The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-01
CITY NEWS NOTES.

a song service will be held tomorrow
evening at s o'clock at the Temple. corner
Delaware and Tenth streets. The public Is
cordially invited.
The parents of Ray Davis. of No. 7o4
Drake street. reported to the police yester-
day that the boy was missing from home.
He is ten years old.
Rabbi NJ. Messing will leave Saturday
night for New Orleans to attend a conven-
ton of American rabbis. which will be held
in that city on May B.
". H. Johnson & Co. of North Delaware
street, yesterday closed a contract TO fur
nish the heating and ventilating apparatus
for a twelve-room schoolhouse in Los
Angeles, Cal.
The grandmother of Charles Baker came
to the police station yesterday morning and
told the desk sergeant that while her
grandchild was on his way TO school a boy
had relieved him of his overcoat. She said
the boy put on the coat and rode away on
the back of a beer wagon.
Charles Ayres, residing at 427 East Ohio
street, was arrested Yesterday by Bicycle
burglary and petit larceny. 1t is alleged
that Ayres broke into a house at No. lllI
Park avenue a few days ago and stole a
number of carpenters tools.
Mrs. Charity Van Sickle yesterday sued
Samuel Dodd in Justice Shocks court for
three joints of Stovepipe, valued at Sc cents.
Mrs. Van Sickle alleges that Dodd took the
pieces of stovepipe from her home while he
and his wife were tenants there. Already
the court costs amount to $50.
George Walters, said to be a tramp, res
cued a boy from being hit with a street car;
by the car. Walters saw a newsbOy stand
ing in front of an approaching car. He
attempted to grab the boy as the latter got
out of the way of the car and was hurt
himself.
& Webster syndicate, of Boston, will soon
become assistant general manager OF the
Union Traction Company: Charles A. Bald
win will become general passenger agent
and assistant superintendent, and {. w.
Mcclure will continue as assistant to
President McCulloch.
Mrs. Margaret Hart. wife of J. w. Hart,
died suddenly, Tuesday night, of heart
trouble, at the family home, zoos College
avenue. She leaves seven children-MrS.
John Schlosser and Josephine Kitley, of
New PALESTINE: Mrs. Isaac Sinner; of New
Bethel; j. c. Hart, William Hart, Margaret
Hart and Harry Hart, Of this city.
Mrs. Elizabeth Roberts. of No. 800 Ia
coma avenue, was painfully hurt yesterday
by being hit by a street car at Noble and
was struck by the car. She was thrown TO
the pavement with great force. Her arm
was broken. She was taken to her home
by the City Dispensary ambulance.
DR.. Lewis j. Davis. 81 Warren avenue.
Chicago, would like to hear from the old
soldiers now living hat were under his
care and treatment at post hospital. Camp
Darlington. indianapolis, during the win
tiers of 1863, 1864 and 1865. Correspondents
are requested to name the disease or
wound for which they were treated.
The City Dispensary physicians were
called last night at $3.50 o'clock to the cor
ner of New York and Alabama streets,
where it was said a man had taken poison.
The doctors found Charles Mitchell, col
ored. lying on the sidewalk with his head
resting on a pillow furnished by a man liy.
ing near by. Mitchell was grooming as IL
in great agony, but said his ailment was
cramps. He was taken to his home, 14l3
Newman street.
The state statistician has issued a crop
bulletin for the period ending April 10, in
which he says peaches are killed every
where, and in some localities the trees are
injured to a great extent. Other fruits
promise a fair yield, and a short crop of
berries is expected, due to the drought of
last summer and the freezing last winter.
The average condition of wheat is 20 and
cent. basis. The average oats acreage is so.
The biology class at Butler College has
been suspended for two days by Professor
Bruner because ii "bolted." Last Friday
afternoon Professor Bruner could not be
with the class and posted a notice that a
session would be held Saturday. A bolt
was agreed upon. and Saturday Professor
Bruner had no class. Tuesday he asked
for explanations and several excuses were
given. and then he suspended the class for
two days. The boilers are mostly of the
upper class. and some are now worried for
rear IndJ the professor may reuuce tneIr
grades. 1t is not believed that the matter
will be carried to the faculty.
Omer Kennedy, living at Ashland avenue
and Seventeenth street, was stabbed in the
right arm yesterday afternoon by one of
three colored boys, who, he said, stole a
pair of bicycle wheels from his yard. The
three boys. Kennedy said. had come into
his yard and said they were sent there to
clean it out. When they had concluded
their work he saw them place the two
wheels in a wagon. He went to them and
told them to put the wheels back in the
yard, which they refused to do. While he
was demonstrating with them, he said, one
of the boys took out a knife and stabbed
him in the arm. The injury is not serious.
The friends Of Mrs. Sculley, who lives
at 225 East Merrill street, have become
alarmed at her absence. She has not been
seen since April Is. When she left home
she put the door key in a bucket, which
she placed under a rear stoop. The rental
agent went there yesterday, but no trace
of Mrs. Sculley could be found The agent,
with Mrs. Link. who lives next door, found
the key and went into the house. They
found the interior neatly furnished. but no
clew TO the occupant. Mrs. Sculley lived
alone. Her son died some time ago. She
has no relatives here. She has a sister in
Cleveland. and it is the superstition that
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