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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1892
Page
2
A Madison Indiana newspaper column surveys Democratic positions and leaders with remarks on Cleveland free silver and tariff reform. It notes upcoming conventions in June and April, critiques Mugwumps and nepotism, and comments on Treasury appointments and Raum family connections.
The ex President and Governor Campbell spoke in Providence Rhode Island last Saturday. He attacked reciprocity calling it hypocrisy and warned opponents to settle the tariff reform dispute in the national canvass. He equated protection with a forced adherence to reform and invoked the Ten Commandments amid sharp political rhetoric.
A Critical editorial argues the Behring Sea treaty cedes all U S rights to the area. It blames President Harrison for appointing an arbitration tribunal likely to decide against the United States and threatens loss beyond preserving seals.
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is promoted as a universal remedy for liver lung and blood ailments with a money back guarantee if it fails to meet advertised claims. It boasts success against skin diseases scrofula and lung consumption when taken timely and without alcohol or sugar.
Scranton People summarizes a tariff discussion noting wealth rests on land and labor, U.S. bread consumption limits, balanced trade with foreign nations, and that higher tariffs may not curb pauper labor or guarantee higher wages in protected industries.
The narrative recalls Washington’s 1781 return from Yorktown to Fredericksburg to visit his mother the day after Cornwallis’s surrender. Mrs. Washington greets him with quiet pride as he recounts years of service, while she, focused on family and memories, notes only his aging look. The reunion, reported by Mrs. Ella Basset in the Century, captures a personal portrait amid war’s end.
Indignation runs high after the murder of George G Spaulding a 19 year old from St Paul Wisconsin portage victim of George Whalen a 25 year old friend Whalen lured Spaulding to Portage Chicago trip then beat him with a broken coupling pin robbed him and dumped the body in a canal Whalen faces potential lynching if captured flux of public anger grows after the chilled crime.
Sheriff Good with twenty five men failed to capture moonshiners William C. Miller and William Pritts after thirty six hours of pursuit in Somerset County. Revenue Agent Culbertson is en route to organize a stronger expedition. The outlaws are said to be planning to kill witnesses and may surrender if pursued. At least thirty illicit distilleries are operating in the region.
An old pamphlet touts Woop's Pros- PHODINE as a universal remedy curing nervous weakness emissions spermatorrhoea impotence and related abuses. It promises mail order delivery from the Wood Chemical Co of Detroit with prices 1 package dollar six for five and urges customers to report dishonest druggists.
Two devastating fires swept New Orleans causing about 11 blocks of destruction and a 3.6 million dollar loss. The blazes began from carelessness amid extreme dryness and high winds, aided by an underfunded fire department. Captains and firefighters were injured as cotton presses and nearby buildings burned, with 185 houses destroyed in the residence district and another six blocks burned in the Laurel and Third streets area.
William P. Miner a prominent citizen and founder of the Wilkes Barre Record died yesterday at age seventy in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania. The item mixes a brief obituary with unrelated humor dialogue about a hesitant witness and a judge.
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