The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-11-15
PITHY POINTS.
happenings Throughout the Country
Chronioied for Hasty Perusal.

] saturday,
Hunters may sell rabbits and squirrel, but
no other game.
Bloomsbury has one-armed pigeon shot
who is said to be an expert
Tax Receiver Burke, of town, has not yet
received his duplicate for '9s.
John w. Runkel, of Port Carbon, has been
granted pension Of So per month.
The first baptism in the Olivet church
Pottsville, took place ON Sunday.
! If you are in need of stationery, drop us a
postal card. That will do the work.
The anthracite coal trade continues with.
out change and presents little that is new.
The Reformed church will hold a festival
i'll Robbins opera house tomorrow evening.
| There are SO patients, including 30 soldiers,
at the POttsvile hospital, largest number
ever treated.
| Engineer Rohrbing is blamed for the col
lision ON the Lehigh Valley railroad, near
Wilkesbarre.
The ballot box in Mt. Carmel township
was opened and tampered with, and now
there's trouble.
Lancaster County Teachers Institute
opened yesterday, at Lancaster, with 626
| educators in attendance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Blass, of Girardville,
!
mer holds lucrative position.
Window glass factories, employing 5000
men and boys, Sunday night resumed opera.
tions after being idle since June.
William Hickey Gross. Archbishop of
Oregon, Roman Catholic church, died at st.
Josephs Hospital, Baltimore Nd.
Matt Miller, alias Crowchunk, convicted of
stealing COW from John Shoemaker, is said
to be dying in the county prison.
Mrs, Rowley, mother of John Rowey.
constable of Mahanoy township, is lying very
i'll at her home in Mlhanoy City.
County Commissioner Frank Kantner was
at his desk Monday morning, after a briet
illness, and the business again moved
smoothly. a
John Grant, who is serving term in the
county Jail, to which he was sentenced for
being tramp, has been in Jail altogether
ll5 times.
1t is rumored that Controller Charles
Snyder will be appointed County Commits
sioner in place of Charles Meyers.-Ashaud
Local.
While hunting on the mountains Thomas
kenvin, of Hazleton, had his right hand
blown of as he dragged his gun through the
bushes.
On Western Maryland railroad bridge,
near Bowmansdale, Cumberland county,
Jacob Behringer, aged Il years, was killed by
a train.
On the charge of stealing $780, the life
savings of Robert Henthman and sister, near
shippensburg George Kelly has been lodged
in Jail.
w. j. Chadwick, a private of Company X,
st. Clair, Eighth Regiment, P. L., was ad-
mitted to the Pottsvi.le hospital, suffering
with typhoid fever
The new Shippensburg cutoff, to connect
the Philadelphia & Reading Railway with the
western Maryland railroad, is being rapidly
pushed to completion.
George Pitts, of Girardville, has suffered a
relapse, and is again confined to the hospital
at Lancaster with typhoid fever. He is a
member of Company f.
The Laufer estate at Bethlehem. consist.
ing OF l5O houses, a hotel and half dozen
OF the largest business places in the town
were sold at Sheriff s sale.
George L. Folmer, of Orwig sburg wht
spent several days in town, left yesterday fo
| Nantlcoke, where he will accept a positio,
with the Armour Meat Co.
Company H, of the Fourth Pennsylvani
Regiment, was yesterday mustered out of tn
volunteer service at Lebanon, the mel
receiving about $4,000 in pay
Howell Brumm, son of Congressman
Brumm, is ill with typhoid fever. He wa
removed to the Pottsville Hospital last even
ing and occupies private ward.
Mrs, Frederick Mercur, and Miss Mercur
of Wilkesbarre, have decided to move t
Centralia to live with Robert S. Mercur
superintendent of the collieries at that place
Burglars entered the residence of d. d
Bolich's at Mt Carmel, ransacked the house
handled silverware, but took nothing away
The firm of d. g. Snyder & Co., the whole
sale dealers in dry goods and notions a
Shamokin, has been dissolved.
The Commercial hotel at Mt Carmel, de
stroyed by fire and rebuilt, will be opened to
morrow with W. X. Weidensaul in charge
Iamaqua has not single vacant house TO
rent.
Tim. Hurst, of Ashland, will make GI
effort to secure an appointment on Uncl
Nick Young's staff of umpires again mex
season.
Father Volkay, of st. Mary's Greel
| church, Hazeton, on Sunday preached hi
farewell sermon. He has accepted cal
from charge in Philadelphia
The wreck on the Lehigh Valley nea
Wilkesbarre last Friday has been cleare,
away. With the exception of engine wheels
but little can be saved.
Up to date Sheriff-elect Harvey. of Hazle
ton, has received no less than 200 applicant
Tor appointment TO positions in the Sheriff
office.
Peter Maza, the Italian fruit vender o
lamaqua, who was relieved of S4,OO
property through the infdelity of hi
brother in New York, who atterward sale,
to Italy will leave to-day for his nativ
home where he expects to get back wha
belongs to him.