The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-07-12
PITHY POINTS.
happenings Throughout the Country
Chronicled for Hssty PerusaI.

happenings Throughout the Country
Chronicled for Hasty PerusaI.
The dog-day season opened yesterday.
The School Board meets this evening.
Real estate dealers of Reading are forming
an exchange.
A new telephone company is knocking fol
entrance in the Bethehems.
A number Of Polish citizens Of Mt. Carmel
have organized cooperative store
Capt Archibald, of Company M, 18th
Regiment, of Pottsville, has resigned.
The Town Council of Tamaqua increased
the salaries of all the borough officials.
An effort is being made to organize typo
graphical union in Pottsville 1t will fail
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company EN-.
poyes on this division will be paid tomorrow
Falling from box car at Harwood. Lu.
zerne county, George Petro fractured his
skull
The average amount of lager beer drank
by each person in Hazleton the past year was
2O5 glasses
Herbert Clemens has been appointed to a
clerkship in the Delano office to succeed
William Glenn.
By fall from the Milneville. Luzerne
county, coal breaker yesterday, Fred.
Schmidt was killed.
The work Of dismantling Gordon plane has
been stopped by injunction, at the instance OF
the Mine Hill r. r. Co.
At Shamokin Brakeman George Whetraw.
of Tamaqua, fell from Reading freight
train and was fatally injured.
Young Harry Green, as he stood holding
his bicycle in the street at Reading, was run
down by trolley car end lost a leg
One hundred and two applicants for state
certificates were examined at Williamsport
yesterday by the Pharmaceutical Examining
Board
The discharge of toy pistol lacerated the
hand of Ulrich Sheinskie, of Shamokin, on
the Fourth, and he died yesterday from
lOckiaw
An operation was performed on Isaac
Yeakle, an Ashland merchant. One-f fourth
of one foot and the great toe of the other was
removed.
The York Telephone Company has been
bought out by local syndicate, which will
pay SIS per share for all stock, the par value
being $40.
Mrs. Thomas J. Campbell, wife of the late
superintendent of the Reading collieries in
the Ashland district, moved to Ptttsville
yesterday.
DR.. Fetherolf, of Mahanoy City, shipped
his racing horse, Mari" to New York state.
Mari" is entered in the Elmira circuit in
the 2 Ia class.
Maggie Jacobs aged II years, died at
Wilkesbarre yesterday from lockjaw, the
result of burning her finger with blank
cartridge on the Fourth.
George Plummer. of Scott township, Lacka-
wanna county, farm hand, went to the
room where his child was sleeping and shot
himself through the head.
A grand eisteddfod will be held at the
Welsh Baptist church, Mahanoy City, on
Labor Day, Sept. 8, under the auspices of the
church choir of that congregation.
Mrs. George F Baer, wife of the Philadel
phia & Reading Railway director, is suffering
from severe injuries, the result of fall
downstairs at her home in Reading.
Two kegs of powder exploded in the Burn
side mines near Shamokin, and John Mink
stone was fatally injured, while Peter Shook
was terribly burned on the face and body.
Miss Laura Horn, and her friend Miss
Monaghan, of Shenandoah, left yesterday for
Harvey's Lake, where they will spend the
next couple of weeks, says the Ashland Tele-
gram.
Col. D. B. Case has been appointed Major
of one of the new regiments to be sent to the
Philippines. Col Case commanded the
Fourth Regiment in the National Guard and
in the war with Spain.
William R Landefeld, Jr., of Ashland,
while Harvesting his horse yesterday, was
kicked on the head and rendered uncon-
sciOus. His forehead was badly cut requir-
ing several stitches to close the wound