The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-10-25
PITHY POINTS.
happenings Throughout the Country
ChronicIad for Hasty Perusal.

happenings Throughout the country
ChronicIed for Hasty Perusal.
This 10 delightful weather.
With the completion of bridge No is, on
Saturday, the p. & r. double track is com
pleted from L. NJ Junction to the north side
Of the Tamaqua tunnel. This finishes the
work for the winter.
Miss Mary Fitzpatrick is seriously ill at
her home at Oakland, near Ashland, suffer
ing from paralysis of the left side.
MAJOR John F. Finney, assistant U S.
Treasurer, has been appointed one of the
aids to General Suowden, who will be chief
marshal of the civic Peace Jubilee parade.
Mrs S. d. Hess has made preparations to
move her household goods to Newark, N. j.,
tomorrow. Frank Reese will occupy the
house vacated by Mrs. Hess.
SiXty-fve bushels Of potatoes were con
tributed to the Chldren's Home by the
school children of Pottsvile.
, Shenandoah is well represented at the
Peace Jubilee.
The teachers institute of Luzerne county
opened yesterday
John J. Stoyer connected with Hersker's
theatre, MahanOy City and Miss Nellie
Schartell, of Pottsville, were married yestor-
day by Justice of the Peace
Patrick II. Haley, of Ashland, is seriously
i'll at the provisional hospital at Plattsburg,
NY.
regular meeting of the Board of Health
will be held Friday evening.
The schools will close on Friday evening
next to allow the teachers II chance to attend
the County Institute at Mahanoy City.
Company +, Fourth Regiment, left Potts
vile this afternoon to participate in the
Peace Jubilee.
Forty hours devotion at the Slavonian
Catholic church, Mahauoy City, began ON
! Sunday.
John Winters, a youth of seventeen resid-
ing at st. Clair, had his leg broken in two
| places and badly crushed by being caught
between the bumpers Of mine cars at tho Mt.
Hope colliery yesterday.
The Tamaqua Board of Health was asked,
! by "A resolution introduced in Council, To re-
duce the salary of its officers, and the presi-
dent ruled it out of order, saying it was none
of the business Of Council
Thirty eight quarters of beer were drank
Ivy guests at Polish wedding in Girardville,
Charles johnson, of Reading. treasurer of
the proposed Rirgtown railway. was in con-
sutation with Girard Estate officials.
1t is estimated that million and a half of
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region.
The silk mill at Mauch Chunk is to be
enlarged
Public school children at Wilkesbarre
raised $210. Is to the Lafayette monument
Forty preachers have applied for the vacant
pulpit of the Presbyterian church at Wayues-
boro, Franklin county.
Private DeFrain, of the Eighteenth United
| a IF Il al
in the military hospital at Honolulu.
strange young woman employed as a
domestic by Mrs. S. d. Stevens, of Tunk-
hammock, walked off with clothing and
valuables worth $3.50.
At yesterdays session of the Eastern
Synod of the Reformed church, in Reading,
it was decided to further endow franklin
and Marshall College, at Lancaster.
| The corner stone of st. Pauls NJ. E.
church, at Hazleton, will be laid next Sun
day.
! Delano was lonely to-day. the Lehigh
! Valley offices having been removed to Halle.
ton yesterday.
The "hugger" has appeared at Haz'eton,
and some girls of that place are throwing
themselves in his way.
Aggie Aquita, residing at Honey Brook
will prosecute a Mahanoy City business man
for breach of promise at the January term ot
court asking 81 900 in a polite kind of a way
as balm for her wounded affections.
Citizens Communication has been received.
We must have the name of the writer to in
sure publication.
Joseph Sigfried has resigned as conductor
on the Lehigh Valley road, and embarked in
the bakery business at Mt Carmel.
Mr.. Mitchell, superintendent of motive
power of the Erie railroad, is making the
experiment of burning anthracite and BIZ
luminous coal together on the through trains
in the combination engines.
A Hazleton man with jag" on kissed Il
cigar sign, who mstook it for woman.
1t has been decided by the postotlice de-
partment to psrmit postmasters to cash pen
sion checks and remit such checks to the re.
spective repositories in lieu of the correspond
ing am Ount of cash.
The present weather is productive of sick,
ness.