The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-02-28
PIrHY POINTS
~ppenings Throughout the Oduntry
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NNFtenlnEN AnNuhNNtuN iAH NNNhAAN ]
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Criminal curt begius next Monday
The local coal trade is still booming
Reading pays out over Stl 900 to maintain |
its fire department
Fen Cooper of Mabanoy City, and II
Coldren, Of Reading two crack Shots are
matched to shoot at the former place on
March 10, fora purse Of 500.
The Ashland Coal aud Coke Co., on Satur-
day declared three per cent dividend
D.. y Sluttery, who has been confined 10 his
bed the past several weeks with sickness re-
sumed his duties As agent at the Z. x sta
/ tion at Gmrdville
| The commission from the Governor to
| Notary Public John Smith, Of Nahauoy
! City, is recorded.
/ Benjamin NJ Mead of Harrisburg, has
been appointed receiver of the First Ma
| tioual Bank Of Clearfed. in place of the late
x-Sate Treasurer Haywood.
Robbers tried TO batter In a window Of the
railroad office at Clifford with a railroad tie,
but Agent John A. Witherspoon called to his
wife to get shotgun and they fled
Michael Lebtried of Columbia, who
served with the Fourth Regiment in Puerto
Rico, wrote TO his parents that he intended
to join the regular army, and then fatally
shot himself
Nicholas and Neil Motz, brothers, of Ilaz-
ton, recently arrested for the murder several
years ago Of Francisco Moluchillo, were yes
q terduy discharged for lack Of evidence
against them.
The furnaces in the Shenango Valley have
advanced the wages of their employees 10 pei
cent, to take effect March 1. Four thousand
men will be affected.
Henry Bosser superintendent of NJ
Michaeps Hillside farm, and his wife anC
three children bad a narrow escape fron
asphyxiation by coal gas on Sunday night.
Samuel Hehner, the postmaster anC
general merchant at Friedensburg, has dis
appeared apparently without any cause
leaving wife and We small children.
Girardvlle has "a female barber, and all tn
young men get shaved at that shop.
Many of the churches are already prepar
iugfor Easter.
1t is again rumored that the p & r. con
S pany has in contemplation the erection Of
mammoth breaker at Locust Gap.
There are SOL silk mills in the Unite
i. States of which 172 are in Pennsylvania
- being the third largest number among Uh
l. states.
Jacob Herman Lilly, for 50 years in rt
t. flour and feed business at Bethlehem, die,
He was rs years of age
At st. Johns, Luzerne county, Davi
Bloze, formerly Hazleton policeman, sh,
/ himself through the head.
A runaway car at the Avandale collier
: Luzerue county, killed Albard Burchmousl
and fatally injured Ignatz Krisbach.
For the murder Of Jack Roberts, John
Dowden was yesterday sentenced at Green
burg to twenty years in the penitentiary.
Leaving a sick bed yesterday, Charl
Yohe, well-to-do farmer, Of Macungi
Lehigh county, went TO his ice pond al
dropped dead with heart disease into thr
feet of water.
4 Rev. S. w. Pomeroy, who served wi
distinction as a scout during the Civil Wa
has given up the pastorate Of the Bald Eag
and Nittany Presbyterian churches, Cent
county, and will make his home in Harr
burg.
Use DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup for yo