The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-05-09
pITHY POINTS.
Ssppenings Throughout the Country
ChronloIed for Hasty PerusaI.


speckled brook trout for breakfast at the
Ferguson house tomorrow morning.
Justice J. A. Toomey has placed large
Sutlle & Freeman safe in his office.
+. b. Hunter to-day had flag pole erected
from the gable window of his residence on
which float the stars and stripes.
The Rescue Hook & Ladder Company will
float large American flag across the street
at their truck house tonight
Rev G. Reed will deliver the Memorial
/ Day Grafton this year and Rev. Il. NJ. Morri-
son the Sunday sermon to the G.. r. A. at
Mahanoy City.
Burd W Payne and wife, of Ashland, left
/ for New Orleans, La. where Mr. Payne will
attend the national convention of the Order
of Elks.
Who knows but what the gold fields of
/ Mauch Chunk may rival those of Alaska
and how pleasant it will be to have them so
near home
James McCanerty, of Centralia. where his
mother and sisters now reside is a sailor on
the cruiser Baltimore that participated in the
battle at Manila.
Shenandoah miliners are kept busy trim.
ming the flowers on feminine roof gardens
The Senior class of the Ashland High
school has adopted our national colors, under
which they will graduate ON Thursday,
| May Goth.
The Lehigh Valley earnings for March
just published show decided increase ovel
those of same month of last year. During
March the gross earnings were 81 405, sos and
the operating expenses 81, ,05S, 1856 making the
net earnings S347, 7Ol.
The employees at Mahanoy City were paid
on Saturday.
Every hubby knows this is housecleau.
ing time
The collieries resumed work this morning
Mrs. William Brennan fell in the yard o
her home in Yatesvile and fractured hei
left limb between the knee and ankle
The Eagle Hosiery mill at Mahanoy City
will increase the capacity of its plant and
employ more hands.
The Mahanoy township teachers were paid
on saturday their monthly salaries
Miss Jennie Hardey, of Mahanoy City
has entered the county hospital at Schuylkil
Haven to learn the profession of a trained
nurse.
The HERALD turns out the finest job work
of any office in the county, and more of it,
Mrs. Elizabeth Arnold, who was shot BY
her son-in-law, Albert Daub on April 81, a
Lebanon, died yesterday, and the wife o
Daub, who was also wounded, is not expected
to live.
Carpenters are remodeling the front o
p NJ. }. Scanlan's store ON South Main street.
Railroad telegraphers in Western Union
offices have been notified to divulge no wa
news either by bulletins or otherwise.
Trip pay, instead of by the hour, will b
introduced by the Lehigh Valley in thi
division.
John Marash, P. & R. brakeman wa
slightly injured al Frackville
The Reading railroad will issue a ney
schedule on the 18th inst.
Six more conductors have been remove,
from Gordon to Tamaqua.
James Shaney, who was found guilty il
Sunbury of murder in the second degree fo
killing William Mack was on Saturday sen
fenced to seven years in the penitentiary AM
to pay fine of 81 600.
Richard Crarey, of Pottsville, died at tn
state hospital at Harrisburg on Saturday.
L. j. Morrissey & Co., the stock broker
who have three offices in Philadelphia ant
several ont of town branches including on
in Pottsville, suspended payment Saturda!
morning.
A daring burglary took place in Jalapp
early on Saturday morning when AnthOn,
Nader, his wife and six children were chloro
formed and their house ransacked. Tn
burglars took his two weeks pay from hi
clothes.
John Welch, who liyed near Unontown
during family feud on Saturday night. wa
killed by his nephew.
William Jones, while hunting near Bristol
shot an American eagle which measured sii
feet from tip to tip of its wings.
Herbert Grifths, engineer of the stee
mills of Bristol scaled the big smokestack
1870 feet high, and flung to the breeze al
American flag