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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1915
Page
2
Madison citizen Mrs. J. O. Buhmen reports backache and kidney symptoms improving after using Doan's Kidney Pills. She cites relief after two doses and urges others to try the tested remedy, distributed by Milburn Co. in Madison.
Twenty two year old Shearer shot and killed his father in law and a child during an attempted attack at the Stevens home in Andrews Indiana. He also wounded Mrs Stevens and was captured by locals thirty minutes after the crime. He confessed his plan to sell his wife and children and is jailed in Huntington on first degree murder charges.
The Jola J. Quinn Company secures an $125,000 contract to build eighteen miles of new sewerage in Miami Florida. The project uses deep below sea level excavations with Vitrified pipe from Macon Georgia and will include a pumping station and incinerator, with Charles W. Murray as engineer in charge and J P Leahy supervising on site.
In Milton Ky on March 13 a tenant house on Taylor Barr's farm in Liberty neighborhood housing Villa Perkinson and family burned with all contents lost. No insurance. Earlier that day Charlie McMahan's country home in Pleasant Retreat burned with most contents. defective flues blamed for both blazes.
The Riverside echac building three miles from Elkhart was destroyed by fire. Loss set at £1,000 with £1,000 in insurance. Tipton Atlanta four miles south to build a cement jail and fire department train. Jackson township details and various court actions follow.
French General Joffre commander in chief almost died during a March explosive test. An official near him was killed and Joffre suffered an injury to his right arm. The report comes via mail to New York. A separate note mentions stovewood costs in British Honduras.
Madison Indiana council heard bids for city stables sales and questioned railroad cut safety near Madison. A measure endorsed library board trustees and a plan to install a sidewalk sign near Walnut Street was approved before adjournment.
Indianapolis Star reports Benjamin Sedam of Logansport hospitalized in serious condition after a sand chute at a Lake Cicott gravel pit collapsed pinning him under lumber. Four other men on the scaffold escaped the debris.
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