The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-04-25
PITHY POINTS.

happenings Throughout the Country
ohronioIed for Hasty PerusaI.
The weather is beautiful, says the spring
belle.
Pottsvlle's Board of Health is still work
ing
Mountain fires have done considerable
damage throughout this county.
The Borough Council of Mahanoy City
made its annual tour of inspection to-day.
special meeting of the School Board will
be held Tuesday evening to elect superin.
tendent.
Two more recruits were examined last
night at Pottsville ard accepted. They
were George Houser of Brandonville, and
Portere Dutch, of Shenandoah
The loading of boats on the Schuylkill
canal was begun last week and it is expected
that these shipments will be continued right
along until fall.
The Lehgh Coal and Navigation Company
made their last two pays TO their employees
in gold Not since 1892 has this COMPANY
paid the wage earners with the yellow metal
In the Supreme Court this morning Chief
Justice Sterrett handed down decision de-
claring the direct Inheritance Tax unconsti-
tutional, thus sustaining the Orphans Court.
Several Chambersburg women lost 81 so
each to swindler who collected the money
on promise to teach them make artificial
/ flowers and then decamped.
Forest fires at Tumbling Run eudanger the
boat houses.
Samuel G.. DeTurk, son of ex-County
Commissioner DeTurk, died at Puerto
Principe.
Rev. Ignatius Lissner, a Catholic mis-
sionary, who has worked for six years in the
dark land of Africa, will preach in st.
Patricks church, Pottsvile, next Sunday.
Pottsvile wheelmen will build a cinder
path to Schuylkil Haven.
Counsel for murderer Frank J. Krause
! filed reasons in court at Allentown yester-
day, for a new trial.
If your neighbOr is prosperous, let him
prosper. Don't grunt, growl or grumble
Say good word for him and let IL 90 at
that Don't be a kicker.
Editor James, of the Ashland Local
doesn't want Republican harmony unless he
can fight for it.
| party of young people of Jacksons are
rehearsing a play entitled, "The Rector's
Daughter" which they intend to produce on
the stage.
An attempt was made by Isaac Becker. of
Stroudsburg, to hang himself between the
forked branches of an apple tree, and life
was almost extinct when his brother rescued
| him.
Quite number of Mahanoy City people
have gone to and are about to leave for New
Castle, Pa, which is enjoying boom.
Our Acknowledgements are due Robert M.
Hazletine, chief inspector of mines of Ohio,
for a copy of the twenty-thrd annual report
of his department.
little daughter of John Globiu was run
over by a coal wagon at Mt Carmel and
fatally injured.
Thomas Clarity, whose home is believed to
be in Chambersburg, was killed by train
near Wilkesbarre
tve-ton casting crushed the life out of
Harvey J. Stein at the ordnance works of
the Bethlehem Iron Company
The call extended by the Salem Reformed
church, of Allentown, to Rev. Charles E.
Creitz, of Huntington, has been declined.
A breaker with capacity of 1000 tons
day will be erected at the Pine Hill colliery.
near Minersville, and a new shaft will be
sunk 900 feet.
Rev George G. Williams pastor of the First
Baptist church, Allentown, has resigned to
accept the pastorate of the Bethany Baptist
church, Chicago
Judge Albright yesterday refused a LIQUOR
license for Central Market Hall, Allentown,
on the ground that the place is connected
with an amusement house.