The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-24
CITY NEWS ITEMS.

The social which was postponed from
last Friday night. at the First Baptist
Church, will be held tonight.
The Knights of Columbus, indianapolis
Council, No. 437, will give a dance at the
Brenneke Academy this evening.
The annual election of officers and stock
holders meeting of the Limited Gun Club
will be held this evening at 1880 o'clock
at Room rs, Baldwin block.
Tom Il. Burgoyne. of Elkhart, filed q
petition In bankruptcy yesterday in the
United States Court. His liabilities are
%1.50. His assets are S26O.11.
A mission for men is being held at st.
Patrick's Church, on Woodlawn avenue,
this week, and is being well attended at
the morning and evening services.
1t is said that NJ. G. Hornaday, of this
city, who. a little more tina a year ago,
while employed as chief clerk in the city
engineers office, was convicted of embez-
element and sentenced TO the Indiana State
Prison for from one TO five years, is soon
TO be paroled.
Nathan Ratliff, a resident of Decatur
township since 1864. died late Monday night
at his home. He was seventy years of age,
and was born In Henry county. He leaves
a widow and eight children. The funeral
will be held this morning at the Friends
Church at Fairfield.
Mrs. Garen. mother of Stephen Garen, a
produce dealer at West and McCarty
streets. asked the police yesterday morning
TO search for her son. who had not been at
home since Friday night. He had habitual-
~ renamed at nome during the evenings,
and she feared for his safety.
A committee Of the George II. Thomas
@. A. X. Post, composed of b. A. Richard
son, John b. Elan and Irwin Robbins.
which was appointed TO secure contribu-
lions for the relief of Mrs. William III.
Terrell, widow OF Governor Morton's ad-
Jutant general, are preparing circulars TO
send out over the State for the purpose of
securing contributions
The police of this city have been request
ed TO search for William and Clayton See
kins, respectively fourteen and ten years
of age, who left their home in airmou
April 3. The parents traced them to Box
ley, Hamilton county, and on April 9 they
were known TO have been in Noblesville.
A lad who started with them returned
home and reported that the boys were
bound for Florida.
A house dog known as Niger and a
parrot which was suffocated are given
credit for arousing the family of Mrs.
Gardner, 544 Virginia avenue, late Monday
night, and the saving of the property from
fire. The fire started on the lower floor,
and the dog, after barking for some time,
ran up the stirs and continued 10 jump to
and from Mrs. Gardner's bed until she got
up TO put ii out of the house. 1t was then
she discovered the fire.
Detectives Holtz and Wallace yesterday
learned that "E. c. Watkins who was
arrested for forgery Saturday night, had
been living for a few days at 61 North ILL
nOis street, being known there as j. r. Sui
Ivan. a number of letters and a consid-
| cradle quantity of new clothing was found.
From his effects Ii was believed he had
recently come from Michigan City. but
whether or not from the prison could not
be ascertained. The report of the identi-
fication bureau at Chicago has not yet been
received.
Wilbur S. Wynn, secretary of the State
Life Insurance Company and a widely
known actuary, was a caller at the of
flee of State Auditor Hart yesterday. Mr..
| Wynn has just returned from a trip to the
Pacific coast. While in California he Sc
cured admission for his company into that
| Francisco in the next week or ten days.
The State Life. which is an Indiana COM
| rany. with head office in this city, is now
transacting business in thirty-five States
and Territories.
Detectives Dugan and Wallace brought
into Custodian Krietenstein's office yester-
uay a colored newsboy and bootblack who.
they thought might have been implicated
in the petty thieving that has been going
on in the State Capitol for some months
past. The boy and an associate were held
UP and carefully searched by Custodian
Vest a short time before he went out of Of
fee. but nothing of an discriminating char
acter was found on either Of the boys. After
being examined and closely interrogated
by the detectives and the custodian yes
| terday the colored boy was turned loose.
| Mary Anderson, aged s~eventy-six years,
sent 10 the Woman's Prison In this city
about a year ago on a charge of having
| conspired TO murder her daughter in Greene
county ten years ago., Is likely to receive
a pardon from Governor Durbin in a short
time. The board of control of the institu.
ton has recommended the old womans
| release. The board is also willing TO have
liberty granted TO Martha Southwood, who
has been in the prison twenty-four years,
longer than any other inmate. Mrs. South
wood was sent from Dubois county on con-
viction of killing her infant child. She Wi.
make her home with a relative In North