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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1899
Page
4
The Sun weighs in on school board control and urges mayoral appointment over legislative selection. It criticizes the citizens' educational committee for backing Goss, asserts the mayor should appoint and be responsible for school welfare, and urges Mr. Day to accept the election outcome.
Opinion notes county officers receive salaries far above private value with Marion County cited as a prime example. Calls for legislative action to trim county payrolls, contrasting with economical state pay. Also includes stray editorials on Bryan and Manila, then mentions leaves and lawn care missteps.
The genial Mr Sharkey vows to devote the remainder of his training days to developing his wind. The public fears a looming clash as Gen Harrison is honored in Europe amid grand display. The tale notes a £100,000 pocket and recalls 850 Boers killed in a recent South African battle.
The article recounts Joseph Haydn's arranged marriage to Anna Maria in 1760 when he was 29 and she 32. It notes a distant romance, Maria's odd behaviors with manuscripts, and Haydn's pragmatic acceptance. It also mentions Goethe and the Petronella tale inspiring Mignon, plus Mendelssohn's quiet dinner with Humboldt and a landlord note.
The text notes a man refused to invite certain people to his house citing a past charity concert in Dresden where opera house performers insisted on being paid for their cooperation. The motive given is his habit of paying performers after such events.
The Indianapolis Sun announces a larger format and a new masthead, promising brighter appearance and improved typography. Readers are assured the paper remains state and foreign news rich, with boiled down, telegraphic material delivered by a distinctive Sun style.
Multiple Indiana papers report on Ohio political battles cooling into a quiet standoff. Mentions include Roosevelt’s views on public morality, trust managers facing senatorial scrutiny, and a forecast of a coming trust “smash” that could bring relief to the people.
A series of morning and Tuesday weddings featured prominent locals. Clara Langsenkamp and William Clune tied the knot at St Marys with Rev Scheideler officiating. Julia Lyons and John L. Gill wed at St Marys. Mary OConnell and John Kelly married at St Johns. Ella Conway and Denis Shea wed at St Patricks. many brides wore satin and lace, and couples planned home beginnings in Morton Place and nearby addresses. Attending clergymen included Rev D O Donaghue, Rev Maher, and Rev Conley. celebrations followed with breakfasts at family homes.
The Mannerchor ladies announce a matinee party for the Grand on Wednesday and St Pauls church will hold a reception for Bishop and Mrs Francis Monday at the parish house. The Philharmonic club hosted a smoker Tuesday night at the Fort Wayne clubrooms with more events planned all winter.
Roland Reed and Isa dore Rush perform a single night engagement at English's in his father's boy followed by Tim Murphy in the carpet bagger. Lady Windermere's fan at the Grand all week plus matinees. Gus Pixley appears in A rag time reception at the Park. Two jolly rovers and Rose Naynon with trained birds headline the Empire week long with matinees daily.
Washington Oct 25 The pension bureau faces a threatened strike as hundreds of women clerks decry Evans ruling that removes desk screens. He says screens were a nuisance and that workers hid at their desks exposing work and reading habits. The commissioner remains firm amid protests predicting possible mob action.
J B Kirlin , chief clerk to Col Oran Perry, is expected to take over as Pennsylvania agent at Indianapolis. Kirlin began as a messenger in the Pennsylvania service thirty years ago.
A terse register notes a cold storage and warehouse company with capital of $300000, Old Hickory Company in Martinsville with capital $5000, a Cayuga mining concern, and Walnut Grove Cemetery at Gaston.
Mrs Mary Dalzell 82 widow of James Dalzell died about 6 p m Tuesday at her Brightwood home. Она survived by relatives and was known in the community for her quiet charitable work. Funeral arrangements pending in local obituaries.
A collage of brief items includes Oklahoma seeking statehood, Andrew Carnegie offering 50000 for a Duluth library, Gen Miles and Cal W F Cody hunting on Cody ranch, Gompers urging oil workers organize, and Billings Oklahoma ordering negroes to decamp. Also mentions a Berlin gambling founder jailed, Panama canal favor, a Chicago divorce payment, Carinthia with 1300 mules to South Africa, Nebraska corn records, a Georgia beating death, a Batavia banker’s death sentence, Atlanta reception, Grant Gillette illness in Mexico, a Maine grand jury indict, Fitts Burgers wage clash, Milwaukee rebuke of a minister, Wardner miners indictment, a Chicago man drowning, sugar trust suit, Epworth Heights fire, and a train hold up clue fragment.
An appellate ruling states cities must reimburse the board of prisoners from arrest to jail. Judge Robinson finds I and W need not pay half the costs for a road from Merrilist to River-ave. The east side is paved while the other side holds tracks. The court also declares a gravel road engineer a de facto public officer and clarifies indictments against Wm Duncan of Lawrence County for altering road specifications to lower costs are valid.
Judge Thomas G. Shearman a leading New York lawyer attended in Indianapolis on Tuesday night to hear arguments on the master's finding in the Kimball Loring and others versus L E and St L consolidated road case. Bonds valued at 300000 dollars in the H T C C road are involved. He spoke of Beecher and Tilton with strong opinions and is deeply interested in single tax and free silver movements.
E L Shuey of the National Cash Register Company Dayton Ohio will deliver a descriptive lecture on the Modern factory of the world illustrated by stereopticon Thursday evening in Masonic hall. The talk is under the auspices of the Indianapolis manufacturers' club which toured the cash register factory months ago.
Hon. Frank Burke has come home from a weeklong campaign in Nebraska. He says fusionists expect victory there but doubt Iowa, and they focus on the Ohio campaign where they believe McKinley will play a key role in the next national race.
The secretary of the interior issued a draft for 2,706,000 dollars to pay Indiana pensioners for the quarter ending November 4.
A brief notice lists surgeon Pam A En offering a women’s health office visit in the afternoon schedule.
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