Daily Republican., 1879-07-23
FIRST EDITION..
NEWS SUNNI Ar Y.

Famine in Reading II
...-rhe Presid Ont GOiag u
=, Grove-A Record 0fCrAlnes
,Idents and Ineidents.
,,tsr famine in Resding is immi
".ipg to continued dry weather
:, esassd to flow from the hydrant
!. upper part Of the city on Satur
and some factories have been com
4 TO stop work. The Rreadinl
mad has been compelled to ft up
~ If tank cars to haul water from
s,buylkill to supply the boilers il
SoD,. Councils have been asked
rnrouriate aSG000 for additions
i hciltiss. -.
!. strike Of platform men I" en-
ID by the railroads at East St
became general Yesterday. Only
SOuth Eastern men remained 81
and these are waiting for q reply
demand for higher wages. Mos
superintendents have refused ths
lnes
'sideut Hayes has accepted an In
I0u from Rev. DR.. Stokes, Presi.
Of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting
nstion, to attend the tenth ami.
nv of their first religious meeting,
/, will bs celebrated on the 3Oth
Dl a W
rhssl Ryan. Joseph Ronoovari and
IN named Keith were killed neaI
tugion, Pa, yesterday, by the
s,ure explosion Of a blast, and
Davis lost his hearing from the
cause. Ryan was q sub-contrac-
Philadelphia.
.orjinancs relating TO city gov
lent, debt and drainage will come
the Louisiana Constitutional Con
on to. day, but it Is believed the
|sstion can dispose Of 1t and finish
business SO as to adjourn finally
prov.
nqsl G. Grasty commercial trav-
Of Atlanta, Ca, shot a man named
and his son, in Opelika, on Mon.
blight, and fatally wounded the ell
.ad. They had attacked him in
POM, for alleged undue intimacy
Miss Read. Grasty was arrested.
Eorney General Devens has report
Ein,t the granting Of q pardon to
Fman Kelly, Of Cincinnati, convic-
illegally soliciting votes and sen
Y to three months imprisonment
Hamilton county Jail.
spud1lers Of the Palo Alto rolling
near Pottsville, struck yesterday
iag for "higher wages and better
They resumed last evening, a
FOmise having been effected.
louss at Auburn, near Providence,
was damaged by fire yesterday,
three firemen, named Atkinson,
pr and Fuller, had their legs bro
y the falling of the roof.
+ D, Smith, q business man of lay
/. l., died on Sunday Of hydro
a. He was bitten by Q mad dog
4 week before.
! understood that James f. Ed
s. the forger, who pleaded not
in the Superior Criminal Court,
fston, will retract that plea and
guilty, as soon as his son can
g. some Of his business affairs.
Tax Collector Walden, of North
fs Mass, was arraigned yesterday
abezzlament, and gave bail in
" for his appearance at the next
|of Court.
pes Hughes, ccused Of being a
bstlck' spinner, was stabbed, but
vigorously, by party of men in
ilvrr, Massachusetts,, on Sunday
| ng,
fPoral Fry, of the Twenty fifth In
,, was stabbed to death by Private
r. Of Company B, Tenth Cavalry,
Pckton, Texas, on Monday night.
Per is in Jail.
Trial of Jonas Hickman for the
(Foi James W. Foster, in Warren
~ Va, last April, began yester-
Front Royal.
p Cofey, a latorer, iu the Morris
(taln quarry, at Patterson, N. j.,
f',,rd yesterday by falling over a
He leaves a wifs and four chill
|snnery owned by O. X. Lappen,
|'So0d, Oswego county, N. Y, was
r Yesterday. Loss about $685.
Fph ". Norton, young CONNER
FfsVell-r, committed suicide in
|ase, N. Y, early yesterday morn
reported from Fort Ellice, Mani.
mat 400 indians are starving
ana that the number is being
'ddtd to.
aasl Wilson was killed by light
~ fergus, Ont, yesterday moru-
Tired of Life.
. :, 'hday evening Mrs Nein, wife 6
u. aIOh Nein, of Reading, mixed a I
NY , Of arsenic in cup of water 7
"aIowed the contents. As she 8
, Aer husband dashed the cup {
"ef hands. A fearful vomiting I
:, :, and when it was found that I
,ay had taken the poison a ply a
was sent for. When he arrived a