The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-03-27
PITHY POINTS.
happenings Throughout the Country
Chroniolad for Hasty PerusaI.

""hoish Tor hhhB Ferubhis
House hunters are on the jump this week
Inc Trinity Lutheran church at Shamokin
the interior greatly improved, was rededi
Gated yesterday.
Col. T. f. Hoffman, Of the Eighth Regi
ment, arrived at his home in Shamokin on
Saturday from Havana.
An emigrant train arrived in Mt. Carmel
on Saturday over the Lehgh Valley.
Company c. Eighth Regiment, Pennsyl.
vania Volunteers, has decided to re.enter the
state service.
The p. & R. G. & l. Co., contrary to the
usual custom, paid their employees at Mt
Carmel to day.
Michael J. Curry. of Mahanoy City has
moved his family at Doylestown.
Seventeen saloons in Mahauoy City are Of
fered for sale
The strikers at the Fox Pressed Steel
Works, Pittsburg, have returned to work ON
a picce-work schedule.
The engagement of Miss Anna Kestner.
daughter Of George L. Kestner, of Reading,
to Charles Wesley Allen, of Tamaqua, has
been announced.
Anna Shaw, the woman suffrage advocate,
will speak IN Temaqua on April goth
A new Pres esbyterian church is to be built
at Bristol, and the old historic church is to be
remodeled.
Falling from a coal train at Catasauqua,
Monroe Weir, of Lehigh Gap, had both his
legs cut off, and he will die.
COW belonging to Martin Wittig of
Tamaqua, gave birth to twin calves the fore
part Of last week Both the animals are
good-sized and are in healthy condition.
The Tamaqua Tapers say Conway & Bros,
will open branch store in that town.
Christ. Brennan formerly employed as en-
giueer at the West Shenandoah colliery,
moved his family and household goods to
Tamaqua on Thursday.
Lancaster's Women's Christian Association
is raising S12, 600 to purchase building.
General Frank J. Magee, superintendent of
the Scotland Soldiers Orphans School, is
seriously i'll with pneumonia.
Miss Sallie Friel of Morea, has entered the
Hazleton hospital as nurse.
The collieries of the P. & r. c. & 1. Co.
will work to-day, Tuesday and Thursday.
Friday next will be observed as Good Friday
and legal holiday.
There is said to be little improvement in
the condition of DR.. S. c. Swallow, who has
been sick for three weeks with catarrhal
fever.
Joseph Dougherty, of Minersville received
probably fatal injuries at the Lytle colliery.
The announcement of the marriage of
John Swift, gunner on the United States
battleship Massachusetts, and Miss Mary
Billings, a sister of Samuel Billings, of Suf-
folk, has been made public.
John Shay, manager Of COnways novelty
store, Shenandoah, spent Sunday evening
among the fair sex of town.-Mahanoy City
American.
An ice combination has been formed at
Pittsburg, with $4,000 600 capital.
Work has been commenced on the construc-
tion of a railroad between Somerset and
Greensburg, through district rich in coal
and lumber.
A call has been sent out for meeting at
Pittsburg to-day of the miners and opera
tors Joint Scale Committee to try and settle
the wage dispute.
The Grand COmmsndery, Knights Templar
of Pennsylvania, will hold It's annual con-
clave May 1924 at Altoona.
Samuel johnson, colored, has been COM
mitted for trial at PottstOwn for stealing
brass candlestcks from the Hebrew
Synagogue.
Several liquor dealers who violated the
law in Northampton county had their licenses
refused by Judge Scott, and but five new
licenses were granted,
The Eastol fair grounds were sold to the
New England Suburban Improvement Com.
pany, of Milford, Mass, and the tract is to
be laid out in building lots
John CEristman was crushed TO death under
timbers at log landing at Cross Fork,
Potter county.