Warmer notes and obituaries from Madison and Evansville
A Madison brief notes the ill Esquire John Dishinge and local officials. It lists November marriage licenses, business openings, a December redmen dance, teacher examinations, an administrator appointment, and engagements. Evansville items report deaths of James O Boicourt and other funerals with pallbearers and cemetery interments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Esquire
John Dishinge
Graham
Peter Benson
John Schilling
State Court Delays Several Assault and Disturbance Cases
In circuit court the cases State vs Peter Thenis and Heenan Dolan for assault and battery were continued to the next term. State vs Richard, George and Thomas Harkins, Joseph Williams and Joshua Moore for disturbing a Republican meeting at Wirt were continued. The petit jury was discharged and State vs George Frooks for assault was dismissed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Thenis
Heenan Dolan
Richard
George
Thomas Harkins
Joseph Williams
Joshua Moore
Wirt
Marcus Sulzer
Sheeny
Pennsylvania Lines West Freight Blockade Widespread
The Indianapolis Journal notes a broad freight blockade across the Pennsylvania lines west with talk of the Big Four extending the Aurora branch to Madison. It reports the Pennsylvania directors approving a $2,000,000 upgrade next year to implement a four track plan, countering prior reports of layoffs and halted improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
Pennsylvania Lines
Aurora
Madison
Madison, Bedford and Brownstown Company
Pennsylvania
Shanty-Boat Widow In Clark County Foreclosure Case
The Hogan family story ends with Deputy Sheriff Long and Scotty Newkirk ejecting Mrs. Hogan from the farm after Clark Circuit Court foreclosure. They seized farming utensils to cover $360 rent, leaving the widow homeless in the river shanty boat where Harrison Hogan once died.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison Hogan
Bull Creek
Hogan
William H.long
Scotty” Newkirk
Jeffersonville
Marie Antoinette Watch, A Rare 302-Jewel Relic Revealed
Dr Joseph DeLeste owns a famed gold repeater watch once worn by Marie Antoinette. The ornate timepiece features 302 jewels, three shades of gold, ivory portrait, and a bell struck repeater. It bears inscription Chevalier Paris 3464 and has a storied past including theft rumors and bids in 19th century America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Madison
Joseph 8. DeLeste
Marie Antoinette
Louis XVI
Vicksburg
Europe
Weather Expert Predicts January Cold and Storms
Prof Ira Br Hicks forecasts a volatile January 1893 with storms rain sleet and snow from the first to the fifth followed by a bitter cold wave to the ninth. Temperatures rise around mid month then fall again into hard winter storms from the fourteenth to the seventeenth with a broad cold wave spreading south and east into late January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ira BR. Hicks
Hood's Sarea parille and Hood's Pills advertised
The Plain Truth praises Hood's Sarea parille as a medicine and Hood's Pills as easy effective relief. It urges buy from druggists at 25 cents, claiming notable merit and proven benefits without sensationalism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood
Madison Area News In Briefs On Weddings and Local Affairs
Egbert Tingle and Flora Jones win licenses to marry while Robert Layton and Anna Gallagher also licensed. John Tait receives a $12 monthly pension. County assessors adjust the tax list as farmers feed wheat. A German Lutheran Church fundraiser nets $275. Public balls planned by Reynard Huntings Club. World's Fair souvenir dollars offered at $1 each. John McIntyre buys a homestead for $2,000. Red Men membership noted for Antle and Kemper. A monument to Newton S Temperly is erected in Springdale cemetery. Bridge and road matters due before county commissioners. A three-month infant burial at Springdale cemetery. Saddle tree representative Claggett returns home after failed factory enlistment. Margaret Venneman dies in Cannon Springs, Colorado. Local quail and rabbit hunts reported. Delegates to Indiana Road Congress named. Mullen vs Penn RR suit settled for $2,000. Lizzie Campbell wed Charles Close. Progressive euchre hosts praise Kronenberger and Hoffstadt. William D. Burford completes electric plant machinery work in Madison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egbert Tingle
Flora Jones
Robert Layton
Anna Gallagher
John Tait
Lagan
National Branch Bank
John McIntyre
Omnibus
Martin Mullen
Third Street
Isaac Antle
G. A. Kemper
Juniata Tribe of
Richard Temperly
Newton S
Springdale
Luella Bates
West Madison
Claggett
Jeffersonville
Saddle Tree Combine
Madison
Margaret Venneman
Cannon Springs
Colorado
N.T. Drake
John Byrne
North Elm Street
Thanksgiving faculty reception hosted by Music Instructor Chamberlain
The annual faculty reception on Thanksgiving evening was hosted by music instructor Mrs Chamberlain, praised as highly successful. Faculty and students filled parlors until midnight with informal vocal and instrumental music, heard after a Y M C A meeting featuring delegates from the Logansport state convention. The report highlighted Morse Munroe Keil Sheeks Connor Young and Upton as contributors to the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
Logansport
Wisses Morse
Munroe
Kei
Barr
College Place
Juvenal
Madison
Innocuons Desuetade
Sentinel to Publish Apology on Campaign Lie
A Madison Indiana dispute over saloon keeper accusations ends with Perry E Bear and Solomon J Bear of Madison obtaining a retraction and apology from the Indianapolis Sentinel after an investigation exonerates them. The Sun notes a frost story and local club election results as side items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry E. Bear
Jefferson County
John Cruzan
Madison
Ind
Denison. ‘House Register
Sentinel
Champion
Indianapolis
Bear To the Sun
W. H. Seale
Terre Haute
Tennessee
The
Solomon J. Bear
Indianapolis Sentinel
P. E. Bear
Bear
Cruzan
Indianapolis Sun
Child Treated for Measles Benefits from New Discovery
Mr and Mrs Loren Trescott of Sandwich report their four year old daughter suffered measles with severe cough and fever before rapidly waning to a mere handful of bones. Home and Detroit doctors failed but Dr King s New Discovery cured her completely. They say the remedy is worth its weight in gold and offer a free trial bottle at Har.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loren Trescott
Gov. Lighthouse
Sand ‘Wich
Detroit
Har
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Big Creek
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Thomas Mullen
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Lizzie Campbell
Engelwood
Charles Close
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Miss Campbell
M. K. Carroll
I. L. Stearn
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Isadore Baer
Michael Hoffstadt
William D. Burford
Mr. Barford
Hanover College
Perry Bear
Rotten Persimmons
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Will Luckett
Joseph Schofield
John Little
Gilpert Buchanan
George Henry
Will Montz
Castoria
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