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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1891
Page
2
The issue mixes editorials on tariffs and trusts with Indiana politics and national races. It notes Mrs. Matheney’s recovery from a gunshot, critiques the Marion county Board of Review, and discusses Democratic and Republican dynamics, including land claims, third party shifts, and a frontier alliance. It ends with dental gold estimate and endorsements for Ely's Cream Balm.
Jeffersonville thrives on elopement, with four magistrates and several ministers profiting. Runners meet couples at the ferry, verify ages, and guide them to magistrates. Bidding wars among Squires Keigwin Hall and others determine fees, while stories of romantic escapes abound.
Philadelphia July 20 United States Senator Quay indicated he will resign the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee, citing ill health and fatigue from campaigning. He will remain on the committee and may be replaced by General John S Clarkson. A September deadline for resignation was set with an executive committee meeting scheduled for June 29 to discuss the next convention date, with May proposed as an earlier timeframe.
A drunken Eisman couple died in a cabin fire set by their sons in retaliation for liquor sold to them. The brothers attacked saloonist O Donnell during the act, killing him with an iron bar. The Eisman brothers are under arrest.
Halifax reports the schooner Pubnico Belle wrecked off the Newfoundland coast on July 9. Captain Samuel Butts and four crew members aboard a lumber voyage left Catalina for St John with ten passengers. Five women and five children perished. two women died, including Mrs Freeman. The crew allegedly abandoned the passengers as the ship washed ashore. Captain Butts defended his actions, saying he stayed with the survivors and did not desert the ten women and children.
Forty sailors from the British ship New York of Liverpool arrived in Plymouth after a harrowing voyage from Swansea. Wrecked on New Year’s Island in the South Atlantic on April 20, they endured exposure and cruelty on Staten Island and at Ooshpoia before reaching Sandy Point and returning home via the British consul.
A planned rail wreck near Smithtown was thwarted when track stones were found ahead of a eastbound Long Island railroad mail train. No crew was harmed and the perpetrators remain unknown. Meanwhile reports of a Navajo outbreak were denied as false by former Navajo agent Riordan.
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