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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1900
Page
8
July 4 report from Cleveland describes a tense baseball game where Cleveland rallied late. A misnamed Cleveland team narrowly avoided defeat as five runs crossed with two outs in the eighth, turning a potential Hoosier win into a home side’s comeback. Barnes pitched well for Cleveland, holding the line as the inning unfolded.
In Kansas City Gray sparked action as the home team fell short. Milwaukee led early while Kansas City trailed with early runs. Batteries included Rettger Diggins and Wilson as Chicago and Minneapolis games showed tight pitching. Detroit suffered an error and balk that produced all their runs, while Buffalo struggled with Yeager Shaw and Milligan Speer in a tense set of matchups.
An incomplete recap shows Breit knockout of the box and Sommer contributing. Names such as Breitenstein, Sommer, Doheny, Hawley, Goodfield, Willow, and others are listed with Chicago and Philadelphia players noted. The report hints at a hard fought contest between Boston and New York with several teammates named.
The report notes possible transfer of Youngstown Interstate league franchise to Anderson Sterling Be Holts. It lists pacers and trotters with times at Chicago and Sheepshead Bay including Queen Eleanor Beauty Spot Alcatraz and Imp. Carl Fisher’s motor race in Terre Haute is described with Fisher confident of victory.
In Judge Baker's court, Wednesday morning, George Slaughter was found to have attempted to pass a bad dollar while drunk in a saloon with a woman nearby. He was sentenced to six days in the workhouse. James Maxiley, once a west side saloon keeper, was released after the court dismissed his case and instructed him to avoid whisky and craps.
In Pas qaic New Jersey a July 4 celebration blast killed Nicholas Rose and fatally injured Tony Rose and another man. a dozen others were seriously cut or burned after two boys tossed a lighted firecracker into dynamite cartridges in a shop on Majin street. Firemen recovered Rose’s body from ruins. two others were near death. Also reported is the death of Mrs. Helena Blatz 68 at her daughter’s Indianapolis home with three daughters surviving.
Warm early week and cool finish brought frequent rains that damaged corn and oats in the Wabash bottoms while boosting tobacco and millet. Oats lodged, potatoes rot in heavy rains, wheat yield is poor, rye, clover, haying advance, apples drop, livestock strong on good pasture. DeWitt's Little Early Risers advertised.
The Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company advertises floating palaces with newly finished parlors and staterooms. It highlights improved service and better railroad connections at each port, inviting readers to request an illustrated pamphlet by sending a two cent stamp to A. A. Schantz in Detroit.
An advertisement urges taking a vacation on the Great Lakes to recover from study strain and work stress. It promotes a pamphlet from A. A. Schantz, G. P. A., Detroit, Michigan, inviting readers to bend two cents for the illustrated brochure.
A wedding trip advertised as delightful invites couples to ride D. and C. steel passenger steamers to Mackinac Island Michigan. Staterooms and parlors reserved 30 days in advance. Send a two cent stamp for an illustrated pamphlet to A. A. Schantz G. P. A. Detroit Mich.
JuvA Pennsylvania Vandalia advertises special low rail rates on July 6 17 and August 1 to Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo Ogden Lake City and points in South and Wyoming. For particulars call ticket agents or address W W Richardson D P ae.
The Tammany special traveled from Indianapolis to St. Louis in five hours and 18 minutes setting a record. Air brake inspector R. A. Stanert of the Vandalia has moved to the Pressed Steel Car Company in McKee's Rocks Pa. All Pennsylvania Railroad offices in Indianapolis will close at 3 p.m. Saturdays.
Two deaths attributed to heat occur in Chicago on Tuesday. The report also notes coal prices rising to $6.25 a ton and mentions A R Goslin BL Packer and C T Davis of New York found guilty of conspiring to depress Brooklyn prices. A rapid transit stock discussion leads to jail terms and heavy fines.
London July 4. William Waldorf Astor publishes in the Pall Mall Gazette that Capt Milne of the Naval and Military Club who attended the Astor concert Thursday night was uninvited. Milne is a prominent figure and is said to consider action in response to the slur.
Robert Thompson, a farm hand near Brownsburg, lost a foot when a Big Four train struck him as he slept on the Brownsburg station platform. He was unaware of the approaching train until the crane cut off the foot at St. Vincent's hospital.
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