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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1892
Page
4
The Herald debates national policy with fiery editorials urging a Harrison vote tied to the Force Bill and anti-Tariff rhetoric. It contrasts Jeffersonian free trade ideas with modern protectionist views and questions campaign contributions by Harrison and Cleveland. The piece cites reactions from Courier-Journal and Republican presses on tariffs and strikes.
A letter from former First Assistant Postmaster-General Stevenson condemns moving Bloomington Post Office to Stevenson Block, owned by his relatives. He insists official power must not promote personal or friends’ pecuniary interests, describing the idea as unjustifyable. Cleveland and Stevenson are praised as a fitting team.
The sugar trust has filed its answer in Philadelphia denying violation of the antitrust law while admitting price rises due to its market actions. The piece argues McKinley era policies added costs to sugar via tariffs and a bounty, boosting consumer prices and protecting refiners. A congressional bill to remove trust protections is pending, unlikely to pass before a new Democratic Congress.
The New York World notes a wave of labor unrest since the McKinley tariff began. About 1,200 miners in Dayton Tennessee struck after wage cuts, with over 475 additional strikes nationwide resisting wage reductions in protected industries. Col. L. M. Quarles reflects on presidential gravity at Cleveland’s nomination, comparing it to historic leaders and noting the heavy burdens of the office.
The 1890 Consul General News Report shows Britain imported 2.108 billion and exported 1.647 billion, with raw cotton a major factor. It notes Britain’s free trade enables vast exports of manufactured cotton while the United States ships mostly raw cotton. The Courier-Journal cites tariffs as harming US manufacturing and cites Carnegie’s infant industry and Republicanism critiques.
At Homestead Duquesne strike action turned violent with clubs and stones as 300 strikers confronted 30 returning workers. Deputies pressed back, Milslagle beaten, militia deployed, Sixteenth regiment secured the mill, and orders issued to bar entrances. Several defendants granted bail in a related Carnegie Steel case.
The Homestead mill reports no layoffs and promises full operation with double shifts by Monday while offering free board. A Pinkerton detective, Fred Primer, surrendered in Pittsburgh and faces a Saturday hearing. Captain Hines remains critically ill, and 8000 Studebaker workers have gone on strike over steel origin from Carnegie works.
A heavy rains flood down a hillside in St Paul caused by a blocked culvert left a lake two acres wide and forty five feet deep. Three people died Mrs August Adams Fred Krenzer and Karl Klenk's baby with several injured including Phillip Stoehr and Mrs Phillip Stoehr.
William Hodson master drayman and local Republican stalwart was shot to death Thursday afternoon by his son Harry who had long troubled the family. An eye witness exposed the killing as not suicide and Harry Hodson was arrested. Other items report bicycle maneuvers at Jefferson Barracks and a possible St Louis to Chicago relay race, a seizure of the whaling schooner Jane Gray near St Paul, a Lima robbery by a highwayman identified as Edwards, and the drowning of Oscar James at Put-in-Bay with remains recovered.
Wisconsin Central Line offers through car travel from Chicago via Northern Pacific to Yellowstone and Wisconsin and Northwest resorts. Pullman Vestibuled and Tourist Sleepers, meals in dining cars, free pamphlets from Chicago offices. Countering strong drink with Simmons Liver Regulator.
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