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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1891
Page
3
The December 26 issue notes that fifteen couples were granted marriage licenses that week. It also reports local events including agricultural yields, medical ads for Simmons Liver Regulator, church services, funerals, and various village notices amid a collage of 1891 holiday happenings.
Reports from December 26 detail multiple killings and assaults across cities: ex convict Joseph Leining fatally shoots John J. Wogan during a brawl at Tom Gols dive on Sixth Avenue New York, and police pursue the suspect. In Nebraska Scripner Charley Behrendt fatally wounds his father with a butcher knife during a Christmas spree. a large posse hunts him. Other brief items note a Greenwich Village homicide, a Georgetown Italian settlement tragedy, and additional domestic disputes resulting in injuries or deaths.
Mrs McFazzie watches as John’s boxing lesson turns domestic. Mr McFrazzle plans self defense training for Johnny but returns with pain and a remedy bottle after discovering the method involved a strap. Johnny sits in the woodshed in sorrow and repentance.
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