The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-02-09
PITHY POINTS.
happenings Throughout the Country
Chronicied Gor Hasty Perusal.

happenings Throughout the Country
Chronioled Tor aasty PerusaI.
Gas bills are shorter and coal bills longer.
All telegraph and telephone poles i'm
Iamaqua are subject to a tax.
The SchOppe orchestra will close their
dancing school this week, Saturday night
being the last.
Silas Frost has removed his household goods
from Ellang0wan to this town.
railing 40 feet from a scatfold at North
Lebanon, Aaron Barr sustained injuries that
will probably prove fatal
The annual conference Of the NJ e. church
will be held at Manayunk beginning March
5th.
| No one has yet solved the problem If coal
sells for $3.50 Il ton in Scranton, why should
it bring $3.50 in Pottsville Miners
Journal
| Miss Agnes Tobn, of Shenandoah and her
guest Miss Mary Keefe, an attractive young
lady from Philadelphia, we're entertained by
local friends last evening. g.-Mahanoy City
Record.
Ex-Governor Hastings and family have
returned to BellefOnte, and will occupy their
new mansion about May 1st.
Letters of administration d. b. n were
granted to John A. sayor, Francis H. saylor
and Livingstone Seltzer, on the estate of
Henry Saylor late of Schuylkill Haven, de-
ceased.
deed for premises in Gordon from r. w.
Miner ct ux, to the Gordon b. & L. Associa-
tion was recorded
! The wholesale license granted John A.
Weber, Of Mahanoy City was revoked be
cause it was not lifted within the required
time.
1t is again rumored in Ashland circles that
a trolley line will be built from that town to
Centralia soon.
Tramps are so bold in the Lehigh Valley
that they ring doorbolls at midnight and ask
for handouts" and clothing.
William Goodman, employed at the Lost
Creek supply store. had several of his fingers
mashed by a sugar barrel falling on them
which he was working at
There is talk of water company, COM
posed of Shamokin capitalists, being or
ganized for the purpose of furnishing water
to the people of Locust Gap
Pottsyille grocers have been fined for violat-
ing the pure food laws
Barbey's beer is now selling in Tamaqua at
So per barrel.
certain Philadelphian on his last visit to
our town remarks that there are more rubber
necks to one square yard in our town, than
! IACiS diS Al any JOWu III Jue Sldle.
The fair just closed for the benefit of ST.
Joseph's Catholic church, at Girardville, was
a financial success. The receipts will reach
! 81, 500
meeting of the Borough Council of
Fountain Hill, Northampton county, broke
up with fist fight between a couple of the
members.
There is a demand for several hundred
\ laborers at iron works in Lebanon. gentle.
man from that city was in Hazleton looking
for help. He said that no Hungarians or
Italians need apply.
Evidently the grounding knew his bust
ness when he returned to his hole.
The c. d. Kaier Co, Linn, of Mahanoy
City, instituted damage suit against the
city of Reading One of their horses stepped
in a hole in the street
A long distance telephone was placed in
the office of Supt. A. T. Dice at Tamaqua on
Monday afternoon.
Efforts are being made to bring home the
bodies of Corp. Leroy Farne, and John
Elliott, both of Co. f, 4th Regt., p. V. L..
which lie buried in Porto Rico soil Their
parents live at Minersville.
Cornelius Egan, Of Co. X, lst Nebraska V.
l., was reported as one of the killed in the
battle of Manila on the 9TH inst. with the
insurgents. The latest reports show that he
is among those wounded.
Auctioneer Samuel f. Killion was sent to
the Lebanon Jail, charged with forging the
name of his wife to a check for $500 and a
note for S35.
Three attempts have been made within a
month by incendiaries to destroy the large
coal sheds Of David Stenmpfe, at Williams
port
The regular meeting of the schuylkili
County Pharmaceutical Society was held at
the Merchants hotel, Pottsville, to-day.
The Carnegie Museum, at Pittsburg, has
offered $500 for the original ''rattlesnake
flag" to which Miss Jane Elizabeth Craig,
of New Alexandria, Westmoreland county,
recently fell heir
The alumnae of the Moravian College for
Women at Bethlehem has named committee
to confer with President Mckinley and Sc.
cure his presence at the celebration of the
sesqui-centennal of the institution next
June.