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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1891
Page
4
Fragmented Madison Indiana edition reports on Kansas politics and party tensions, Supreme Court seat appointment, and McKinley era tariff debates. Includes dubious health ads and testimonials for Dr King's New Discovery with local drugstore offer.
The Bureau of American Republics reports a Brazilian venture named Companhia Nova Era Rural de Brazil with a capital of 2 000 000. It aims to establish twenty agricultural settlements tied by rail, mine, and sugar works, welcoming 5 000 skilled families transported free of cost to Brazil to start villages, with government guarantees of part of the investment.
A New York syndicate paid 600000 in gold for the Ramon sugar estate in Cuba and plans to expand cultivation to 100000 bags next year. Other syndicates buy Luisa estate near Sugua and seek similar deals. A group also plans steamship storage to transport sugar to the United States, cutting costs.
Reports from an Argentine government expedition up the Parana river describe the Gran Chaco as a promising region in the northern Argentine Republic. The party traveled thousands of miles and found a mild healthy climate rich dry soil with large maize crops, bamboo cane, and valuable timber.
AvcTooxa December 26. Miners in Central Pennsylvania coal fields demand a shift from fifty cents gross to fifty cents net per ton and threaten to quit starting January 1 if their demand is not granted. They cite new working terms and warn of a potential work stoppage.
Miss Gertrud M. Binnay of Atchogue Long Island and F Okinson of Lubune Iowa, a freshman in the medical department and a junior in homeopathic school respectively, were crowned last night while skating about two miles from the city. Their bodies were not yet recovered.
Isaac B. Law reports a murder trial where the defendant listened to counsel on Christmas Day and was found guilty. The sentence is set for the first Tuesday in January. In Oxford Alabama a Christs festival riot ends in gunfire and multiple injuries, with Len Puter fleeing and two men fatally hurt.
Indianap olis December 6 word reached relatives of Cyrus Hines senior and long time law partner of President Harrison. Hines suffered an apoplectic stroke and is believed fatally stricken. Judge Hines is at his Ludlow New Hampshire home.
Heavy snow is expected across the Ohio valley and middle Atlantic states with extending falls into Friday over the lower Lake region reaching New England. Easterly winds may affect the middle Atlantic and southern New England coasts Friday and on the northern New England coast Friday night.
Senator Mitchell presented a Portland Oregon chamber of commerce memorial urging immediate federal action on a uniform bankrupt law. The six resolutions demand Congress use its constitutional power to enact comprehensive bankruptcy, favor both voluntary and involuntary processes, and adopt the Torrey bill as a just framework benefiting distant states and honest insolvent borrowers.
An express messenger named Vosburg was murdered last night during a drunken run in a house of ill repute on Newell avenue. Charles Daniels and Michael Beahan are in custody for complicity. a warrant for John J. Keefe of the Radford fire department is issued for the same crime. Vosburg, of the Lutia'o line, Rochester and Pittsburg railroad, resided here and leaves a family.
In Scotland the strike paralyzes rail and sea traffic with 9,000 workers out. North British Railway largely suspended. Clyde steamers paused. Glasgow docks closed. coal for Perth gas works nearly exhausted. sugar refineries at Greenock idle. Some Aberdeen strikers return. English relations urge neutrality. threats and arson attempts noted.
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