The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-10-08
PITIIY POINTS.


Stoves have been advanced in price five
per cent
Burgess Donahoe, of Ashland, withhods
his signature from the ordinance relative to
taxing the poles of the Schuylkill Traction
Company. He signed the one taxing the
ears
The Wintersteeu case is at last to be
finally disposed of at the next term of the
Columbia county court.
Ccntralia colliery is working full time, and
there are few idle men nowadays in that
town.
Dykes stage line, between Ashland and
Centralia, will change hands
Doctors declare that the pens and pencils
used in the school rooms are loaded with
deadly disease germs. They say that the
parents should caution their children not to
put the end of a pencil or pen in the mouth.
The Norristown hose company were the
guests of the Pottsville fire department yes
tcrday.
The second general conference of the
United Evangelical churches of the United
States is in session at Johnstown with every
state in the Union represented.
There are many hogs running at large.
The High Constable and Chief Burgess
should abate this nuisance.
The Young Mems Hebrew Association will
hold their second annual informal dance on
| November 18th.
The Hook and Ladder Co., of Ashland, will
attend the Peace jubilee in Philadelphia
The stranded theatrical company at Ash
land has reorganized.
Pay your taxes to-day if you want to vote
in November.
NJ. j. Bartle is the new manager of the
Central hotel at Shamokn.
Mrs. Harry Mourer, of Danville, died from
the effects of strong drink.
The Democratic editors of the state will
meet in Philadelphia on Friday next.
The Lutheran church at Shamokin will he
remodeed.
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union will
hold monster parade in Wilkesbarre on
Monday.
| western judge has decided that school
boards have no legal right to refuse children
from attending the schools after they have
attained the required age of years.
The contest court did not meet yesterday
Judge Herring being the only one of the
three Judges to put in an appearance.
The st. Clair School Board has decided to
pay teachers $500 day to attend county
institute.
f.
underwent an operation on his eyes, and his
eyesight is now restored.
Many teachers in townships in Luzerne
county have not received their pay for several
months of last term or the first of this. be-
cause the state appropriation is not forth
coming.
The explosion of a dualin cap terribly iu-
jured Jacob Geyer, of Ebervale, Luzerne
county.
Edward Finn of South Bethlehem. was
killed by shifting engine at the Bethlehem
iron works.
| Injuries that will probably prove fatal
were sustained by John Martin who was
struck by falling coal in the Halle mine, at
Hazleton.
At yesterdays session of the Eastern
United Brethren Conferences lat Reading, Rev
| II. S. Gable, of Lebanon, was elected presid-
ing elder.
Fireman E. K. Bacon of Tunkhanock, fell
from his engine at Penn Haven Junction, on
! the Lehigh Valley Railroad, sustaining in
iuries from which he died.
The Second West Virginia Regiment yes.
terday broke its camp on the York Fair
Grounds and started for Camp Meade, march
ing by way of Columbia and Marietta.
The Philadelphia Branch of the Women's
Foreign Missionary Society adjourned its
convention at Williamsport yesterday, after
selecting Scranton as the place for the next
meeting.
| Christopher Strube, aged 81 years, died at
Nuremburg on Thursday.
! Owen j. Lee. the well known detective on
the Central Railroad died at his home in
Ashley yesterday, from consumption.
The Bartel Brewing Company, of Syrocuse,
N. Y, is looking for an agent in Hazleton to
handle their product.
| drummer who spent two months in the
west is enthusiastic over business prospects,
and predicts good fall and winter trade.
The funeral of William, 11-months.old son
of Michael and Katherine McDermott, OF
West Lloyd street, took place this afternoon.
The remains were inferred in the Annuncia-
tion cemetery.
The Borough Council of Tamaqua has
decided that all poles in that town are sub
ject to a tax and must be painted
racoOn weighing Is pounds WAS caught
near Tamaqua.
Ten cases of typhoid fever are reported in
the little mining hamlet of Greenridge near
| Mt. Carmel.
A Polish Temperance society has been or
! ganized at Shamokin.