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Andrew Grandstaff, a young desperado of Richland Centre, Wis., was captured June 2nd, and confessed the crime of killing old Reuben Drake, his wife and two grandchildren. He was taken from jail by a mob, and lynched, being tortured to death. There was almost a riot at the Second Presbyterian church in Newburyport last Sunday, owing to the parish committee having locked the doors and stationed an officer to prevent the late pastor, Rev. Theodore Beizeley, from entering. Legal complications are expected to ensue. New Hampshire Items Neil Sheehan, of “the landing,” at Dover, one of the liquor sellers who some time ago signed the …

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First they came for the undocumented immigrants,and I did not speak out because I was happy to get rid of them. Then they came for the foreign students,and I did not speak out because they were foreign. Then they came for the green card holders,and I did not speak out because they were taking Americans’ jobs. Then they came for the Muslims,and I did not speak out because they weren’t Christians. Then they came for the judges who ruled against them,and I did not speak out because judges are usually way too liberal. Then they came for the unions,and I started to get a little …

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A former Mayor of Claremont has asked us to consider covering an out-of-state corporation’s plan to build, on a one-acre site in that city, a processing facility that would handle 500 tons of construction and demolition debris daily. We have neither the resources, nor the inclination, to comply with every such request, this case seems clear enough, and the underlying issues grave enough, that we could not resist. Besides, the former mayor’s email practically does the job for us: “For years Acuity, an out-of-state business, has tried to get Claremont’s approval to expand its recycling operation into a transfer station for tons of construction and …

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The recent shooting of a health care magnate on the streets of New York furthers the argument that the Gilded Age is back—in full force. Any 19th century anarchist would immediately recognize Brian Thompson’s killing as a case of what’s called “propaganda of the deed.” These were violent acts meant to show the broader public that, while the prevailing political and economic systems might have been powerful and omnipresent, they were not omnipotent. A greater goal for these attacks was to spark a widespread insurrection; their consistent failure to achieve that end no doubt helps to account for their gradual decline. Until recently, anyway. It’s …

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The City Loses Another Suit Judge Chase handed down his decision in the suit of John E. Rider vs. the city on Tuesday and ordered that the claim of the ex-alderman be paid. Emery and Hatch for Rider, Page for the city. There still remains one suit for the city to lose, that for the payment of the south-end fountain and we should advise the city to settle that at once. Every law suit into which the city has been drawn during the past two yearts has been lost and it seems as if our legal advice was proving rather costly for our tax-payers. Police …

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