03 Apr 1893
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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1893
Page
1
A coal mine disaster near Shrewsbury leads to a tunnel collapse. Five workers including Diggins Hotel and others are reported buried as smoke fills the shaft and rescue efforts endure. a freight train and local shops are impacted while firefighters battle the blaze.
Interior officials warn the Cherokee strip cannot open before July due to preparatory steps and 109 claimants for allotments. Pawnee lands and county town sites also require negotiation, while labor unrest and a funeral accident in New Jersey punctuate a day of scattered news.
Cable from Vienna reports anti semitic groups protest Br Cleveland connection with Anthony M Kelley of Richmond Va chosen as minister to Austria. Objections cited his opposition to papal temporal power and his wife’s status complicating the nomination.
Fragmented report recalls Baerkhardt's statements about an Arkansas assassination. References to Lirrie Roce, April 8, and White of St Louis, with Little Rock connections and alleged confessions. Also notes an odd World’s Fair exhibit plan and a railroad accident with a man overborne by a freight train, found with a knife.
Fragmented report details a sailing accident on Lake Poo near Milne Burg where Mrs Mary A Flynn, Agnes Flynn, Mamie Flynn, and Effie Flynn drowned. The party, local residents, had traveled to the lakeshore resort. all aboard reportedly perished. The incident follows reports of cholera fears and a train mishap near Har.
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