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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1892
Page
2
The Herald Madison Indiana announces journalism rights with John Adams proprietor L Jones editor and publisher. The notice notes postal entry as second class matter at Madison Indiana and lists ownership and editorial roles.
The Massachusetts Republican State Convention adopted resolutions favoring civil service reform and endorsed President Harrison's administration. It rejected the notion that one cannot serve two masters. Amid Louisiana election results and Indiana papers, the piece notes Republican newspapers may rethink claims of a coming November outcome as the Democratic ticket faces strong crossfire. The Indianapolis Journal argues Democrats nominated a ticket that could threaten Republican chances next fall.
Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelts sharp line to the Republican Club of Massachusetts questions the Woods appointment. He notes President Harrison's judicial picks as a standard, stirring debate over merit and political influence.
The speaker argues the U S ought not purchase San Domingo due to Treasury shortages and domestic needs. He condemns spending abroad for foreign lands of aliens in race and political ideas, noting no funds and no additional real estate to be considered.
Senator Teller criticized the Force bill as infamous and said his vote against it was not bought by free silver. He stated he would not vote for the bill today. He warned that a Minneapolis convention move could split the Republican silver stance, noting tensions between parties on the issue.
A late 19th century collage reports 16 240 immigrants landed in New York last week and a cholera outbreak in Benares with 180 new cases and 135 deaths. The piece vents at politicians for spending, cites Lodge bill petitions, cites Indiana Chicago counts, and praises Hill in Georgia via Brown Colquitt.
The Indianapolis Journal comments on the Democratic State Convention as orderly and solid, noting it includes all current Democratic officers except Secretary of State Matthews who is nominated for governor. It argues the ticket is strong and capable of beating Republicans, urging realism about its strength.
In Washington a three column interview in the Washington Post has Hox Henry Watterson saying Hill is practically out of the race and Cleveland could only be defeated. He cites the New York Empire State crisis and argues that Palmer Carlisle Boise Pattison Flower Russell or any strong Democrat can be elected. The Courier Journal notes wide Democratic backing for Watterson’s views but says many leaders fear public commitment.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports the advertised Cleveland rally drew only 172 attendees, despite calls for 150 signers and 800 others and reserved boxes for ladies. Theodore Cook apologized for the small attendance, noting weak publicity.
Saccamanto and Winters in California report an earthquake with no damage this time. The Indianapolis Sentinel says the Indiana delegation to Chicago will stand up and be counted for Cleveland. A proviso suggests action if Cleveland is a candidate before the convention.
The Sentinel’s Wednesday feature purporting to show Democratic candidates was ridiculed as a fake. Observers mocked the images of Gil Shanklin Albert Gall Henderson Meyers Nye Peele noting distortions and questioned the integrity of the officers pictured.
A survey details global beauty practices from Arabia to New Guinea, noting finger and lip dyes, eye makeup, tooth gilding, tattooing, face and body colors, nose flattening, extended nails, and lip or lip-chin piercings as markers of female and male beauty.
The Line of Lakes name applies to the Wisconsin Central Lines due to lakes and summer resorts along its routes. Resorts include Fox Lake Illinois, Lake Villa Illinois, Waukesha, Mukwonago, Cedar Lake, Neenah, Waupaca, Fifield, Butternut and Ashland Wisconsin. The region offers abundant fish species and game for outdoorsmen. Wisconsin’s scenery and climate attract visitors from cities nationwide, with pamphlets available from D W Janowitz in Indianapolis or Jas C Pond in Chicago.
Miss Mollie Zigler of Southport visited Indianapolis to learn if a marriage license was issued last fall to William R. Cashion and Mollie Zigler. She related that a man claimed to have a license and to perform a ceremony, but clerk records show no license was granted.
At St. Marys Catholic church in Fort Wayne on Sunday at 1130 a.m. a gust of wind toppled paper roses into a light taper causing a blaze that engulfed the front of the cathedral. The panic sent children screaming and many attendees trampling toward exits as priests and others worked to calm the frightened crowd and aid the injured. Several priests and assistants suffered burns to hands and arms while decorations were torn away in the scramble.
In Brazil Indiana on April 25 miners and operators agreed on a coal wage scale. A six member miners committee and a five member operators committee conferred from 2 to 4 pm at the Brazil black coal office. The agreed rate is seventy cents per ton for standard coal and same pay for low coal as last year, an exact duplicate of the prior scale. President Commisky and Secretary Kennedy attended.
Engineer Hayden of the Michigan division escaped injury after a connecting rod broke near Alexandria while an express train ran at high speed. The rod pierced the cab floor and sent the engineer toward the roof, but he dodged the flying debris, shut off steam, and brought the train to a stop.
Delegates from local unions of the Brewers Employes National union meet in BufFrao with broad national representation from San Francisco to Maine. A key issue is a six week boycott of the McKechnie brewery in Canandaigua over alleged underpayment of workers, to be settled by peaceful means.
District Attorney Edward D. Bingham is missing after last seen at the Republican convention in Westchester Pennsylvania. Protests checks lie at Farmers National Bank as friends fear he left town. court may appoint Wilner W. McElree acting district attorney as proceedings begin.
Fred Burke died when a sail boat capsized during a Sunday trip on the Piscataqua River. Four people were aboard. all were thrown overboard, three were rescued with difficulty while Burke was drowned.
A large handsome Map of the United States mounted for office or home use is issued by the Burlington Route. Copies will be mailed to any address on receipt of twelve cents in postage to P. J. Eustis, Gen Pass Agent, Chicago, Illinois.
Nettie Jones describes her lover Cook Hudgins and his partner in Georgia Pacific robberies. She recounts Hudgins boasting of murder near Blount Springs and planning another he led before Christmas. Officers pursue Hudgins and an unnamed accomplice after a Day’s Gap arrest in Alabama.
Senators Teller Morgan Daniel and Sandere active in secret national silver committee sessions. Twenty states represented as free coinage supporters plan to urge a party platform endorsing free coinage or form a third party with Teller as presidential nominee and Polk of the Farmers Alliance as vice president on a single plank platform favoring unlimited coinage of gold and silver.
Ohio attorney general files state brief in the 1889 compulsory education law case. Dr. Quigley, Toledo priest, declined compliance, was arrested and convicted. Circuit court affirmed. case now seeks constitutional ruling on state power to educate children versus individual rights. The defense argues law infringes free thought and parental liberty.
W C Austin, a peripatetic newspaper man, tried to rob the Utah National Bank with a demand for 2500 dollars written on a blank check. The teller, fearing a lunatic, hid behind the counter and shouted for arrest when Austin fled and was later captured.
A Erie railroad passenger train No. 5 struck a heavily loaded car near Salamanca New York at 3 a m Sunday causing extensive damage to coaches and a private car but miraculously all 200 passengers escaped injuries. The vestibule flyer from New York to Chicago was delayed about two hours as day coaches were assembled for the continuation of the trip.
A dated advertisement promotes Lane's Family Medicine as a daily bowel stimulant and pleasant herb tonic. It urges readers with back aches or general debility to try Browns Irony Atters for liver cleanse and appetite restoration.
Paris police raid anarchist lodgings arresting forty five with four more detained in the capital. Authorities vow continued arrests to detain all known anarchists until after May Day. Similar crackdowns hit Lyons St Etienne Chaumont Lille and Argentes as 145 inmates are reported. A printing press seized yielded incendiary bulletins in multiple languages and a pamphlet urging May Day upheaval.
Advices from Tonquin report the sloop Messageress Flavales used as a troop transport went down in the Clairhue river. Thirty French soldiers and the captain drowned while fifteen escaped. Some accounts claim a boiler explosion and fire, others say a snag tore the hull. Both say the vessel was unseaworthy and condemned by a French engineer.
Maria Mahoney hired as a servant of Clifford Wharton attempted to set fire to Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church in Panly Field New Jersey as 800 worshippers gathered. She carried kerosene and fired oil while entering during prayers but was arrested and the flames were extinguished with effort.
In Texarkana at New Boston, Charles Kingwell, married to Jennie Sharp for three years, was killed by his father-in-law J D Sharp who confronted him after Kingwell had beaten his wife. Sharp surrendered to authorities.
New York police seek alert on bunco king O'Brien with a crew under watch in Montreal. Authorities believe his presence in Canada is possible and plan extradition if he is captured.
Fragmentary note mentions a claim of cure for consumption and references names and initials. No clear event, date, or location is discernible to establish a full news item.
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