VENIN
VOL. X.--NO. 18.
SHENANDOAH, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1895.
ONE CENT
Christmas Goods,
" Suitable fop Presents.
ORGANS, TOILET TABLES, GOLDSOPAS,;
SEWING MACHINES, LADIES' DESKS,
PICTURES, EASEL3, MIRRORS,
GOLD REOEPTI )N CHAIRS,
f o KJSULil.JN.UNW UtlAlttES,
Must be seen to be
Our New Year's Greeting!
Is the reduction of a lot of UNDERWEAR, reeular iQ P
goods, no flaws simply n surplus stock, which we offer at J,25lC5
These goods are good value and sizes to lit children from 1 rT
to 12 years.
Watch This Space.
From now hence you will find here
Extraordinary Bargains, to clear the
stock for spring goods.
116-18 N. Main St.
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Successor to GIRVIN. DUNCAN 4 WAIDLEY.
a full line of
Children's slippers for the holidays.
Prices from 35
Remember that wo carry a fall line of
the Bnag proof duck boots. Rubbers
of all stylo3 at the lowest prices.
14 Sctuth Main Street,
You can buy
k Long as It Lasts!
FULL ROLLER FLOUR at
"We guarantee every barrel to give entire satisfaction.
Have sold sovoral cars of it without a singlo complaint.
It was bought before the advance in grain and freight rates, and
is worth more money to-day.
This ia the lowest price ever known for flour of this grade.
You run to risk in buying it at the price and may save money,
"We make a profit on it, and will soli you one barrel or one hun
dred barrels.
As Xaong as it Xa&ts
"Just Received.
Fresh ground "Old Time" Rye Flour.
"Whole "Wheat Graham Flour.
Fancy Pastry Flour.
Fishing Creek Buckwheat Flour.
Offer To-day-Two
Cars Very Choice No. 1 Timothy Hay.
OnoCar Very Bright Clean Ryo Straw.
TO ARRIVE in a fowldays:
TURKISH ROCKERS,
UUliJJ A KM UUALKS,
appreciated at
8 South Main Street.
Men's, Women's and
cents up.
Shenandoah, Pa.
a barrel of Choice Winter "Wheat
Two Cars Choice White Oato.
Ono Car Yellow Corn.
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An Adjourned Meeting Was Held
Last Evening.
THEY DISCUSSED
tjr TCI'
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Request for Increased Commission by '
Engineer Womelsdorf Refused-Addi-
tlonal Fire Alarm Boxes.
The Borough Council held an adjourned
meeting last night to consider matters
pertaining to the public water works and
to pay bills that were laid over from the
regular meeting held last week.
Mr. Gullagher presented the final esti
mate ot Contractors Quinn & Kerns with
a statement from Engineer Womelsdorf
that the contract was closed.
President McQuire stated that as Coun
cil h'ld decided that the cost of making
repairs to the Brandonville reservoir
should be deducted from the bill of the
contractors, it would be laid over.
Engineer WomeUdorf sent in a bill for
his commission on the cost of the public
water works. He figured on $140,820, his
commission being three per cent., or
$4,491.78. Of this amount $2,000 had been
paid and last night Council granted $1,500
on account of the balance. A request
from Mr. Womelsdorf that his commis
sion be raised from three to Ave per cent.
was refused.
The boiler and engine that was used in
connection with the stone crusher has
been sold to Mr. Bradley for $175. The
street committee at the same time re
ceived instructions to visit the building
in which the stone crusher is kept and
see that the contents are carefully pro
tected.
The balance due Messrs. McAdams and
Clcary on their public water works con
tracts were ordered paid.
All work in connection with the public
water works, aside from testing and con
necting the pipe lines in town, io virtually
:omp'etcd, and that work will not be un
dertaken until the weather breaks in the
spring.
Council will meet again next Monday
evening for the purpose of taking action
to finally accept the pumping station
plant at Brandonville put in by the
Jeanesville Iron Works Company.
me nre apparatus committee made a
report advising against the removal of
any of the electric fire alarm boxes and
recommending that five additional boxes
be placed. The recommendation was
accepted. The boxeB will be located at
the corners of West and Poplar streets,
Jar.lin and Oak, Oak and Gilbert, Lloyd
and West, and Coal and Catharine. This
will give the system a total of fourteen
boxes.
Shrewsbury oysters, the finest in the
market, at McElhenny's.
COUNTY SEAT OFFICIALS.
Rush
of Business Necessitates Employ
ment of Assistants.
The volume of business in tho criminal
courts of this county has increased to
such an extent that it has become neces
sary to increase the working force of offic
ials to handle it. District Attorney Ryon
found business crowding him so much
that yesterday he appointed Jas. J. Moran,
a young attorney of some promise, a Dep
uty District Attorney, being assigned to
draw bills of indictment, issue subpoenas
and inquire into the time served at court
by witnesses and certify the same to the
docket clerk, "nder the new rule adopted
at the opening of the present term of
court. The new rule has also placed more
work on the shoulders of Richard T.
Lewis, the Docket Clerk, and ho has been
given an assistant In the person of Joseph
A. Schmidt, who has been acting as Clerk
and Interpreter In the District Attorney's
office. The latter appointment was made
by the County Commissioners.
Full Time During 1895
When you gee your watch or clook re
paired at Strouse's jewelry store. That is
guarantee that it will be all right. All
work warranted. 1-3-tf
A Sleighing Party.
A party of ladies and gentlemen of
to tvn enjoyed a sleigh ride to Ringtown
last night and had a glorious time at
Harry Hart's Mansion House. Braller'a
orchestra furnished dancing music at the
hotel and an elegant turkey supper was
served. The party comprised Misses
Mary Leckle, Ella Clauser, Lizzie
Keltban, Hannah Morrison, Jennie Gun.
ter, Ollie Lewis, Maggie Jacoby, Minnie
Guldlu, Miss Beemer, Lottie Leggett, of
Wm. Penn, and Messrs. E. J. nnd H.
Jacoby, Max Mayer, T. T. Hyde, M. F,
Maley, William Nelman, Joseph Beddall,
E. B. Brumm and Fred. Todd, ot Lewis,
Delaware.
The Spring Elections
Will soon be here, but we are always
with you with low prices in ladles' and
gents' gold and silver watches. Jewelry
of all description. Silverware and clocks,
At Stiiocsb'b.
Bargains In Footwear.
Call and see our variety in footwear.
Great reduction in prices. A. F, Morgan's,
11 West Oak street. 1318-tf
T0PICS -T-- TIMES-
Pertinent Paragraphs From the Reporters'
PePle must not be fooled by the notion
that winter seals everything until Spring
and that gutters require no attention.
One day tnay he as blizz.ml like as any in
mo jliuwu j-eKiuu uuu lue next, uiu .n
may play havoc with the snow and ice.
People who show indifference in opening
their gutters will wish they had, prob-
nwi, T won IU in lj lilbC. liuw ia bUO U1UU
to open all the water courses. Don't wait
until rivers of snow water rmhea down
lup? ou; preparea tor tne tureat-
to it that n t.h gn.P inw.n nr.
If I were not In public busineis,"
said a' re-tldent of the borough yester
day, "I should write a communication to
the HERALD advising the voters to sup
port f jr the office of Suhool Director only
such men as send their children to the
public schools. Those who do not or
would not have their children educated
In the public schools cannot be expected
to take io much interest in the welfare of
the pupils as those who b.9ve children
regularly attending."
President John Rlnn, ot the TJ. M. W.
of A., who has met with much success
throughout this county in the organiza
tion of local assemblies of the associa
tion, and who visited Hazleton last week
to look over the Held, has found a new
field ot operation in the vicinity of Lofty.
He reports the men very much dlssatls
fled at recent reductions In wages, coupled
with advances in price of coal sold to em
ployes, and the Imposition of the com
pany stores. He will this week seek to
organize the miners ot that district.
The local ice dealers have their houses
pretty well stocked and are gratified over
this year's crop. Ice twelve inches thick
Is being cut at the reservoir. of the Shen
andoah Water Company. Ice thirteen
luches thick is being cut at Waste House
Run. The latter product is housed for
summer use at the offices, shops and boiler
houses of the P. & R. collieries.
Big lunch
evening.
at McElhenny's Saturday
PERSONAL.
J. C. Mace, of Sunbury, spent yesterday
in town.
Mrs. Henry Moll, of Pottsviile, is visit
ing relatives in town.
William S. Brennan spent to day in at
tendance at the Pottsviile court.
H. C. Byers, of PottBtown, was yester
day a visitor to friends in this town.
H. F. McCarthy, of Lynn, Vfass., spent
yesterday as a guest of town friends.
Henry D. Hersh, of Alle'ntown, was in
town yesterday, transacting business.
Abraham Levlne, wife and daughter,
Katie, left town today for New York
city, where they will spend a few days
visiting friends.
Miss Annie Davis, of Scrantou, who
has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. A. A.
Davis, of tjouth White street, returned to
her home to-day.
Joseph H. Kehler, and daughter, Sadie,
of Al lento wn, left for their home this
morning after a pleasant visit to town
relatives. Mr. Kehler, who will be remem
bered as one of the most efficient members
of the local letter carrier force, Is now
senior member of, the cigar manufactur
lug firm of Kehler & Hitter, of Allentown
nnjl his many friends hei-e will be pleased
to learn that he is prospering.
You will never find Brennan' cigars
In dive saloons. They are for flue trade
only hotels, cafes and drug Btores.
Tickled the Wires.
A Lithuanian gentleman in the County
Commissioners' office, at Pottsviile, and
another of the same nationality at the
Heisald office conversed by means of the
telephone In their native tongue yesterday,
and when they got through with their
"wiczs," "wltskles," etc., the wires were
so badly twisted that the pretty young
lady at the Mahanoy City exchange was
almost driven to desperation.
McElhenny's bill of fare embraces every
thing the market affords.
Candidates' Cards.
It Is a rule of this office, and one from
which we can not deviate, that candi
dates' cards inserted in this paper must be
paid for in advance. We have a job lot ot
left-overs from previous campaigns that
can be purchased cheap, and we will not
add to the list.
Everything neat and cleanland best of
service at McElhenny's.
Attention, Camp 49, S. of V.
All members of Henry HorncaHtle Camp,
No. 49, S. of V., are requested to attend
the regular meeting on Friday evening,
January 11, 1895, as business of special Im
portance will be transacted,
D. Daddow, Captain.
E. Speakse, First Sergeant. l-9-2t
"Moss Back Songs, or Give us Some
thing New," "That Little Knot of Blue"
and "Kitty Adair" are the latest in sheet
music at Bruram's jewelry store. 1-9-tf
Week of Prayer.
A week of prayer was opened iu the Pres
byterlan church, corner of White and Oak
streets, last evening. There will be preach
ing service overy evening during the week
except Saturday. The meetings will be
opened at 7:83 each evening with a service
of uong lasting fifteen minutes. Every
body welcome. l-7-5t
DOINGS AT
THE COURT.
The P. & R. C. & I. Co. Tracing; Bene
ficiaries of Fraud.
I A HOPPES CASE SEQUEL!
The Convicted Clerk Tells a Story Showing
That Teamsters Connived With His
System of Fraud.
The Philadelphia and Reading Coal a id
Iron Company is evidently determined to
pnll out root and trunk all branches of
the fraudulent system of coal order busl
ness from which it Mas suffered for some
time psi. und which was brought to light
by the arr.-st and confession of S. S. Hop
pes, who was a clerk at one of the com
pany's Mahanoy City collieries nnd is now
serving a term In the county jail for the
offense. The company has the co-opera
tion of lloppes in the prosecution of its
undertaking, and as a result the trials of
a number of Mihanoy City coal hauliers
have begun at Pottsviile.
The evidence the company will present
will tend to prove that certain qoal
haulers of Mahnnoy City were the greatest
and real gainers by the fraudulent prac
tices of Hoppes and that they actually
connived with the clerk in defrauding
the company out of about $5,000.
Hoppes was called to the witness stand
In the Pottsviile court yesterday and he
told a damaging story against threo coal
haulers named Michael Madden, James
Norrisand Henry Martin. It Is the custom
at the mines of the company to Issue coal
orders to employes at reduced rates. If
a man Is employe! at a colliery and wants
coal the company Issues an order and
deducts the price from his wages. Three
quarters of a ton costs at this reduced rate
$'.35 and the employe pays, forty cents to
the hauler A person not employed at the
colliery is obliged to pay the company
$1 75 for th-t same amount of coal and
with the cost of hauling the price is $2.15.
In his fraudulent practices Hoppes used
fictitious names and sometimes put the
name of an employe on his bogus orders.
It is claimed the coal haulers in question
bought up the fraudulent orders at a re
duction of ten centB on each, securlnir
them nt $1.25. The haulers then sold the
coal at $3.15, clearing a profit of ninety
cents on a load.
This continued for some time and was
only broken iii by the arrest of Hoppes,
who swears that Madden, one of the haul
ers on triul, profited by the system for
about a year. Hoppes says the share he
received he put In his own pocket.
The developments made by the Hoppes
case has caused the company to revolu
tionize the system of running its colliery
offices. The work has been divided so
that at places where coal orders are Issued
one clerk Is assigued for that particular
branch and !s held responsible for it
I he company will also require
such clerks to furnish bonds for
the faithful performance of duty,
This step will be taken to Insure
the company against loss in case of a
repetition of Hoppes' practice. The com
pany will sue the uondsmen of the clerks
for any deficiencies that may arise.
A nice holiday present a box of Bren
nan's Havua cigars. $1.25 per box.
Bebe Riel in "The Outcast."
Beboltiel, who made her first appear
auce before a Trenton audience last night.
is certainly one of the be3t fancy dancers
on the stage. Miss Riel is pretty and
gracelul. Her dances last night were en
thusiastlcally received and she wasobliged
to respond until she could dance no more,
One of the most notable features In her
dancing is the extreme high kicking com
bined with ease and grace. As a dancer
Behe Mel bas captured the town. The
Trenton Times. Will be produced at Fer
guson's theatre, Tuesday, January 15th.
Temporary Quarters.
Dr. J. C. Church has opened a temporary
office at No. in South White street. Office
hours, 7 to 9 a. m. and 1 to 3 p. in. lw
Orange Blossoms.
Miss Emma Hesser, daughter of John
W. Hesser, of East Coal street, and Ed
ward Dunkle, of White Haven, were
married yesterday afternoon at the
residence of tho bride's parents, Rev.
William Powlck, of the Methodist Epis
copal church, officiating. Mr. Dunkle
was one of the favorite players and star
pitchers of last season's base ball club.
Oysters !
If you want good oysters go to II. Mehl',
105 East Centre street, next door to Devers
barber shop. The best selected oysters in
the town. Private parlorsjfor ladles.
9-15-th-sat
The Rescue Fair.
The Rescue Hook and Ladder Company's
lair will be open on Friday and Saturday
evenings, January 11th nnd 13th, Come
and patronize the firemen. 1-10-tf
A Candidate.
William D. Chmlelewski, of the First
ward, will be a ctndldntejtor the Borough
Council on tne Uepuullcan;tlokot.
Smokers' articles, silver match boxes
Mid Are cigar tubes at Brennan'a cigar
store. 13-21-tt
We desire to call your atten
tion to our most beautiful col
lection of novelties in gold and
sterling' stiver, diamonds and
other precious stones, clocks,
bronzes, jevvelery, silver table
ware, etc., all bought of the
best and most reliable houses
in this country.
All goods carefully selected, of
unsurpassed beauty, most attrac
tive, graceful anduniquo in appear
ance, with the newest ideas of a
rich, exclusive character confined
in Shenandoah entirely to this
house.
Our stock is bt yond doubt the
best selected and most magnifi
cent in this county. The cele
brated B. & H. Banquet Lamp,
and gqld finished Onyx Table
a specialty.
It will be to your interest to
give us a call. .Prices the low
est at
Cor. Main and Lloyd Sts.
Writing Paper
In Doles.
2 lot Each,
c per jjox.
About 100 boxes at r'
This price for one week.
EXCELLENT QUALITY,
SPECIAL GOOD FINISH.
Have your guesses on the jar of shot at
our store before 3 p. m. January 15th.
21 North Mam Street
PENCIL POINTS.
Local News
Gleanings
Condensed
for
Hasty Perusal.
Lent begins February 27th.
The spring elections are coining.
Pocketless overcoats are the latest.
Short days, long nights and big gas bills.
Winter sports and diversions are in full
blast.
Will we have a January thaw and ice
gorges this month ?
The price ot ice next summer will be
withiu reasonable bounds.
Trolley cars, like lightning, seldom
strike twice in the same place.
The revival of the bank check stamp
will be more unpopular than the income
tax.
Quinine and whiskey are now put up ia
the same bottle. That's to insure the absent-minded
man from forgetting the.
quinine.
Notice to Taxpayers.
Notice is hereby given to the taxpayers
of the borough of Shenandoah that on
and after February 1st, 1895, five (5) per
cent, will be added to the taxes for 1891.
M. J. SCANLAN,
Receiver ot Taxes.
December 29, 1894. 12-29-tf
Rupture.
Cure guaranteed. No operation. In
quire at the Shenandoah drug store, No.
3 South Mai street. 9-13-tf
Don't use eggs six months
old when you can buy good
fresh ones.
We have lots of 'em.
Don't handle ice-house or
pickled eggs at any time.
122 North Jardin Street
and Envelopes
U. Portzfi. Son
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