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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1892
Page
1
A severe southwest gale in the English Channel disrupts shipping as storm signals are hoisted along coastlines. Vessels in heavy seas are delayed or towed, with several ships impeded by the gale and operations at North German Lloyd liner Rider suspended after grounding previously.
The deputy Laur Brites was struck in the chamber on January 10 by Mindater Conatans and later provoked a challenge. After deliberation he has decided to call for account in court and has charged the minister with assent and lottery related actions.
A jittery column of brief notices and partial reports from Februarys, touching on a controversial writer accused of anti Jewish attacks, a Papal response to republic opposition, a severe English snowstorm halting railways, a divorce case in London, a typhus death toll among German botanists, New England sugar work preparations, a New York jail sentence for a famed con artist, a Mosel wine inquiry, a suicide by a company official, and various diplomatic nominations and legal proceedings, all sketched in terse, period tone.
In Durango Mexico February 3 shortages of food push hundreds of families to hunger and deaths rise. Despite a large corn shipment from the United States only about 75 000 bushels have arrived and estimates say 200 000 more are needed. Beggars fill Durango streets as workers seek meager wages on the Mescalero International road construction.
Thirty-five freight cars loaded with flour arrived over the Pennsylvania Railroad from Jersey City. The Gear was taught by the city of Philadelphia for the relief of the starving Russians. Each car bore the inscription This car contains four for the starving Russians to be sent by the city of Philadelphia on the ana Euspt under the American ag
An amendment to the World's Fair bill directing that the New York State exhibit be closed on Sunday was adopted in the Assembly by a 40 to 47 vote. Mr. Bush moved to table the bill, carried 5 to 41. Burl says the amendment will help pause the bill. At Edgar Thomson steel works, three workers, John Fischer, John McCaffrey, and John Ward, were injured when a converter toppled. Fischer suffered severe burns and possibly critical injuries as the red hot steel contacted clothing and body.
Reading Railroad completes purchase of an extensive tract along Spring Brook in the Moovie Mountains near Jersey Central line. The Reading Company will begin erecting the largest powder mill on this site to supply all company powder collieries from the tract, about nine miles from Scranton.
A scattered digest notes a breach of contract case in Superior Court over a play Seven Agus with writer Williamill and Harry E. Dixey. It also records a Gov Flower veto and a Sullivan county appropriation bill protest, plus drownings at Sandy Lake and a missing man returning from Australia. Shipping collision near Greenwich Point and a Maryland fair appropriation cut are summarized alongside fire loss and a Benedictine College building blaze in New Hampshire. Entities include Gov Flowers, Dixey, Williamill, Col. Williams, Dr. Beakes, P. Jones Monaghen, Mariposa, Greenwhich Point, Fuller’s earth, and Benedictine College.
A national immigration hearing in Washington began as the Senate and House immigration committees opened joint sessions. Hi J Daley of New York testified for the American Defenses Association urging border patrols and stricter naturalization rules including a proposed constitutional amendment restricting voting to United States citizens. Daley argued immigration should be vetted before arrival and warned about alien influence in citizenship decisions.
Officials Tegima and Yambe announce Japan’s 630000 yen appropriation toward the World’s Fair exhibit in Chicago. They plan a historic building with three rooms for Japanese art, to be donated to Chicago after the fair, and express gratitude to the United States for support.
In New York on February 90 the carpenters walked out in sympathy with eight hundred others, causing contractor Downey to employ replacement workers at a $2.60 rate. A Woodcarvers Union meeting last evening decided not to support the strikers, raising the risk of retaliation and possible strikes on pine jobs where woodcarvers are employed.
Counsel or Frederick L. Hamilton, once held in New York on charges of robbing a Vermont citizen and famed for uttering false checks, has been declared insane by doctors and moved to Ogdensburg. He returned home from New York, drew a revolver, and expelled his mother, convinced wealth makes troubles vanish by checks.
From Beacents and Chicago, Feb. Frank Ubtman president of the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad Company, says reports his firm bought the controlling interest in the Caloago roads are baseless and that his company has not interfered in the scheme.
The fire exposes missing fire escapes in hotels and rooms as required by law. Historical notes reference 1850 hotel alterations and the Crystal Palace era. Richard Meares and Hyman Israel linked to the French ball and guest listings, with many transient lodgers complicating identity verification. Senator David B. HY witnessed the Normandie blaze.
David Bruce of Williamburg New York recently turned ninety and is hailed as pivotal to modern painting and the spread of literature through his invention of a typecasting machine. Born around 40 Dey Street to Beoteh parents, Bruce learned printing from his father in a family shop, later expanding to a type foundry and printing ventures that produced the first Bible copy brought to the country.
The Brooklyn delegates to the U A convention, meeting in Buffalo on March 6 and 9, favor Joseph W. for Departespas Coementer. Other items include a man’s fatal track fall, a Toronto manslaughter plea, a Lowell murder arraignment, and several weather and crime notes from the day.
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