The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-23
CITY NEWS NOTES.

street, on Thursday afternoon.
There will be musical at the Central
avenue Church next Tuesday evening for
the benefit of the Queen Esther Circle.
The winona Chautauqua Circle will meet
with Mrs. DR.. Dunning on North Pennsyl-
vania street tomorrow afternoon at
o'clock.
The Women's Home Missionary Society of
the Central-avenue NJ. +. Church will meet
Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock In the
church parlors.
The Morrow Circle of the Meridian-street
Church will meet tomorrow at 2:S0 at the
home of the president. Mrs. Henry A. Beck,
No. 1914 North Meridian street.
The employees of the Laycock Manufac-
turing Company will give literary and
musical entertainment at the factory to-
morrow evening for themselves and their
friends.
Mrs Orm Dildine, 1905 East Washington
street, will entertain the Queen Esther
Auxiliary next Friday. She will be as
sisted by Mrs Sadie Beck, Mrs. Kate Van
Tilburgh and Miss Zelpha Peake.
Anna Higgins. sister of John Higgins.
who is now serving a term in the Michigan
City prison, is said TO be dying OF conges-
result from worry during her efforts to Sc
cure pardon for her brother.
Martha Washington tea and oyster
supper was given Thursday evening at the
of Winema Council. No So, o. of p The
evening was an enjoyable one. Prizes were
won by Messrs. Benson and Ford.
Hal w. Reed, sporting editor of the News.
is in Chicago in Mercy Hospital, where he
is slowly recovering from an operation.
The operation performed by one Of the
most skiliful surgeons in the West who
says Mr.. Reeds chances for recovery are
good
The members of the Young Peoples So
ciety of the Third Reformed Church. cor
ner New Jersey and Prospect streets. will
celebrate the seventh anniversary OF the
| 81 Thursday
of musical and literary numbers will be
rendered
A detachment of the Twenty-nnth In
| fantry passed through the city yesterday
! en- its way to San Francisco from where il
will sail later for Manila. With the COM
pany was Fred G. Fort, of this city. Forts
| father, Milton p. Fort, resides at 10l1 Ash
| land avenue.
| saloon, says he did not introduce colored
man to Viola Allen, white woman, as
! the saloon on Thursday night Lewis says
| the Allen woman came to the saloon with
a colorec man.
| The Auxiliary of Indianapolis Rebekah
Lodge, No. 52O entertained their husbands
with a George Washington party at the
| home of DR.. and Mrs Harvey, No. 2l20
| North Illinois street, Friday evening. The
| committee was composed or Mrs. McElwee,
| Mrs Hahn and Mrs. Kimber.
Bicycle Policemen Manning and Griffin
| were called, yesterday morning, to the
! Statehouse where they arrested Burt
,Hizer, a sixteen-year- old. colored boy, for
! stealing bronze rosettes from about the
| building A young white boy was with him,
but he escaped before the police arrived. Co
Tomorrow night in the rooms of the
| Prohibition League there will be a debate.
| The theme to be discussed is: Resolved
| That a church member cannot consistently
| take employment from brewer or saloon
keeper in the interest of that business"
| The affirmative will be taken by T. Z. Kiser
and the negative by BsF Watson.
DR.. ]. M Rhodes. Of 73O South West
! street has been sick at the home of his
| father Ill North New Jersey street, for
| the nast week with adenitis caused by
| buggy DR.. j. II. Oliver, the attending
physician, says it will be some little time
| before he is able to again attend to his
| practice.
! Each Tuesday during the month of March
| the Rev ]. Cumming Smith. pastor of Tab
ernacle Presbyterian Church, will deliver a.
lenten lecture. The meeting will be held
! from 10 D. m. His subjects will be :
! March 4, as Prayer Still Effectuai?"
March II. Whittier the Poet" March 49,
March 25 Henry Van Dyke"
| p X Huey. a feed merchant at ZIP East
| Washington street, reported to the police
| yesterday morning that his store had been
entered during the night, but he was un-
| robbed. The safe had been tempered with.
| The opinion was that the burglars had
1 opened the safe, IN which there about
| $50, and, after closing it, knocked the COM
| bination off so that it could not be opened
| except by drilling. Entrance to the build
| ing was secured by removing a window
| SASH
| Relatives and friends here of Mrs India
| Kirkland, of Chicago, have just been ap-
prsed of her death. She was a sister of
| Mrs A G.. Cox. OF this city with whom
] she visited last summer. She was before
her marriage, Miss Underhill. daughter of
| Robert Underhill, of this city who was a
| prominent and wealthy citizen and owned
the property where the Shortridge High
| School is situated.
| The Journal yesterday announced the
| consolidation into company of various
corporations of which the controlling one
| Is the American Ordnance Company. Chas
/ F. Flint is president and Henry u. Pierce
of Indianapolis. second vice president and
| legal counsel. This is the ''projectie trust"
1 made UP of the celebrated 'Hotchkiss' and
/ other arm and ammunition companies, and
| in which the Benets. of Paris, France; the
! Cramps. of ship-building fame; Marcellus
! Hartley, the mutl-milionaire fire arms
| prince" John S. Searles. OF the sugar trust;
| Captain Very, late of the United States
| navy; z. NJ. McIlvaine, president OF the
| Bethlehem iron works, and other magnates
/ of the great steel trust are interested with
| Mr.. Flint and Mr.. Pierce as stockholders
! and directors 1t was at a recent meeting
| of this corporation that the widely known
| Marcellus Hartley was so dramatically
| first stricken III and dropped dead while at
| tempting 10 make a motion, accounts OF the
| incident being a few days ago published