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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1891
Page
8
A mixed summary of social events and local incidents including fashion notes on hoop skirts, an evening train with a heavy passenger list, marriage rumors, a log mill snake nest, a Boy Band at a club excursion to Louisville, church repair plans, and various local personalities and happenings with funerals, ball games, and courtship tales.
Special to the Herald of Indianapolis reports Lawyer Lemon Reinghold, head of a bold burglary ring, was sentenced to ten years in the Northern penitentiary for complicity in the City Editor Brown’s house raid and other crimes. The gang, described as confident men and ex convicts, pillaged stores and residences as police puzzled over the thefts.
Sir John Macdonald shows marked decline in Ontario as attendants awaken him every two hours. The Conservative leadership question dominates discussions with Sir John Thompson favored by many western members and Sir Charles Tupper supported by others as premier, while crowds gather on Sussex Street to follow updates. Meanwhile news from other regions reports a boat capsizing near Goat Island with no body found, an attempted Haitian insurrection suppressed with executions, martial law imposed, and a Williamsburg fire causing extensive damage estimated at half a million dollars.
A mixed but uneven notes market shows light business with little price change from the prior week. Markets feature corn and oats pricing, sheep and lamb values, and regional quotations from Pittsburgh Philadelphia New York and Chicago alongside a curious tale of a sinking Connecticut hill and an advertising poke for Dr Sage’s Catarrh Remedy.
A 1891 Madison Indiana page lists flour and grain prices including Perfection $5.10 and Triumph $5.30, oats at 63 to 70, hay Timothy $1.10, potatoes $1.00 per bushel, and eggs 12 to 15 dozen. The issue also shows a Madison Postoffice uncalled letters list with ladies and gents names and instructions to request advertised letters.
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