The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-06-13
PITHY POINTS.


Summer begins on the 2ist inst.
Fruit Of all kinds will bo plentiful this
year.
Criminal court begins on Monday next for
two weeks
Since the opening of the Pottsville hospital
l43j patients have been treated.
Park Place, Vulcan and Buck Mountain
collieries will work FIVE days this week
That telephone exchange for Shenandoah
is long due. Is the company selling us a
gold brick ?
The Kendrick House is being treated to
coat Of paint by Robert Hagenbuch and q
corps of painters.
Many Catholic priests of this region are at
Glen Summit attending the retreat. It is an
annual gathering.
The Tamaqua Manufacturing Company is
making machinery to equip powder mill
near Shenandoah.
The schuylkill Valley Veterinary Medical
Association will meet at Pottsville on We'd
| nosday, the 2sth inst.
Mrs. Dormer of Forestville, choked to
death Saturday night as a result of piece of
radish lodging in her throat.
John Keefe, of Mahanoy City, who follows
the occupation of rockman, will leave for
Butte City, Montana, about the 20th inst.
The final attempt to re-organize Co. E.
sth Regt., N. G.. p, of Mahanoy City, will
he made in Armory hall at that place this
evening. Fifty names are already enrolled
An agent representing the New York
Tribune Fresh Air Fund is in the region ar
ranging for tho accommodation of several
hundred New York waits during the sum
mer.
Henry Morgan, operator at the Ashland P.
& r. telegraph office, left yesterday for Cape
May, n. j., where he has accepted the posi-
ton of telegraph operator and agent.
There will be three eclipses of the sun this
| year and two of the moon. There were
partial eclipses of the sun January II and
June s, and the annular eclipse of the sun
will take place December l.
Months Mind Mass was read at st. Joseph's
church, Ashland yesterday morning by the
pastor, Rev. McGettgan, in memory of the
late Thomas Campbell.
The military enrolment Of franklin
county has been completed, the Assessors re-
turning s47s names.
New York capitalists, through Pottsville
man, have the option to purchase the schuyl-
kill Haven rolling mill. The plant is owned
by L. w. Weissinger and the Frank Rain
estate, and has been idle year.
A lot of Reading cigar makers struck be-
| NduoO o WOilldh WAS tiupiOJdN IA tht ldCboly
The men claimed the woman had given
away some of their secrets concerning the
union.
r. A. COnstein and P. F, Brosius, of Ash :
land, medical students at the U. of Pa, will
be temporarily attached to the Miners hos
pital staff during the summer vacation.
Ellis Lewis of Tamaqua, ON Friday stepped
upon a rusty nail and it penetrated his foot.
The injured member is swollen twice its
normal size
The forty-ninth annual commencement Of
Bucknell University, at Lewisburg, will take
place June 10, 20 and 81.
The well-knOwn firm of Gasser & johnson,
of Reading, has failed, the firm making an
assignment The members, who were
originally from Tamaqua, were engaged in
the planning mill business.
The Penna. Telephone Company will es-
tablish an exchange in Lansford in the near
future. Already 20 subscribers have been
received.
John Pitisch was killed by falling coal in
the Mount Pleasant mine, at Scranton, and
several others were injured.
Wilkesbarre will not get public building
this year unless real estate owners who have
sites for sale come down with their prices.
A pension of S12 per month has been
pension of IS per month to Sarah A. Thorn,
both of st. Clair.
The coming marriage of Miss Mary Jane
Brennan, of Coal Castle, with Michael Wade
of Mackeysburg, was announced in st.
Kyran's church, Heckscherville, for the first
time on Sunday.
Frank Slingkinsl1i was drowned in the
Susquehanna river at Plymouth, LuzernC
county, by the upsetting of his boat.
Mrs. Frank Deck, of Chambersburg, awak
ening to find a burglar in her room, screamed
and the fellow escaped before her husband
could catch him
Calvin Miller and Frank Epley, the con
fessed members of the BrOoks-C Costello robbel
I gang at Williamsport, were sentenced yester
day to two years imprisonment each.
In st. Columba's Roman Catholic church
at Bloomsbury class of 45 was confirmed
yesterday by Bishop Shanahan.
Letter Carrier j. Jefferson Hoffman, o
Allentown, charged with rObbing the mails
has been committed to Moyamensing prisoi
? for trial, in default of 81 800 bail.
new ten-acre stripping is to be opened a
the Pond Creek colliery, Luzerne county.
The residents Of the Hecksoherville Vale!
, and those residing on the Gordon side, are
greatly exercised over bear which has beer
seen on Broad Mountain. Bruin was frs
, seen by the engineer at Gordon Planes.
I Rev. George Williams, evangelist, ant
former pastor of the English Baptist church
at Mahanoy City, and of late of Long Branch
N. j., has resigned that charge and agail
, taken up the work of travelling evangelist