Newspapers: Gleanings from The Shamokin Herald, Northumberland Co File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Sue Marcus USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. SHAMOKIN HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1893 HE DIVED TO DEATH! Russian Thought He Would Cool Off in Water He Undressed With Friends They Were Also in the Water When He Entered For a Time They Paid No Attention to Him But Becoming Alarmed at Last They Ran for Help and on Returning Secured the Corpse A Russian named Jacob WORCHOLIK was drowned while attempting to swim in a [illegible word] filled with water near Big Mountain on Saturday. WORCHOLIK worked in the mines at Big Mountain, and had been working steadily for some time, but for an unknown reason he and several companions didn’t go to work on Saturday and were walking around the country. The weather being quite warm, and the roads dusty, about eleven o’clock they determined to take a swim. One of the men undressed and went into the water, leaving WORCHOLIK and the other fellow standing on the bank. WORCHOLIK said, “hear goes” and jumped into the water hole. The men didn’t think any more of it for some time, until one of them missed their companion, and spoke to the other man about him. After some search during which he failed to materialize, they became scared and determined to leave the place at once. As soon as the one fellow was dressed they started out, and on their way told some of the folks living nearby. These people thought he was drowned and started to the hole to see if their suspicions could be verified. When they arrived at the place, they saw something floating on top of the water, which on closer inspection proved to be the body of the unfortunate man. He had evidently jumped in head first and struck his head on the bottom, which stunned him and while in that condition had been drowned. Several persons in the crowd waded into the water and brought the drowned man to the shore and from there he was taken to a house standing nearby. They sent immediately for the doctor, with the hope of resuscitating him, but when the former arrived he saw at once that the man was beyond help. He was taken to where he had lived. Although a Russian he is of the Greek faith and was buried from that church today. He was quite a fine fellow and was liked by everybody who knew him. RETURN TO WORK Enterprise Miners Received Pay This Afternoon As was stated in the Herald Monday the men employed at Enterprise colliery were paid in full this afternoon, the cashier starting to hand out the desired greenbacks at 2 o’clock. Early this morning the whistle sounded and the miners, laborers and outside hands turned out in force, and when the 7 o’clock whistle was heard the breaker engine commenced working and the merry clink of drills and picks of miners resounded in [illegible]erent breasts. Yesterday afternoon it had been decided to accept the company’s position to resume work on the promise of receiving what was due them on the morrow. Superintendent HOPKINS worked zealously towards inducing the men to go to work, for which he has the thanks of all hands concerned. He is a fine and expert man in the workings of a colliery and knows when the men and company receive just dues. Now that the trouble is adjusted it is to be hoped there will be no more cessation of work for a good while to come. THEY ARE MINE BOSES [sic] Those who Passed the Examinations and are Entitled to Certificates The examination board of the 6th, 7th and 8th districts met at Pottsville Monday and after deliberating over the examinations concluded their labors by recommending [illegible]rty persons as worthy to receive the certificates of mine foreman, of which the following were from the Shamokin or 7th district: Edward BRENNAN, inspector- C. L. [illegible]ER, Williamstown. Walter REESE, Williamstown; Ebenezer WILLIAMS, Williamstown; Christ ROONEY, Centralia; Nathan [illegible]MACHER, Wilberton; Patrick FINN [illegible], L. C. PRICE, Lykens; Richard [illegible}ELIS, Hickory Ridge; Thomas THOMAS, Mt. Carmel; James MORGAN, Mt. Carmel; James WILSON, Locustdale; William LEWIS, Girardville. ELECTRIC SPARKS What the Company is Doing to Improve the New Park The Shamokin electric Railway company realizes that it is handicapped in furnishing accommodation for the large number of people who daily visit Furnace Run Park, and is making every effort to increase its facilities. $6,300 worth of new machinery has been ordered and when placed in position at the power house will experience no troubles in running to and from the grounds. This includes a hundred horsepower Westinghouse generator and two fifty horsepower motors. Several new cars will be here by July 1st. They are of the latest and most approved make, one of them being finished in Mahogany and the others in Cherry. A quarter mile oblong bicycle track is to be built in the near future, which will prove a great attraction for the wheelmen. Forty men are at present engaged in digging a ditch, to convey the water from springs, a distance of 2,500 feet, which will be used for fountains and drinking purposes by picnic parties. The company is determined to maintain the best of order and run the park in a manner that our people need feel no hesitancy in taking their families to the park. With that object in view the services of Ex-Chief of Police, Thomas NICHOLSON, have been secured and he will keep a careful watch over the grounds. Mr. VARNEY, an expert electrician from Philadelphia, is spending a few days here, making an inspection of the line and superintending the running of the cars. All cars run to the park. SECRETARY MARR INDIGNANT He Says the Driving Park Directors Do Not Meet The date for holding the fair at the scales is not far off and as yet not one single contract has been made by Secretary MARR, who is tied hand and [illegible] by the directors in the making of said contracts because he must have their consent. He has advertised for two meetings of the directors lately, one being set for last week, but when the time came no one responded. The genial secretary is aware that there is lots of work ahead and that now is the time to do it, in order to make the affair a big success. Get together directors. FIGHT AT THE SWAMP Caroline Was Abused in Brutal Fashion by Men Caroline TARSICH had George MINICK and August ZIMBER arrested and brought before Squire KEARNEY on the charge of assault and battery. Saturday was pay day and in the evening the parties argued and finally got fighting. Caroline was battered and bruised terribly, her back being black and blue. She had them arrested but the case was compromised. All parties concerned are from Hickory Swamp. A VALUABLE HORSE It Was Run Over by An Engine Monday Morning Landlord BROSCIUS of the Park hotel met with a serious loss Monday when one of his most valuable horses was struck by an engine and received injuries from which death resulted an hour after the accident happened. The animal became loose from the stable and started towards Snydertown at break neck speed. Near Geyer’s mills below Paxinos it tried to cross the Northern Central tracks when a train struck the horse breaking a couple of legs. THEY MAULED HIM The Crowd Drank Beer and They Quarreled Julius COBLICK and Annie FARSUS and Clement FARSUS arrested on the charge of assault and battery. Saturday was pay day and in the evening all hands got drunk. After quarreling for some time, Annie and Clement went for COBLICK and mauled him unmercilously. Julius bethought himself of the law and this morning had them arrested and brought before Squire ROWE. All the parties are from Hickory Ridge. SKULL CRUSHED Crushed Between Cars at Alaska Today Michael WALEN of Mt. Carmel, while trying to adjust the air on a boxcar and the engine of the Pewee train at Alaska this noon had his skull fractured by umpers [sic]. He will hardly recover. The unfortunate man has a wife and two children. HIS PLACE IN RUINS! George Furman’s Thirty Hundred Dollar Blaze Sic Miles Northeast of Town The Conflagration Caused by Spontaneous Combustion Mr. Furman Was Awakened By Crackling of Flames and Managed to Lead the Live Stock From the Burning Barn - Partly Insured A disastrous fire took place in Stonington at an early hour Tuesday, George FURMAN sustaining a large loss. He resides near Paxinos, six miles northeast of Shamokin and was awakened by a loud crackling of burning timber. Jumping from bed he saw his large bank barn in flames. Giving the alarm the well-known and popular farmer dressed and hurried to the stable where he bodily dashed in and secured the live stock which kicked and cried at a great rate. All the horses and cows were removed from the building which was by the time blazing on all sides. The wagon shed was next set on fire by a spark and efforts were made to check the blaze but the strong wind prevented this and in a little while the structure had been licked up, a lot of hog pens followed and in the devouring of out buildings, valuable farm implements were also consumed. The loss is fully thirty hundred dollars, partially covered by insurance. The blaze was started by spontaneous combustion. MR. HALDERMAN MARRIED He Brings a Charming Young Wife Here From Catawissa Daniel HALDERMAN of Shamokin was married at Catawissa Wednesday to Miss Kate KREIGH, a most charming young woman well-known in this place. The wedding was one of the prettiest taking place in Tamaqua in many years. The bride was beautifully dressed in white and carried flowers while the groom wore the conventional black. Quite a number of guests were present. After the wedding congratulations were in order, followed by a fine banquet and inspection of presents. For a couple of hours the guests enjoyed themselves in different ways and then they escorted the happy young couple to the depot to see them off on their wedding trip. The air was filled with flying rice, old shoes and good cheer. On returning from their trip the loving couple will settle in Shamokin where Mr. HALDERMAN is employed in the upper yard of the Reading company as train dispatcher. He is an excellent young man and skillful in his business. The Herald extends congratulations. NARROW ESCAPE A Northumberland County Young Lady Nearly Drowned Miss Jennie McCURDY of Montandon, this county, who is attending Wilson college in Chambersburg, narrowly escaped drowning. Tuesday afternoon with a schoolmate she was preparing to go boating. She had entered the boat and was holding to the pier, when the boat swung out by force of the current. Miss McCURDY still held to the pier, while the boat drifted away from it, and in an instant the young lady found herself in the water. Chief of Police MULL and Policeman JOHNSON leaping into the creek and seizing her after she had sunk beneath the surface the second time. He carried her to a pier where Chief MULL helped lift her from the water, and the two took her to her room. She was very much frightened but suffered little inconvenience from the accident. WALL CAVES IN Narrow Escape of Several Workmen at Milton Tuesday while workmen were engaged in excavating for the cellar of the new Buoy block on the corner of Broadway and Front streets, about thirty feet of an old foundation wall toppled over. George HARTZ happened to be standing at the corner of his meat shop and saw the wall go. He cried to the men to jump and they did and barely escaped being caught by the falling stone. A horse and cart belonging to Levi WINGERT, however, were caught. The vehicle was badly demolished and one of the horses legs were broken and he had to be shot. MR. MORTON PARALYZED And Expected to Die Almost Any Hour Thomas MORTON of Mt. Carmel, who had a paralysis attack on Monday night is expected to die any hour. Mr. MORTON is well known all through the county and is a great grand army man and p[illegible]. MY COLUMN There has been considerable talk recently about the order issued by the liquor league of this county against the illegal sale of intoxicating beverages. The counter charge is made that if the licensed dealers would keep within the pale of the law themselves, they would have enough to do. That may be true, and it may not. Come to think of it the men who sell drink in Shamokin are about as law abiding as those of any other town. And that has nothing to do with the wholesale violation of the law as it is practiced at the moonlight hops and kindred places. There is more real harm done at one of these beer places in one evening than there is by a half hundred hotels or saloons in six months. The latter must maintain some resemblance of respect for the law while the former is wholly without any restraint whatever. And if the order is examined you will find that it is mainly directed against those parties, individuals, who are constantly selling without licenses. Those places where the mysterious wink holds the all powerful sway. The speak easies [sic], as they are called, the holes where men and women are allowed to congregate, and where they can purchase all the intoxicants they desire and know at the same time that the person who is selling the stuff to them must allow them to do as they please or they will be arrested for selling without permission of the court. And those who strike back and tell the licensed dealers to mind their own business and watch the law themselves are little better than the promoters of the speak easies because they are lending encouragement of the very worst kind of violation of the Brook’s high license act. Harsh words, do I hear someone remark? Maybe so? but hardly unless the shoe pinches. For information. Did the jelly man get a location? So Charles KRAMER of Watsontown is to be the republican nominee for prothonotary, is he? Charlie would make a very good official if he was elected. And if he is given the nomination he will make a very good run throughout the county, but the chances are against him winning, and nobody knows this better than Mr. KRAMER himself, and it is doubtful he will accept the nomination if tendered him. Director of the poor, John HAYS, was called on last week and asked to purchase a pair of shoes for a little girl whose father is in jail, and whose mother is - well there are only a few who know where. Mr. HAYS satisfied himself that the case was a worthy one, and then instructed clerk WEIMER to issue an order for the shoes. That was business tempered with charity. Only a few days ago a man whose family affection had fallen more than ordinarily heavy received in his mail a letter. I should rather say a sealed package for it really was no letter. The contents were a $20 bill and a note saying, “ From one whose sympathy you have.” That was all. No name, no sign of where it came from. That was sympathy, and the party who sent it will wear a brighter crown than those who always reach out the empty hand and tell you oh how sorry they are for your misfortune. In less than an hour a Massachusetts jury upset the theory and evidence of District KNOWLTON and the Fall River police and freed Lizzie BORDEN, a much persecuted and long prosecuted woman. That was law. And now who murdered the aged couple? Whatever you do do not refer the question to the Fall River police. Their dragnet may catch the party, but the meshes seem to be too large for evidence. There was a man last payday who had no money to buy his wife a pair of shoes, but who did go to one of the picnics and blew six dollars for beer, dances and painted Amazons. That was cussedness. It reminds one of the many men who when asked by their children for a penny invariably answer, “I have no pennies for candy, it costs too much to keep the family” and then pack right off to a saloon or tavern and call for an eyeopener that costs a dime and generally ask a friend of two to “take something along”. Yes, that’s you, and you know it. Last Saturday evening, night rather, a westend man went home after drawing his pay from the Mineral company, and asked his wife how much the store bill was. She told him $15.00 for a family of seven? The amount seemed an unusually large one to the chap, and he commenced scolding. From words he went to blows, and his wife retired that night with a bruised body. That was devilishness with a vengeance, for the $15.00 included an old balance of $4. TORPEDO EXPLODED! Young Schmick Struck on The Stomach This Morning Was Knocked to The Ground After a Time He Arose and Walked a Number of Feet The Wound Grew So Painful From Intestines Protruding That He was Compelled to Lie Down and Wait Until Pedestrians Noticed His Dilemma - Other Accidents Theodore SCHMICK was hit in the stomach Thursday and badly injured by a signal torpedo on the Reading railroad. He is employed at Back Ridge breaker picking slate and this morning started to work as usual, walking on the Reading tracks. He had gotten past the round house, and saw an engine coming back of him. He stopped about ten feet from the tracks. As the engine passed it exploded a signal cap lying on the track. A piece of the cap struck young SCHMICK in the stomach, tearing a hole through the skin and letting the intestines protrude about an inch. The young fellow thought it was only a slight bruise, the portion hit being paralyzed. He started on the railroad and walked about a square and a half, when he was unable to go any further. In this condition he was seen by a track man who thought by his looks that there must be something wrong with him. He went up and discovered what was wrong and put him on a truck near by and took him to the train dispatcher’s office in the Reading yard where the boy’s father works being employed as a yardmaster. The father was frightened when told of the son’s injury and had him taken to his home on the corner of Pearl and Chestnut streets. Dr. DREBER was sent for and came immediately. He placed the intestines in their place and put a plaster on the wound and bandaged it, being afraid to sew it on account of the possibility of a portion of the torpedo being in the wound. [illegible]rie said unless something unlooked for set in the boy would be able to be out of bed in the course of two or three weeks. He will open the wound this evening and try to discover whether there is anything in the cut, the boy being too weak to stand an operation this morning. Young SCHMICK is nice looking, about fourteen years old. He bravely bears his injury, which is very painful on account of the inflammation caused by his walk after the accident. FELL FROM SCAFFOLDING John DUGAN, aged twelve years, and living at 930 east Clay street, fell off the scaffolding at WILLIAM’s new house on Polish hill, and broke his leg. He had just returned from work at Hickory Swamp last night, and left the house with several playmates, going over to the new building to play. A knot had come out of a board on the scaffolding, making it very weak. When the boys got on this board it broke making them fall to the ground. DUGAN landed first and William POWELL fell on top of him breaking DUGAN’s leg near the hips. Elijah JOHN and John GALLAGHER saw them fall and picked them up. DUGAN said his leg was broken, and when they tried to carry him home he refused to allow them on account of the pain. They then procured a chair and took him home on that. Dr. WRIGHT was called in and he set the leg. The boy was unable to sleep last night on account of the injury as it is very painful. He will be confined to bed for five or six weeks. FALL OF COAL A Polander named Jacob PACOCHA had his leg broken yesterday while working in the mines at Big Mountain. PACOCHA was working in a breast and he dug too far underneath a lump of coal causing it to fall on the leg. If he had been a foot or so nearer the side he would have undoubtedly been killed. STRUCK WITH COAL William WHARY, residing at No. 404 Areh [sic] street, was pushing coal at the Cameron colliery this morning when his foot slipped about the same time the coal started to run, a piece striking him on the ribs bruising a couple. Dr. F. A. CLARK is the attending physician. SCORCHED BY GAS This morning Patrick DOYLE was burned by an explosion of sulfur at the Bear colliery air-shaft, near the middle patch. His burns will not result fatally. MOVEMENTS OF PEOPLE Arrival in and Departures From the Coal Metropolis C. C. WILSON, Jr. went to Sunbury to spend a couple of weeks. Brit HORN, the genial piano tuner, went to Shenandoah this morning to attend to business. Mrs. KLUMBACH, of Sunbury street, went to Mt. Carmel, to call on friends this morning. Dr. JOHN went to Mt. Carmel this morning to attend to business. Mrs. HAMPTON, of Sunbury street, left yesterday for Philadelphia where she will spend a few weeks with friends. I. M. STEELY, of Sunbury street, went to Steelton on the 8:00 train this morning to visit relatives. William H. DITTY, of Sparrow Point, Maryland, returned home this morning after a pleasant visit to his brother, John DITTY, of Sunbury street. Miss Edna SAMUELS went to Harrisburg yesterday to spend a couple weeks with friends. Mrs. METZ and daughter, Maggie, left on the 8:00 train this morning for Weigh Scales to spend the day with friends. Charles W. KROUSE, of Allentown, was in town this morning calling on his many friends. A. L. ALLISON, of Sunbury, called on town acquaintances last evening. P. H. FEHRMAN, of Mahanoy City, spent last night in town. Miss Flo HAAS is spending a few days among friends in Philadelphia. Mrs. J. K. HESS went to Philadelphia yesterday morning to spend a few days with numerous relatives. J. Q. ADAMS and John P. HELFENSTEIN, local lawyers of wide acquaintenceship, spent last night at Asbury Park making preparations to secure a cottage for a number of young town people who will put in a few months at this delightful resort, commencing next month. Mrs. D. C. KASEMAN and two children left on the 10:33 train for Milton this morning to spend a few days. Miss Anna WOLVERTON went to Reed’s station this morning to spend the day with relatives. Hugh TYS, of Gordon, arrived here this morning to transact business. Harmer MILLER and wife returned from Trevorton today after a pleasant visit of four days. Voris AUTEN, of Mt. Carmel, the popular district attorney, was in the hands of his friends of this lively city this morning. W. J. FELDHOFF was entertained by Reading acquaintances yesterday. He is well-known in that beautiful city. Elmer MARKLEY, the clever young Reading office telegraph manager, returned from a two week’s vacation to Reading and other points yesterday feeling much benefited in health. His wife is at present the guest of her parents in Millersburg. Will H. RYON is now filling a clerical position at S. M. Wanamaker’s store in Philadelphia, and is much pleased with the Quaker City, where he will be glad to see all his old friends from this place. M. B. KRAMLICH and Clifford POTTS attended a dance at Lewisburg last night. W. S. GUITERMAN and wife are spending a few days on a shopping expedition in Philadelphia. Attorney George W. RYON had business in Philadelphia yesterday. Miss Annie ZARING is visiting friends in Berrysburg. Mrs. Wm. SHOOP and son left this morning for St. Clair, where they will spend a few days. W. S. THIRWELL, proprietor of the Beehive store at Mt. Carmel, exchanged digits with Shamokinites yesterday. Merchant F. E. AMMERMAN spent yesterday morning at Ashland. Rev. Father KOCH was a Harrisburg visitor yesterday. Mrs. E. C. SMITH, of Sunbury, was the guest of Shamokin friends yesterday. Mrs. Levi SHOOP is spending the day with Pottsville friends. MINE AND RAIL Notes of Interest to Those Who Work for the Corporations Thomas HENRY, Supervisor for the Catawissa division, has been relieved of duty. The additional telegraph lines between East Mahanoy and Tamaqua have been erected. They will be utilized in running the trains over that division from the Tamaqua office. How soon the change will take place is not generally known, but it is looked for every day. Preparations are being made to sink a new slope on the west side of Alaska’s shaft that will increase the output of coal considerably at that mammoth operation. The employees of Midvalley colliery received their wages for the month of May this afternoon. LIMB HURT Mrs. William CHAMBERLAIN, at Walnut street, was thrown out of a buggy Wednesday and had a limb injured. She had been in the evening and was on her way home when her horse became startled at something in the road and continued to jump [illegible], upsetting the buggy and throwing Mrs. CHAMBERLAIN out. A MADDENED BEAST! Breaks Loose and Badly Injures Two Young People Caught Near The Post Office By a horse becoming frightened by a thunder storm Wednesday afternoon in Mt. Carmel causing the [illegible words] Joseph LEVINE and Michael MULDOWNEY were badly injured. The attending physicians have no immediate [illegible] that the unfortunates will die. About the time the [illegible] took place, LEVINE happened to be sitting in his wagon in an alley back of Oak street. A loud peal of thunder split the air, causing the young man to start with alarm. The horse jumped as though shot and reared madly for a few seconds and then started for Oak street, to reach which thoroughfare it is necessary to pass Third street. LEVINE pulled at the reins. This served towards making the now maddened beast strain every nerve to reach Oak street as soon as possible. LEVINE jerked hard and strong at the reins and shouted to the people to clear the streets. All at once the horse jerked its head and pulled the driver over the dash board on to the ground. LEVINE held the reins. Spectators expected to see him run over or have his brains tramped out by the hind hoofs of the horse. The young hero stuck bravely onto the lines until his shoulders were bruised and bleeding and one dislocated. A wrist was broken next when having no more strength LEVINE left the reins reluctantly slip through his grasp. Scarcely had he did so when the horse knocked Michael MULDOWNEY to the ground. He is nine years old and was crossing the street at the time. The animal sank one of its hoofs over the right eye of the boy producing a frightful looking wound. At first it seemed as though the optic had been completely torn out. Fifty feet further down the street played a crowd of boys. They heard the [illegible] of the horse hoofs and managed to get out of the way in the nick of time. [last few sentences unreadable because page is torn].