The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-04-28
PITHY POINTS.
"rOonings Throughout tho Country
chroniol~l Tor Hasty PorusaI.

throniciel Tor Hasty Porusal.
Next Monday will be Dewey Day.
TIE Kelley Run employees were paid to-
day.
There is great scarcity Of coal cars among
all the railroads
The colliery employees at Girardville and
A hlaud were paid to-day.
The streets Of Freemansburg will be lighted
after May by electricity.
The first picnic Of the season will be held
at Ashland on Dewey Day.
The razing Of the old Mahanoy City col
licry breaker started yesterday.
Danville has decided. by popular vote. to
build a borough electric light plant.
The sherif's sale of the Schuylkill Haven
opera house has been postponed until MAY Sd
The citizens of the Fifth ward of Potts.
vile will again apply for division of the
ward.
The Kulp Lumber Company of Shamokin
employees 900 men and 200 horses in its busi-
ness.
Epizooty, the much-dreaded enemy of
horses, is said to have broken out on small
scale in the farming district.
The body Of William Jones, colored, was
found in Rock Creek, near Gettysburg. 1t is
supposed that he fell in while fishing.
The hope of finding market in Europe for
our surplus coal seems to have been rudely
shattered, says the Coal Trade Journal.
Hugh Philip, of Delaware county. this
state, brother of Commodore Philip, Of the
bcttleship Texas, is visiting Mahanoy City.
Edward Boyer, of Port Carbon, was placed
in Jail for throwing tacks on the road, to
have fun, he said, with the bicycle riders
An electric road will be built from Mauch
Cbnnlr 70 G,,,, IL
| former place direct with Tamaqua by trolley
An armor plate weighing over 2s tons, for
the battleship Illinois, was shipped yesterday
by the Bethlehem Iron Company to Newport
News.
BY shooting himself with a Flobert rifle
under the ear, Isaac Hahn, civil war
veteran, committed suicide in his cabin, near
Lebanon.
Several forged checks bearing the sigma
ture of the Ira T. Clement estate, of sun
bury, turned up yesterday in one of the
banks in that town.
Floating in the canal at Sunbury. the
body of 13-years-old Ellwood Beaver, who
| drowned three weeks ago in the river at
| Watsontown, was found.
Herbert Petzhold, Bethlehem school boy,
was arrested by the truant officer, and his
parents were fined 81 for violation of the
Compulsory Education law.
An appeal has been taken by the defend
ant from the decision of Squire Francis
Meyer, of New Brunswick, in the case of
| Winfield Hendrick vs. VIM. f. Christ
1t is rumored that T. II. Nusbaum, of
Pottsville and William Hendricks, of Ia
maqua will in a short time open a large
wholesale grocery house in the latter town.
From injuries received at the Lewiston col
liery, Roger Mcbride, who served in the
Spanish war on one of the United States
ships, died yesterday in the HazletOn hospital.
Charles Lewis, who last winter stole a team
from Liveryman W. w. Muir, of Shamokin,
and deserted girl in that city, was brought
back there yesterday from West Chester, and
made confession.
Col. A, d. Seeley, representing the Berwick
Mapufacturing Co., is looking for men tu
work in the car shops of the company. He
says they are rushed with orders and are
working night and day.
Julius Miller, aged 20 years, carpet
weaver residing at fremont, was run down
and almost instantly killed near the P. & X
station, and within few hundred yards of
his home yesterday afternoon. He was pick
ing coal.
The Secretary of the U. S. Treasury on
Tuesday drew his warrant for S164, 1888 in
favor of the Governor of Pennsylvania, in
settlement of the claim of the state f, !
expenses in raising troops for the war with
Spain.