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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1888
Page
2
The Sun reports on the White Cross army campaign for social purity. Meetings and lectures aim to rescue wandering women, with quotes from Mrs. Elizabeth French urging sympathy. Commentary on Indiana politics follows, debating Harrison support, Foraker, and Democratic state leadership.
The piece rails at tariff reform champions, praises temperate entertainments for delegates, and notes public safety worries after a White Cap outrage in Seymour. It lampoons Senator Ingalls, mocks John Lawrence Sullivan’s circus venture, and critiques political figures while commenting on crops, Texan prohibition, and local headlines.
The Matinee Musicale Society held its final concert of the season at Blymouth church on Wednesday afternoon. A business session followed with officers elected for the next term: President Mrs A M Robertson. vice president Mrs Henry Schurmann. secretary Miss Anna Baggs. treasurer Mrs Geo F Branham. Misses Ida Sweeney Bertie Bloomer and Mrs Louis Gray were admitted as members. Reports praised the past season as the society’s most successful.
A Wednesday convention of statisticians toured the United States encaustic tile works Woodruff place arsenal grounds the deaf and dumb asylum and fine residential areas. They adopted a resolution thanking W A Peelle Jr and planned future work on railroads mortgage debt woman and child labor and more. A paper by Prof James H Smart on agricultural manual training colleges and a note by Prof Woodford on wages and taxation followed. The group will meet Hartford next year and extend their session to three days.
A digest of incidents includes a Girard fire causing 40000 in damages, suicides in St. Louis, labor fights with packing companies, a Chicago turnerband adjournment, bankruptcy chatter from R of L circles, lightning deaths in St. Joseph, a Denver murder pardon tied to abstinence, fatalities from a New York collapse, a Chicago embezzlement case, bribery probes in Chicago, a Kansas City wreck with seven dead, and a Cleveland murder suicide involving a woman and child.
In politics Randall L. Gibson is re elected as U S senator from Louisiana. Pennsylvania Democrats back the Mills bill and elect Cleveland delegates to St Louis. Illinois Democrats vow strong fall fight and endorse Cleveland tariff reform with John M. Palmer for governor and A J Bell for lieutenant governor. Ex Senator William A Wallace resurfaces after losing to Randall. The paper notes varying lengths of Republican presidential booms led by Sherman and Gresham. A final line hints at "In galls" boom as a fly speck.
The piece reports on Emperor Fred’s favored status with doctors confirming his wellbeing, French passports for Alsace Lorraine entrants, England’s liberals rejoicing after a parliamentary win by Soren, the Mahdi threatening Massawah unless Habibs concede, and Archbishop Walsh’s post Vatican view that the pope will not meddle in Irish politics.
The piece notes Pittsburg for a woman who remarried soon after her second husband’s death, mentions Ella Donnaud Bently as Louisiana press association vice president, and recounts a Michigan case of voice restoration after Iowa, plus remarks on Mme Scalchi’s small Otello part and a seventy year old woman running a river fleet in partnership with her sons, valued at $26 000.
A collage of quirky notes and anecdotes includes a Philadelphia based logwood trust and druggists, a tale of a $100,000 Nice lottery winner besieged by applicants and marriage proposals for his young daughters, German sarcasm about lawyers, and a humorous Conkling memory. It also recalls President Cleveland avoiding saddle horses, a Washington rider, Mrs. Cleveland’s ride wish, Roscoe Conkling’s near verbatim speech delivery, Maine reporter Fuller’s Shakespearean gambit, and a Duchess of Richmond relic reticule linked to Major Percy and the Waterloo dispatch bearing good tidings to the English government.
The item notes French translation of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde praised by Stevenson, Burnett’s tale Little Lord Fauntleroy with a humorous Cedric quip, and sharp critique of Mrs Christian by Yates. It also reports Classical School Gymnastics contests with eight contestants and visitors watching Carrie Atkins and Mary Martindale winning small gold prizes for top performances on rings bars and swing.
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