The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-08-24
PITHY POINTS.


Happenings Throughout the Country
ChronicIed for Hasty PerusaI.
If you want neat job work, drop us a
postal and we'll do the rest
The Board of Health will meet tomorrow
evening in regular session.
The Pottsville School Board has a Surplus
of So 05s. .3s in the treasury
Christ. Schmidt has been reelected director
of the Ashland Saving Fund.
new crossing is being placed at the
corner of Centre and West streets.
The P. & R. railway employees at Mahanoy
Plane and vicinity were paid to-day.
The Ashland Telegram is grieviug because
that village hasn't had a circus this year.
Fifteen squares of the best macademized
streets have been made in POttsvile this
summer.
Bethlehem can't hire a dog catcher,
although the average scale of prices is rs
cents per head.
Mahanoy City wants two additional letter
carriers, and petitions are being circulated to
secure them.
A rich vein of manganese ore has been dis
covered on one of tho Bald Eagle mountains,
near Bellefonte.
An original widows pension of $500 per
month has been granted to Mrs Jane Booth,
of Tamaqua.
From the effects of terrible scaIding at
the Reading Iron Works, Chester Wagner
died at Danville.
Clement f. Fry, of Collegeville, has been
appointed an internal revenue gauger in the
Philadelphia district.
William j. Henry, slayer of George Rut-
ledge, of Sayre, was sentenced at Towanda to
ten years Imprisonment.
To-day's excursion over the Pennsylvania
railroad to Atlanic City was accompanied by
quite number Of people from town.
Low water has left hundreds of brook
trout prisoners in little pool in Spring
Creek, in the heart of Bellefonte
Letters testamentary were granted to
Maggie j. Benner, on the estate of Frank L.
Benner, late Of Kline Twp, deceased.
The total amount due the county by tax
collectors is Sl03, SOB so. These delinquents
will be compelled to settle their duplicates.
Drs. II. b. Walter and G. NJ. Sites have
been appointed members Of the Board of
Pension Examining Surgeons at Harrisburg.
A small trainload of gun forgngs and rife
mounts was shipped last night by the Bethle-
hem Steel Company to the Washington navy
yard.
Arbitrators in the case of Edwin Fisher, OF
Wade, VS.. the Jr. o. U. A. NJ. of St. Clair,
for $3.50 benefits, yesterday, found no cause
for action.
The writ Of error in the Lyon-Dunn con p
test for Orphans Court Judge, was received
from the Prothonotary of the Supreme Court
this morning.
Adjutant Norman S. Farquhar, OF Pine
grove, has been made Judge Advocate on
General j. p. S. Gobin's staff of the N, G.. P.
He ranks as a Major.
Look at the New Store, 3s North Main
street "ad." to-day. Tomorrow you win be
able to buy any kind and any style of shoes
at such prices never to be repeated again
Miss X. Maude Smith, who has been tour
ing through the New England states and
Canada for the past eight weeks, arrived at
her home in Mahanoy City last evening
Grand Master Evan Loomis and staff, of
Philadelphia, officiated yesterday at the ded-
ication of the new hall of Golden Chain
Lodge of Odd Fellows, at Dickson City, near
Scranton.
From his estate of $500, 900 the late Colonel
Robert Lockhart, of Bethlehem, at one time
a partner of the late Asa Packer, left bequests
of $4,000 and upward to all his relatives.
The one hundred and iftieth anniversary
of the founding of the Warwick Morayian
Gemeine congregation will be celebrated with
appropriate ceremonies at Lititz, Pa, on
September 10 and IL.
S. M. Simmons, of Tamaqua, who held the
position of foreman of engineers ON the
ShamOkin division of the p. & r. Rail-
way, has rendered his resignation to take
effect on Saturday next.