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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1892
Page
8
News notes: John GC Duffy and Rosie Haghe receive license to wed as local society items list marriages, obituaries, legal notices, and community events from a 19th century newspaper page.
A Madison group gathers for Miss Grey of Madison with listed attendees. A 1848 large hog known as Big Boned China is recalled by an Indiana Farmer correspondent. Excursion tickets to Madison Fair week are announced by OU M Railroad. A murdered woman’s body found in Louisville remains unidentified. Hodson is committed without bail for his father’s murder in Evansville. Local youths raise a 65 foot Democratic pole at Depot and Presbyterian. Stevenson may visit Indianapolis and Jefferson County. Jefferson County Fair tickets and special trains are arranged. A Times feature profiles Sir Lacy in Columbus. Anderson tin-plate works sold to settle liens. wages of Welsh workers noted. County Democratic convention called for Aug 25 at Madison Court House. Indiana Democratic Editors plan midsummer meeting at Lake Maxinkuckee with talks and freshwater travel to World’s Fair.
Readers report benefits from Hood's Sarsaparilla with cures for indigestion dyspepsia sick headache and blood diseases. They claim it combats fatigue and scrofula salt rheum and other ailments, praising the medicine as trustworthy and effective.
The advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as reliable and trustworthy as a neighbor and recommends Hood's Pills as a general family cathartic, claiming they should be in every home medicine chest.
A textile ad announces Wasu Goods offered in black fabrics for summer wear. It lists BLACK Dotted Swiss, Grendine Stripe, LPordered Novelties, Bedford Cords, Embroidered Swiss, Bulgaria Lawn, Plaids and Stripes. Prices range from 12 percent to 35 cents with warranted fast colors.
Copeland A Wise died at 11 30 last night at his daughter Mrs Orin Marshalls home after a week of kidney hemorrhage. Born March 4 1918 at Fairmount he grew up near Madison and ran livery ice and transfer businesses before retiring. Survived by children Del Martin Helen Palmer Hunter Tidd Jennie Hunter Mack B Edgar Wise Orin Marshall and the late Story. Funeral tomorrow at 9 am with burial at Fairmount Cemetery Rev Barnard to officiate.
After the Columbus excursion steamer docked at Madison a violent free fight broke out involving over 150 people. A Madison man was mortally wounded and several others hurt as knives clubs and other weapons were used. Drunken excursionists insulted women and were tossed from the boat by Madisonians.
Denver August reports that Colorado is crowded with Knights Templar as mountains valleys and resorts overflow. Rail lines to Denver strain with crowds arriving at about a thousand per hour and fifty thousand expected today.
Crowds flood Denver as 30 000 Knights Templar prepare a grand parade to the Masonic temple. Grand Master Gobind arrives incognito to a warm reception amid plans for banquets and drills at Riverfront Park and Overland Park during a multi day conclave drawing members from across the nation and Canada.
London Ohio reports John Nicholson aged eighty nine committed suicide by loading a barrel faucet with powder and firing it at his temple after his wife left with a former husband. He faced separation and poverty, ending his life rather than move to an infirmary. Incendiary fires strike West Virginia and Liverpool, destroying factories and warehouses with heavy losses. Aver's Sarsaparilla praised as a great blood purifier.
John Boyd Thacher proposes opening the World’s Columbian Exposition on May 5 1893 to honor Americus Vespucius. The idea follows a historic note tied to the christening day of America with references to 1507 publications and May 5 as a calendar coincidence.
Newton Talibot, a City Electric employee, died after contact with a trolley wire and a guy wire in Port Huron Mich. He was shocked by 500 volts and pronounced dead despite immediate rescue. The incident prompted surprise due to the relatively low voltage involved.
Enlled His Own Sentence. Concorp New Hampshire August 9 John Donnelly who was sentenced to thirty years for killing a prominent Berlin Falls citizen yesterday committed death by self in his state prison by cutting his throat with his case knife. Weather shows showers in the north portion cooler northwest winds. An Indiana Madison post office letters list shows uncalled letters with names and notes for retrieval.
An advertisement offers Dr Kaufmans medical book with 100 pages and colored plates. Readers can obtain a free copy by sending three two cent stamps to A P Ordway & Co Boston Mass for postage.
The proprietors A P Ordway & Co recently shipped three dozen bottles of Sulphur Bitters to the Catholic Home for the Aged. The directors and inmates highly appreciate the donation. Also included is a testimonial from W D Bird praising Simmons Liver Regulator for biliousness and indigestion after doctors failed.
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