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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1891
Page
7
A Madison morning report notes several incidents from injuries at a park game to a near riot after Fourth of July events. The Cyclone's Path devastates Baros Roca, a fatality list rises, and regional celebrations, weddings, and obituaries fill town notices.
Lum Peak aged twenty four while rowing an regular boat on the Ohio River opposite Rohinson’s saw-till was seized by epilepsy at 4 PM and fell into the river, drowning. The boat was recovered and river dragging prepared to recover his body. Also ad for Bucklen’s Arnica Salve promising cures for skin ailments with 25 cent price.
In Newark Ohio on July 6 a jealous lover Fred Kidwell shot Belle Imrbody twice after she refused to accompany him. The shots hit her in the right breast and shoulder blade. Kidwell fled as a crowd searched for him. two bystanders Fred Carlisle and Harry Richardson were fired upon. The incident occurred on First street in front of Mrs Yearly's house with the victim around twenty three.
Reports memorialize William Henry Gladstone eldest son of the late Prime Minister and detail political retirements. Across the Atlantic Port-au-Prince tensions rise with troops deployed and arrests feared as crowds grow volatile. Other items note a casualty on a railroad, a boiling bath accident in St Louis, multiple July fires in San Francisco, and local trials and theater losses in Ohio.
A Kanawha and Michigan railway train wreck eight miles north of Charleston West Virginia killed fourteen and injured fifty eight as two passenger coaches plunged from a burned trestle. Rescue trains arrived by afternoon with a long list of dead and injured including many Charleston Blue Creek Red House and Elk City residents and workers from nearby towns.
Store offers 40 dozen Balbriggan ribbed ladies vests at 9 cents and 25 dozen Swiss ribbed vests at 25 cents. Silk mitts priced from 15 to 75 cents, with various discount levels and former prices noted.
Latines 32 inches wide at 16 cents per yard, down from 20 cents. New Sunny Side Suiting 36 inches wide priced at 1 24 cents per yard. Fans in latest designs received today.
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