The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-08-09
PITHY POINTS.
happenings Throughout the Country
Ubroniclad for Hasty PerusaI.

happenings Throughout the Country
Uhroniolad for Hasty PerusaI.
The public schools at Mahanoy City will
open August 2s.
Bethlehem has spent $4,000 the past year
in macadamzng streets.
There will be two games of base ball at
Ashland on the 18th inst.
thousand German-Americans at Wilkes
barre have organized for political purposes
The q. A. R, of town, cleared over $50 ut
their camp fire recently held at Fowlcr's
Grove.
A county seat paper says goat meat is com
ing into use as a food at that place, and is
luxury.
Wages are being gradually increased from
10 to 10 per cent. by the Bethlehem Steel
| Company.
William Roberts, a fugitive from the Norris
town Insane Asylum, was recaptured at
Ba, gor, his home.
| John Waltzer Of Hazleton, will manage
POttsville's theatre this season. Mr.. Young
going to New York.
In a bicycle collision with Miss Gertie
Meyers, at Hazleton, 10.year old BENJAMIN
Cook was fatally hurt.
! Missing Farmer William Kaiser, of Mont
gomery township, franklin county, is be.
leved to have been murdered
MARI" DR.. Fetherof s horse. came under
the wire first in the 2 IA class at Watkins
Glen yesterday, capturing 5000.
frightened at a mouse, Miss Jennie
Schaeffer, of Bethlehem, fell down a fight of
stairs and fractured an arm and shoulder.
! Legal examiners report that many irregu-
lar votes were cast for the Mayor and Treas
urer of York, whose terms expired last April
The members of Henry Horncastle Camp
No. 40, Sons Of Veterans, will attend the
picnic of the MahanOy City camp next Sat
urday.
There are 1O3 patients at she Miners hospi-
tai Fountain Springs, at present.
William Fritz has resigned from the fore
manship Of the Morea colliery strippings to
go farming in the Coyningham valley.
The Schuylkill County Pharmaceutical
Board will hold their annual meeting and
enjoy a days outing at Tumbling Run to-
morrow.
Rev. Gonser, pastor of Grace Reformed
church at Mt. Carmel, who was extended a
call by st. Johns church. of Tamaqua, has
declined to accept
A boiler at Tyler & Turks star washery,
Audenried, exploded yesterday, and the
works, owned by Philadelphians, will be idle
ClergymeR who resisted the establishment,
of new brewery at Stroudsburg have gone
! to the seashors, and the prospective brewers
applied for a charter
Pensions have been granted to Schuylkill
countians as follows :. David Jones, Mahanoy
| City, So, and Sylvester @. Derr, DelanO, in
crease from So to $40.
| Peter Cress, of Girardville, claims he has
located a tract containing silver near Girard-
vile, and is now in Philadelphia looking for
money to develop it.
| J. A. Dietrich, who was one of the original
promoters Of the Sunday News this town, is
now at Braddocks, where he is publishing
the Evening Tribune
Nathan Beddall and family. of Shenandoah,
who were the guests of the formers brother,
E. A. Beddall, yesterday spent the afternoon
at Tumbing Run.-Miners' Journal.
Daniel Hoffman, aged II years, who had
his leg badly crushed between two mine
wagons at the Williamstown colliery, on
Monday, died while enroute to the Miners
! hospital.
Three partners from Baltimore, Md, have
started liquor store at Carlisle refused to
pay for license, and say they will test in the
courts the constitutionality of the new bor-
ough license law.