THE EVENING HEEALD.
VOL. VIII.--NO. 71.
SHENANDOAH. PA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 21. 1893.
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FRAN
For ten days only wo aro making a specialty of a
heavy Dotiblo Washboard, and soiling it at only
27C f"8 8 a rar karf?am' an cannot bo
duplicated anywhere else in tho town,
MACKEREL
Nice, jnicy, white, fat Mackerel. Nothing
like them elsewhere. They average 1 pound
each, and wo are selling them, per pound, at
The same scale of prices prevails in all depart
ments, but how long these prices will remain
low we cannot say.
We always have on hand a large stock of
Best Family Flour
Every barrel guaranteed first-class.
Watcli for Other Prices Next Week.
All goods promptly delivered free of charge. Mail orders
will receive careful and prompt
SHENANDOAH
114 South Main Street.
. FRESH BUTTER.
Received J)iily.
Strictly JTreaJi Extra Quality.
Dairy and Creamery Butter.
Pure Country Lard.
PURE COUNTRY LARD
Pure Country Lard.
FOR
One Car JPancy Minnesota
One Car Choice Middlings.
One Car Baled Straw.
Two Cars Choice TimoJiy Hay.
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A B1P0BTERS' GLBABIHGS;theteaghers' gontest
INTERESTING ITEMS FROM HIS
NOTE BOOK.
PERSONAL AND OTHER MENTION
Tho Local Lodga of tho Sona of
St. Goorgo Oolobratoa Its An
niversary in a Very Sue
cesgfal Manner.
HE members of Shon
audoah LoJgo, No. CO,
Order Sons of St.
George, celebrated tbeir
12th anniversary last
evening In Rofowich's
hall and notwlthstand
ing tho stormy weather
they had a largo num
ber of pcoplo to entertain. Tho evening was
a most enjoyable ouo and when tho timo
arrived for the farewells all who had shared
the pleasant evening wished tho lodgo a long
and prosperous career.
Worthy Grand President William Pooler
was present and acted as mastor of cere
monies, which opened with a song by Miss
Annie Klein, of Wm. Peun, accompanied by
Mr. Evan Jones, of tho samo place. Chair
man Pooler then mado one of his old-timo
witty addresses and threw tho audience into
a pool of genuine good humor. Misses
Mahala Fairchlld, Libblo Baiubridgo and
Minnio Davis gave very Interesting rccila'
tions and Messrs. Bcnj. Haskey, John Pooler
and W. J. Jacobs contributed liberally to the
programmo and tho Bcddall family gave
several musical selections, all of which were
sandwiched by Chairman Pooler's witticisms,
Prof. George Day was also present and gavo
several pleasing and interesting specimens of
his skill in tho art of legerdemain. Tho
Sons of St. Georgo were justified in taking
pride in the reception they gavo their guests
last evening.
USE DANA'S SAESAPARILLA, its
"THE KIND THAT CUKES."
1'KIWONAL.
Miss Vir&io Hollopcter spent to day at
Pottsvillo.
Max Schmidt transacted business at Maha
noy City to-day.
David R. James spent yesterday in Phlla
delphia on business.
William Pooler, of St. Clair, was a visitor
to town yesterday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. II. A. Acker went to Potts
villo tMs morning lo visit friends.
"Dick" Flynu, the popular Republican of
the "Rap," was in town yesterday inoiuing
on business.
Hon. D. D. Phillips, of Gordon, and Mac
Henry Wilhclm, Esq., of Ashland, were in
town yestciday.
Miss Ella, daughter of Tax Collector J. F.
Iliggins, has gone to Mt. Carmel to visit her
brother, W. J. Higgins.
William Miller and Dr. Rentschler, of
Ringtown, and T. J. Brougball, of town,
went to Wllkcs-Barro ypsterday to attend
the Knights Templar Conclave.
Gtorge Jeffrey, of Trinidad, Colorado, paid
a visit to old-timo friends in town yesterday
and is now visiting at Mt. Carmel. Ho ex
pect! to spend three months in this region
Mr. Jeffrey left hero uino years ago for
Trinidad and is now a successful local opera'
tor at that placo.
John D. Reilly, of Brownsville, who was
formerly employed at tho Lehigh Valley
depot, has successfully passed examination on
his first medical courso at tho University of
Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia. He has again
entered the service of the Lehigh Valley
Company and is doing temporary scrvico at
Mt. Carmel as operator. Next August ho will
resume his studies at the University.
ELEOTRIO RAILWAY ITEMS.
Preparations Heine Marie to Improve the
ltumilnir Time.
In tho courso of a week or two the running
time on the electric railway between this
town and Girardvllle will bo greatly reduced
A gang of workmen under Foreman Amour
yesterday finished tho work of putting an
additional turnout near the Kohinoor col
liery. It is located midway between tho
incline at the foot of Coal street and the
Lehigh bridge, The company is wiring and
otherwise making several cars ready at tho
power houso and in a few days tho local
branch will have six oars at its servlco
instead of four. It is said tho number of
cars on the Mahanoy City and Locust Dale
branch is to be Increased to fourteen. Traffic
on all the lines of the company has increased
very much during tho past two weeks.
Murium Admiral,
With her handsome team of horsos, expects
to pay a visit to our city iu tho uoar future.
She will ;reate quite a furore among the
male gender of our town, as she is said to bo
very beautiful, She will visit us in the in
terest of tho Admiral Cigarette Company.
Saw for Oxford Ties,
At tho People's store will be found a big
selection of ladies' Oxford ties, warranted
solid and in the latett stylo;, at 75 cents and
upwards. 1'uoi'LuV Stork,
5-11-tf 181 North Main Street
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Best photographs and crayons at'Dabb's. '
BATTLE OP THE BALLOTS IS
STILL GOING ON.
A I.nrKO (lain by Mis Wunlcy untl Miss
Stein Increases Her Score Consid
erably Over 1,400 Votes Jte
celvcd Yesterday.
Agnes Stein ..(1(13 1
Mamoll. Wasloy 4 183B
Nolllo IJalrd 30W)H
Mary A. Connelly mono
Mahala Fairchlld 1 03 S!
Frank B.Williams 0700
Carrie Faust 6H1
Carrio M. Smith 3203
Mary A. Lafferty 3151
Anna M.Dcngler 2909
Urldgot A. Uurns SMo
Uattlo Hess SIM
Mary A. Stack... I9G0
Llllio B. Phillips 1003
James It. Lewis - 1301
Irene Shano 1037
EllaClauscr 980
Maggie Cavanaugh 622
Clara Cllno 815
Hannah Itccso 702
Annie Mansell &7
Sadie Daniell 609
Jennie Itamagc 304
Minnio Dipper .. 185
Lizzie Lcho.. 179
Lizzie O'Connell HI
Votes polled yesterday H'.'O
Grand total S3 117(1
A littlo less than six weeks will sco tho
end of the voting to determine what two
public school teachers shall bo tho guests of
tho Herald at tho World's Fair. The
weeks that havo passed sinco tho coupon was
first printed have been full of bird and ex
citing work for all who havo taken an in
terest in tho contest, but this will bo as
nothing compared with the efforts to bo put
forth between this timo aud tho 30th of
Juno, wiien tho coupon will bo printed fcrtlio
last timo. How tho littlo ones aro worked up
is shown by this letter, which wa3 received
by tho contest editor yesterday :
Contist EniTOit : Mama says I havo only
n few more days to fend in coupons for my
favorite teacher, who Is Mr. Williams. I am
not in his room now, but I intend to send In all
my votc for him who, I am sure, ought to go
to tho World's Fair.
Pcoplo of mature years aro just as much
interested as tho bright littlo girl whoso
letter is given abovo. Ono of the most
dignified of Shenandoah's business men stir
prised a caller on Monday by displaying an
envelope so well filled with coupons as to
leavo no doubt that ho had carefully saved
ovcry ono be bad been able to lay his hands
on.
Everybody should remember that tho
coupon will ho printed for tho last timo on
the evening of Juno 30. You cannot send in
votes too often and you cannot work too hard
to make certain tho success of your favorite
teacher.
USE DANA'S BARS A PARILL A, its
"THE KIND THAT CURES."
I'oluts.
Purses for trotting at tho Lavello Fair, this
year, will aggregate $2,500. The fair will
open on August 22.
Tho Grant Band, of town, is arranging for
a monster carnival and tournament to bo
held at Lakeside, August 15th.
Several feet of tho bill board fence erected
at the west end of Coal street last week to
advertise the Walter L. Main's circus went
down in tho gale yesterday.
The heavy rain storms of yesterday after
noon and last evening gave tho streets and
alloys a splendid cleaning.
A Polish woman residing at Wm. Penn lost
a pockctbook containing $51 in ono of tho
electric railway cars last Saturday aud has
failed to recover it.
Tho rosidents of the vicinity of North
Jardin street, between Coutro and Lloyd,
complain that they aro frequently annoyed
by dog fights.
Costivenoss is tho primary causo of much
disease, Dr. Henry Baxter's Mandrake Bit
ters will permanently cure costlveness.
Every bottle warrautcd. lm
Main's Circus.
"Best that has been here," was the univer
sal verdict of all who attended Walter L.
Main's circus and menagerie on last Saturday.
The show is worthy of the highest commend
ation. Throughout from the grand entree to
the eloso was a continual whirl of pleasing
surprised. A mora quiet, orderly, aud flue
apjiearlng company of attaches never ap
peared hero with a show. Coshocton, O.,
Standard. Main's circus will appear in
Shenandoah on Monday, June 5th.
lilting Dors.
Tho ycung daughter of Georgo Robinson,
the harness maker of North Main street, was
bitten iu tho faco by a pet dog belonging to
tho family yesterday. An ugly wound was
made iu one of the child's cheeks. It wns
oauterized and the dog was killed.
Constable Phillips has shot tho dog that
bit him iu the leg on Monday,
A 1'islilue I'tirty.
J. K. P. Sebeifly, Pat King, WiUlem
Weouw, B. R. Severn aud Daniel Homer
form! a fithiug party at one ol the dtm
yejteiday afternoon. Uouw made the priw
outsh lit the form of a speekled hauty weigh
ing ono pound when dr eased.
VISIT BY A PARTY OP MINING
OFFICIALS.
ENTERTAINED AT WILLIAM PENN
Tho Now Broakor and Pennsylva
nia Railroad Branch to bo Put
in Oporation Next Monday
Other Reports.
NDICATIONS of ro
newed activity in local
coal mining operations
aro again apparent.
Tho miners at Wm.
Penn nie beginning to
get their tools ready
nud expect to bo work
ing again on Monday. Thcso preparations
aro duo to a visit nt that place yesterday by a
number of prominent coal capitalists from
New York city and other places. Tho visitors
werotho guoJts of Superintendent William
H. Lewis, at his Wm. Penn residence, aud
remained with that gentleman over night.
Tho party consisted of Mr. Joseph Stickney,
of tho firm of Stickney, Couyngham & Co.,
of Now York city; Mr. Jesse Hlllos, Balti
more, Md.; Messrs. John V. and James Boyd,
Frank Hanna aud Robert Jeuks, Now York
city. All those gentlemen havo an interest
in tho Lytic Coal Company of Minersvillo
and tho Wm. Penn Coal Company aud Union
Coal Company, of Shamokin. They reached
Minersvillo yesterday aud nftcr Inspecting
tho collieries at that placo boarded Mr.
Stickuoy's privato drawing room car, "May
flower" to Pottsvillo. After a short stop at
that town tho officials continued their
journoy over tho Pennsylvania Railroad
Company's lino to Wm. Penn aud alighted
when tho car reached a point on tho new
branch of tho road, at tho rear of Superin
tendent Lowis' residence.
It was tho intention of tho party to mako a
thorough inspection of tho new Wm. Penn
breaker, but the arrival was made at about
six o'clock last ovcuing when the rain storm
was heavy. This changod all tho plans and
tho visitors remained as guesU In Mr. Lewis
magnificent houso until this morning, when a
brief inspection was made. Tho party then
proceeded to Shamokin in tho "Mayflower."
Mr. Jenks was tho spokesman for the party
He didn't havo much to say. "This is ono
of our customary trips," said he, "and has no
particular significance. Wo havo just mado a
hurried inspection of our various collieries to
see that thoy aro ready for operation."
It is understood that as a result of tho visit
tho Lytlo, Wm. Penn and Union Coal Com
pany collieries will bo put in full operation
noxt week.
Tho miners at Wm. Penn havo already
rccoived their orders. Tost operations will
bo mado at tho new breaker to-morrow and
on Monday steady operations will begin.
Tho now branch of tho Pennsylvania railroad
which is to haul coal from tho new breaker
to tho junciiou at Wiggans, from which
point tho trains will tako tho Pennsylvania
short lino for Philadelphia, via Frackvillo
and Pottsvlllc, will also be formally opened
on Monday. Tho now road has been thor
oughly tested and is in first class condition,
When tho colliery is in operation tho
empty coal cars will bo pushed from tho main
Hue of the new railroad branch through a
cut aud arouud a hill to a tall track east of
tho breaker. Tho cars will then bo pulled
up on a straight track under the chutes of
tho breaker and, when loaded, will bo hauled
out to a tall track lying northwest of tho
breaker. When tho trains aro loadod and
ready for tho jouruoy they will bo pulled
from tho last named tall track over a curved
and very substantially built trestle back to
tho cut, wherothey will connect with tho
new branch and run on to Wiggans.
When the colliery is in full operation tho
capacity will be upwards of 1,000 tons per
day. The colliery has been idlo since last
Saturday, pending tho arrangement for
starting the new breaker.
In regard to tho Philadelphia and Reading
Company's collieries there has been no
ollicial announcement, but a gentleman who
is looked upon as an authority on local coal
operations, confirms the report mado by the
Herald last weok that Indian Hedge col
liery will resume on June 1st. This gentle
man also says ho beliores Shenandoah City
and West Shenandoah collieries will resume
operations at the same time.
As to the schedule that will bo adopted
when these collieries do resume thero is much
uncertainty. The unsettled condition of the P.
& It. Compauy's affairs iu regard to the receiv
ership and tho fact that tho upper regions have
a surplus of coal sufficient to meet all de
mands that may he made iu the immediate
future for eoal lead some to boliove that it
will be some time before the P. & R. colliories
'in this section will be Justified iu adopting a
! fulMlino sehedule. Tho gentleman referred
to above thinks tho working time will bo
' very irregular during tho forepart aud mid
dle of the summer.
Avoid all exeeeeet, but be sure and always
keep a bottle of Dr. Coxe's Wild Cherry and
Seoeka iu the notice. Price 25 and 80 oente.
Twelve yttuto for toe.
! Ay seudltie vut your aebiuet. toaaiber with
SO cent, we will finWh yau ene dottm pitetat.
fctf W. A. KsAnuv.
A SAD STORY.
How Father mill Hun Met For the Last
Time.
Tho fiineral of Thomas Fletcher, tho six
teen yoar old boy who died at tho Miners'
Hospital on Saturday, took placo at Girard
vllle on Monday and was very largoly
attended. Services were hold in tho
Methodist church aud a touching sermon was
delivered by tho Rov. Richard Kainoa.
Washington Camp No. 123, P.O.S. of A., and
tho employes of Hammond colliery attended
tho funeral in a body. Interment took placo
in tho Odd Follows' cemotcry.
Tho details of young Fletcher's accident
and death aro particularly touching. Ho
was severely squeezed between a mluo car
nnd thosido of a gaugway at tho Hammond
colliory Friday hist. Tho boy at first thought
his injury ouly amounted to a slight sprain,
but when a physician oxamlncd tho limb to
learn if any bones woro broken ho found It
horribly swollen. Tho boy was sent to the
Miners' Hospital tho samo day and thcru tho
horrible discovery was mado that tho main
artery iu tbo leg had been raptured. Tho
physicians could not find any abrasion of
tho skin and this fact allowed that tho
ruptured vessel had filled tho leg with blood.
Tho surgeon found it necessary to placo
the boy under the influenco of ethor for tho
purpose of making an incision so as to re
move tho coagulated blood. A pathetic
scene was hero enacted. Tho father of tho
boy, Thomas Fletcher, who had been injurod
at tho samo colliery two wcoks ngo, was also
under treatment at tho hospital. Ho was
wheeled into tho operating room to bo present
at tho operation upon his son. Tho meeting
between father and son in that grewsomo
placo was indescribably sad, aud after an ex
change of loving words in which tho bruised
aud crippled father cheered his boy, telling
him to havo courage, that the operation
would soon bo over, tho littlo sufTerer with
pious resignation on his palo features, said to
tho doctors, "I am roady."
Thoso wcro tho last words ho ever spoko.
In less than five minutes after ho took tho
other his heart was stilled forever. Tho
father with a convulslvo sob gazed upon the
lost sad relic of bis boy and as he was
tondcrly wheeled from tho room ho cast ouo
lingering glance upon the features of tho
dead and bewailed his sad loss.
The doctors found tho leg terribly bruised
and it would havo been necessary to amputato
it. Tho boy bad suffered terrible internal
hemorrhages. Tho body was removed to tho
homo of tho family Saturday where another
hoartrending scene took place when the
sorrowing mother beheld tho inanimate form,
ner grief was inconsolable and sho poured
out her agony in accents of tho bitterest
lamentations.
USE DANA'S SARSAPARILLA ,its
"THE KIND THAT CURES."
New boclety l'aper.
The True American is tho title of an eight
page monthly paper which has just been
issued in Shenandoah in tho interest of tho
Junior Order of United American Mechanics.
It is very neat typographically and tho
columns aro full of correspondence aud
general information concerning tho Order
it represents. It is also well edited and starts
out with a good advertising patronage. The
True American has the touo and appearance
of a paper that intends to prosper and roach
a plane of affluence
Public Library Xutlce.
After this date no hooks will be issued,
from the Public Library until tho second
Thursday of June, 1603, but tho library will
be open for the return of books at tho nsual
hours on Thursdays and Saturdays of each
week. By order of tho committee,
Fbank Hanna, Librarian.
Shenandoah, May 18, 1693. 5-lS-5t
The McGlnueAS Funeral.
The funeral of tbo late Mrs. Maria Mc
Giuuoss took placo this morning from tho
rosidcuce of B. J. McGinnees, on South Main
street. Tho attendauco was very large.
High Mass was celebrated in tho Annunota
tion church and interment was made iu the
Annunciation cemetery on the hill.
In Henry & Johnson's Amies and Oil
Liniment is combined the curative properties
of tho different oils, with the healing quali
ties of Arniea. Good for man aud animal.
Every bottle guaranteed. Ira
llreaklnir Stoue.
Supervisor Llewellyn has fifteen men at
work breaking stone on the hill near the site
of the stone crusbor. The men are paid 75
cents per ton. Several loads of stone have
already been placed ou East Centre street.
"A stich iu time" ofteu saves oousnmp -tlon.
Downs' Elixir used in time saves life.
lm
lleductlou or WrtKes.
Tho gatcmen ou all divisions of the Read
ing Railroad system have boon notified that
their wages have been out down ten cents
per day, dating from the 1st of May.
Beet work dono at Breuuan's Steam La an
dry. Everything white and spotless. Laea
aurtalaea eiecielty. All work guaranteed.
QARPET BEATERS,
All Kind, at
Fncke's Carpet Store, S. Jardin St