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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1889
Page
3
Richard Allen a frontier stockman survives a brutal siege of plots and a deadly well trap after a rattlesnake confrontation in which he grapples and kills both serpents. Despite bold nerve he sustains lifelong injuries and leaves for New England to recover.
A garbled roundup covers baseball matters, betting, and figures from New York to Cleveland. It mentions Townsend’s release to Columbus, Mark Bali and a damped Columbus pride, umpire quality, fights pairing Jim McHvey and Billy Crowell, and various odds, trades, and oddities from Philadelphia, Belfast, and Vermont, including a canine meal and joined birch trees in Weathersfield.
A collage of curiosities and notices: a Fairlie hen cared for by a guardian cat after hatching. a Vermont tree cross and two birch trunks. a Georgia man catching a huge seventy four pound fish with a stake pole. a Constantinople captive scorpion ringed by live coals. a Georgia preacher’s wife removing a moccasin. a large gourd in a fish pond with mud cats. Bernhardt’s debt payoff. Miss Georgia Rattan’s bold teaching vow. Miss Ellen Terry supports amateur theatricals. wallpaper man Carl Meder’s showcase. a Winslow remedy ad. Indianapolis room rental ads urging readers to post in the Sun’s liner column.
City notices from Indianapolis printing a declaratory resolution by the Common Council and Board of Aldermen to improve Pennsylvania street from First to Seventh, paving with asphalt sheet, assessments per front foot, bonds if needed, and a June 11, 1889 public objections meeting in Room 4 of the City Clerk's office. Also Tennessee street improvement from Washington to Ohio with similar terms and a June 11, 1889 hearing. Local officials include MO. W. Bowlus and Jno W Bowlus as City Clerk.
City officials propose widening sidewalks on Ohio and Mississippi streets and paving with Asphalt Sheet Pavement. Assessments based on front footage, with city and street railroad shares, ten annual installments, bonds issued in anticipation, notices to property owners to object by June 20 1869. City Clerk Bowls issues notices for Mississippi extension as well.
Bradley Holton and Co advertise as leading wagon and farming implement makers in Indiana. They claim to be largest manufacturers of wagons buggies carriages surreys pumps wind mills and related equipment and invite letters for information.
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