Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-07-25
Freight Trains stopped on the Penn
sylvanla Road.
SOLDIERS rELrED WITH hTONEs
IN THE srREErs OF
READIN0.
lsrsciAL Dr.rArcurs TO II aotp HuL
DAur NEwst
rhe PevusyIvania I.ins.

The Pesssylvsnia lins.
READING. July %. Several thousand
persons assembled along the Reading rail.
road this afternoon and stopped freight.
coal and passenger trains, only permitting
mall trains to proceed. At 8 o'clock this
evening seven companies Of the Fourth
regiment Of the National Guard Of Penn
sylvaniA arrived and proceeded along the
railroad to Pennsylvania street. While In
the deep cut extending two squares from
Walnut street TO Pennsylvania street. the
soldiers we're assailed with stones and i'm.
mediateiy began firing. It is alleged. with
out orders. doing bad work among tho I'M
mense Of people In the vicinity.
among whom were many respectable
citizens, ~ we'll as ladies and children.
The troops fired down Seventh and MP aud
down Pennsylvania street. Five persons
are known 10 be killed and from eighteen
10 twenty-five wounded. several MORALLY.
Among the wounded arc seven policemen,
some seriously.
READING. July ~. Tho killed and
wounded are reported at thirty-seven (; In.
stantly killed. fourteen. Several soldiers
are wounded.
PorrsvILLE. July IA police train
has been sent TO Reading 10 protect rail.
roai property. The mail express train for
Philadelphia could not proceed further
than Reading and has returned. The pas
sengers state that the tracks are torn mp
for . considerable distance from the depot
at Reading. The railroad company have
instructed their trainmen TO take no trains
out until the road Ia clear.
RrlprSo, Jnly 2i.-The railroad Of.
fcials are now In communication with
General Hancock.
EXCITEMENT IN SCRANTON.
SCRANTON. July 25.-The excitement
hero IL intense. All the trains on the Del.
aware and Lackawanna and Western road
have been stopped. When tho mail train
from Binghampton for New York arrived
here this morning two passenger cars were
detached by the strikers. who said that
nothing hut the mail should be allowed to
run, Superintendent Halsted said the
mall car would not run unless tho passen.
scr eAis "eio 49, - M.
male the strikers very indignant Inc
superintendent Wa nrm, howe'e,. anu 'ne
mails were nhrn i,ota .no eAIi nni e IVA
promptly ,wltcnsa on W. % ar
strikers telegrApn,u ~ onee 70 sse "
antnotiuss n ~ .h,, III Go,rd nm i,
N necessary and furnish iiremen and On
gineers. A disp,tch 10 tho same effect was
sent to the posionico authorities at wssh.
ington. The strests are thronSed with
men from the mines railroads and iron
mills.
ANOTHER PROCLAMATION.
P~rrrspuEo, July 24.-The following
proclamation was issued this morning;
To the people OF the State OF Penhsyiva.
ma .na ai,ord,r within tSs State.
extending 10 many interests. and threaten.
ing all communities, under the impulse Of
which There ma sroNp w p
citisrns shsll organize themselves into
armed bodies for the purpose Of self.pro-
lection, and preserving peace; ,hereieIe !.
ION" p.nn.x,,snis do hereby recommend
all citizens Of this State TO organize
themselves into an association with uch
arms - .ney eau nsasr and srn ~" vic.
isnce md GOOD citizens are warned against
appearing In company with any mob or
riotous assembly and mus giving encour'
Agehisn' VI 'is'A''oh VI iA"
ALL QUIET IN PHILADELPHIA.
PulLApELpnIA, July 25.-All IL quiet IL
,hs W,.t Pbil.drlpbis Depot. Passenger
tr.lns .rs moving promptly. and some
freIrbt IA being rent 10 New York, bat
none We.t. Al the philadelphia and
Heading Railroad the same auisiness pre-
walls. The rails which were torn up In
tbe vicinity OF Reading have been relaid.
anal trains arc moving ON schedule time.
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Tue His"s''o" =. A"
Sr. Loris, July 2i.--The afternoon mas
pssseL on very quietly In ~. Louis. the
80. IT.. o.,.,iv M.vor novman
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issued . proclamation TINS moihins IT,
auesting the saloons 10 close. but u was
d~isrrgsrded. Subsequently the strikers
yisitcl the saloons and compelled compli.
.n.. in, ,he ,~roel.m.tion.
A.. A.. c.,,.
Three a''enp" were "s.'
narrow gauge, and two BY the chicago anu
Alton roads, 10 send out Q freight train.
h,, -.,. rn,uccs.sfuI. No stock Ia, been
oa' ~ 49,, g., u.
allowed 70 leave 'he NA''onA o'ocA iAiss'
and transfer Of stock from ~. Louis to
Venice has been stopped. The strikers
only permitted the stock yard people to
haul three car loads Of feed TO the yards.
The employees OF tho Transit Company,
who were permitted this morning to do
switching for passenger trains at the relay
depot, have been Withdrawn anu volunteer
strikers put In their places.
A large body OF strikers Waited the Cairo
Short Limo car shops and induced the
workmen TO Quit work.
The workmsn OF tho Missouri car works.
numbering 100. stopped work this After
noon and Joined tho strikers. The bolt