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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1901
Page
4
Public notice style item lists subscription rates and delivery options for THE SUN in Indianapolis Indiana. Details include carrier delivery six cents per week and outside city rates six months 1.50 per month 5 and annual 3.00, with office contact numbers for editorial and business departments.
Readers urged to notify The Sun office if deliveries are missed or irregular. Provide current or elder contact via telephone 880 or postal mail to The Sun.
The Sun condemns John Sullivan as a menace to good government after a 12 year exile. editorials decry his return to Indianapolis business life. Other items blame city officials for shady bids, water contracts, and streetcar expansion, urging reform and questioning procedures.
Senator Beveridge's Columbia club banquet speech opposed binding future generations to present court rulings. He urged a "clean future and a free hand" and warned against underestimating future generations. The Sun praised Dr Hays for building the Columbia club and boss Quay was lauded as unmatched in American politics.
In Belleville New Jersey a feud between the Bogarts and Mrs Ochiltree over chickens ends when Bogart shoots the dog her property damage. The dog lies between life and death as Justice La Faucherie delays sentence awaiting the dog's fate. Nearby, Maj Ben Ferguson in Dodge City traps skunks for oil and hides while a pair of German geese on the Wopowage river near Jefferson bridge are frozen in ice and rescued on the following day.
The Chronicle notes Sarah Cowell Lemoyne in The Greatest Thing in the World at English's with praise for her convincing motherly portrayal as a guardian’s match with a young man’s reform arc. Also listed are trained elephants at the Grand, A Young Wife at English's, Scribner special show at the Park, Joe Oppenheimer at the Empire, and mink farming notes from Lake Mills detailing the first mink operation and its feed.
The Commercial club backs THE SUN'S idea to buy the water plant and keep ownership in city hands at a fair price. A special commission of leading citizens should manage it to avoid political taint and profiteering, dismissing any two-price schemes proposed earlier.
A $40,000 plan to erect a memorial home for the Indianapolis Kindergarten honors the late Uncle Billy Jack son. Friends are urged to support the project as the kindergarten needs a home badly and the tribute seems fitting.
A collection of clipped remarks from Indiana newspapers notes party loyalties and rumored plots involving Grover, Bryan, Kern, and other figures. It cites reactions on pardons, penitent contrasts, and a Lew Wallace suggestion about treated Filipino prisoners.
The exchange questions crowd reliance and notes varied moral judgments across civilizations. It contrasts sentiments about leadership, persecution, and justice with a call to address child abduction by offering a strong reward to deter criminals.
The Railway officials and employes accident association, the Northwestern benevolent society and the Continental assurance company have been consolidated under the name of the Continental casualty company with headquarters at 134 Monrvst Chicago. W. K. Bellis Indianapolis general manager consolidation We will be vice president Indianapolis general supervising and agencies and C. J. McPherson Indianapolis actuary.
The Minneapolis Tribune notes crowd fascination with a water show featuring frogs. Spectators enjoy the spectacle but occasional squabbles break out as the amphibians display territorial behavior, making the scene both entertaining and chaotic.
The National Berkshire record association schedules its annual meeting there next week. James B. Stafford and Laura B. Collins secured a twentieth century marriage license in Marion county. Dr. Edmund Clark appointed on City hospital surgical staff to succeed the late Dr. W. W. Morgan.
The Columbie club held an open house Tuesday in its new home from 1 to 9 p m drawing large crowds. Visitors explored every corner and conditions were crowded at times. The opening season closes Thursday night with a grand reception and ball promising to be the largest social event of the season.
A group of youths in the Lyceum theater gallery threw eggs at Johnny Ray during a Tuesday night performance of a Holiday time. Ray and others were smeared as the crowd protested his jokes. Police locked up the demonstrators.
Wednesday marked the first day the county auditor was to bar reporters from the office and the county commissioners desks but reporters and Smith's friends gained access and were admitted while Smith smiled.
Denver reports T. M. Patterson likely to succeed BE Wolcott in the United States senate. In the house caucus Tuesday B. F. Montgomery, allied with Patterson, was chosen by the silver fusionists as speaker.
Broad cut on the canal is covered with six inches of ice and hundreds of skaters glide over it on New Year’s Day. Ice cutting on ponds owned by ice companies has begun.
Constantinople January 2 The 1900 Turkish census reports a population of 55 million.
Hervey D Varies of Varies business college sent a car load of cigars to The Sun office on Tuesday with a bold note claiming printer's ink made his business successful and inviting all to smoke one on him.
Joshua Youtzi will be tried January 18 for soliciting insurance for firms not licensed in Indiana. An embezzlement case involving Clifford Day, son in law of County commissioner Greer, remains not yet set. Cornelius Cowger, recaptured Monday near Capt Kinney's residence, is back at Jeffersonville reformatory. he had escaped two years ago while serving four years and had been visiting relatives.
In New Orleans on January 2 gunfire erupted as criminals roamed the streets. O. M. Turner, a prominent businessman, was fatally struck by a stray bullet. James Gibbons, nephew of Cardinal Gibbons, was robbed and mortally shot, dying Tuesday afternoon. No arrests reported.
Indianapolis retail grocers meet at the Board of Trade to oppose the parcel post bill in Congress. They argue it will not be self supporting and will mainly benefit a few large Eastern firms. A state convention of retail grocers is likely to be held soon.
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