The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-11-21
PITHY POINTS.
happenings Throughout the Country
Chr"nIcIed for Hasty PerusaI.

The Corbett.Sharkey fight comes off at New
York this evening.
The 7. & R. company paid out last week at
Reading Sl45 900 in wages.
Consult the changes in the time tables be-
fore starting on journey.
Falling coal in the Greenwood miue at
Tamaqua, killed Bernard Higgins.
Electric call bells will be placed in the
Mansion House at Mahanoy City.
A large woolen mill at present located in
England is seeking site in Sunbury.
Benjamin Williams, former resident OF
st. Clair, died in Iowa several days ago
The collieries resumed this morning and
will work as long as cars are furnished.
! About fifty bears have been killed in the
central part of the state within the past six
weeks.
! Nearly a quarter of a million of dollars
was paid out by the colleries at Shamokin on
Saturday.
John Delaney, of Coal Castle, near Miners.
vile, died on Friday and the funeral tool,
! place to-day
The machinery of No 2 breaker of the
Midvalley Coal Company, near Centralia,
was started up on Friday.
! Lin. Zulick who is at his home in Orwigs.
burg on sick furlough, will leave for camp at
Augusta, Ga, on December 7.
! Burglars broke open the safe in the maca-
roni factory of Salvador Di Sandola, at
Hazleton, but secured little money.
While regulating heater in his cellar.
Amos Drenkle, First Defendar," of Read
ing, fell over dead from heart disease.
1t is said the Pottsville hospital will re-
ceive an average of 60 cents day from the
government for caring for sick soldiers.
Gas exploding in the Pettibone mine,
Luzerne county, severely burned Sidney
Baker, Joseph Highes and Daniel Thomas.
More than Is miles of heavy hemp rope is
used to run the machinery in the P. X.
&. & L, Co.'S mammoth Tunnel Ridge breaker
James j. Eagen has been convicted of
murder in the first degree for killing his
cousin, A. J. Pepper, a year ago at Montrose
Salvationists at Wilkesbarre have been re-
strained by a decision of Judge Woodward
from beating their big drum in the city
| streets.
Thirty Monroe county men have gone to
Maine to cut Christmas trees, and expect to
ship 175 carloads of them to the Philadelphia
market.
Rev. j. r. Sampson preached at the Moores.
vile church yesterday and declared the
pulpit vacant, Rev. F. c. Jennings having
resigned.
Commencing to-day Shippeusburg will
again be the terminus of the Philadelphia x
Reading and Western Maryland Railroad
passenger trains
district meeting of the l. o. of r. NJ.
Will be held at Pottsvile on December sth,
for the admission and comforting the degree
on Past Sachems.
Fatal injuries were sustained by Michael
Koch, who was caught between wagon and
chute at the Green Ridge colliery, North
cumberland county.
For the sake of exercise, John Titel, of
Bloomsbury, who has just celebrated his one
hundreth birthday, frequently walks to
Danville, a distance of 13 miles
Governor Hastings on Saturday received
notice of the death in Porto Rico of Jacob
w. Wheeling, private of Company l. Six
teenth Pennsylvania Regiment
Peter Lynch, a printer OF Hazleton was
drugged, beaten and thrown in front of his
residence Saturday night and was found
there unconscious yesterday morning
Mayor Meyers, of Hazleton, suspended
Police Lieutenant Wallace four days for
going hunting without permission, and fined
Ofhcer Matthews two days pay for not arrest.
ing men while engaged in fight
j. J. Shore. of the Mammoth clothing
house, has accepted the local agency of the
Metallic Card Case Co., Philadelphia.
Jeweler Thomas Buchanan's show window
is tastefully decorated with artificial flowers
and vines, and with the jewelry displayed
makes an attractive exhibit.