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Newspaper
Reading Daily Eagle
Location
Reading, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1868
Page
2
The piece insists the Radicals misused fourteen hundred million dollars paid in taxes since the end of the war. It argues the national debt rose during three peaceful years under Radical governance and will grow further as they stay in power, urging readers to demand accountability.
Revenue Commissioner Wella cites army expenses from Lee’s surrender to June 80 1868 totaling 917 million 1 3 4 3 dollars and notes over 300 million annually. The piece questions continued military reconstruction costs and urges voters to elect Seymour and Blair.
The registration drive in Miggouri provokes strong dissatisfaction as E. Morgan, a former Iowa Cavalry soldier living in St Louis, is refused registration for missing discharged papers. Many others are rejected for rebel sympathy while over a hundred are naturalized. Radicals seem to aim at provoking clashes to justify military election.
Paivare advices dated Aug 21 report a major quake at Wallao on the 18th, lasting seven minutes. No deaths, but many houses damaged. At 7 PM the sea receded then surged back, flooding the mole and wharf by midnight, forcing residents to flee. Shipping largely escaped damage as a steamer departed.
A chaotic mix of sensational crimes and accidents spans Louisville Philadelphia New York Chicago Boston and more. Incidents include shootings burglaries stabbings arson gas explosions drownings shipboard suicides and a navy yard change of command. Several victims and suspects are named with brief outcomes and ongoing investigations or recoveries.
Montrellen Vermont Sept 1 The election results favor Republicans with a larger majority than last year. Radicals spent heavily and allegedly mobilized hundreds of voters from neighboring states. Senate expected unanimously Republican and House with a large GOP majority. Page the Radical candidate for Governor leads Edwards Democrat by about 25 000 to 27 000. Democrats concede and take defeat well.
Washington dispatch notes cap employees forced to pay a campaign levy on salaries under Radical masters. Paymaster describes it as for campaign purposes while urging payment to avoid notice. Deductions average about one and a half percent of yearly pay, with an $18 withhold noted as especially onerous. General Schenck may join Senator Morgan to discuss a September Congress session, with prevailing view that Congress is unlikely to convene.
From Nasuvinnk Tennessee intelligence arrives that a vast block of Lookout Mountain detached near the top and rolled toward the Tennessee with a thunderous crash. A single piece is estimated at 600 tons, suggesting internal forces disintegrating the mountain. Residents flee to Chattanooga amid fear of disaster.
Augustus Baker from Chicago and Montana passenger fell overboard near York while aboard the steamer Success returning from Fort Benton. His body carried $10,000 in drafts and a $50,000 gold check not recovered as treasure totaling 800000 and silver ore arrived at Onawa.
From Missouri report on September 1 notes only about one third of the cotton crop will mature in Lownd, Moxahbee, and Monroe counties, the state's wealthiest. It claims radicals organize secret cabals to sway elections and are distributing avails to Black voters and Radical whites.
Michael Bell a Negro is in custody charged with murdering Ramsey Gilmore and his wife in Queen Anne county. An attempted lynching occurred at capture. The Franklin grand jury returned true bills against Welde Miller Sheppery and Geiger linked to the Bennéhall robbery. Some defendants in a Venango county case face possible civil suit for false imprisonment. A Philadelphia divorce case ends with the husband freed after the wife refuses to testify. Champaign county faces disease-ridden cattle carcasses of Texas origin in a northern tract of forty acres.
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