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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1894
Page
3
Traveler's Guide lists Plainfield Newark rail connections with multiple daily departures from Plainfield and connections to Reading Harrisburg Pottsville and Philadelphia. Timetables show Sunday and weekday services, peak and off peak times, and special notes on connections and advance reservations.
Atlantic reports describe violent gale measures that hurled men ashore and wrecked ships. Survivors were rescued after long delays. several vessels stranded near Ocean City lifeboat crews assisted. Authorities investigate multiple drownings and damages.
Multiple brief items including a statement that no office holder is required to fund campaigns and cannot be pressured, plus notes from Fall River Mills about reopening mills, wage adjustments, and local labor conditions. Also reports on railway charge informations, Hinckley disaster recovery, a steamer presumed lost, and Trenton streetcar transfer controversy.
Witnesses describe police ties to policy shops and graft at Cunard line, with officers allegedly paid by Veron H. Brown and others. Testimony covers detectives, pawn brokers, and attempts to secure impunity through bribery, highlighting the wider criminal networks around New York streets.
The Irish Times reports that Mrs Parnell has allowed John E Redmond Timothy Harrington and J J O Kelley to examine her husband private papers to prepare a biography of Mr Parnell to be issued at a politically opportune time.
Washington October 11 The ninth annual Brotherhood of St Andrew convention began today and will run through Sunday Fifteen hundred delegates from across the nation are expected to attend the gathering. Massey indicted for murder in Burlington County New Jersey for the May 24 killing of Lieste Holante. Massey was a boarder in the Holloway home. Veteran of two wars R H McCune dies at Newburgh former Scranton resident served in Mexican and Civil Wars and was secretary of the board of trade in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania.
Time of day market notes show closing bids for Lehigh Valley Reading and New Jersey Central with superfine at 2.10 extras 2.00, winter family 2.00, and various roller and clear prices. New York six head cattle market remains steady but dull with native steers around 4.20 to 5.16 per 100 pounds and fair to good quality trades.
A frost near Columbus Mississippi Tuesday night destroyed the cotton crop in the area. Lewis T Johnson a 22 year old Washington negro survived after being nearly cut in two by a train. Suspended officers refused to go to Darlington during whisky inquiry.
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