The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-05-17
pITHY POINTS.
openings Throughout the Country
Chronioied for Hasty PerusaI.

Chronioled for Hasty PerusaI
Mauch Chunk will purchase a chemical fire
engine
The wages Of bituminous miners will be
increased June tst
The Pennsylvania Telephone is construct
ing line from Mauch Chunk to Tamaaua.
Survivors Of the Ninth Pennsylvania
Cavalry will hold reunion at Gettysburg,
June Sth.
| Hazleton is to have new German Catho-
/ Tic church, plans for which are already com
pletcd.
Major General Daniel Butterield will he
among the Memorial Day speakers at
Gettysburg.
George Seager is having porch erected in
front of his residence on North Jardin
street.
Lightning yesterday killed 17-year-uld
William Mackeye, during terrific storm at
BroolSvile
Several thousand people yesterday attend ed
the Dunkard love feasts at Colebrook aud
Midway, Lebanon county.
Counsel for Cressinger the CONDEMNED muir
derer Of Daisy Smith, at Shamollin, will take
the case to the Supreme Court.
Falling from a freight train at Nesquehon-
ing, Thomas McGorry had both legs cut off,
aud died soon afterward.
Allentown people are trying to have their
new city hospital free of debt when it is
dedicated the middle of next month.
Rumor has it that the Marion coliery.
located in the swamp below st. Clair, is about
to be purchased by Hazleton firm.
silk mill company, with Sl00, 900 capital,
has been organized at York, with Clerk of
the Courts L, S. Stoner as president.
William Wilhelm, Esq, representing
employees of the Miners Journal, has sue
ceeded in securing their wage claims.
Harry Wise's orchestra will furnish music
for the dancing at Lakeside on Saturday
evening next. All lovers of dancing are in
vited.
Jack Boner and Frank Childs, the colored
heavyweight of Chicago, have been matched
to meet in a six-round bout at Chicago next
month
Four .year-old Harvey, son of Albert Frey,
of Hereford, Berks county, fell undera heavy
land roller driven by his father, and was
badly injured.
The public school library has closed and
Librarian Frank Hanna has issued a call for
all books to be returned not later than Satur-
day evening.
Thomas Brader, the first telegraph operator
in the Lehigh valley who received messages
by sound, died suddenly yesterday morning
at Allentown.
Bethlehem will have open-air band con-
certs twice a week the coming summer
Shenandoah has two bands and ought to be
able to have one week.
Quay is running bargain counter" in
| Democratic newspapers. He has purchased
one in the northern part of Schuylkill
county Republican.
| Tho noct ofioa Mt Dinn1o -I1rop11i,, ,o,n+r
has been closed, because free rural mail de-
livery has been extended through that terri
tory to Shippensburg.
| Patrick Brennan, the driver boy, injured
in the gas explosion at Mahanoy City colliery,
March 8, arrived home from the Miners
| hospital yesterday and has almost recovered
Bertha Beilstein, recently acquitted at
Pittsburg of the murder of her mother on
the ground of insanity, was yesterday sent
to the DiXmOnt Asylum.
Judge Mitchell, OF Tioga county, says "A
bicycist has no right upon a sidewalk, and
no borough can by ordinance give him that
right, or make his riding upon the sidewalks
legal
Organizer Benjamin James, of Jeansville
who is now in the Wyoming region organiz-
ing the miners, sends out an appeal to miners
who might contemplate going to West
Virginia not to go there.
Letters of administration were granted to
Albert Dietz on the estate of Jacob Dietz,
late of Butler township, deceased also to
Celia A. Marburger on the estate of VIM. W.
Marburger, late of North Mannheim township,
deceased
William Lewis, son of w. w. Lewis, of
Mahsnoy City, arrived home Monday even
ing on seven-day furlough. He is second
class apprentice on the U. S. battleship
Massachusetts, one of Admiral SIMPSONS
| fleet.
President John Price Wetherill, of the
Pohoqualine Fish Association formerly of
POttsville arrested on the charge of illegal
fishing in using net to land trout, will be
given hearing next Wednesday at Strouds-
burg.
Payne's Girardvine Nurseries.