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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1899
Page
7
Baseball magnates declare an eight club league and resist court action over fines and the reserve law. They warn that legal battles could fuel a player market surge and overrun the sport, citing past court actions and the Brerherwood episode as context.
Albert Deutsch awarded a two-diamond pin for the highest three game average at Pastime alleys as Frank Louve posted 166 2 3. Joe Byers won a wienerwurst prize with a strong average and will collect Friday at Washington alleys.
The bantamweight bout scheduled for Friday was called off to allow for a required weight check. Promoter details cite a $200 forfeit and payment disputes as the reason, with two men still in contention and a potential $20,000 purse at stake in Baltimore since November 4.
New York on a Tuesday night Gus Ruhlin the giant defeated Stockings Conroy in the seventh round at the Broadway Athletic Club. Conroy was beaten to a standstill and referee stopped the bout to save him from further punishment.
Wednesday games listed for the Indianapolis tenpin league include Columbias and Standard, Washington alleys, Calumet and National, Turner, Star and Lenox, Marion, Meridian and Blue Label, Oneida alleys.
Lansing dispatch reports Gov. Pingree calling for resignations of Brig. Gen. White Brig. Gen. Case Brig. Gen. Marsh and Samuel Bicker amid grand jury probes into alleged crooked dealings with Henderson-Ames and Illinois Supply, claiming about $40,000 lost to the state.
Chicago dispatch reports John Alexander Dowie outlining a utopian City of Zion near Waukegan. He asserts the settlement will resemble a new Jerusalem with neat designs, cedar-filled yards, and strict control over residents and information. He vows no physicians and limits publications to a church overseer run newspaper.
In New York the academy of medicine witnessed Count Michael de Kannice Karnicki’s life saving device for the buried alive. A four inch tube leads from the coffin to a metallic box showing signals. movement releases a bell and air and light enter the coffin to revive the buried person.
Webb J. Robertson aged 47 of engine company No. 5 died at his home after injuries from the December 7 hose wagon overturn on Lewis street. He leaves a widow and a daughter Mrs Minnie Hastings and two sisters and a brother. The wagon hit a two foot log in the roadway at night. Robertson was the only one seriously hurt. He previously survived the Bowen Merrill fire of 1890s.
Grand jury indictments accuse Charles St Clair Wabash street saloon keeper Morton Chapman bartender at Councilman Moriarity’s S New Jersey street saloon of liquor law violations. William Seidensticker another saloonist was arrested earlier. Annie Lewis also charged with criminal malpractice tied to the death of Annie Miller in the Ward murder inquiry.
SUN reports a parent complaints about boys in Public School No 22 asked to carry coal and clean ink wells on cold days. Principal Martha Rihl says a teacher forced boys to do janitor tasks to seem manly, stops the practice, and vows it will not recur.
The University of Indianapolis glee and mandolin clubs perform at Plymouth church on Wednesday night under Edward Nell and Eugene Noel. Members span the university's colleges with eight from dentistry and six from medicine. Soloists include Noel, Wishard, and Hite with a mandolin guitar duet by Noel and Jeffries. Pritchard of dentistry presents imitations. The group toured Butler chapel Tuesday and heads west for ten concerts after Christmas.
Three armed masked men held up a Missouri Pacific train sleeper near Kansas City on Tuesday night. They took four watches several hundred dollars and six diamonds as they moved through the car while one robber guarded the conductor and porter. The robbers halted the train by cutting the air and escaped on foot.
Crowds laugh as Gov Mount refuses a bid for membership in Indianapolis elite literary club. A prior submission met a black ball, triggering social and political gossip. The renewed effort is seen as an act by the club to assert its standards.
Creek water illness strikes family in Lawrenceburg Kentucky with multiple deaths and severe cases. Col William Neal age 81, ex state representative, is seriously ill. Two daughters Sallie and Lilie died recently. Another daughter Mrs. John C Hope and son Will near death. Water supply suspected as source.
A promotional note urges readers to subscribe to The Sun for complete news, contrasting it with other papers offering limited content. The appeal highlights thorough, readable reporting and domestic use of paper for shelves and similar needs.
The body of Dudley Brown was found in his room at the Central Insane Hospital early Wednesday. Night attendant W W McCoy discovered him. death believed due to heart disease. Brown, a Ripley county farmer, had been an inmate since February 1898 and had been insane five years prior. He left a widow in Ripley, a married daughter in St Louis, and a traveling son.
The Denison meeting of state college opponents adopted resolutions denouncing state colleges as unconstitutional and created an executive committee Burke Pishhack Daniels Conner Jameson Cale Mason Coburn to carry out the plan. A legislative committee of two hold-over senators two representatives and three citizens will be named after the election to draft and push a reform bill through the legislature.
A 79 year old widow in St Louis county near Fenton lies ill on a bed of straw after sending funds to her son serving in the Philippines. Despite an adequate income she sacrificed her comforts and sold household goods to aid the soldier, whose friend found her destitute and critically ill.
The Italian trans Atlantic steamer Perseo collided with the French steamer Meux in the Mediterranean near Alicante. Several sailors were drowned and one died of fright. The Meux crew abandoned ship and were landed at Alicante.
Hepburn Jones, dramatic critic of the Chicago Chronicle, died of acute pneumonia after a brief illness. Jones was a well known figure among stage circles and had previous newspaper work in New York Pittsburgh and Harrisburg.
Richmond Ind December 20 four Milton families are affected as the county isolates schools for two weeks due to diphtheria. Dr Caswell Grave of Richmond, holder of the Bruce fellowship in biology at Johns Hopkins University, has been named naturalist for the United States Fish Commission.
Misses' shoes priced at 32.00 are offered at 63 cents during Stout's fire sale tomorrow at 450 E. Washington Street.
Local notices advertise a fire sale at Stout's, 450 E Washington St, with dramatic “Fire! Fire!” warnings. Toys include child rubbers for 30c, rubbers at 15c, misses shoes 2.00 for 63c, and ladies shoes 3.00 for 49c, all offered tomorrow.
A fragmented ad lists prices for rubbers at Stout's with a 450 label and a note on toast in East Washing streets, suggesting a local sale bulletin.
Ambiguous fragment highlights a sale of infant hoes priced at one dollar and a reference to a gale and a fire incident. Readable details mention Washington street and a location abbreviated EB. Further context unavailable.
A split lathe from Abraham Lincoln’s Springfield home is presented by B. B. Clarke editor of the American Thresherman Madison Wis to the state museum. The gift came from custodian Mrs Edwards when the house was remodeled.
The New York market opened active and irregular with a general upward drift. Traders reported varied early activity across stocks as prices moved in a broad uptrend.
A brief notice indicates an event or arrival at Stout's located at 450 E Washington St scheduled for tomorrow.
An advertisement from Stout's lists shoe deals at multiple addresses on Washington Street with mentions of infants and misses shoes priced at $1.00 and $2.00 and notes a fire sale tomorrow. The fragment references 450 Be Washington, 216, 450 K Washington, and 456 E Washington with a stray line about The Sun's liners, Seventh.
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