The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-28
CITY NEWS NOTES.

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DIR. S. H. Moore has been appointed
pension examining surgeon for this city.
Robert T. Reed, a local letter carrier. has
been promoted from an $500 to a S1,Ooo place..
Mr.. William Churchman and DIR. Craig
have gone to Sanborn, Ind, for a few days
hunting.
The amount of stolen property recovered
by the police this year is about 5000 in ex-
cess of the record for any other year. The
total amount is given as S32, 4S0.61.
The McRoy Clay Works, of Brazil, was
Incorporated yesterday with a capital stock
of 500, 900. The directors are John I. Nc
Roy, James NJ. Graves and E. NJ. Shanks.
The o. p. Morton Club is arranging to
entertain it's friends on New Years day
at its clubhouse at Shelby street and Cot
tage e Refreshments will be served.
The Sisters of the Good Shepherd have
issued a card of thanks to the public ex-
tending their gratitude for help during the
year past and especially for the presents
received at Christmas.
Clinton E. Morgan, of River avenue. and
Miss Nellie George, of North Pennsylvania
| street, returned yesterday from Louisville.
KY, and surprised their friends by an
%nouncing their marriage there on Dec. "A.
The feast of st. John the Evangelist,
patron st. Johns Church, was very appro-
| priately celebrated yesterday morning In
the Catholic churches. Three masses were
said. The principal mass was sung at 8
o'clock.
Anna Porter, ffty-fve years old, living at
2S17 London avenue, was adtudged insane
| Yesterday. She imagineS she sees dead
people and that she talks with them. Ethel
Robb, twenty-four years old, was also ad-
judged insane.
NAL School gave an informal dinner at
the Grand Hotel last night. About one
hundred members of the association and
their friends were present. John p. Wise
w. of the State Normal. presided.
The ~smothering of a gas fire by throwing
coal in the furnace was the cause of an ex-
| plosion last night at the home of Mrs.
| Annie Rapp, at S3 North New Jersey
| street. The furnace was somewhat dam
aged, but no one was injured and no fire
resulted.
The Indiana Automobile Club has been
organized in indianapolis, and all owners
of AUTOMOBILES in the city will be invited
to enlist as members. The officers are: Pres
| ident, Carl G.. Fisher; vice president, Lewis
Bentley; secretary. August Habich; treas
urer, f. A. Moore.
At the request of the president and other
| officers of the Indiana Guarantee Title
| Company Mrs. Stella Anderson, widow OF
| William c. Anderson, has presented them
with a large picture of her late husband:
Mr.. Anderson was prominently identified
| with the abstract of title business in this
city.
Judge Baker yesterday granted Receiver
John II. Stotsenburg, in the case of the
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against { lrles w. De PAW, permission
to sell grain and stock that had been re-
ceived by the receiver as rent for a farm
that represents part of the assets in tho
case.
General Harrison yesterday purchased
| the stone and brick block at 324 East Wash
irgton street, of Clements Vonnegut, ST.,
for $40, 900. The building was long occupied
| by the vonnegut Hardware Company until
Il moved into it's present quarters. The
building is now occupied by the Builders
Supply Company.
Mrs. Dinah Collins, a woman with seven
children, is said to be slowly dying of con-
sumption in a box car in a vacant lot on
| the Bluff road, southeast of the city. The
| condition Of the home is deplorable, the
| want of proper food. Mrs. Collins has been
ill for q year, but keeps her children near
her.
The members of the Musikverein of the
German House have issued a number of in
vitations to their friends to enjoy a night
| OF entertainment and dancing on Monday
next to celebrate the close of the century
| and the birth of the new. The festivities
are to begin at 9 o'clock with a number Of
vaudeville acts, which will be given by the
| members of the society. At midnight the
party will prepare for a tersiphorean
treat.
The Builders and Contractors Exchange
have leased ten rooms in the Majestic, and
| Yesterday began moving the equipments in
the various offices In the Claypool building,
on the corner of Ohio and Pennsylvania
| streets, to the Majestic. The change was
made necessary, as the building they have
| occupied for several years is to be torn
| down to make room for the new seven-story
block that the Claypools are to erect, the
| contract already being let.
State Labor Commissioner L. Z. McCor-
| mack has just learned that he won SIS, 900
in a lottery. He says he purchased the
ticket from q man in the southern part of
| the State who approached him and told a
l.~I 1,,ob cforxy Lie natl (1 fnv <ha ;ola
Last Friday he saw a man with a list of
| the prize numbers. Christmas eve he says
he thought of the ticket and upon hunting
it up found that he was the winner. Mr..
| Mccormack says he will buy a farm In
Hendricks county, near Danville.
| The funeral of Mrs. Mary o. Elster, Of
Irvington, who died Wednesday morning,
was held YESTERDAY afternoon She had
and declined to give up her work as teacher
in the public schools at the suggestion Of
her friends. She was last connected with
school No. al and was at her desk last
Friday. On Christmas she gave a dinner
at her home and there was then no indica-
ton Of serious illness. Mrs. Elster became
known throughout the country on account
or the establishment or the Francis Power
Cobb Home for waif cats and dogs. Her
husband and one son survive her.
A bill will be presented to the Legislature
asking for an appropriation to build an
armory for the indianapolis National
Guard. There are four companies I'm the
city. which constitute a battalion. besides
the battery. The question of establishing
battalion headquarters for the artillery in
this city is also being discussed, and the
present plan is to have the offices of the
Infantry and artillery In the same build
ing. The companies of the National Guard
now have the top floor OF the courthouse
for their armory. Opposition Is expected
from companies in the State as there is a
jealous feeling against the indianapolis
companies.
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