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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1891
Page
2
A chaotic mix of political invective from New Jersey figures targets Democrats in the Third District while a domestic scene unfolds with a man and woman marrying in New Brunswick. Across the Atlantic a London storm blows houses off roofs and halts services, costing lives and prompting rescues.
Sixteen men have been arrested on murder charges in the Smith lynching in Omaha. City Council member E F Mopierty and E F Parris are among those detained. police search for the man who threw the rope. Other named suspects include David Mahoney Bob Ward James Trainor and William P Bloom.
Meen Or reports Kennett Hopkins & Co. clerk Stout fled New York three weeks ago after confessing via a letter aboard the White Star Steamer Germanic to embezzling from his employers and customers. Hopkins doubts the books but acknowledges possible larger losses upon full inquiry.
At Hicksville Ohio a Baltimore and Ohio fast mail train from Chicago to New York derailed on a sharp curve. Two passengers were killed and several injured including Emmons Blaine son of James G. Blaine who was slightly hurt. The Third Vice President was on board but uninjured.
A boiler explosion in the Chicago St Paul and Kansas City shops at South Park Injured eleven workers. Five suffered severe mutilation and two names, John J Qlowrey, John May, and Charles Newman, were expected to die though Newman might survive. The blast occurred at 4 pm yesterday afternoon.
An editorial urges voters to replace poor officials to reflect sovereign will and notes no improvement after Weather Signal Service moved to the Agricultural Bureau. It laments the army officer versus plow boy debate, compares epaulettes to hay seed, and recalls a reckless crossing by a Jersey man with a crutch amid approaching trains at Elizabeth.
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