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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1886
Page
2
The piece laments the dissolution of the forty ninth Congress and criticizes Democrat gains amid party strife. It notes ex Sheriff Amos Gaunt of Gloucester County died by Paris Green, and discusses the dangers of political ambition, money, and public ruin.
Samuel J. Tilden died at Graystone this morning at 8:35. Dr Charles E. Simonds and Samuel Swift were with him, as was his niece Miss Gould. The death followed a sudden heart failure after an acute attack of diarrhea and nausea, and his illness had been unwell for several days. The city displayed mourning signs with buildings and papers at half mast, reflecting his long prominence as a Democratic leader.
A sequence of late July and early August storms across New Jersey and coastal areas caused structural damage, lightning fatalities, and drownings. Reports detail a man killed near Dunham's Corner, a German county citizen struck by lightning, a schooner capsized off Sandy Hook with multiple drownings, and fires and losses across Rockaway Beach Jamaica Bay and Atlantic City.
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