The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-24
CITY NEWS NOTES.

Mr.. Joseph Gray Kitchell has returned
from a trip to Florida.
Samuel N Gold will be a candidate on
the Democratic ticket for township trus-
tee.
The Democratic State committee will
meet tonight at the Grand Hotel and Sc
lect the date and place Of meeting OF the
State convention.
William Dean, Of Alexandria, filed a Pc
tition in bankruptcy in the Federal Court
yesterday. His assets amount TO va and
his liabilities to $494
The Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial As
ISOLATION will hold it's next meeting In the
Governors parlors, at the Statehouse, Feb.
%, at 10 o'clock a. m.
Ada Vawter, thirty-seven years old. has
been declared insane. She imagines her
sister is her enemy and thinks her friends
are trying to injure her.
The Mendenhall Republican Colored Club
met last night at Brightwood with large
attendance. Rev. Morton II. Rowland,
Charles Walters and others spoke.
Rev. H. b. Long will deliver his platform
lecture. BENJAMIN Franklin at the Peo-
pies Congregational Church, Michigan and
Blackboard streets, tomorrow evening.
Rev. DR.. E. Trumbull Lee will preach
morning and evening tomorrow at the
First Presbyterian Church. DR.. Lee Is the
pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church
at Cincinnati
the Indianapolis e. Greenfield Electric Rail-
way Company permission to lay its tracks
in the middle of the street through the
town of Cumberland.
The Board Of Trade. through subscrip-
tions and donation boxes, has collected
s133.sS for the famine sufferes Of India.
Materials to the amount Of $26.70 were do
mated by business houses, making total
of $160.5S.
The Phoenix Accident and Benefit Asso-
fnh IL
censed yesterday by the auditor of state to
transact business of accident and sick ben
eft insurance as an assessment company in
Indiana.
Mrs. CORTLAND Van Camp. of this city, is
at the Ebbitt House, Washington, ID. C.,
suffering from broken leg, resulting from
a fall on the ice. Her physicians say 1t
will probably be several weeks before she
can be moved.
About twenty-five Republicans Of the
eleventh precinct of the Seventh ward held
a meeting last evening at Stoeff1er's Hall.
corner Noble and Ohio streets, and in
dorsed Sam G. Dawson for commissioner
from the Third district.
The Rev. James Cook, pastor of the Re-
formed Methodist Church, Is presiding over
the annual conference of that church now
being held in a small edif1ce on Southeast
ern avenue. There are about dozen dele
gates. The enthusiasm of so small a church
is unusual.
Benjamin GrlQer, COlOre0, was arrested
yesterday and charged with stealing $50
feet of white oak lumber from the l.. G.
Thompson mill. He was employed at the
mills. and 1T is claimed loaded the lumber
on to a wagon after working hours and
took ii home.
In Justice Smocks court yesterday John
Elkins, janitor at the Girls Classical
School, pleaded guilty to desertion of his
child since August last and was fined $40
and costs. Elkins was divorced from his
wife, and after the divorce failed to pro-
vide for the child.
Clinton V. Lowe, a well-known young
man. is seriously i'll at the home of his
father, Sergeant John Lowe on Douglass
street He was formerly in the postof-
flee and served in the treasurers Office
under William II. Schmidt. He has many
friends in the city.
The Rev. William A. Quayle will speak
at the meeting of the Murphy Gospel Tenn
perance League in Showers Hall to-mor-
row afternoon at 3 o'clock. The young
peoples church societies of the city have
been asked to furnish chorus for these
meetings, each on one Sunday In the
month Tomorrow the chorus will be from
the Epworth League and is expected &c
consist Of a hundred voices.
DIR. A. r. Benton. OF Butler returned yes
terday from Lincoln, Neb., where he deliv-
cred an address on Facing the Twentieth
Century" at the celebration of the twenty
ninth anniversary of the founding of the
State University of Nebraska. DR.. Benton
was the first chancellor of the university,
holding that position from 1871 to 1876. He
has been connected with Butler College
during its whole history, and with the old
Northwestern Christian University since
1854 at which time he was elected profess
sor of ancient languages.