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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1899
Page
8
Minneapolis and Indianapolis fight a close pennant race with Indianapolis holding a slight edge at .617 to Minneapolis .616. Both teams face remaining games, including Milwaukee and Detroit, making the outcome a dramatic finish.
Baseball briefs cover multiple games with line scores for Philadelphia St Louis Chicago Philadelphia Brooklyn Baltimore and more. Notes mention pitchers Vanderbeck Scott Kellum Newton Katoll Foreman and Geier with teams and player movements including Stallings retirement and a Cincinnati claim for Dammann.
Rich McCoy defeated England's middleweight champion Jeff Thorne in three rounds Tuesday night in New York. An estimated 6,000 fans saw the Indiana fighter overwhelm the Briton, with Thorne cut and unable to respond after a rapid sequence. Also note: Sloane won three races in London and Johnnie Bull jockeys performed elsewhere, while Roan Dick, George Weeks' pacing horse, died in Champaign Illinois. Weeks resides in Rushville. Howard Gould and his yachting party returned to Southampton aboard the Niagara after a 12,000 mile cruise since May 12.
Cicero Indiana September 6 The Cicero Reds defeated the Matthews team 8 to 5 Tuesday to extend their winning streak and claim the state amateur championship. Bealls and Curtis powered the Cicero battery in the victory.
A meeting of the Independent Colored Voters Club in Colored Odd Fellows hall was led by William Miller with J H Lott as chairman. Speakers including Simeon Ford and J N Sharp voiced support for Thomas Taggart, urging continuity of his regime. More than 100 attended as resolutions urged the mayor’s continued leadership and warned against a Bookwalter win.
London dispatch reports Rear-Admiral Kane, famed as the Calliope captain at Apia in 1889, has voluntarily retired from the British navy. The note quotes a saying about value, and a reference to Hood's Sarsa parilla, claimed as America's greatest medicine.
A compact notice advertises Pennsylvania Lines services to Detroit Michigan with a seven dollar sixty cent round trip fare. It mentions a sleeper car departing daily at 7 10 p.m and references a meeting of the Sons of Veterans and a person named Richardson DP A.
The Beveridge club held its organization meeting Tuesday night with Gurley Brewer as president William W Holland secretary and Clark T McPheeters John Page and William Wheeler as directors. Resolutions declare the Republican party the party of the colored people and pledge help to the city ticket while opposing corrupt party trading by selfish politicians. A second meeting Friday will select headquarters.
In Kenosha Wisconsin on Tuesday evening Miss Bell Stebbins and Douglass Newel were married. The Old maids' league attended the ceremony in black as a sign of sorrow for the loss of a member.
A bicycle rider in Glencove heroically saved a child who darted onto the track as a fast moving Long Island railway train approached. Engineer Smith blew the whistle but could not stop in time. the rider leapt onto the track, seized the child, and both rolled down an embankment before the train passed. Both escaped unharmed.
Report from New York on Sept 6 notes Shamrock's performance shifts betting odds against the British yacht Columbia. A close, exciting race is anticipated with Sir Thomas Lipton hinting at another challenge within a year if Shamrock cannot best Columbia. In Hot Springs Ark funeral services reveal B W Smoot, famed critic and manager and founder of the New York Clipper, died recently with little means remaining.
In Littlie Rock on September 6 Judge John H. Rogers dissolved a state court injunction prohibiting coal firms from importing miners and railroads from moving workers from another state. He ruled interstate commerce law protects the right to seek employment across state lines, barring only prohibited classes.
New York reports from Bar Harbor Me state actress Mrs. Leslie Carter suffers from tea overuse after a taxing season as Zara. Doctors ordered abstinence as she negotiates for Mosely Hall estate at Bar Harbor valued around 150000. A separate Virginia dispatch notes a deadly race clash at Cedar Hill Razor Park with over 50 shots fired and multiple wounded including Walton Hill Joan Hansbrough Matthew Brown Jr Temple Bland. Hill likely to die.
Squire William J. Pearson of the county court was committed to the county workhouse by Circuit Judge Hstin on Tuesday to serve a cost bill of 175 dollars after being tried on a charge of drunkenness in office in Chattanooga Tennessee.
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