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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1891
Page
2
The Madison issue reports on Senator Voorhis health rumors and describes a wave of political chatter in Washington. It notes Cabinet talks, reciprocity debates, and references to national leaders, with scattered commentary on press opinions and international finance. It also includes ad copy for various remedies and a testimonial note from A. E. Neseman.
The Farmers Alliance debates its objects in multiple states with canvassers and speakers. Washington dispatches note ongoing activities, discussions of aims, aggressive canvassing, and tensions over postmaster power and public order. A violent storm hit the city, delaying events as rain disrupted expectations.
James Crooks, inmate at the county asylum, refused work and hid in a Monon tract ravine for five weeks. Found by hunters emaciated and infested, he could not move, later revived in the asylum with whispered accounts of fasting five weeks. Doctors deem survival extraordinary.
In Atchison Wan June 8 rain and high winds disrupted Missouri Pacific trains between Leavenworth and Stettson Pros. Tracks near Weeping Water are blocked by debris, many passengers transferred. no southbound trains arrived for 24 hours. Crews work to clear the line as service remains suspended across several cities.
Fragmentary OCR text recounts a counterfeiting case involving Robert Pechert Pine tar and James Th bften at a Seven teenth Street address, plus a public note on Governor Pattison and a cemetery description. It also mentions a German bakery strike near Chicago with 1200 workers, 400 soon returning, and leadership figures in early 20th century context.
A mob of about twenty three drunken tramps overpowered train crews on the southbound Pennsylvania line at Indianapol is and forced the freight to move. Nine captives were jailed after a skirmish at the Belt crossing in Coltimers with police and a box car raid. Names and origins of the men are given as Harrington Rodhers Sutton Bundy Dissop Wallace Dalton Corded Shaver from Ohio and Mississippi.
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