l-H " j 2!' v.- J VOL. X.--NO 134. ENANDOA.H, PA., SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1895. ONE CENT v; 1 J Another Bargain. This lare beautiful IBH ..BOOKER.. Williams & Son m ... . tb : -Si CherrinptofiBros. - jr inc. Grocers IS A II ill The Shenandoah City Takes a New Lease Life. Colliery of CAPACITY MUCH INCREASED SUPPLIED WITH ALL TME LATEST IM PROVED MACHINERY FOR PREPAR ING COAL FOR MARKET. The Inside Workings of the Colliery Also Arranged for Greater Pro ductionAll Collieries Will Start on Monday. 122 North Main Street, Shenandoah. Your Clioice -p- Of the following1 Brands of Flour: White Sponge, Keystone, "White Crescent, Gold Medal, "White Rose, Rye Plour. Snow Flake, Anchor, Gleaning Time Is now at hand and everybody is preparing to beautify their homes. Nothing changes the appearance of a.room to greater advantage than pretty wall paper, handsome window shades, artistic room mouldings and curtain poles. Our line stands pre-eminently at the head of anything in this section of the county. We are sure we can please you in quality and price if you will but take the time to see and ascertain prices on these goods. Contracts taken and Satisfaction Guaranteed. F J. Prf & Sen, NO. 21 NORTH MAIN STREET, SHENANDOAH, PA. Movelties From Japan. A "Matsuri" Celebration. We invite our thousands of patrons to see the many curious and useful thincs made bv the Japanese people the victors in the late war with China. "Matsuri" is the name of a great celebra tion day in Japan when the people meet in their gaily decorated homes and exchange congratulations and are entertained by one another. Our window represents this celebration. After a week or two we will offer for sale any of these articles at cost or less. We call attention to our attractive stock of Japanese Fans, brought direct from their sunny land, and we can surprise you at the very low prices we can name for useful or decorative fans. Don't fail to see our window display. L . Wilkinson, 29 South Mam St pet This week we olrer a new hue 01 choice patterns o Axminster and Moquette Carpets. A full stock of Velvet Tapesty and Body Brussels. Also another lot of new In grains at 35 cents, exactly the same quality as we have been sellincr at 50 cents. Incrrain at 25 cents, reduced from 40 cents All Wool Ingrains Extra Quality A larere stock o Rag Carpets, all prices and styles. New Moquette Rugs low prices. LinoleumB at reduced prices. Specials in Canned Goods. We received today another lot of Fancy Northern Suga: Corn, 4 for 25 cents. The best we have ever had at the price. Also another lot of Fancy Cold Packed Tomatoes, for 25 cents. Fine Table Peaches, 2 cans 25 cents. Call iornia .fears, i tor 25 cents. Alaska Salmon, 10 cents a can 3L7o-caLt,y A lot of Strictly Fresh-made FANCY DAIRY BUTTER Three cars No. 1 Timothy Hay. Two cars Choice White Oats. One car Heavy Winter Wheat Middlings. One car Yellow Corn, All the collieries of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company will resume operations on Monday morning and continue until Wednesday night, when they will suspend until further notice. On Monday morning workmen will begin tearing out and removing the ehaft engine which has been used at the old Plank Ridge shaft. This place is to be permanently abandoned. For several years the shaft has only been used for lowering and hoisting men and timber, but after this week it will not be used even for that purpose. As soon as the fan at the air shaft near the red bridge is completed and ready for operation the fan at Plank Ridge will be removed and the old place will then be only a land mark. Among the collieries that will start up on Monday will be the Shenandoah City, which has been idle for several weeks on account ot extensive alterations and im provements Inside and outside the colliery. The breaker Is entirely new and can'now be classed as the latest Improved n the anthracite region. It may be said that it is the superior of any other breaker owned by the P. & R. C. & I. Co. Men acquainted with the outside opera tions of collieries say the structure is grand in equipment, and It certainly presents a majestic appearance. Through the courtesy of Outside Foreman Mar' shall Baugh and Master Mechanic Muel- hofl:, a representative of the HERALD was enabled to pass through the breaker yesterday and Inspect all the improve ments. To give them In detail would require more space than can be conven iently spared here, but a few of them have been noted tq give the public an idea of the immenso amount of work that has been done about the breaker since its Idleness and the great additional shipping capacity the improvements have given it Among the notable improvements la the extensive adoption of the shaker system. There are 30 shakers in the breaker. These contrivances are used in oue or two of the most recently improved of the P. & R. C. &I. Co.'s breakers, but at no place are they used as extensively as in the Shenandoah City. Tliere are also SO jigs. The breaker formerly had but 7, The scraper line is twice Its former size. In the old breaker the steamboat, broken, egg, stove and pea coals were pre pared iu one part ot the breaker, the pickers were oil together, but in the new structure they will be separated. The steamboat and large broken coal will be prepared on the first or uppermost terraco of the breaker; the small broken and egg coals will be prepared on the second terrace ; on the third are eight stove coal jigs; on the fourth eight chestnut jigs, and on the fifth, or lower, terrace the stove coal pickers will be located. In the middle of the breaker are two pea coal and two buckwheat jigs, each having shakers in front of them, The screenings from the car loaders are run upon a seo of elevators to two shokers and the sizes of the screenings run into a scroper line and up to the center or the breaker, to the middle screens. The elevators are 12x18 inches in size and CO feet high. There are two large counter screens In the ii i i mi i upper part oi me ureuKer. xue coai that comes out at the enU9 is or the steamboat and large broken sizes. The coal that comes out of the Jackets, com prising various sizes, go into a 24 Inch scraper line and Is taken to three screens located in the center or the breaker, where it is dlvlqed into small broken and ee coal. There are twelve sets of Bhakers In the breaker. The first set of three shakers moke stove coal; the second set make chestnut; the third make pea coal, and the fourth, or lower set, make buck wheat and rice. The breaker has also been supplied with an additional set ot No. 0 rollers for the making of fine coal. In front ot tho main screens, at a point near the top ot the breaker, Is a set ot elevators 34x34 Inches in size and M feet high. These elevators carry the coal from three senarafe sets of rollers, Nos. 2, S and 4, up to the main screens. The plat form of the breaker excites admiration. It seems large enough to accommodate an assemblage at a promenade concert. At the bottom of the damp chute there is a row of tweuty-one bars fixed five inches apart. Coal ot the smaller, mixed sizes drop between these bars Into an Immense hopper. This part ot the counter is an innovation, No other breaker is supplied with the same kind ot an arrangement The three main screens in the center of the breaker are 5 feet in diameter and 1 feet long. The jackets are 0 feet 0 Inches in diameter and all are constructed of steel plate. One cndles3 manllla rope an inch and a half In diameter operates the three screens. This does away with the multiplicity of ropes and pulleys that create so much confusion and embarrass ment in the majority of breakers. This colossal hosee of modern Improve ments for the preparation of anthracite coal for shipment to market is ISO feet deep, 125 fceet wide and over TO feet at the highest point, although, taking measure ments from the level of the railroad tracks to the htgnest point of tho struc ture, which is built against rapidly slop ing ground, the helghth U considerably over 100 feet. The breaker is connected with the shaft, which is located south east, by a trestle 200 feet long. The load ing section of the breaker Is altered so that house, or freight, cars may be loaded from the chutes. The capacity of the breaker has been more than doubled. It t prepare 1,200 mine wagons, or 300 railroad cars ot coal a day. The previous capacity was about 500 mine wagons, Extraordinary precautions are being taken to prevent loss by reason of fire and notices prohibiting smoking are plenti fully distributed throughout the struc ture. The precautions taken to prevent injury, or loss of life, by the operation of the breaker, also seem quite adequate. The outside Improvements to follow the completion of the breaker, will be the removal of the present nest of eight boilers, which will be supplanted by a nost of twelve tubular boilers. Although the capacity of the breaker will be greatly Increased the number of employes required to operate it will not be, but more likely decreased, as the in troduction of improved machinery will supplant manual labor in many respects. Many additional hands will be required inside the colliery, however, as the facili ties for mining the coal and getting It to the breaker have been very much multl plied. A 12x30 Allison pump has been placed at the bottom ot the shait, in the Buck Mountain vein and several new tunnels have beeu driven, one from the Skidmore Into the Mammoth. Several rock chutes have been driven from the 7-foot up the old Mammoth for a counter chute. This chute will hold about 300 wagons of coal. Hereafter all coal will be hoisted direct from the bottom of the shaft. There will be no second hoist. 11 it The Strange and Awful Fate That John Pocliutzky, a Polan der, Met. WAS LITERALLY ROASTED. THE MAN FELL ASLEEP ON A BED WHILE SMOKING A ' CIGARETTE. His Children Sprinkled Coal Oil Over Him While Playing1 About' the Bed and Pochutzky Was Wrapped in Flames. All the delicacies of Schellly Houss. the season at the A SACRIFICE. Large Stock of Goods From Sheriffs Sale. The undersigned has just returned from Philadelphia where he attended a sheriff's sale and bought a large stock of clothing and gents' furnishings at half the original cost which will be sold at a great sacri flee. Fine white laundered shirts will be sold at 29 cents, worth 75c. Children's knee pants 10 cents. Ellis Sutowitz, lw 23 South Main street, Shenandoah. Buy your wall paper and room mould lngs at John L. Hassler's. 4-11- Stole Beer. Three kegs of beer were stolen from the Ice bouse of John Dalton, agent for the Barbey Brewing Company, between two and three o'clock yesterday morning. In the afternoon Policeman Hand arrested William Dowllng, "Tip" Welsh, Nicholas Preston and William Selbach for the robbery. Dowllng and Welsh furnished bail. Hand took Preston and Selbach tc the Pottsville jail. Pepper pot, very appetizing, for lunch at the Schelfly House tonight. Knows a Good Thing:. Wife: "Henry, please order another case of Columbia bear. I have felt ever so much better since I commenced using it, and you know you enjoy a glass of it with your dinner, and just before retir ing. It makes you sleep so nicely." Husband ; "Yes, dear, I will order it the first thing this morning. They say it is made of pure hops and malt, which makes it a fine tonic." Red hot, pepper pot, for Schellly House tonight. lunch, at the The Water Works. All the pipes of the public water works north ot Centre street and east of Bowers street are now filled with water. The force is remarkably strong.and when some of the fire plugs were opened yesterday . . r . . . ... tne water was turown across me street to the opposite pavement. Benefit Base Ball Game. A game of base ball between the stranded players of the ex-Shenandoah State League club and the Ijost Creek club will be played at the Trotting park tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, for the benefit ot the former, to enable them to reach their Jiomes. They ask the publl to give the game liberal support. Ready for TUera. The men who were prowling about Bowers street early thii morning will meet with a warm reception when they next make their appearance. Oscar Wilde Guilty. Bpeclal to Eveniho hkuald. London, May 25. Tho jury today found Cucar Wilde guilty. A. P. A. Buv Kavstone flour. Be sure that the nameLEsaia & Baer, Ashland, Pa., is printed on every sack. tf TheBusy Store Max Schmidt. We open this column to-day with the announcement that for the next three daysThurs day, Friday and Saturday all calicos will be sold at 4c. Don't fail to see us. Black Dress Goods. Reduced below short time only. cost for a John Pochutzky, a Polish resident of South West street, died yesterday from burns received under extraordinary clr cumstances. Two thirds ot the man's body was literally roasted, his hands elng burned almost to a critp. At about four o'clock Thursday after noon Dr. D. W. Straub was summoned to Pochutzky's residence, and found the man In agony on a bed In the second story of the house. The victim was roasted from the waist up and the skin hung in great shreds from his neck and body. He was in a terrible condition and the physician experienced considerable trouble in dressing him. Pochutzky was able to talk and told Dr. Straub that on Thursday he left his house and spent .several hours drinking with friends. He returned home and went to his bedroom. Throwing himself upon the bed Pochutzky lighted a cigarette and fell asleep while smoking He was aroused by his clothing and the bed coverings burning his flesh. He sprang from the bed and tried to open the window, to jump out, but his tright was too great and he was unable to do so. Neighbors who saw him at the window ran into the house and extinguished the flames. When Dr. Straub visited the man there was a strong odor of coal oil In the bed room. Tho doctor also observed that some of the victim's clothing that had been saved from the flames was also saturated and the nature ot the burtis indicated that the flames had been fed by some very Inflammable material. The burns went deep into the flesh. Pochntzky knew nothing of coal oil In connection with his case, but a woman in the house told a story that accounts for the presence ot the oil. She stated that Pochutzky's wife was in the lower part of the house nursing a baby. While the husband was lying on the bed other children of the family played about the bed with a coal oil lamp. This leads to the conclusion that in their play the children spilled the oil over the sleeping father who, probably, allowed the lighted cigarette to drop upon his clothing, or the bed coverings, and the oil spilled by the children came in contact with the flame of the cigarette. $1.25 to 75c. 1.00 to 75c. 85c to 55c. 60c to 40c 50c to 35c See our window Rucliing. A job lot goods worth 25 to 35c per yard all now 5c. Ladies' Dress Trimmings. An odd lot, but all good goods any one you pick, 5c per yard. MERE MENTION. For a first class job in plumbing or gas- fitting, have it done by P. W. Bell, corner Main and Centre street. Estimates furnished on all jobs at short notice. Police Patrol. Policeman Lee last night arrested Grot Mourow and Steve Dembsky for fighting on East Centre street. Frauk Naruezewicz was arrested by Policeman Walaltls last night for being drunk and creating a disturbance. Mike Matlock hit a countryman in the face with a rock last night and was arrested, while running away, by Police men Hand and Lee. Squire Badorff, of Pottsville, died yesterday. Pensions have been granted to George Beck and William Leiby, of town. F. L. Klock and Miss Lizzie Bees, ot town, will be wedded this evening, by Rev. O'Boyle. Hellron's local team will play their first game here on May 30th, with Norristown or Hazlcton's A. C. A, The parties who stole the bat from stcre of Hooks and Brown last night known and unless payment is made the same at once they will be prosecuted. Policeman George Walaltus will be wedded to Miss Mary Smarowski next week. A license has also been granted to Michael Yenulawlczus and Maggie Bernatauwiczlnte, of town. We will go to press with the last forms of the Souvenir edition of the EVENING Herald on Monday evening. Those who have failed to take space In its columns have until noon of that day to send in their favors. The fuueral of Peter McElhenny, brother of Councilman McElhenny, will take place on Monday, leaving Philadel phia at 4:17 a. m., arriving at Tamaquaat 0:15 a. m., where interment will take place. High mass at St. Jerome's Roman Catholic church. the are The best oysters, ice cold, at the Scheifly House. McElhenny's Popular Cafe. Tonight, (Saturday,) Mr. McElhenny again comes to the front with a cordial invitation to the public to visit his popu lar restaurant and enjoy a dish of genuine snapper soup. This is an invitation that should be taken advantage of by all lovers of something good to eat. Do not hesitate about calling. Sufficient lunch and accommodations for everybody, spacious dining parlors on second floor. Ladies invited. The bill ot fare at this popular cafe still leads the region and consists of everything the market affords. For baby's colicky pains use Luka Syrup. Funeral. Tho funeral of the into Miss Gcttle Evans took place yesterday afternoon from the residence on West Cherry Btreet. The attendance was very large and there were a number of very beautiful floral offerings. The remains were interred in the Odd Fellows' cemetery. Look Here. , Until Saturday, June 1st, every pur chaser of one pound of our excellent chipped dried beef will receive a use ful and beautiful present. All are wel oome. At C. W. NEWitousEit's low price cash store, 130 North Main street. Try Scheider's Homemade Bread and Cakes. 23 East Coal street. 4-17-lm Watson House Free Lunch. The free lunch bill ot tare at this popu lar cafe tonight will consist of Boston baked beans and pork, and on Monday morning calf's liver and potato salad will be served. For Pure Blood use Fowler's Sarsapar- ilia. $23,002 Was the Amount. The damages awarded Hon. Wm. L. Torbert against the Borough ot Shenan doaq was $33,003, and not $3,303 as stated yesterday. Ten-cent box Music Paste Stove Polish for 5 cents. Ask your grocer. Pictures free. Ho Made A Mistake. A Challenge. The Famous base ball club ot town is anxious to arrange a game with the W. B. Fecclev nine ot Pottsville for anv Sat urday, or on Decoration Day. Address changed. Robert Gibson, Shenandoah Pa. Napoleon took the peasants ad vice at Waterloo, lost the battle. and the history of the world was Schelfly's free lunches are the talk the town they are so good. of Shanty Burned. A shanty ot oue ot the company housos at Boston Run was destroyed by fire last night and a watch dog went up In the flames. Have your carpets, feathers and mat- tresses cleaned by the Steam Renovating I Co., 83 East Coal street. 4-17-Sm You Make No Mistake In buying goods from us for we will treat you just right even time. 122 North Jardin Street
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