The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-08-07
PITHY POINTS.
happenings Throughost tho Country
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The Bloomsbury wheelmen hold meet
August 14th, and will give $4O0 away in
prizes.
The Tamauua Manufacturing Company is
increasing It's force to the full capacity Of
their shops.
While bathing near Blandon Berks county, |
young Louis Snyder ventured beyond his
depth and was drowned
Walter Flaig, aged 1s years, was crushed |
to death at Castarea, Clinton county, by fall |
ing beneath a heavy wagon.
The mistake Of Elizabeth Mccullough, of
Wikesbarre, in swallowing a tablespoonful
Of linament nearly cost her life.
John Kelly, Of Shamokin, to-day reported
at Philadelphia as a new member Of the
National Base Ball League umpires.
1t is now stated that the Lehigh Valley
railroad will not dispense with the G. & !.
police, but will re-organize the force.
The Lehigh Valley Grand Army Associa-
4 ton will celebrate Grand Army day at
Lansford Carbon county on September a.
/ The fall of heavy timber from a straw
stack instantly killed Farmer Samuel Nagle,
of Heidelberg township, Lebanon county.
/ Mrs. Eva Ray Hamilton, who gained world
wide notorety some years ago, is spending
the summer at the Hotel Wahuetah, Glen
Onoko.
Aged Samuel Stink, while picking coal on
/ the Pennsylvania railroad near Gap, Ian
caster county, was struck by a train and
! killed
1 Bloomsbury has new sensation. Forgeries
to the amount of $4,000 are said to have
been traced to a prominent citizen who has
/ left the town
The passenger employees on the different
railway lines are being measured for their
winter uniforms, which they will don about
! November 10th.
Employees of the Weatherly silk mill, at
Wcatherly, Carbon county, have brought suit
against Superintendent Lovatt to recover
wages deducted as fines.
The iron works at Danvile, owned and
operated by the Reading Iron Company,
which have been idle since June 1, will re-
sumo operation on Monday next
Daniel Shelter a wealthy farmer, of
Londonderry township, Lebanon county,
has been sued for breach of promise by Mrs.
Annie Young, his housekeeper, who claims
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The Northumberland county Sunday
school convention will be held at Herndon
on the 10th and goth of October. There are
about one hundred and ffty-siE Sunday
schools in the county.
Commencing next Monday all collieries in
the Panther Creek Valley owned and
operated by the Lehiph Coal and Navigation
Company, will work full time, six days per
week, until further notice.
Ex-Alderman c. A. u. Griesemer and
several other men, of Reading, have brought
action for $1,000 damages against Maxatawny
township, Berks county, for injuries received
by driving into an unguarded ditch
The position of principal Of the Centralia
public schools, held by j. Eisenhower, was
declared vacant on Monday night and the
board of directors met to elect a successor,
but they failed to accomplish anything.
The County Commissioners of Berks have
decided not to take any action looking to the
enforcement of the law against alien work
men until the test cases in the Philadelphia
and Pittsburg courts have been decided
James Dougherty, of MahanOy Plane, was
arrested for burglari2ing the house of James
Rossington at Patterson, near Mt. Carmel,
early Wednesday morning. About $50 worth
Of goods was found in his possession. He was
committed to Jail
The Cadets of Pottsville, st. Clair and Or
wiRsburg who comprise the Goblin battalion
of Schuylkill county, went into camp at Car
sonia Park near Reading at noon to-day.
The members of the battalion who will enjoy
the 10 days outing are about IS in number.
The vein of coal which has been found on
the Mclaughlin tract of land at Switch Back,
near ShamOkin, is good one and shaft
will now be sunk and the vein fully de.
velOped. The shaft will be driven to the
basin aud the finding of the vein makes the
tract valuable one.
Edward Lorah, the well-known chopper of
Catawissa Valley, employed by his brother
n-law, Andy Faust, on large timber con
tract, met with distressing accident. While
cutting heavy limb his sharp axe slipped
and penetrated his foot, almost seYering q
large portion Of the same.
Recently an order was issued by the Penn
sylvana Coal Company, stating that in
chambers worked by two miners one must
remain with the laborer or laborers until the
days work is done 1t is understood that
the object of this requirement is for the
miner to see that the coal is in clean condi-
ton.
Great preparations are being made for the
dedication Of the Roman Catholic cemetery
which has been recently laid out by the
= Magyars at McAdoo. The ceremony will be
performed in an elaborate manner on the
l4th inst Clergymen from all parts of the
region will be in attendance as we'll as Roman
Catholic societies,
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