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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1891
Page
8
A dense daybook of notices from Cannelton to Indianapolis includes patent remedies Simmons Liver Regulator and Hood's Sarsaparilla, a misprint filled sampler of trains and licenses, a buffalo hide boots tale, a bartholomew court session, a poisoned family, oil prospects in Jasper county, a Scottburg neck wound, and local civic life from revival services to crystal weddings and a blind Brookville housekeeper.
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A city petition circulates to block a pending ordinance requiring licenses from $25 to $50 for sellers of fresh meat in partial animal lots. Other items note a perjury trial date, missing horse, a civil suit settlement, astronomical observations, and a World’s Fair guide for agents.
The Madison Indiana Post Office lists uncalled letters dated Tuesday November 17 1891. To obtain any listed letters ask for advertised letters with the advertisement date. Unclaimed letters after two weeks go to the dead letter office in Washington D C. Garber P M.
On appeal from Louisville Law and Equity Court in the case of James Schoolcraft's administrator versus the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company for $20 000 damages, instituted by Copeland and Golden, the Kentucky Court of Appeals holds the statute section under which the suit was brought constitutional.
Special to the Herald recounts a major Brooklyn fire that left fifty families homeless and at least six dead with others missing. St Louis also faced a two million dollar blaze destroying a key block but with no fatalities. An Indianapolis News item notes a Gazette manager’s umbrella disappearing routine ends with a painted rescue card inside.
The Louisville Times reports Prof Ad Johannis and his brother with a dancing student, Miss Anna Roweler, traveled from Madison to Columbus then Seymour. The instructor and interpreter trio left Saturday. the girl was alleged detained, Fred Peters rescued her, and she plans to depart for Cincinnati that night after saying she lived with parents in Newport Kentucky and had been unpaid.
Burglars broke into the J. W. Thomas home between three and four this morning stealing jewelry valued around 200 dollars. Watches and breast pins owned by Thomas and his daughters were taken. pants with leftover money were discarded on the side porch. Police are pursuing clues as readers await word on arrests.
A life prisoner, Sam Kesterson, escaped from the Jeffersonville prison by climbing the wall during a guard fire. He seized a delivery wagon, pistol at Worrall’s throat, stole the reins, and fled toward Claysburg before being lost in the darkness. A $100 reward is posted. he is about twenty, with a hair lip, and was condemned for killing his stepfather in Dubois county. California rail ads and travel details follow.
A letter praising the Chicago St Paul and Kansas City Railway highlights its new coaches sleeping car accommodations vestibuled compartment Pullman cars and competitive dining car service. The writer plans future travel east and would recommend the road to others for speed comfort and value.
The message touts wealth in the Sweet Grass Hills, Milk Rivers and Sun River Valleys, praises the Great Northern Railway as the gateway to gold, iron and coal, and invites homesteaders and miners with low rates and free sleepers, claiming Montana offers vast ranches and growing towns with abundant resources.
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