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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1891
Page
8
Store offers redemption for defective Duck Brand Rubber Garments manufactured by Duck Brand Co Chicago. Warranties accompany rubber coats and circulars including Ladies Peasant Princess Electric Circulars Greenways for Children and Men Yale Mountaineer Coats.
Madison and surrounding areas report multiple deaths including Mrs Long and Mrs Sanford, plus funeral details. Street improvements reduce mud as officials discuss elections with candidates and public notices. Hints of social events and club plans precede a grand Easter Monday ball by the Comet Club.
The community mourns the death at 4 30 a m of Mrs J W Hinds widow of coal merchant James Wilson Hinds. Born Madison August 27 1812 she married Dr J T Lingle in 1831 and James Hinds in 1836. Survived by children Marion Ashley James Leroy Charles Carroll Alice Evaline John Ward Anna Mary Ruth Emma William Wallace Lizzie Luella and siblings. Funeral arrangements to be announced in tomorrow's Herald.
President Ingalls introduces yellow Big Four coaches into Louisville via O M tracks, adding five daily trains each way to Chicago and Indianapolis and challenging the Pennsylvania routes. The change promises a rate war and faster service, with Big Four using 57 miles of O M between North Vernon and Louisville and skipping local stops. Madison strategizes a new line from Madison to the O M to compete with Pennsylvania, aiming for direct links to Cincinnati and St Louis.
Mrs Mary Moore widow of John E Moore died at her daughter Mrs Hoffman’s home on East Main Street just after 10 pm Sunday night. Born in Pittsburgh in 1815 she came to the city in 1838 and lived here until death. Funeral at 2 pm today drew many who cherished her charitable acts and she was buried at Fairmount Cemetery.
Theodore Dorst First Mate on the Falls City river packet was badly injured when a heavy timber crushed his legs while unloosing the boat He was taken to the Marine Hospital in Louisville Meanwhile Rev J T Davis former Madisonian moved to Jeffersonville to practice medicine and resigns from his M E church pastorate An investigation into church troubles is set for March 10 at the Jeffersonville M E church Marlatt presiding Elder of Columbus will lead the inquiry
Marriage licenses issued this morning to Otis B. Sappington and Bertha Hennessey, and to Joseph Lambert and Mary Davison. Jeffersonville News notes the couples are Kentucky elopists.
Reports from Westphalia warn of a potential miners strike clash with troops amid wage protests and privation. Paris details a fatal hippodrome accident as Nero rehearsals end in tragedy.
In Cumberland Gap Tennessee a Sunday night fight left Hugh Johnson a spoonkeeper dead at the hands of Chesley Gibson Jr. Moe Gibson was wounded by Garrett Southers. Johnson had accused Gibson's father of whisky indictment. Alfred C. Raymond, veteran manufacturer and examiner, died in New Haven, Connecticut.
From Bogota the U S minister reports Colombia is among the most mountainous nations making transport costly with mule hauls from rivers. Only nine railroads exist totaling about 900 kilometers with limited native company involvement. Congress granted foreign concessions to spur new roads.
The advertisement urges purification of the blood in March to May, touting Hood's Sarsaparilla as the people’s favorite spring medicine. It claims to purify blood, cure scrofula and salt rheum, regulate kidneys and liver, repair nerves, strengthen the body, and halt disease progression. It encourages trying the product this season.
Boston market report covers grain and wool prices from Woolf Ohio Pennsylvania XXX and pickbex with No 3 and No 2 grades, including wheat at Hew 101 and corn at D B Wc. Cattle and hog values shown with ranges for good to choice butchers and fair to good stock, lambs, lamb prices, and live cattle quotes. Includes regional notes for Michigan Kentucky Indiana Missouri Georgia and New York markets with varied month and grade adjustments.
Market rundown from Madison Indiana dated March 11 1891 lists fire insurance bids for Perfection Invincible Triumph and City Mills plus grain futures No 2 red wheat 95 to 96 cents car corn 57 to 65 cents new corn 57 to 68 cents oats 55 cents. Seeds and bulk goods include Timothy 1.60 to 1.75 clover 4.50 to 4.75 orchard grass 1.25 to 1.35 blue grass 3.00 to 3.25 red top 40 cents Hungarian 80 to 90 cents. Groceries prices for lard bacon coffee sugars dried fruit meal molasses oils and potatos eggs beans hay and hides are listed with typical ranges for the Madison market.
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