The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-10-20
PITHY POINTS.


happenings Throughout the Country
Chronlcied for Hasy Perusal.
Horse thieves are operating in the vicinity
of McAdoo.
Cattle at Minersviile are affected with
tuberculosis
To go cunning ON Sundays is violation Of
the game laws.
Pottsville has selected a garbage dump ON
the outskirts Of the town
The employees Of the Mount Carmel Iron
Works labor fifteen hours per day.
On account Of an empty treasury, all Dor
ough work has stopped in TamBqua.
After fifty ballots the Weatherly School
Board succeeded in electing a teacher.
Some marked improvements are being
made at the Pennsylvania depot in Potts
Vile.
It is proposed to abolish the gravel trains
on the Lehigh Valley railroad, elieCtiup
nearly 17j laborers.
The coroner's jury found that the men in
the grade crossing accident at st. Clair met
their death by accident.
Capt. Jack Crawford has organized a min
ing company and is now going to Klondike
lie will start next Spring.
The Town Council of pottsville last night
accepted the soldiers monument from the
Monument Association
The property of Louis Klein, on North
Main street. is being connected with the
steam heating plant.
Miss Helen o. Carter, daughter of Land
Agent Frank Carter and Charles l.. StmuCh,
Of Pottsvile were married yesterday.
The Commissioners of Luzeme county
having refused the coal operators are paying
the deputies of the recent Hazleton strike.
The Welsh Prize Singers will give one OF
their delightful concerts in Kaier's opera
house Mahauoy City, tomorrow evening.
The Shamokin banks have decided to take
the greater amount Of the S25, 900 stock in the
new silk mill to be established in that town
The first member of the Evening Herld
published at Bangor by Wm E. Van Vert
has reached our table. It shows signs o.
much prosperity.
Freed & Zimmerman, Of Orwigsburg, were
yesterday awarded the contSct for painting
and vanishing the floor Of the AlmsheusC
building, forSGOOO
The Chief Burgess of Shamokin has
ordered the removal of slot machines and all
gambling devices in public places. A similar
order should be enforced here.
Edward w. Ash, general manager for the
Schuylllill Traction Co., aud his wife, left for
Niagara Falls, where Mr.. Ash will attend the
convention Of railway magnates Of the
United States.
Rev. Nichols, pastor of the P. NJ church,
Girardyille, delivered an excellent temper
unce lecture Sunday evening in which he
severely denounced the civil authorities for
tie prevalence of so many drunken riots in
that town.
Bishop Preudergast will lay the corner
stone of St. Stephens parochial school, at
Port Carbon on October 81
freightwr,ck on the mountain cutoff
branch of the Lehigh Valley Railroad
blocked that branch nearly all day yester
lay
The state convention Of Great Sun Coun
I'D, Daughters Of Pucahonus, began, witt
/ !5O DELEGATES present at Scranton yesterday
/ Wyoming couutys splendid granite munu
mcut to soldiers and sailors was unveiled
with imposing ceremonies in the presence O
m immense assemblage at Tunkhannocl
yesterday.
A committee of experts has reported mos
flvorably at Allentown on the condition {
the Thomas Iron Company, which is no.
marketing its immense stock Of iron at ia
profit.
Reading Railway Paymastcr Guy has di
bursed SlOOOOO in Reading to tile the pay
roll for September, and this is the largei
months pay to employees in that city f,
several years.