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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1891
Page
1
The piece critiques the McKinley tariff impact on tin plate and paints, cites Wales sourcing, rising costs for workers, and argues English wage cuts may ripple to American farmers. It references Senator Cameron, Teller, and Hill, and mocks GOP defense of protectionism while predicting ongoing, slow effects.
The Madison Indiana post office lists uncalled letters dated Tuesday January 27 1801. Ladies Carrie Curran Annie Grossmun Sora Kindall Relda Lyons Mary Maysfeld Annie Nassey Eva Oneal Mrs J G Raw Alice Straub Donnie Taylor Sallie Tague Mrs Mary Webster. Gentlemen G Beall Edward Bradley Emmit Brown George Jones John Jones Ulysses Marton Friedrich Reitemeyer H Wach Joseph Wilson. Request advertised letters by recipients with date. uncalled letters after two weeks go to dead letter at Washington. M C Garber P M.
A massive January storm paralyzes telegraph and telephone networks from New York to New England. Widespread damage includes downed poles and wires, with estimates of hundreds of miles of lines lost, repairs taking weeks. Reports note factory losses, market impact in Wall Street, and emergency actions by Western Union and Postal companies.
A Rapid City special reports Indians struck the Noah Newbanks ranch at Lower Spring Creek Saturday night. After a supper gathering, glass shattered and rifles fired. The whites fired back, Indians retreated toward the Cheyenne. No injuries. ground checked for blood later.
Indiana politics feature a party line vote 60 to 6 as the house refuses to appropriate money for the Columbian exposition until the U.S. Senate disposes of the force bill. Debates center on race tensions and northern southern interests, with Democrats arguing for the bill’s impact on the south. Senate advances engrossment while constitutional amendment reports prepare for ratification.
Notices announce licenses to sell malt and spirituous liquors in Madison Indiana with premises details and applicant names ROBERT HUMPHREYS JAMES GEBEST and others. Also trusteeship insolvency appointment and final settlement calls, plus administrator sale of Joseph L Wood estate in Graham township Jefferson county with terms and dates.
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