing American girl in The Fur
ther Adventures of the Grand Duke, 4"
by Martin Orde. Jeanie brakes brilliant
series Of New York types concludes with a
bright and witty depletion of The Foreign
Resident" In her Talks on Health and
Beauty" DR.. Grace Peckham Murray dis
cusses the scientific and hygienic aspects of
dress. No other pages of the magazine will
be read with keener interest than Mrs. Cad
walader Jones replies to questions concern
ing behavior and etiquette. The Delineator's
young people have an Invaluable mentor in
this accomplished lady. They are further re-
membered in pretty Ribbon Drill, and in
Three Novel Entertainments. The reflex
action of dress is among the topics treated in
Mrs. Witherspoon's Tea-Table. Yegetarians
will be delighted by the cookery article exclus-
lively devoted TO dishes for their use. Mr..
Vicl's Flower Garden includes some curious
facts about the rubber plant. There are the
usual notices of new books, and the little
folks are not forgotten Emma Haywood S
explanation Of an effective combination Of
lace-work with colored embroidery is supple
mented by the regular departments devoted
/ to crocheting tatting etc.