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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1891
Page
4
The column cites tax policy debates, tariff promises versus outcomes, and cash flow under Cleveland and Harrison. It notes a Prohibition topic in Indian territory, a debt reduction figure, and attacks on Indianapolis officials amid a city election. Washington dispatches report soldiers favoring Alger over Blaine, with Harrison as a separate topic.
The Plain Dealer notes the North shows more Democrats in Congress and questions the strength of the Republican North. It reports Ohio Republicans press clerks to contribute to campaign costs, citing Jay Hubbel assessments and prior efforts by Mayse and Childs, while Civil Service Commissioners say the move is beyond legal reach.
Balmaceda the former Chilean president escaped captivity by disguising as a drunken American sailor and boarding Admiral Brown’s flagship San Francisco. Dispatches say he evaded Junta guards and local police while hidden in Valparaiso and sought asylum aboard the ship to avoid vengeance from foes.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer discusses Bradstreet's defense of the McKinley tariff on cutlery. It notes the old duty and how the 50 percent ad valorem plus 50 cents per dozen shifted prices, pricing 25 cent jackknives out and replacing them with 60 cent American knives, while imports of English goods persist. The piece argues the tariff educates consumers to pay more, with domestic prices rising and English brands still sold.
Joseph Franklin Toombs, a blind broom-maker from Holman in Scott county, walks seventeen miles to markets and crosses trestles, fences, and rails with faultless memory and sense of location. His remarkable navigation earns local pride. A fox-hound, once sighted, now follows hunts and aids chases, a four-year-old with two white eye spots.
Letter from United States consul Alfred Keaver details the Aug. 18 hurricane that devastated Martinique. Nearly every village wiped out, seven hundred lives reported lost, St Pierre unroofed, hotels ruined, and all boats destroyed. Consul and his wife survived but suffered injuries and prostration.
Judge Voris of Bedford Indiana funds two twenty five dollar prizes for excellence in composition and oratory at Hanover College. Seniors and juniors compete for one prize while sophomores and freshmen compete for the other. Fraternity life begins with banquets receptions and boat rides as new students settle in.
The Missouri Kansas and Texas southbound train was held up at Lekateta four miles north of Wagoner. Two robbers entered the express car and forced the safe open, taking 2560 from the chest. One shot fired. no passengers robbed. Officers pursue. Dalton gang suspected.
Cleveland watchers saw John McCafferty die after a fall from a telegraph pole. A live wire and a falling electric line caused a fatal electric shock, leaving him hanging three minutes before rescue. He died en route to hospital.
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