The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-01
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Assistant State Auditor Mackey is In
Smith Center.
Shawnee county watermelons have ap-
peared on the market
1t was absolutely cool enough to per
NIT little sleep last night
Charles the First had his Cromwell
and every telegraph wire has its kite.
The city is advertising for bids for the
sidewalk contract Topeka brick is not
specified.
The Populists will hold a meeting in
Parkdale tonight, at which E b Whaley
will speak
If the rain makers at Maple Hill
would only clear out, perhaps We could
get II rain too.
the slot machines appears to have passed
into oblivion
General J. C. Caldwell will represent
the Republicans at the Topeka Labor
day celebration.
John q. McWilliams has been getting
more free advertising in the past week
than DR.. McCasey.
A telegram received last night an
nounced the death of Mrs. Judge Still
llngs of Leavenworth.
A crowd of boys watched for the To-
peka avenue ghost last night but his
ghostship was too shy.
A Topeka young man who went to
Colorado to rest from his la bors 10 now at
home resting from his rest
A Republican club will be organized
at Sunny Side school house, south OF the
city, next Saturday evening.
Assistant City Attorney Hungate is
raising a crop OF chin whiskers They
give him very fierce appearance.
G. H. J. Taylor, register of deeds for
the District Of CoIumbia says no white
man will be given job in his Office.
The Democrats will hold big rally IN
Topeka next Saturday night David
Overmyer will be the principal speaker.
Captain Gish is said to be the cham
pion checker player OF the police force
and it is further stated that he can't play
much.
Reports would indicate that James J.
Corbett would make a very acceptable
superintendent for the Topeka insane
asylum
The Methodists in DIR. Embree's
church pride themselves that they will
have the SWEETEST church in town when
the decorators get through.
w. w. Ramey. formerly a teacher in
this county and afterWard county super
lntendent of Wabaunsee county, has been
elected superintendent of the Herring
ION schools.
Fifteen engineers and dremen who
joined the strikers on the Santa Fe at
Las Vegas, passed through the city east
bound yesterday. They will look for
work on eastern roads
A Topeka business man said today:
IF the tariff bill is passed We shall have
good times and if we can only get to the
end of the rainbow we shall have a pot
Of gold" And he is a Democrat, too.
Jewell, the Rock Island rainmaker,
was operating twenty miles west Of town
graphed to the officers here, "Have two
work trains ready to repair washouts to-
night"
Chief Lindsey's remark after the Nc
y illiams habeas corpus trial. that he had
made the county officers 'show their
hands," indicates that the chief hasn't
forgotten all he used to know about
poker.
J. J. Frey general manager of the Santa
Fe is forty-six years old He began his
railroad career as a telegraph messenger
boy thirty years ago and then became a
telegraph operator. He is a native of
Indiana.
The JOURNAL yesterday at three o'clock
printed the report of a battle in the
China sea that did not occur until ten
o'clock last night. This is journalistic
enterprise. Difference in time made
this apparent impossibility, possible
A daughter was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
0. D. Pray, Of Potwin, night before last.
Go to Hopkins tonight from to 10
and treat your best girl to ice cream at 5