The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-03-13
PITHY POINTS.
happenings Throughout the Country
Ohtonielad for Hasty PerusaL.


ohionioled for Hasty Perusal.
st Patrick's Day on Friday.
The Mortimer brothers have purchased the
property occupied by them in Pottsvlle and
will make many changes.
The road from Topton to Hancock, Berks
county at point near the former place. has
sunk eight feet, and it is believed that there
is big cave beneath it.
The Town Council will hold its first meet
ing after the reorganization next Thursday
The collieries resumed this morning, but
the number Of days for the week were not
given ont.
Burglars are operating at Pottsville.
The congregation of the NJ. E. church at
Ashland have asked for the return of their
pastor Rev. o. S. Metzler. He will have
served four years at the end Of this con
ference year.
The shoe factory of Albright q Co. at Or
wigsburg will be enlarged
The body found in the SusqueLanna River
at Wrightsville Friday has been identified as
that Of Isaac Levy, of Wilkesbarre, drowned
on December 30, BY breaking through the ice.
There are 1856 inmates in the county Jail
The remains of Harry W. Carl, Of Shame.
kin, who died in Georgia last August while
- eiiN o'A fA'N W liln tbulllgt were DIOuBlI
home on Saturday. He was a member of the
21st Regiment.
Another demonstration in honor of the re-
turned soldiers of the Pottsvile aud st. Clair
companies will be held next Wednesday
evening
A Shickshinny man has caused a sensation
by eloping with his stepdaughter.
The delay occasioned by broken fire plug
at Mahanoy City, caused the destruction Of a
block Of houses, say the fremen
c. 0. smith, of Mahanoy City, has COM
pleted the large masonry contract in Indiana
county begun several months ago.
The members of Company G., Eighth Penn
sylvania Regiment, Of Carlisle, just returned
from the South, have decided TO reorganize
ana re-enter the state service
The HazletOn papers report that daily large
numbers Of Hungariaus are leaving that re-
( gion, some to go back to their native land
| but the larger number to the soft coal region
| Charles Pitts and Miss Annie Alice Lane,
Of Locust Dale, were married on the 4th
inst, but the announcement has Just been
made public.
Thomas Lister, former popular baggage
master on the p. & R. left Tamauua last
week for FL Paso, Texas, where he is inter-
ested in paying gold mine
Attempting to board a freight train at
Lock Haven, 16-year-old Charles Miller fell
under the wheels and was killed.
ShamOllin man wants the council of that
! town to pass an ordinance to allow the night
policemen to change their coats and hats after
the midnight hour so as to be not recognized
by robbers
Simon Eberle, director Of the First Ma
tional Bank, of Mechanicsburg, took a dose
Of carbolic acid, in mistake for medicine, but
will recover.
Company B, of Tamaqua, will organize a
social club from among their number.
Congressman H b. Packer, of Welsboro
will soon take a trip to Cuba, to enlarge his
ideas of what is needed in the way of gov
ernment there.
W. L. Beddow and wife are the guests OF
the formers parents, at Minersville. They
expect to return to Seattle, Washington
where Mr.. BeddOw has been located for some
years.
Judge Mayer, of Lock Haven, holding
court in Williamsport. issued an order that
the prisoners in the Lycoming county jail
should be allowed no delicaces in the way Of
food.
Counterfeit 5O-cent pieces are in circulation
in Mt. Carmel.
Trouble is brewing over the discharge of a
workman at the Audenreid collieries of the
Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Company, and q
strike is threatened.
Centralia received the largest pay for q
long time on Saturday last and the town
showed it to-day
While on his way to work in the early
morning, Baggagemaster Eugene Engler, o
Allentown, had bullet put through his hal
by an unknown assailant
The 2. & r tracks at Locust Summit ovel
the Monitor colliery workings, are still
settling. On Friday they went down 1,
inches in some places,
f The Lehigh Valley Coal Company ha,
awarded a contract to d. J. Roderick, o
Scranton, for drivinga tunnel in the Halle
ton colliery, 1000 feet, the longest in thu
, Lehigh region.
The Anthracite brewery at Mt. Carmel
which was recently visited by robbers, ha
reinforced its watchman with a large dos
and are looking for still another A gooC
, opening for a good dog
The post Office at Boyertown was robbed by
burglars on Saturday night
Burglars drove off with 1000 ten-cent cigar
from Melroy & Bachman's factory, at Emaus
Lehigh county.
The Eagle Iron Works. at Tamaqua, whicl
have been idle for a long time will start VI
to-day on large order for car wheels.
burglar, who refused to give his name
, was caught in the boarding house of Mrs
Kendrick, in Williamsprt, by Policeman
Steger.
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