The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-03-30
PITHY POINTS.
happenings Throughout the Country
Chronicled for Hasty Perusal
Rents have been greatly reduced in Halle

Chronicled for Hasty Perusal.
| Rents have been greatly reduced in Halle
| ton.
The collieries will close down tonight, and
resume next Monday.
! Delaware shad have appeared in the
markct-but they come high.
The tax rate for Northampton county has
! been fixed at 26 cents per Sl00
The spring term of the Bloomsbury State
| Normal school opened yesterday.
Place yeur spring advertisement where it
will be productive-in these columns.
Miss Elm X Kaemer was naturalized
Monday in the Lackawanna county court.
Mrs. Nelson Brandon, late of Brandon
yille has taken up her residence in Maha-
noy City.
The alien tax law was on Monday decided
unconstitutional by Judge Ball of the Blair
county court
Mrs. Louisa L. Rhoads has been appointed
police matron at Reading, after a competitive
examination.
The Roman Catholic church at Dubois has
commenced the erection of Il So, 600 parochial
school building.
The people of Ashland have petitioned the
Lehgh Valley Company for two additional
trains on that branch. -
Jonah Boughton, state organizer of the
Sons of Temperance, organized division at
Gilberton oa Saturday.
Over 400 pupils were enrolled for the open
ing of the spring term yesterday at the State
Normal school at Stroudsburg.
A correspondent announces the approach
ing marriage of Bart. Flannery and Miss
Mary Malta, both Of Lost Creek
The Lehigh Valley Coal Co.'S big Centralia
I |. Il. . T..
prospect of it being started up in the near
future.
Although the legal time is long since
passed, Tamaqua Borough Council has not as
yet organized being deadlocked on the cleo
tion of a President
Nearly every store window in town is
being attractivey decorated to display the
goods of the season and induce purchasers to
enter the store and examine the novelties.
| Fifty Hungarisns, Austrians and others
| left Shamokin and Mt, Carmel yesterday for
New York to sail for Europe, while another
detachment left for the Western part of the
| United States.
The Ellsworth coliery located at Broad
Mountain is now in full operation. The
new breaker at these workings recently
erected by Davis Brothers is one of the bes
equipped in the state.
1t is rumOred that the =. r. G. /. Co. j.
making arrangements to sink n new slope al
the West Bear Ridge colliery. The slope
will be sunk in the Skidmoro vein and
driven through to the basin.
A letter home from J. o. Ulrich, who is g
patient in the MedicO- Chirurgical hospital al
Philadelphia, with typhoid fever, states that
his condition is not rs serious as was ex-
pected and that he is rapidly improving
| f. G. Reese is to-day changing his residence
from North JarGin street to the house
recently occupied by James Morgan, corner
Jardip and Oak streets
! Tomorrow week the Borough Council
will elect successor to Water Superinten
dent Stout and then the bells will ring.
number of property owners in Mahanoy
City, in whose locality paving will not be
done, talk of applying for an injunction re
straining the borough from prosecuting the
work, and it will probably result in talk.
The Lancaster Street Metal Company
capitalized at S25, 900, will erect plant al
Lancaster for tin and shoet metal work.
The Lehigh Valley Coal Company has com
meuced work on a breaker at South Sugar
Loaf which will employ over 1000 hands.
Lawyers in Central Pennsylvania are tax
! ing steps to memorialize Congress to establish
central district United States Federal
Court.
Henry Cooney was knocked from a Read
| ing Railway train by bridge, at Shamokin
yesterday, and will probably die from hi:
| injuries.