The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-11-25
PITHY POINTS.
happenings Throughout the Country
ChroninIad for Hasty PerusaI.


Charles Grauger,ef Girardville,i is critically
i'll with typhoid fever.
The Welsh Prize Singers will appear at
Shamokn on December Sd.
The rehearsal Of Christmas carols by Sun
day schools are now in order.
The Grim Reaper has been active at work
in our midst the past few weeks.
Business was generally suspended yester
day and the streets were deserted
Every consideration tells the wise mer
chants to use the HERALD columns.
Uncle Toms Cabin is doing the region, and
Shenandoah patrons cannot escape.
A couple of horseless carriages have been
put in service by Reading merchant.
An ordinary passenger coach on a railroad
costs $1,000 and weighs IS, 600 pounds.
Firemen from towns in the Cumberland
valley papded yesterday at Chambersburg.
An assistant in one of the local barber
shops cOntemplates opening Il bakery at Lost
Creek
Teamsters are complaining about the bad
condition of all our streets that are not
paved.
vicious mule kicked 16-year-old Joseph
Thompson in the face at Centralia, and broke
the boys jaw.
The public schools of Shamokin contributed
amount of $500.
John Bull consumes 5000, 600 900 pounds of
sugar annually, and yet he is bitter morsel
to some nations
Robberes are numerous throughout the
county, and a well organized gang is APP
parently at work.
The politicians of Schuylkill county are
very peculiar lot as recent developments at
the county seat show.
Harry stork, a Pottsvile painter, was COM
mtted to Jail in default of bail, charged by
his wife with deserton.
Flames from an overturned lamp caught
the clothing Of Mrs. Shenafn, of Harrisburg,
and she was fatally burned.
The Hazleton truant officer is paid SIS per
month. That is about all he earns, although
here he receives SO day.
Ex-Councilman X. d. Reese, will become
resident of the Third ward, occupying a
house on South Jardin street.
The festive turkey-at least those that re-
main as a result of yesterdays slaughter
will rest easy until Christmas.
Commander Ballington Booth of the
American Volunteers, will address several
meetings on Sunday at Lancaster.
Postmaster Bedea has been notified to
admit private postal cards to the mails for
Canada and Mexico at domestic rates.
Miss Annie E., daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Matthias Eltringham, and Conrad Brode, of
Iamaqua will be married on Dec 14th.
The stranded Webster Stock Company sue
ceeded in getting out of Mahanoy City yes
terday, and will reorganize at Harrisburg
Harry Helwig, a former druggist of Mt
Carmel, is now proprietor of the leading
hotel at Alexander a suburb of Washington.
TnI,, 1 l., I .,,.I =.
trial on the charge of knocking down and
robbing Ernest Kline, on the highway, near
Mannheim.
William Nowiski, of Morea, was held up
on his way to MahanOy City, and when found
to have no money was allowed to proceed
with black eye
Lucillus Miller of Bloomsbury, carries a
silver thimble in his left shoulder that he
swallowed forty years ago. Surgeons will
try to remove it.
If the striking miners at the colleIies of
A. Robertson & Co., at Shamokin, do not re-
turn to work soon, il is said, the operations
will be closed down.
More than 100 delegates are expected to
attend district Young Mems Christian
Association convention, at Shippensburg, on
December 2, 3 and 4.
At banquet of Patriotic Sons of America
in Lebanon last evening, A. j. Colburn, Jr,
of Scranton, state president of the order, was
the principal speaker.
The singular fact that people are about
half an inch taller in the morning than they
are in the afternoon has enabled many a
fellow to slip into the army.
The remains of the fOur-mOnths-old infant
of John McGee of Brownsville, were in
TERED in the Annunciation cemetery by
Undertaken o. Hara this afternoon.
Edward Tolan, of Midvalley, who had his
back broken and lower limbs paralyzed by a
fall down the chute at the colliery at that
place, died at the hospital yesterday
A mammoth water shaft will be sunk at
Locust Gap and work upon it will be COM
menced ON the first of tire year. The idea
is to drain the Locust Gap and Spring collier
les of water.
Rey. G. a. Knerr. of Pinegrove. formerly
chaplain of the Fourth Regiment p " L.,
has been appointed and accepted the pastorate
of the Allison Hill United Evangelical
church, at Harrisburg,
Louis LovanovIch, of Shamokin, is charged
with assauting and robbing Charles Ushin.
ifsky in by-street of Centralia of 500 in
cash. The latters skull was fractured and
his face horribly beaten.
Patrick Dolan, president of the United
Mine Workers, has mailed an appeal to
Governor Hastings, asking that he interfere
in the importation of negro miners, which
he alleges is being done at Reissing, Washing
! ton county.