Daily Republican., 1884-10-14
NEWS SUMMARY.
FATAL AUC1DENTs-POOR HOU 4
CO8RUPTIOND IN Read.
ING, ENHDYLVANIA.

49, S~~O AAANNOvA SoeAoA VI vuo OuHi Htr III
corruption in connection with the
County POjr House in Reading, twas
testified yestt rday aft rnoon "that ihe
Poor Dire ctOrs were offered $500 each tu
vote for certain man fer Steward of
the Institute that persons earning 81
daily were given out door relief, and
that the Directors retained for the M
selves money granted for Old and ildi-
gent people"
The authorities of Quebec have a fl red
reward Of "a 900 for the discov. ry of
the perpetrators of the attempt m,ads
to blow up the new Parliament huild-
ing On Saturday. To this tum the
contractor, Mr.. CharlebOis, adds $500.
t IL thought that the In fernal machine
was placed in the building on Friday
night. -Four meu were seen aciiug iu u
suspicious manner around tie place ON
that night.
William 8. Thomas an attendant in
the Cincinnati hospital. and Christiau
Tudhorst, a patient, were killed on Mon.
day by falling down an elevator well iu
the hospital. Thomas was drawing q
truck containing Tudhorst To the rleva.
tor to take him TO the amphitLeairc for
q clinic, and both fell through the
hatchway. the elevator having been
raised without Thomas knowing il.
There was no change in the situation
yesterday In the Hooking Valley. The
burning mine at Sand Run has been
banked and closed in the hope Of smOth-
ering the fire. The mines aG Starkvillo
we're still burning. The miners say
that the operators set fire to the mines
the operators say they have no doubs
that the striking nsineis are the guilty
parties"
A telegram from Washington says
there is believed to be good authority
for the staten ent that the Government
of tho United States has not been asked
to mediate in Franco Chinese affairs bv
either of the disputauts, and that,
there fore, IT. has not, conditionally or
otherwise, refused TO do 80, as stated
In Paris despatch"
severe drought has prevailed since
the 9th of July in Lower East Tennes,
see, North Georgia and North Alabama
he region of which Chattanooga 10 the
centre. Grazing lands are all burnt up,
the creeks are dry and the Tennes-
see river at Chattanooga Is within
three inches of the lowest point ever
known.
TIE Committee of the U. s. House of
Representatives, OF which Mr.. Springer
is Chaii man, I" after a careful investi-
sbal Atkinson, Of West Virginia" re-.
port TO the Attorney General OF that
State "that none OF the charges have
been susta ined." -.t
In view of the abatement Of the
cholera in Europe, the Secretary of Tue
Treasury has requested the State De-
ms ri m fn diannnfi A tho &C
the sanitary inspectors In London
and Liverpool. The inspectors in
France and Italy will be retained tor
The present,
On Saturday night the stores OF
Hughes & Runuel, az kewey, and john
Allen, az Livingston, in Illinois. were
traided by burglars, who blew open tue
sales. Hughes & Rundel lost small
sum of money and number of securi-
ties. Allen lost $500 Ia cash, and $23,-
900 in securities.
| The dead body of Robert Young, 10
years of age, was found yesterday
morning In the house Of Robert Grim
die. at Ellsworth, Maine. There were
severe bruises on the head and body. It
is supposed he was killed by Grindle,
who is considered insane. Grindle il
in Jail.
John Lowe, Chief of the Donini N
Bureau If Immigration, will leave OF.
tawa in a few days for the Western
States, to investigate ",his years
movement of the population from CauA-
da" to those States. He will visit De-
troit, Port u urOn and other points.
Loring McCaulley, of Philadelphia,
aged 1S years, last evening shot anu
Cd Mo 10
in Lancaster, Pa. He then shot him.
self in the breast, infiicting q mortal
wound. The girl will recover. She
had rejected his addresses.
A violent gale ragged yesterday morn
ing at Lewiston, Maine. Windows
wore broken, chimneys blown down,
rooted. One man was blown into the
river. The damage is estimated at
1000.
On September 18th Yokohama and
Toxic, in Japan, were visited by q
terrible typhoon. In Tok 10 5000 houses
were wholly or partially destroyed and
twenty persons were killed. The loss
of life at sea is described as "appall-
ing"
A meeting of Irish American citizens
was held in New York last evening to
arrange for the reception of Daniel Nc
Sweeney. Friday evening was fixed
for the time and the Academy Of Music
for the place of the reception.
President Arthur did not reach
Washington on Monday. He arrived
at Fortress Monroe in the morning ON
the U. S. steamer Despatch, aud is ex.
pected to reach Washington this morn.
ing.
The Wyoming, Pa, District Con-
ference Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church on Saturday adopted reso.
luton dehouncing roller skating as
f! an amusement of questionable moral
tendency"
James Harrison, County Assessor at
Cincinnati, has been sued by the State
for Sl4, 1864. which he is charged with
having fraudulently withheld in
making returns Of the tax lists.
Several horse car conductors in
Boston were swindled on Monday by
counterfeit $40 bills. The countsrfeits are
Treasury notes, purporting to be of the
series of 1875
Edward Roberts, colored, shot and
fatally wounded his wife in d disrepu.
table house in Chicago on Sunday
night. Jealousy was the cause.
The boiler of a saw mill in Hawai-
son County, Ga exploded on Monday,
killing three men and injuring several
others.
The terra Gotta works of Hudson &
Shoemaker, at Wyoming, Pa, were
burned on Monday. Loss, SIC, 1000.
The First National Bank of Vicks.
burg, Mississippi, was organized on
Monday wi tn capital stock of 500, 900.