The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-08-05
PITHY POINTS.
happenings Throughout the Country
Chronioled for Hasty Perusai.

happenings Throughout the Country
Ohronioied for Hasty Perusai.
owen McNally, of Gimrdville. is now a
cigar salesman.
w S Allebach, Of Tamaqua, was granted
soldiers pension Of IS per month
Attend divine service tomorrow. A cordial
welcome is extended by all the denomina-
tions.
The P. & r. railroad employees at Mahanoy
Plane and vicinity will be paid on the gath
inst
One hundred and ffty-one prisoners are
under the care of Warden Levan and his
deputies
We turn out the finest class of job work in
the county That is why our presses are
kept busy.
Seven hundred and seventy-one licenses
to marry have been issued this year so far by
the Register of Wills.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company an
nounces the next seashore excursion on
Thursday, August 10th
About 80 cases have been returned to the
Clerk of the Quarter Sessions for the next
term of Criminal Court, commencing on Sept.
4th
reunion of the 10th Regt., Penna.
Volunteer Infantry, will be held in Phiadel-
phia during the euCampment Of the G. A. r.
in September
+. T. Constien, son of ]. H. Constein, of
Ashland, has been appointed commander of
she U. s gunboat ManitenO, now doing SER
vice in the Philippines
The borough Of ShamOkin has expended
nearly 100000 on street paving during the
last two years, and now has more paved
streets than any town in the lower anthra-
cite coal region
The Brotherhood Of the Union convention
will assemble in Pottsville Tuesday of next
week, the meetings of the body to occur in
Centennial Hall
At the meeting of Tamaqua Council the
question Of increasing the borough indebted
ness $50, 900 for the purpose of improving the
water supply was discussed and it was
tacitly decided to pass resolutions at the next
meeting providing for the submitting of the
question at the November election.
The Italians employed by the Pettsville
Water Company have quit work, claiming
that the prices at the commissary are too
high and they are unable to earn any more
than it costs to keep them in food.
Representatives of the big car works at
Berwick are securing the coal regions in
search of 200 carpenters.
Blair cOunty's Frugality Coal Company has
voluntarily raised miners wages two and one
half cents ton.
In runaway accident at Williamsport Mrs
Mary Hess, of Harrisburg, aged 20, was
probably fatally injured.
The Lehigh Coal Company will open
large stripping at SpringbrOok, near Halle
ton, and employ 200 men and boys
Captain Parkhurst, in charge of the United
States recruiting station in Harrisburg, has
received a medal from the Society of the
Army Of Santiago.
The Cross Creek Coal Company will PEN
sion the families of Charles Staugh and John
Eiserman, who lost their lives in the ex-
plosion at Derringer last week, owing to a
green hand entering the mine with a naked
lamp.
Quo-warrantO proceedings have been begun
to Oust Mayor Thomas J. Corcoran, of Pitts
ton, from Office, as having been illegally
elected.
Amos Turner, of Easton, has been ap-
pointed master mechanic of the Lehigh and
Easton & Amboy divisions of the Lehigh
Valley railroad
Cadet Sigmund S. Albert, of Lancaster,
who resigned from West Point had been
prosecuted at the Military Academy because
he is Hebrew