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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1892
Page
7
Madison reports rise in boils and a survey by Henry C White while a religiously driven wanderer is jailed in Warsaw Kentucky. Numerous local items cover birthdays, marriages, pensions, post charters, hunts, fires, prizes, a Christmas pie tradition, and two youths hospitalized after a train incident.
In an early morning altercation at the Imperial saloon on Chestnut opposite the Laclede Hotel, owner Charles Reed struck and kicked Stone, a self-described cousin of Governor-elect Stone, who was with Hon. Squire Turner. Stone suffered facial injuries, was taken home by hack, and Reed faces possible police court action as Sergeant Mc Namee prepares a report. Reed, a piano salesman, had recently married the heiress known as the Countess de Hodiamont and acquired the Sixth and Chestnut property for a saloon.
Long list of town notices and local items: a new church dedication in Pleasant, Indiana. a marriage license granted to James B. Gray and Mary A. Thickstone of Graham township. advertisements for Simmons Liver Regulator and Hood’s Sarsaparilla. court and legal notices including a divorce suit by Lizzie Fewell. a fatal police or coroner note. and a shooting incident after a patent hair curler agent confrontation in Milton.
Washington action stalls as both houses near Christmas break with no clear path to major bills. Senate honors late Senator Gibson, McGarrahan and anti option measures loom, while House committees edge toward sparse agenda and early adjournment.
In Jennings county near Hege an afflicted Bradford family endures loss after loss. Mrs Bradford, daughter of Asbury Corya, is said to be losing her mind and an inquest has set to determine her mental condition with plans to send her to an asylum. A lavish reception at Dr William R Davidson's home honored Miss Marion Page of Evansville with music by Charles Gebert's orchestra and a large guest list. George Tyre, a Moore's Hill College graduate ruined by dissipation, has broken his hip repeatedly and cannot be helped. A child is cared for by relatives while the wife is in a bawdy house.
Washington reports good authority that Senator Carlisle has been asked to join President Cleveland's cabinet as secretary of the treasury and will frame the tariff bill for the Fifty third Congress with Walker’s 1846 precedent cited. In Indianapolis a young man William Kimball died from injuries after a Saturday saloon brawl leading to a murder charge against McCormick.
An old advertisement touts Dr Sanford's Liver Invigorator as a remedy for torpid liver and related symptoms. It claims thousands are cured annually and encourages readers to ask their druggist for the product.
Mrs Laura I Patterson of Newton Iowa reports a year ago a doctor predicted she would not live to fall. By Piso's Cure she recovered enough to work a hard day. June 20 1892.
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