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Newspaper
Reading Eagle
Location
Reading, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1869
Page
2
The Darty Haane office relocates to 642 Pynn Street Schmucker Hauge Building opposite the Keystone House. A public note says a small rent matter delays a National Banks article and the inauguration ball plan is under review by Gay Grant.
The Harrisburg State Guard editors advise Grant to appoint a practical journalist like John Morney for press skill in his Cabinet. They argue journalists understand presenting cases to the press and that practical statesmanship comes from daily community affairs. The mock warning notes danger if Grant selects Greeley.
A fire at a North Fourth and Third Streets tenement in Williamsburgh began around 1 a.m. on Thursday. A man named Ji G. don occupied the lower floor. Fred Thorn and his wife with five children were on the third floor. Thorn saved two children but died after re-entering to rescue the rest. three children, including twins aged six and a four-year-old girl, died. Eden, the proprietor, has been arrested on arson charges.
A steamer wreck resulted in the loss of twenty one sailors and one passenger. Eight men abandoned ship in a boat. five died of cold and hunger. Three survivors were rescued forty eight hours later.
Report describes armed negro militia roaming Marion and surrounding areas, sacking homes including that of Union man Jack Ward, attempting assaults on white women, hanging hostages under General Upham, and forcing disappearances. Violent outrages blamed on militia cause widespread fear as reports say many have fled toward Mississippi County.
A fragmentary report cites a Nevada tract vote claiming a tiny state with bogus numbers that still wields two U S Senators. It contrasts Nevada with New York’s 850000 votes and accuses Republicans of upholding a two thirds Senate majority through such states. Also noted is a Baltimore shoemakers mass meeting opposing a shift from the craft to individual wages and the ensuing protest march to demand preserved rates.
Kentucky is described as never having lost a cent through defascation of a state official in its history. The piece asserts Kentucky remains a good Democratic state and would fear Radical rule would have challenged such boasts of honesty.
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