The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-03-30
POTTSvILLE NEWS.
Happenings In Court and Elsewhere at the
County Seat.

Happenings In Court aud Elsewhere at the
County Seat
Pottsyile, Mar 3O.--The country is safe.
the Orwigsburg fair has been fixed for
August goth to September lst.
The Good viii Hose Company's ball, 10 be
held Easter Monday. promises to be an ex-
celent affair
The police corraled ten boys last evening
aud, after they had admitted in the police
station that they were guilty Of hooking
candy, fruit etc, from peanut stands aud
stores, and had promised to be good hereafter,
Chief Dayies seut them home with repri-
mand
AN Evening with Dickens" is the title Of
what promises 10 be pleasing entertainment
at the Methodist Episcopal church next
Tuesday evening
Controllers Clerk, NJ. j. Muldoon, and
| Poor Directors Clerk, John r. Gressang,
have completed the scheduling Of bids for
supplies, aud the Controller and Poor
| Directors have awarded contracts as follows
Shoes, Spiese Co, Tamaqus; drugs, ]. n.
Hodes Pottsville, and DR.. Coke, Schuylkiu
Haven; winter wheat -four, Stein & Co.,
Pottsyille leather, Pottsville Supply Com
pany; cattle, or beef on the hoof, Weissinger
& Bro, Pottsyille feed, VIM. Beck, Beck
ville), Cressona p. o.
There will be Post Lenten Assembly IN
Union hall on Tuesday evening. Seltzer's
orchestra has been engaged. It is to be a
swell affair.
Mrs. Obadiah Reed, Of Port Carbon. who
was fatally injured on the p. & K. railroad
/ yesterday was the mother Of Thomas Reed
of Frackville. Her husband, and sons,
Charles at home, and David A. of Pottsville,
also survive. She was 50 years old.
The funeral of the late Corporal Gangwere.
Of Co. +, Ith Regiment, who died in Porto
Rico, will take place on Sunday afternoon,
and the military will turn out. Interment
will be made on the plot given by Miners
Lodge, l. o. o. F., at the Odd Fellows
cemetery for the burial of deceased soldiers
Of the late Spanish-American war
| Miss Gertie Fisher Of Mahanoy City,
slipped on the P. & r. station crossing and,
falling, became unconscious She was carried
/ to the waiting room, where DR.. Carr, Of ST.
Clair pronounced the injuries not serious
| Miss Fisher recovered consciousness in three
quarters of an hour and continued her jour
uey to Schuylkil Haven, as the guest of Mrs.
! Edward Delker, who had been visiting her
parents in Mahanoy City.
Cards are out for the wedding Of Robert
Greer aud Miss Florence V Reed, the latter
part Of April; and Charles Richardson and
Miss Emma Sourber. April 12th
Sarah O'Leary died at the home of her
niece Mrs. Daniel c. Lord.
A marriage license has been granted to
William b. Kennarling, of Washington town
ship, and Ida S. Reed, of Wayne township.
The coal dirt damage suit of the heirs of
the late DR.. Brown and others, of Port Car
bon, VS.. Mill Creek Coal Co. will not be
finished until next week
A hearing on the appeal of the Taxpayers
Association from Controller Severn's report
for 1897 may be heard on Monday, Sub
poenaes are being issued to all persons who
held county offices during that year and
who have been charged with expending
money without warrants of law. The Asso-
citation is pressing for a collection of the sur
charges. Ex-County Commissioners Rentz,
Allen and Martin who are among those sub
pOenaed, were at the court house this morn
ing.
The following deeds were recorded to-day {:
John Miller and wife to Maurice Fisher
premises at Orwigsburg; Michael Campbell
and wife to Michael J. Hoffman, premises at
Newkirk; George E. Deibert and Others TO
Emanuel Deibert, premises in Hubley town.
I ship; Simon P. Haas to Henry Witzel prem
ses in Eldred township John G. Schad to
David E. Maurey, premises in Tamaqua.
+ a release from Emma ]. Stone to the Gill
bert Estate and others, for premises in Gil
berton, was recorded to-day.
The charter Of the Zion English Evangel-
+ ical Lutheran church Of Tamaqua was offered
for record.
All but twelve of the jurors were dis
charged to-day.
Pacordar Ernanua1 Tanl-vr - ,o,d;1,t,
for nomination on the Republican ticket to
succeed himself.
The County Commissioners have replied to
the letter of the Taxpayers Association, in
which they were requested to take action
relative to the conduct of the District
Attorneys office during the past three years
The Commissioners state that other and more
important business is pressing them at
present.
The prison contracts were awarded by the
County Commissioners and Controller as fol-
lows Scrap tobacco. d. NJ. Graham, Maha.
noy City; bucket and onions, Ii. J. Rich,
Pottsylle; groceries, c. d. Rishel, Pottsville;
Lytle Coal Company of Minersville; NJ. c.
Morrison and Lee Bros, Pottsvile sundries,
l.. G.. Thompson, POttsville; meats, Mellet
Bros. and G. Schall, Pottsville; fish, Joseph
Rittenhouse, Shenandoah; matches and
tobacco, Frank Hause, Pottsville; eggs, w.
L. Fehr Wayne township; milk, C. F.
Wagner, Mannheim township; flour, Stein &
Co., Pottsville; coal NJ. II. Norr and Elmer
W. Brown, Pottsyille; muslins, f. p. Morti-
mer, Pottsville
The Controller and Poor Directors have
not finished their award of the almshouse
contracts, but will do so this afternoon.
In the case Of Wellington Hartman and
wife vs.. Branch township the jury this after
noon awarded Mr.. Hartman 500 damages
and Mrs Hartman $500 damages for injuries
received by being thrown over an embank-
ment near Minersyille by reason Of their
being no railing on the public highway. They
asked for $4,000 damages.
Easter cards and medallions at Hooks &
Browns. 3-25-7t
, Mrs. CauieId's Narrow Escape.
Mrs. Peter Caufeld, Of Mahanoy Plane,