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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1886
Page
2
The thirteenth week of the Legislature closes amid talk of a long session. Arbor Day is urged by Superintendent E Q Chapman as a statewide planting and beautification effort in schools. Friday April 28 is designated for the governor's appointment of the observance.
Report from a session indicating the House will extend meetings through the week if the Senate follows with night sessions to finish all calendar bills by tomorrow. The piece also notes a deteriorating health of L. D. Jarrard and possible pardon considerations despite past misdeeds.
United States Senatorial confirmation of A E Gordon as United States Marshal for New Jersey occurred unanimously on Tuesday. A lone New Beniswick citizen filed letters opposing the appointment, but these were dismissed as trivial, and Gordon is expected to post bonds and assume duties promptly.
In New Breenswiox on April 10 excitement rose as Teresa Mayor, a domestic, was arrested after giving birth this morning. She was arraigned and held to answer for murder, claiming the child was born dead. The infant's body was found in a pesapod.
The schooner Juia Ward Howe ran aground at midnight Saturday with the schooner Butth A Gaby from Perth Amboy to Boston nearby. The Gunby arrived with jibboom and cutwater missing and the Howe was beached to prevent sinking.
Governor Abbot of New York asks for the surrender of George Sickles and Joseph Anderson who are accused in the Mingo Jack lynching. They are believed hidden in New York City.
District Attorney Martine, Inspector Byrnes arrest ten Aldermen and ex Aldermen including Michael Duffy and Thomas Cleary. They are taken to police headquarters after warrants were served at dawn for bribery over the Broadway Railroad franchise.
Newark workers from Peters & Callow Company Broad street Demarcat & Co Railroad avenue and E F Beck & Son Mechanic street walked out today. The walkout followed a wage schedule demand discussed by a Trades Assembly committee and union locals.
A cyclone struck Saux Rapids just after four yesterday, leveling most of the town in six minutes. The courthouse and several officers were killed, the Northern Pacific depot blown away, and twenty-two dead with many injured reported. Property losses exceed $300,000 with no cyclone insurance. Governor Hubbard appeals for state aid. Revised tallies list St Cloud 15 killed 40 injured Sank Rapids 80 killed 100 injured Rice Station 28 killed and more injured unknown.
In Baypent Town New Jersey on April 13 Democrats re elected Mayor Hudson and councilmen Birmingham and Bechtel while Republicans elect one councilman. Deningriits travel one similarity in the council with last year. It was the hottest battle in years with majorities from five to forty.
A dispatch from Washington reports Leon Salares, a Spaniard hired aboard the Granite State of Portsmouth, mutinied aboard near Hong Kong. After threatening to set oil ablaze if denied food, he fought with knives and fire, wounded himself, and died minutes after capture as the ship hove to and conducted a burial at sea.
The body of a woman, likely murdered, was found Sunday morning in mud near a wagon track outside Camden toward Merchantville. Police and coroner planned a postmortem and inquest as investigators review a scarf with Elmer I Fisher’s name and a possible link to Maggie Young, George Young, and Elmer Fisher.
A schooner ran aground off Cape May at 6 o clock last night as the Life Saving crew launched a boat to assist. In Newark the ex Senator and Middlesex County Collector Tevi D. Jarrard is described as a physical wreck in the State Prison hospital room with severe eye and limb injuries. prison doctors and inspectors recommended a pardon, sending papers to Governor Abbott, but no reply is reported.
The body of Tillie Smith 18, a domestic at Centenary Collegiate Institute Hackettstown N J, was found in fields behind the grounds with signs of assault and murder. Suspects Hunter and Munich, hotel registers as TL Hunter and Charles Munich, fled. Munich later arrested as a witness. Coroner and district attorney proceedings continue with public interest and a large crowd at the depot.
Newark April 12 Mrs De Pierre also known as Flora Redman and other names traveled from Kentucky to Rahway with a valuable team of horses likely stolen. She rented homes, collected rents, and fled after failing to pay bills. A New York detective traced the team through Bloomfield Montclair Cedar Grove and suspects her residence along the Granite Mountain area.
Grand Master Powerly approves a Kansas City back-channel to St Louis regarding a circular for Knights of Labor members. The goal is to mobilize funds and men to support the Gould system fight in the South, with a plan to back the strike and provide for members and families. Officials in St Louis to select a suitable party to lead.
Knoxville police chief attests to the medicine’s virtue for consumption and related lung illnesses. He notes friends praise it and mentions trial bottles offered by S.A. French’s CruzSture at one dollar.
Mr J M Norris of Rome Georgia reports long kidney trouble and eczema. He says Electric Bitters and Bucklen’s Arnica Salve gave relief after many ineffective cures. He recommends Electric Bitters as a blood purifier. Sold by S A Frenell y.
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