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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1892
Page
3
Advertising a traveling physician who treats syphilis scrofula stricture and women’s diseases including lenorrhea and painful menstruation. Claims to carry portable instruments and diagnose cures, undertakes only curable cases, promises quick relief, and offers free confidential consultations in advertisement form.
Local items include Murphy set to visit Vevay in two weeks, Miss Barbara Weber visiting Miss Hummel, and betting favored to Cleveland in several states. Reports note Mrs. J. W. Garrison’s fine Madison Hotel flower collection and a spider bite recovery for James Landerbaugh’s son. A boy loses two fingers in an accident at Henry Hines’s county, while Hood’s Sarsaparilla is advertised. John McGuire fined for assault. local officials and trustees visit the Herald Office. Ex-Treasurer Marion Jaynes returns home recovered. Gambling odds show Cleveland favored nationwide. a drowning incident aboard the Evansville ferry is noted. A Brooksburg Democratic meeting draws 200 voters with Charles Korbly speaking. William Headley grows sunflowers, yielding 19,890 pounds valued at $2.25 per hundred.
At Jefferson school house in Graham township last night 1800 people heard Mr. Fitzgerald expound true Democracy. Fred Ritzline, county Independent move leader, renounced the Republican party and urged support for Cleveland and Stevenson. Ritzline formerly deputy sheriff under Richard Nugent. Ladies Sewing Society at Methodist church held a quilting party at Mrs. Bessie Wood's with about forty ladies and several gentlemen. Will Wray left for Indianapolis to take a night telegraph position. Bob Hall and Mrs. George Wetzell on the sick list. Scott Williams returned from Dupont after his uncle John Shrewsbury’s funeral in Louisville.
Advertised remedy offers a money back guarantee if no benefit after 28 days of use for coughs lung and chest troubles. Trial bottle free at Harper's Drug Store with large sizes 50c and 1.00.
A historical critique shows Senator Sherman misstates imports and exports under the McKinley tariff. Treasury data for 1892 and 1891 reveal imports fell 17 million, exports rose by 127 million versus 1881, and most export growth came from crops and Europe rather than tariff effects.
The piece questions the 144 cent per pound tin plate tariff under McKinley claiming higher consumer prices, limited domestic jobs, and a questionable home market. It cites Rural New Yorker and The Economist, contrasting foreign wool taxation and urging examination of tariff benefits versus costs.
Colonel Dodds reports French troops repelled Dahomeyan assaults on Oct 20 21 near Akas and Kotopa. French losses numbered ten killed and seventy three wounded. Dahomeyan losses ran into thousands due to Lebel rifles. After capturing river entrenchments and pressing toward Kana, Dodds prepares to reach Abomey as Dahomeyan resistance wanes.
A Granada mob rioted after the queen failed to attend the Columbus monument ceremony. They tore the veil from the statue, burned the royal tribune, attacked the conservative leader’s house, burned Octroi offices, and vandalized triumphal arches amid police clashes.
Zacatecas reports extreme misery among the poor due to food shortages. Beggars line streets as government relief reaches only a portion. many starve without money. Some turn to free eateries, but capacity is limited. others flee to mountains living on prickly pear maquay and mesquite beans.
Great excitement grips Averr Pennsylvania after a series of incendiary fires over two days. The Hubbard Axe Company suffered 3000 dollars in damage and 250 workers face unemployment while several Seventh avenue store rooms burned. authorities report a barn fire used in an arson attempt near Remlar with two men seen fleeing. Citizens, officials, and a vigilance committee vow to pursue the culprits.
A small blaze at Charlestown state prison shoe shop Wednesday night appeared set by an incendiary. The fire centered in a large oil-soaked box with a clockwork igniter, intended to trigger during inmate return to cells, risking escapes as chaos followed.
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