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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1892
Page
5
Jeffersonville items report bridge work to resume June 1 and local projects in Madison include a new street sprinkler end of season notes. Headlines cover stray weather, floods, baseball challenges, pension grants, local mills running day and night, and a fatal lightning strike near Seymour.
A wide array of items from Jeffersonville to Columbus cover school funding, student com mencements and anniversaries. Notables include Capt Josh Cook's paralysis, a Columbia excursion, a Salvation Army protest, and a prison policy change allowing evening music.
The poem describes a western Downs tomb and fading water meadows as darkness spreads. A strange voice calls to the night with hoarse cries, weighing with a monstrous woe. The speaker wonders if the sounds come from the marsh or from within, recalling an ancient cry tied to a word young and unknown.
In Henry County near Drennon Springs Geo Heilman killed Warren Hudson after Hudson demanded a retraction. Hudson fired first, Heilman wounded but alive, both men met to settle the dispute, and Heilman was placed under arrest.
John W Vandagrift died yesterday afternoon at 54 after a long throat illness. He came to Louisville in 1875 and ran a whisky business at 119 Third Street. He served as Secretary and Treasurer of the Independent Order of the Iron Hall and leaves a widow and son William. Funeral this afternoon at 3 at the Cathedral, with interment in St Louis cemetery. Pallbearers to be chosen from business friends.
Last evening Robert Rea Jr the liveryman s grandson sustained a fractured right shin after a teal team backed into his bicycle at W First street near Graham s livery stable. He remained cheerful and hopes to return to play soon. Mrs Hutchings was knocked down by George Bolen s safety at West and Third streets but suffered no injuries.
Advertisement proclaims Electric Bitters as a pure medicine curing liver and kidney diseases, pimples, salt rheum, malaria, headaches, constipation and indigestion. Promises full satisfaction or money refunded with bottles priced 50 cents and 1.00 at J E Harper's Drugstore.
The advertisement touts Ayer’s Pills as the most reliable remedy for constipation headaches dyspepsia and biliousness. It claims they purify the blood aid digestion prevent illness during colds or fevers and are sugar coated and purely vegetable.
Advertising copy promotes the Chicago to Northwest routes via the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul Railway. It touts new equipment, comfortable seating, luxurious drawing rooms, and superior dining car service. Trains run from Grand Central Station in Chicago with Union Depot connections at St Paul for through express service to the Great Northwest. May 5.
The Wisconsion Central Lines gain the name Line of Lakes due to lakes and summer resorts along its routes. Noted destinations include Fox Lake, Lake Wills, Waukesha, Mukwonago, Cedar Lake, Neenah, and Ashland with sport fishing and game like bass muskellunge geese and quail. Wisconsin’s scenery and climate are praised as unmatched, attracting visitors from cities to the Gulf and Atlantic coasts. Pamphlets available free via DLW JANOWITZ Indianapolis or JAS. C. POND Chicago.
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