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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1891
Page
1
The secretary will depart Bar Harbor Saturday for Augusta Maine where he will remain a month with his family. Separate items note a 24000 horse power World Fair power plant needing 250 engineers firemen and attendants and various health and political fragments.
The Austin Statesman doubts Balmaceda will be overhauled by insurgent vessels and press reports suggest he will join Macune Jones and Tracy in backing a third party. The Weather Bureau bulletin notes better vegetation with cotton damaged by worm and rust, but Texas hopes save most of its crop.
A night for kisses with a maid ends in a bold draw and a single victorious kiss. The fragment hints at a lively courtship scene with a throbbing heart and swift escalation from challenge to reward.
A. N. Baldwin of Hoopeston and George Thorne quarreled in a saloon near the Boswell fair and Baldwin fatally stabbed Thorne. Baldwin was arrested and moved to Fowler for safety amid threats of lynching. Sheriff sought militia aid but governor ordered local duty only.
Delegates from twenty three unions gathering in Indianapolis for the second annual meeting to discuss a relief fund for striking members and wage scales. Attention to Nashville strike and Menasha lockout.
Salem Mass September 15 Hon George B Loring ex minister for Portugal and former commissioner of agriculture died suddenly Monday morning at seventy four He was born November 8 1817 in North Andover graduated Harvard 1850 and Boston Medical 1854 He served as surgeon to the Marine hospital Chelseat and held leadership in the New England Agricultural Society He was a delegate to the Republican conventions of 1868 1872 and 1876 chaired Massachusetts Republican conventions 1869 1876 and served as president of the Massachusetts senate 1878 1877 He represented his district 1876 1881 and was U S commissioner of agriculture 1881 1885
In St Louis a brutal knife fight between Grant Wood and Dick Oliver over a woman after a dance culminates in Wood dying from a chest wound after Oliver is clubbed and wounded but survives. Both men and the woman are under arrest.
Four laborers employed by junk dealer Richard Cou were drowned when their skiff capsized while transporting iron tanks from the government. The men John Finnek 29 James Conley 26 James McGarry 24 and John McAleer 34 were unable to swim and wore rubber boots. All bodies were recovered.
Montreal reports 110 Jewish pauper immigrants from the steamer Oregon dispersed among Winnipeg Buffalo and Detroit with aid from Saul Davis while Montreal families care for the rest. Halifax notes Eugene Underhill and Murray Bocock’s 504 mile canoe voyage from Moosehead Lake to St John River in 14 travel days. Condensed items cover a rabble of incidents including a maniac in Lyxwood a freight car robbery in Baltimore a Milwaukee fire injury and a record long distance train run concluding with a 440 minute trip covering 486.5 miles.
On August 25 and September 29 the A T and S F B R and Frisco Line offer round tipi tickets to all points in Kansas Arkansas Colorado Indian Territory Oklahoma New Mexico Texas and Utah at rate of fare and one third for the round trip. Tickets valid thirty days. For rates and information contact ticket agent or GEO T GUNNIP Pass Agent 165 Walnut St Cincinnati augl3wtd.
For sale or trade a good farm and family horse, sold very cheap. Apply at the Herald Office. Ticket sales entice Dakotas Minnesota Montana Puget Sound via Chicago St Paul Kansas City Railway. Compartment sleeping cars praised for safety and comfort. Routes reach Duluth Lake Minnetonka Denver Colorado Springs. Contact company agents or F H Land Chicago Tl jaly9w3m.
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