The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-11-17
PITHY POINTS.
happenings Throughout the Country
Chrnnicied for Hasty PerusaI.

Chrnnicied for Hasty PerusaI.
Himmeleins Ideals" are playing in the
region.
Sheppton and Oneida Methodsts are talk
ing about building church.
Consumers of water in Girardvile owing
two months rent, will be shut off.
The compulsory educational law will likely
be tested in court by Kittanning citizens.
Falling coal instantly killed Benjamin
Davis in the Alden mine, near Wilkesbarre
The borough campaign will be the next
one to attract attention from the local states
men.
Mrs. Samuel Radcliffe, of Tamaqua, fell
down flight OF stairs and fractured her
ankle.
The Red Cross Council of the Knights of
Malta will hold a session at Shamokin on the
| 22nd inst.
The fire in the Ravine mine, at Pittston,
has been extinguished after two months
hard work.
The Union Coal Company will mine all the
coal they will be given cars to ship their
| product in.
! Whenever woman feels blue or desperate
/ she either retrims hat or straightens up
| the bureau drawers.
The Ashland and Shamokin foot ball teams
the best in the region, will play at Ashland
on Thanksgiving Day.
w. G. Brown has been appointed successor
to the late f. p. Kaercher, as secretary of
the p. & X. c. & l. Co.
There is a mean man in Freeland. He put
an electric light in his chicken pen and makes
them lay day and night
And now they are spelling Sallie 'Sallye."
What will they do next in order to decorate
the good old-fashoned names?
Thomas Ii. Davis, national organizer of
the United Mine Workers, has left this re-
gion and returned to indianapolis
"Dewey's costillion" is the latest fashion
able dance in New York. If it isn't mis-
named it probably is too lively to be danced
with comfort
The Pottsvile lodge of Elks last evening
gave a smoker in honor of Major Levi Huber,
a member who has but recently celebrated
the eighteth anniversary of his birth.
Fear of an approaching car famine, the
Pennsylvania railroad has ordered 1,0OC
more new cars, making a total increase oi
1000 this year.
William Ryan, one Of the men held for the
Centralia burglary, was discharged because
of insufficient evidence. The two others are
in jail.
ganizatOn of Pennsylvania Rabbis and a
meeting will be held at Harrisburg on the
2sth inst. for that purpose.
David Lloyd, of Minersville, was stricken
on the streets of Pottsville with cramps, and
removed to the hospital. His illness is not
serious
Miss Mary Lewis, of Girardville, who has
been in Philadelphia undergoing an opera
ton for appendicitis, has returned home
The operation has not been very successful
and she is lying in a very precariOus condi
ton.
Mrs Joseph Steck an aged and respected
resident of Jacksons, received a paralyti
stroke yesterday. She now lies at her HON
in precarious condition.
For swearing at a church door last Sunday
Michael l.. Gilrahat, of Wilkesbarre, wa
sent to Jail for 30 days by Justice Donohue
j. James Eagan is on trial for his life a
Montrose. for the murder of Farmer jackson
Pepper, of Rush township, Susquehann
county.
From sickness contracted in Porto Rico
First Sergeant Samuel John Stewart, Q
Battery b. Pennsylvania Light Artillery
died yesterday at Pittsburg.
The statue of General John f. Hartranft
in Capitol Park, at Harrisburg, has been ac
cepted by the commission charged with hav
ing it erected and it will be unveiled in tn
spring
Following the conviction of Harvey A
Herstne for msdemeanor, in the Lehigl
county court the defendants father attacke,
District Attorney Schwartz, but officer
dragged him away before he could land
blow.
William Stees, of Sunbury, who was en-
, ployed as flagman on the n. G. railroad be
tween Shamokin and Sunbury, died Tuesda,
evening of blood poisoning.
Some of our exchanges are requesting tina
news items be sent to their offices. Wouldn
it be better to employ competent meu to
that purpose
With the avowed object of purifyin
politics. Mrs. Miranda Spears has announce
her candidacy for School Director in Cot
township, Northumberland county.
Colonel David b. Case and staff, an
Companies and X, of the Fourth Pennsy
vania Regiment, located at Columbia, wei
yesterday mustered out of the voluntet
service.
John Anderson and Michael Scully, both
Girardville are matched to shoot at mir
pigeons each on November 80, for $50 sid
Two men giving their names as Hug
Harvey, of Locust Gap, and James Murph!
of Shamokiu. were arrested at Plymout
yesterday on the charge of burglarizir
Jones' barber shop.
There will be good many more disa
! pOintments over the appointments than the
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