The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-11-12
PITHY POINTS.
Happenings Throughout the Country
ChroninIed for Hasty Perusal.

Chr""i"led TOR HRsty Perusal'
The employees at st. Nicholas were paid
yesterday.
Read the church announcements and attend
divine service tomorrow.
Business is picking up since the weather
became more seasonable.
Meredith Post, G., A. r., at Frackvlle, will
be inspected Wednesday evening
Thieves got S40O worth of goods from
Wilson II. Freed's store in South Allentown.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company will
pay out Sl,0O0OOO in dividends ON the 3Oth
inst.
Peter Cuff, of town, was temporary EN-
ployed at the DeCourt Hotel, Pottsville this
week.
The employees of the p. & r., railroad at
Mahanoy Plane and vicinity will be paid on
the 23d inst
Some 100000 ton of coal are annually
used in the United Kingdom IN the manu-
factuTe of gas.
Little John Konshnel, of Honey Brook
Luzerne county, lost hand by playing with
a dynamite cap.
Merchandise valued at $500 was carted
away by thieves from the Globe clothing
store, at Lebanon.
Harry Campbell, of Wlkesbarre, who
trains Michael Salmon in his races has pur-
chased hotel in that city
! Bishop Talbot has offered his personal
check for S400 toward building a new Episco-
| pal church at Mt Carmel
Company NJ Fifth Pennsylvania Regiment
was yesterday mustered out of the United
States service at Gettysburg.
1t is rumored that Rev. w. G. Davis. pastor
OF the Congregational church at Minersville
will seek other fields of labor
Handling revolver in play, young John
! Helser, of Lebanon accidentally wounded
Paul Seibert, companion in the head
! The postmaster at Pottsville sold As 1000
one-cent stamps in the past six weeks, the
political campaign causing the increase.
| The York Farm coliery will continue tC
work iull time next week. The Reading
collieries will work five days, if cars are sup
| piled.
The Lackawanna county Grand Jury has
indicated two boys for mutilating an Amer
can flag, in violation of an act of Assembly
of 1897.
Several loaded cars at Mauch Chunk
crashed through an inspectors shanty, kill
ing August Mahrer and seriously iuiurnl
Valentine Wagner.
hand car on which eleven men were rid
ing was stuck by a train near Galetown
Potter county, and George Egard, one o
them, was killed
The School Directors of Honesdale hav,
! begun bitter crusade against cigarette
dealers of that place who. have been selling
them to school children
Michael Mcdonald, of Homesville, was
painfully burned about the head and body by
an explosion of gas at East Bear Ridge
colliery at Mahanoy Plane.
Andrew Carnegie was last night the guest
of honor at the annual banquet of the Pitts
burg Chamber of Commerce, in which BOZ
were seated around the tables.
Michael Pribula, John Orawicz and Rev
Joseph Kasparek have been appointed as
committee to solicit subscriptions for the new
Slavish Roman Catholic church.
Governor Hastings has granted a respit,
until January 8 to Zenas Anderson, of Al
legheny county, who was TO have beef
hanged November 90.
Brakeman William Doyle of Easton
failed in the attempt to leap on passing
Lehigh Valley train, and, falling under tn,
wheels, was fatally injured
Despite an attempt to keep the matte
secret, it has leaked out that box cOntainin,
5000 postal cards was recently stolen from tn
Wllllamsport post office.
The Reading ArchdeaconIy of the Epis
copal church will meet in the church of tn
Holy Apostles, st. Clair, next week. A larg
attendance of ministers is expected.
Miss Rose Camp, daughter of the ex
Burgess of Mt. Carmel, died from the effect
of an operation in a Philadelphia hospital
Quite number Of foreigners from thi
region are returning to their homes in tn
old country.
The Schieder Bros have Withdrawn iron
the wholesale grocery house of j. II. Golse
Co., of Mt. Carmel, and will embark il
the business themselves
Supt. Mercur, of the Centralia district o
the Lehigh Valley Coal Co., will report 70
duty December lst, his regiment having beef
mustered out.