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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1888
Page
2
The Sun requests notices of Wanted Male or Female Help for free three days, plus free ten words for rent rooms or Wanted situations. Readers may send via postal card or call 880. It discusses tariffs and Indianapolis police, plus editorials and local matters.
A mosaic of odd items and quick judgments. The piece mentions a state exchange in doubt over a rule about leading trumps, Sparrow Golden knocking out another man, and a New York business man nicknamed Flypaper with no insects in sight. It notes Chicago police chasing Herr Most under a bed, a Philadelphia physician’s suicide over patient death, a president’s fishing reins blip, and a Pennsylvania man convicted of second degree murder for his son’s death. It closes with reflections on words changing lives and beachgoers seeking sun tan at Cape May.
In Paris about 8,000 navvies walk out amid protests. Lord Colin Campbell departs England for India. The White Pasha designation is questioned as Stanleys named figure is believed false. In Paris Alphonse Sianzade, 10, killed his 6-year-old brother Louis then died by suicide. In County Kerry John Forhan, a farmer’s foe, is shot dead by masked attackers who escape. A masked assailant shoots Farmer Ruare in County Cork.
A collage of curiosities and local lore spanning crimes in Union Maine to forest destruction in Prussia. Reports include a possible Union killing on Lee’s surrender day, a Waterbury money mystery solved by a dream, seven skeletons found near Clearwater, and a Waterville man jailed after collapsing in a doorway. Paris highwaymen bite with garrote, Edison’s talking dinner clock, and English ship grog rules.
Randall's all right. Chinamen are flocking into Frisco. Paper mill at East Lee, Mass., burned. Sioux Indians refuse to sign the treaty. Grover will get back from his fishing trip on Wednesday. The Hugoton and Woodsdale war in Kansas still warreth. Congressman McKinley will go down to Georgia's Chautauqua and make a speech. Kickers against paying the Chickasaw cattle tax, arrested by U. S. troops and Indian police Sunday in Indian territory. August Dellaf, John Phillips and "Skip" Larkin, Chicago, quarreled at a dance Sunday night. August pulled a pop and John and "Skip" are now dead. Ed Brown and Charles Crane, youthful Texans, arrested at Chicago for wholesale horse stealing. Robbed many Chicagoans and had a barn full of steeds. Steamship Parthian and schooner Ayers collided off Vineyard Haven, Mass., Saturday night. Parthian was grounded in a leaking condition. Passengers saved.
A medley of witty lines and peculiar observations from various papers spans topics from theater to travel and science. Notable quips include a jab at the book reviewer in crit ical mood, a boastful cowboy described as the boss, and a humorous note on a French officer’s new micro phone with a need for safety indicators.
Advertisements invite readers to submit ten word want notices for free three days in The Sun free column. Male help, female help, vacant rooms and for rent rooms promoted with options to repeat if not filled. extra words billed at one cent each.
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