05 May 1893
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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1893
Page
1
A shaky report from May in Placerville hints at a conspiracy among musical instrument manufacturers to influence exhibitors. Theodlore Themas and a female patron claim pressures to appoint a new orchestra leader. Investigations proceed amid claims of bribes and inflated contracts.
At a board meeting led by Potter Palmer, chair restored order as tensions rose over management decisions. The Women’s Building episode highlighted disputes within the charity’s leadership, with calls to open the venue Sundays as an experiment and concerns about publicity and influence by prominent members.
Chancellor McGill appointed George W. and at form reservers for the National company. Receiver is liquidating large stock amid mounting bank actions and Cordage paper concerns.
An obituary note reports the death of ex Senator Patterson during a prayer meeting in Els at May 5. The article recalls his public service as a professor of oratory, state education head, and travels abroad after leaving Washington. It mentions a related incident involving Lieutenant Garlington and a fatal shooting.
Reports from Bellefontaine and nearby towns describe levee breaks and reservoir breaches. Floodwaters sweep ridges, wash away land and endanger homes and farms while authorities estimate property loss and monitor rising rivers. A missing worker from Ephrata dies in Coosalloo Creek amid heavy rainfall across Schuylkill and surrounding counties.
Fragmentary OCR text references a veteran marshal and an incident in May involving a thief named Colline and others. Details are garbled with names, places, and actions. no clear date, location, or outcome is established.
The fragment suggests Captain Stevens warned that even if his crew were empty, every man of the schooner’s gun could have been saved.
A garbled mix of official notices and brief items mentions Carlyle Harrif nerve electrocuted Monday next, a young woman named Daile living at 8 Berry Street, and a man Racene claimed as her husband amid a jewelry find. Other items report train deaths, postmaster appointments, and various international notes from May.
A Christmas Eve blaze in a North Carolina town damaged several houses and injured multiple people, with J White and a 10 year old colored person among those affected. Firefighters battled the flames as the entailed wreckage left homes demolished and residents displaced.
Fragmented OCR item reports from Havana claiming chief Cuban rebels surrendered while other lines mention plans for anti factory use and variable acreage figures. It also notes a May session on church matters and a Delaware assembly bill on prisoner rights, with scattered names and dates.
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