The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-03-15
PITHY POINTS.


Ohronicied for Hasty Perusal.
This is st. Patrick weather.
They are playing indoor base ball at Ta-
maqua
The NJ. E, conference is now in session at
Manayunk.
A Philadelphia man ate 15O oysters, and
will likely die.
The House passed the bill regulating ad-
mission to theatres.
Mrs. William Bear, Of Bethlehem, has be-
come blind from the grip.
Richard w. Faust was yesterday appointed
postmaster at Brandonville.
The hltering of York's entire city water
supply was begun yesterday.
Coal and freight traffic continues to be un-
usually heavy on all railroads.
The p. & r. railroad company is about TO
establish school for engineers.
Yesterday three new locomotives were re-
ceived at the P. & R. shops at Tamaqua.
Pigeons are as scarce as eggs were during
the blizzard said a local sport this morning.
Pottsville, a backwoods town, wants a
metropolitan police force-like Shenandoah's.
w. II. Trezise, the Fackville merchant,
has moved his household goods to Mahanoy
City.
Judge Scott of Northampton, has refused
to accept a saloon keeper as bondsman for a
constable.
Colonel Theodore Hoffman, the commander
of the Eighth Regiment, P. V. l., is making
short trip to Cuba.
The County Commissioners and Poor
Directors will confer about more water fer
the almshouse tomorrow.
The Schoen Pressed Steel Works, at Pitts.
burg, were in full operation yesterday, all
the strikers being taken back.
Edward Reddy, of Gordon, a p. & r. brake
man, broke his ankle while alighting from a
train at Locust Summit on Saturday.
Sixty young men will organize a ST.
Joseph's Society at Frackville next Sunday
connected with the Catholic church.
| The Shenandoah Ice Company has just
completed the storing of 5000 tons of pure
spring water ice in its various houses.
Charged with cruelty to his horse, David
Porter of Philadelphia, was committed t.
jail by Magistrate Harry, of Norrstown.
Leaving note to tell that hard study haG
unbalanced his mind young Charles Zahnizer
Of Tionesta shot himself through the heart
The P. & r. colliery employees at AshlanC
and Girardville were paid to-day. Those il
this town will receive their stipend on Satur
day.
Lehigh University has offered free schol
arships to the High schools of Bethlehem
South Bethlehem, Easton, Allentown anC
Reading.
Miss Pearl Pickering directress at tn
almshouse hospital, left yesterday for he
home in Sydney, Australia having resigned
her position.
Goshenhopper Chassis will meet at Rogers
ford on March 22 TO ordaiu Rev. E. W. Lentz
, n M AZ Of bn POI, o1 oh N
that place.
The remains of female inmate, who die,
in the almshouse insane department, wa
sent to Philadelphia for dissection on Satur
day afternoon.
Odd Fellows Day will be held in Tamaqu
this year. The date is designated by tn
Grand Lodge and will probably be set for tn
middle of May.
A Hazleton steamship agent is responsible
, for the statement that a hundred Hungarian
have purchased tickets to their native Ian,
inside of a month.
John Boner the Summit Hill pugilist, ha
been matched to fight Dick O'Brien, q
Boston, at Southwark Hall, Philadelphia, o.
Friday night next.
; A syndicate of Boston capitalists has puI
] chased the Easton Water Company's plant
which will be enlarged and extended through
out Greater Easton.
( The annual session of the Central Penn
z sylvania Methodist conference opened las
1 evening in the Ridge Avenue Methodi.
church, at Harrisburg.
young lady, aged 16 years, of st. Clail
who was at Pottsville to see the parade ha
braid of hair 16 inches long cut off by som
( person unknown to her.
: There is considerable talk in Shenandoa
a that poker playing is practiced to large e1
: tent. Those who indulge in it ought to kno'
+ that an exposure is likely to occur.
President George Harris, of District No
). United Mine Workers of Central Pennsy
2, vania, has issued his call for the annual col
vention, to be held in Tyrone on March 23.
A number Of attempts at robbery are r.
ported each evening, and yet the police fin
no suspicious characters around Shenandoa
during the night.-ChrOniclec correspondence
There is much uneasiness at Frackvii
again over a rumor that the plane will
abandoned shortly. This has been said
often that many people place no furtht
credence in it.
Mrs. Matthew Lambert, of Shamokin,
worrying over the mysterious disappearant
of her 14-year-old son, who left home Frida
- wearing black coat and pants. His hair an
eyes are light in color.
The Schuylkill County Taxpayers Associ
tion held its regular monthly meeting Mo-
day Important matters were acted upo
The annual meeting of the association will
held within the next few weeks.
Ex-Deputy Coroner Edward Manley,
Shenandoah, spent several hours in town tn
morning. Edward is a candidate for nOmin
tion for County Commissioner on the Dem
cratic tcket.-Mahanoy City Record.
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