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Newspaper

Madison Weekly Herald

Location

Madison, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Jan 22, 1891

Page

8

Prisoners, clergy, and local notices fill county page

Reports list three prisoners Matt Adams Norman Shafer and Henry Thornton. Indiana Senate chaplain Rev Ira J Chase seen. Local items include marriages voyages church services and legal actions with towns Madison Decatur and Brookaburg, plus factory and railway developments and a dancing party.

County Matt Adams Norman Shafer Henry Thornton Ira J. Chase Indiana Will Loreaster Indiana State Senate

Remnant Counter Offers 300 Bargains at Closeout Prices

Preparatory to invoicing over 300 remnants short lengths and odd pieces are offered at closeout prices this month. Dress goods flannels white goods and cloth remnants await buyers for children's dresses and other uses. Odd linen towels embroideries laces and short lengths are advertised as very cheap. Plush jackets cloth jackets offered at cut prices without regard to cost.

S. S. Moffett & Son

Stranger in Kentucky House Creates Stir in Neighborhood

A well-dressed stranger with a German accent stirred tensions by peeping into sitting rooms and opening a shuttered residence in the Kentucky House area. An officer may keep watch in that part of the city after the incident drew attention.

Kentucky U. S Old Saul Dr. Bull

Madison community notes bid for rail depot and civic changes

The Madison area reports Auditing James Crozier elected president of the M. and M. Club, Rev J H Green resigns as pastor to join a Baptist church, and local business ventures including a plating firm and a mail carrier's fogbound commute. Stockholders elect five directors for Madison Marine Railway Co as debates over depot access continue. A public health advisory warns against mercury in catarrh remedies.

Acme Joseph Clay Abbott James 4H. Crozier Madison Crosiar J. H. Green Dillon Street M.E Indianapolis Baptist Church Green Michigan Denver Colorado Madison Marine Railway Co Korbly Ford M. A. Sweeney James W. Sweeney James Hill M. Strader C. A. Korbly Sweeney Brothers E. M. Clen Doc Milton Indiana Shore Broadway Hollow Indiana

Indiana Senate Backs Trusts and McKinley Bill Clash

In Indianapolis on January 20 the Indiana Senate wrangled over a Mount resolution urging Congress to abolish the dressed beef trust and repeal the McKinley bill. Republicans faced votes against the request as amendments and procedural fights dominated the session. House measures follow, including oil inspector reforms and library bond authorizations for counties and cities.

Senate IndianNapolis Mount Congress National Congress Magee

Aged Inmate Killed at County Infirmary in Indiana

The county infirmary near LeBanon Indiana reports the death of 70 year old George Warbuton from a crushed skull. Sam Curtis a 45 year old Black inmate confessed to the killing saying the dispute over morning fires sparked the murder. Curtis is jailed awaiting further action.

LeBanon Ind George Warburton Sam Curtis Curtis

Markets Review Jan 19 1891 Money Wheat Cattle Prices

Wall Street money on call 3 4 percent. Exchange steady. Government and currency rates listed. Wheat corn oats live stock prices for cattle hogs sheep and lambs in Pittsburgh Chicago and Cleveland markets. Madison Indiana post letters uncalled for list with request to claim before two weeks.

Madison Indiana

Gold finds and burglaries mix in Indiana news round

In Finly township Scott county locals report gold and other minerals on lands owned by Chris Sides Charles Bartle Dave Bartle E R Stewart and William Richey who have leased to a Louisville syndicate. Other Indiana items include railway pay talks at Indianapolis with Grand Chief Arthur and a postal telegraph worker clash in Clay county plus a Shelbyville burglary and a Connersville farmer finding a jewel case, with a Columbus pardon for John M McKee.

Svortspurg Ind Finly Scott Chris Sides Charles Dave Bartle E. R. Stewart William Richey Louisville Silver Hills Pigeon Roost Creek

Local Market Report with Grain Groceries and Hides Prices

The notice lists commodity prices from Dec 11 1890 including flour wheat and coal with values such as Perfection flour 540 Invincible 49 Trivuips 45 and Best Pittsburgh coke at 9 cents. Groceries show lard ham coffee sugar dried apples butter and molasses with varied cents per unit. hay seeds oats and grasses priced per bushel or ton. Names cited include J. W. Thomas Pat ion Wade and Kronenberg es with hides wool and other farm commodities priced per pound or ton.

Trow &C City Mills J. W. Thomas California New Orleans

Mileage Tickets Issued For Pennsylvania Lines

Beginning January 20 1891 non transferable one thousand mile tickets will be sold at two cents per mile or twenty dollars by line agents at principal points. Unused existing Pennsylvania Line mileage tickets will be honored on all roads operated by the Pennsylvania Company or the Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago and St Louis Railway. Only One Thousand Mile Tickets will be sold thereafter. E A Ford Gen Passenger Agent Pittsburgh January 15 1891.

Pennsylvania System Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Company Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company E. A. Ford Jan

Death From a Fall Near Chillicothe

Christopher Anding a Baltimore and Ohio railroad house carpenter died after stepping off a Hillsboro train and falling on the track in Chillicothe Ohio on January 20.

Blanchester Christopher Anding Baltimore and Ohiouthwestern Railroad Chillicothe Hilsboro

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