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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1888
Page
2
The Sun lists subscription rates outside and within the city, with annual, six month, and monthly options. It urges readers to report delivery issues, and promotes The Sun as an independent local organ not tied to any oil company or outside interests.
The item catalogs a frost in the northwest floods on the Mississippi strains of tariff politics in Washington and New Jersey’s reception of Ben Harrison. It mentions Edison phonograph tests, Depew’s political prospects, Gettysburg anniversary funding, a fatal saloon shooting in Fairmount, a Kansas City axe attack, uninstructed New York Republican delegates, a George W. Childs birthday banquet, dynamite conflicts with prohibitionists in Shippensburg, Sullivan’s testimonial in Boston, jail ciphering in Savannah, a Lancaster infirmary patient living on water, a Tacoma saw-works fire, and California’s Chicago convention wine reception plans with rooms and cases of wine.
Reports note the German floods distress and a European balance shift as Russia seeks alignment with France against Germany and Austria. Emperor Frederick weakens, receives condolences, while Bismarck warns of conflict. A Vienna monument to Maria Theresa opens amid pomp. England frets over defenses and Boulangers’ bold speeches.
In Bethel A M E church Rev Turner preached on divine wrath and a parishioner Alfred Wilson suddenly rushed the pulpit singing If He leads I will follow. He collapsed after being ejected and dying of heart palpitation at his Indiana Avenue home.
Leah Falkirk endures a grueling day of house cleaning while her stepfamily quarrels and two strangers stay for supper. A quiet moment reveals Leah’s kindness as Reginald Stafford confesses love, setting the path for a quiet romantic turn amid farm life tensions.
In Washington, Prof. Sharpless testified that whether cotton seed oil is healthy remains mooted and not a chemist’s decision but a medical one. He contrasted substitutes with butter, noted hospital bans on substitute butter, and stressed that chemistry cannot settle health effects without medical observation. Miss Ellen Douglass dies at 59 in the city from asthma related illnesses. her brother James G. Douglass died recently at English's Opera House lobby.
For Rent housing list with multiple properties and rates from Robert Martindale & Co and Coffin & Co. Properties ranged from 2 to 10 rooms with monthly rents from 4.50 to 42.00. Locations included N Alabama St, College Ave, West Second St, Wood St, and others. Also offered storerooms offices and garden farms and a weekly advertisement note.
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