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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1901
Page
4
The Sun announces office locations on East Oto Street and Journal Building with temporary rooms and telephones. It details subscription rates outside the city, carrier delivery terms, advertising contact, and asks readers to report missed deliveries.
A newspaper criticizes Christian Science faith healing after a woman delayed medical help during severe pain on Ashland Avenue. The writer acknowledges some cases where faith healing helps but argues it often endangers lives in violent injuries and emergencies.
The Sun thanks ex County Commissioner McGregor for a desk and an inkstand, historic relics from Indiana legislature days. It argues unions should be encouraged, denounces pitcher battering rules, and criticizes streetcar strikes while noting Indiana Weekly’s new editorship and a distant vacant consul.
A visitor berates Horace Greeley in his office over a pungent Tribune column. Greeley remains calm, then invites the man to sit and speak freely, saying it will help him think and write. The exchange shifts to anecdotes about Elbert Hubbard and Mark Twain, then to a joke about a nearly empty Senate chamber and a witty southern politician.
A collection of pointed passages from various newspapers noting bankers and industrialists in politics. It cites the Atlanta Constitution and Detroit News among others, reflecting early 20th century opinions on trusts, suffrage, oil expansion, and international affairs with a wry tone.
A Buffalo News editorial notes Indiana law differs from humanitarian expectation as a court holds a physician need not respond to a call, highlighting a clash between legal duty and ethical obligation.
S. M. Sexton of Blossberg Pennsylvania has been elected editor of the Mine Workers Journal in a formal announcement reflecting leadership changes within the publication.
A boot and shoe salesman in a hotel fire uses stacked rubber boots to bounce from a window to escape. He survives until humane officers shoot him to prevent starvation. Meanwhile government agent Captain Halls recalls a drink aiding an arrest, identifying a robber from a tin-type in Indianapolis.
The piece blends dialogue about lodge rites and goat imagery with a town banker and editor banter. A foreign cry is paraphrased as manana, corrected to banana, as a lighted exchange unfolds in a small town setting.
Grand hotel adds white bell boys as changes upset some colored workers. Col H B Smith hosted a Columbia club dinner. Zion church marks 60th anniversary with services. A fuse blew in a streetcar injuring Charles Murphy but no serious harm. Indiana democratic club may acquire Ohio street property vacated by Columbia club. J B Mutchler new manager of English hotel cafe. Preparations for large Indiana woodmen gathering in St Paul June 1. William Kiely shot in knee near his home. rifle fire thought from birds. Doweyites hold five day meeting in Magnolia block. Local street car union officers listed. Detroit odd fellows arrange encampment. Boston delegation to follow. Young men attend Murphy gospel meeting. Rev W A Quayle speaks. Hays and Brown appointed to contract for Lawton monument with $6,000 cap. $4,000 funded. Petition seeks opening College Ave to Broad Ripple and bridge over Fall Creek. Deschamps to lecture in French at Propylaeum and Purdue. invited by Mrs Sewall. Patrolman Mellen to be tried for alleged assault on Emanuel church trustee. Anti-saloon leader Russell preaches in Indianapolis. notes his temperance motive. Lew Wallace reports Ben-Hur to London and Australia with grand scale staging.
The M E church committee that last week honored Rev Goodae with a cane returned to the office frustrated. Report says local boys bought a hollow cane intended to conceal liquor for discreet drinkers, a purchase not meant as a slur against the pastor.
In a hush at the ceremony the bride recalls nearly fainting as the minister asks if anyone objects. Mr. Longwed reportedly whispers to Jack Davis that he does, thousands and thousands of em, adding tension to the moment.
In a courtroom scene Edward Singer reports a deposition where a railroad defense attorney questions a widow about her husband’s death and life insurance. The jury swiftly rules the railroad not liable for damages, following disputed claims of his value and the death by train.
Patrons have three entertainments this week with Frohman's Lady Huntworths experiment Monday and Tuesday, All on account of Eliza with Louis Mann and Clara Lippman Friday and Saturday, and Craston Clarke Wednesday and Thursday. Johnstone Bennett tops the Grand bill. Daly sisters lead a lineup with six other specialty acts and ten biographs. The Park opens the week with Two little vagrants and Dickson plans capacity crowds with Sis Hopkins at week’s end.
Mrs Annie Cross was fined five dollars and costs in criminal court on Saturday evening for assaulting Miss Ella Thompson a teacher at school 9. The incident followed a dispute after the teacher kept Cross's boy after school and Cross went to the school to investigate.
The Alameda club will hold its final dance at Brenneke's on Friday night. Gov and Mrs Durbin plan to attend the Carpenter Chipman wedding in Anderson on Wednesday. Laetare circle hosts a social at St Josephs hall Wednesday. Matinee musicale presents a student recital Wednesday with a small admission. Mr and Mrs W T Brown hosted a dinner Saturday at their Park Ave home. Miss Anna Connor hosted the Bon Ton cinch club at its last meeting.
Sunday wire summaries report St Louis securing $500000 for the world’s fair, various fires causing damage, embezzlement cases and political moves. Notable items include Admiral Schley traveling to Washington, a fatal home arson, a fatal shooting tied to a family quarrel, a new five inch gun testing at Indian Head, and Cuba’s commission to Washington on the Platt amendment.
The Comegy estate on Tinois and Fifteenth streets is being removed to clear space for a new building. Once a string of sheds and cheap houses, the property was assembled by Levi Comegy in the 1860s and earned him significant income, growing to a value in the thousands.
Somers and Company obtain a temporary restraining order to stop police and building inspectors from interfering with a sidewalk art glass awning expansion in front of their store. The order is returnable Thursday. Inspector Bedell had arrested several workers, asserting the awning violates the four foot overhang ordinance.
Funeral services were held for Rutledge Harden in West Terre Haute at his parents home. William F. Lindstey of the Fourth United States Cavalry died in the Philippines on January 7 and was buried with military honors in Francisco, with Civil War and Spanish War veterans in attendance.
Maj Bernard Evans is held for the murder of Capt. John J. Griffin a commercial agent of the N and W railroad Found dead from a pistol shot wound in Evans office Saturday The killing is said to have resulted from a drunken row in Columbia S C April 15
A group of Black church members joined by whites were baptized in the canal at Michigan Street after Sunday services at New Bethel A M E Church on Martindale Avenue. A second baptism followed Sunday afternoon in Hall Creek conducted by Rev. N S Seymour with large crowds in attendance.
Whitesburg Kentucky reports another fight near Boone's Fork with W S Wright and his son Willie killed in battle. Bodies buried and reinforcements for both sides arrive as preparations mount for a large engagement. Combatants are positioned about 80 yards apart awaiting further action.
The transport Thomas reached San Francisco April 15 bringing 1,568 volunteers and 62 officers. It carried the Twenty-eighth volunteer regiment under Col. Birkheimer with 1,085 men and 33 officers, recruited largely from the east. The Thirty fifth infantry units two battalions, 538 men and 29 officers, were also aboard. report notes smallpox on the Logan and cites doctors’ efforts to control the disease before port arrival.
The famous hat trimming cases involving about twenty million dollars were settled by a compromise. Merchants Mercer Nickson Kohn Adder John Wanamaker Henry Tilge and others will receive four million dollars from the United States treasury in full settlement of a larger claim of excess duties in 1884. When called in court judgment will be confessed against the government.
New Albany Indiana reports Minute Frank aged found dead in bed after living alone over 60 years. She earned a living at the market and appeared poor though $1200 was discovered under her pillow. Authorities say she had been dead several days.
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