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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1894
Page
8
Miss Jeanie Smith found a disordered kitchen and open door at the Rhodes home on Sunday morning. J. B. J. Rhodes and Mrs Rhodes were affected and dizzy, a servant called Dr Service who suspected an enseymer used. Cellar windows broken but nothing appeared stolen. silverware and a cake basket lay visible.
Brooklyn clergyman Rev Frederick A Seckerson of Clinton Avenue Congregational Church was stabbed by a burglar at 1 AM He fired at the attacker who escaped with 7 dollars of the minister's money The minister survived because he kept a revolver and cats gathered under his window as a distraction
Special to the Courier-News Dresden reports an explosion of fire damp at the Pinto Colliery in Wiesa Saxony yesterday noon killed twenty miners and injured many more with details continuing.
Mrs. Weir of Orange visits Mrs Adams on Netherwood. Mrs Curran of Maudh Chaonic visits Mrs Caleb Dickenson on East Fifth. B Woolston moves to Pairview Avenue. Mrs Tier returns from Nyack after ten days. Miss Sumbatoff of New York returns home from Park Avenue visit. Monte Scott moves from class A to class B on the LAW racing board. Miss Dumont of Dunellen to wed A G Slevin at St Marys Church Saturday at 11. Mrs Van Seiver of Binghamton visiting her mother on East Fifth ill. she will return home tonight. D T Thompson postpones Florida trip to await William Kelly who will join him. Announcement of marriage of Gussie Murray to Tilney at Crescent Avenue Church Wednesday Nov 28 at seven.
Samuel Anthony, nearly asphyxiated by gas in his sleeping room at the Hotel Grenada, returned to Madison yesterday afternoon. He described feeling streaked but alive, aware of his narrow escape. The Epworth League of Grace M E Church hosts its regular sociable next Friday evening at the church.
An unidentified saddle horse, riderless, tore from Hillside yesterday afternoon along Prospect avenue passing Justice Nash's home. It charged a barbed wire fence at a vacant lot, then plunged toward Park avenue into another wire fence, suffering severe injuries and heading toward Metuchen.
Madame Meonzelli's class holds a reception on Park Avenue near Fourth Street tonight. Revival services continue at Monroe Avenue chapel with Rev Dr Barntg again in charge. An attempted robbery on West Third Street was foiled by Officer Hartpense. Sewer work accelerates with 125 workers and 1000 feet planned tomorrow. Thanksgiving services planned at Crescent Avenue and Methodist Churches with Rev Dr Richards and Rev Mr Herring. International Association of Machinists set meeting with Grand Organizer Harvey Easton expected. Frank Day and friends hunted rabbits partridges woodcocks and quails yesterday. Bowling match between L M bowlers and Institutes of Newark postponed to Friday night.
A humorous tale from Baron Haussmann shows a prefect turning the tables on a haughty country gentleman. The visitor complains in a lofty tone, the hat is asked for, and the prefect proclaims I will bear you, underscoring the uneasy dynamic between officials and gentry.
Mr Richard Se vinters discussion in The Southern Magazine examines how literature and politics affect a young lawyer's prospects. He compares talents, habits, and the pressures of pursuing law amid temptation toward literature or public life.
A caller questions MAX the High Price Caterer about price reductions noting the claim that reductions are possible by running two operations. The exchange implies strategic cost savings.
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