The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-12-03
PITHY POINTS.
happenings Throughout the Country
ChroninIed for Hasty PerusaI.

happenings Throughout the Country
Chr"niolad for Hasty PerusaI.
Coasting accidents are numerous at Potts
Vile.
A Hazleton capitalist will erect creamery
at Tamaqua.
The people of Royersford are agitating a
curfew ordinance.
william Beddow, Esq, of Seattle, Wash,
is visiting his father at Minersvile
Contributions to the Pottsvile Benevolent
Association yesterday amounted to Ssl.
The American Hose Company of Tamaqua,
will hold their annual ball on the 30th inst
By fall downstairs, 80. year-old Mrs John
Lapp, of llazleton, sustained serious injuries
A marriage license was granted to John
Sassaman and Miss Mary Jones, both of Goa
Dale
Alarge silk mill will be established in Nor
way Park, York county, and $50 hands en-
ployed.
jeremiah Payne, of Ashland, who ha,
been seriously i'll for the past week, is said tC
be improving
Hugh Jennings, the base ball player, re.
Gently lost his father through death, and last
week his wife died
Twenty recruits for the regular army
were yesterday enlisted at Lock Haven, aud
will be sent south to-day.
Charles 5. Lee, general passenger agent for
the Lehgh Valley road, will start on a tour
of inspection next Monday.
Rumors are to the effect that the Lehigh
Company contemplated putting on few
extra trains from Ashland
Carbon county teachers closed their annual
institute at Mauch Chunk yesterday, voting
to meet next year at Lehighton.
The annual report of the Pennsylvania
Bureau of Railways strongly recommends
the abolition of grade crossings.
Charles Granger, of Girardyille, a well
known conductor on the Traction road is
down with typhoid fever and is quite i'll.
1t is said the County Commissioners will
not issue temporary loan, but will force de-
linquent tax collectors to pay up.
A great ball of fire struck the earth near
Altenwald, Franklin county, and parties are
trying to locate the exact spot where it fell
Commencing next Tuesday the Tamaqua
Recorder will be issued semi-weekly We
wish our contemporary the success it de-
serves.
At a meeting of the bitumnous coal carry
ing roads held in New York it was agreed to
advance the rate 10 cents per ton, the change
to take effect at once
Joseph Meyers, the Scauylkill Haven
plumber and two others were almost sufTo-
Gated by charcoal fumes while at work in
Pottsville yesterday.
1t is rumored that Harry j. Muldoon, the
newly elected Controller will appoint
Thomas Higgins, of Shenandoah, his chief
clerk, says the Ashland News.
Among the members of the p. & r. clerical
force who will be changed from Shamokin to
Tamaqna about the first of the year is God
trey S. Wade, formerly of Mahanoy City.
George b. Hadesty, of Ashland, who re-
Gently accepted the position of division engi-
neer for the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Co.,
removed his family to Hazleton yesterday.
Quite number of our people were taken
in by Tony Farrell and his bum company at
the Mt. Carmel opera house They say that
it was an awful roast.-Centralia correspond
ence.
The location Of the Shenandoah drug store
was made conspicuous this morning by the
swinging to the breeze of a large sign. 1t has
a background of black while the letters are
in gold leaf
While attending mid-wee services in the
Church of God, at Warfordsburg, Fulton
county, Solomon Fisher was fatally stricken
with paralysis.
car with party of laborers on board left
the track at Harwood, Luzerne county, and
rolled forty feet down into coal stripping.
Several men were slightly hurt.
A man thought to be Paddy Brooks, sus-
pected of being the leader of the robbers who
raided the brewery at Danville couple of
nights ago, eluded the police, who were Oh
his track in Shamokin
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