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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1899
Page
8
A fragmentary listing notes breach printed organdies alongside towels with pricing terms described as “each.” The readable text suggests a miscellaneous sale item cluster without clear context or full details.
Retail notice highlights department wide discounts with linen bargains priced at 15 cents 19 cents 1 cent 4 cents 49 cents and larger reductions across multiple sections.
Kellum and Motz led Indianapolis struggles in a doubleheader against Columbus and Milwaukee. Tebeau doubled for Columbus. Hartzell Motz stole bases. Briggs and Foreman struggled with control. Attendance reached 4,200 in Indianapolis and 2,500 in Milwaukee.
In Indianapolis on Tuesday afternoon Rube Waddell pitched for Columbus as a 4,500 strong crowd watched. Waddell’s pistons and iron resolve misled Indiana’s hitters while Kellum delivered solid support. Despite Foreman’s attempts and the locals’ zeal, Columbus turned back Indiana with Waddell stamping the game as a pitching showcase.
The Indianapolis club has departed for a westward tour and will remain away for a fortnight.
J. D. Thompson and Mrs H H How tie with W C Bobbs and Miss Emma Adkins in the Country club mixed foursome. Jimmy Davis shines at Newby oval races winning the Marion county championship with Jake and Ed Steinmetz placing second and third. Ed Steinmetz and Davis race five miles in 10 33. Woody Hedspeth tops the colored race. Dina Slayback wins half mile professional handicap. Aquatic club sees Carl Fisher win canoe heat and Harry D Hammond triumphs 120 yards. Indianapolis driving club beats Muncie 5 of 11 heats, Robert C and Robert L stand out. Muncie to return date soon.
A Geo H Thomas G A R post in Indianapolis approved a resolution praising Gen Lawton and voted 5 for the fund raised by Lawton's post in Fort Wayne. The money will be sent to Lion Bass post in Fort Wayne to buy a sword or similar testimonial for the soldier.
The state bar association begins its two days annual meeting in the supreme court room at 2 p m Thursday. Readers include W A Ketcham William Wirt Howe of New Orleans John T Dye Timothy E Howard of South Bend and Daniel W Comstock of Richmond. Howe will be guest of honor at the association dinner Friday night.
Capt English presided at Garfield park afternoon events praising last year’s July 4 victory near Santiago. Ex Lieutenant Governor Hanna lauded Civil War and modern veterans, urging preference for veterans in offices. Battery A and infantry drills, a poem, and a wrestling match drew crowds. at Central insane hospital patriotic music and dancing occurred.
At Rye Beach New York on a July afternoon three Black individuals Andrew Clark his wife and Henry Langheld faced a mob of about 20. A confrontation erupted when Clark took offense at a remark. A scuffle left two mob members overboard as bystanders watched over 3 000 people and several women fainted. Eight arrests followed.
In Brussels on Tuesday night despite the cabinet concession and the withdrawal of the electoral law bill, socialist disturbances intensified with windows smashed at the residence of War Minister Vandenpeereboom.
Saratoga N Y July 5 Another name is added to the Windsor hotel fire victims. Dorothy I Wheeler 28 died at her mother's cottage here from injuries suffered in the March Windsor blaze in New York City.
Short notices report visits and travels of residents from Clay Center to Martinsville and Dublin. A drowning incident in West Virginia involves Otto J. Wanglein of Indianapolis. Charles R. Pope, once US consul at Toronto, dies in New York. A bicycle path collision near Central Avenue injures two women. Lawn party honors Miss Griffith of Morgantown with a guest list of local youths and visitors.
Albert Barley spent 36 years digging graves for others at the poor farm beginning at age 18. He died Tuesday evening after rheumatism attacked him two weeks earlier. Barley’s last grave received his own body, and little else is known of his early life.
P E Dowe, president of the Commercial travelers' national league, will tell Attorney General Davies that 35,606 travelers have been left jobless by trusts and 28,000 have had their salaries cut. He says trusts have taken bread from workers and their families and raised prices 5 to 100 percent.
In Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania on Tuesday afternoon a headless male corpse was recovered sealed in a canvas bag. The body showed fresh incisions along the chest and abdomen with exposed internal organs. The body was interred on Wednesday morning.
Captain William Champion, a famed Newport boatsman, saved six sailors from drowning after a cutter capsized in a squall near the battleship Indiana. The men clung to the overturned craft until Champion reached them and pulled them aboard.
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