The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-12

Mrs St. Claire Fleming and daughter
have returned from a visit in Terre
Haute. Ind
SNAP SHOTS AT HONS NEWS.
Everything in the fruit line is grow
ing cheaper.
One man drove 81 miles to attend the
Populist rally today.
The Rock Island employees at Topeka
were paid yesterday.
The best pavement in town is the
Quincy street asphalt
Mrs. L. E. Thorpe reports a destitute
invalid at 1880 Lane street
Bradford Miller threshed 17716 bushels
of wheat last week from eight acres
Waite is the biggest speaker Of today
but his name Is the smallest on the bills.
Many of the open electric cars used in
Topeka were made by the Pullman com
pany.
Out OF the 600 new members wanted
BY the Y. III. C. A. 346 have been Sc
cured.
Four patients have been sent home
from the insane asylum as cured this
week.
and there are said to be few fish left in
the stream.
Several small boys 60 in swimming
every afternoon just above the Kansas
avenue bridge.
The Populist congressional convention
of the Second district convened this
morning at Paola.
The Populist have agreed to make a
schooihouse campaign this summer
beginning August 1st
Bill Hackney has gone to Europa
The Populists say he will open up for
them when he returns.
A patriotic strikers wife on Madison
street wears flag for an apron and has
it tied with white ribbons.
1t Is hard to tell which looks the worst
on the street. fat man smoking a Gig
arctic or old woman wearing red
shoes.
The Santa Fe bridge across the Shun-
ganunga caught fire yesterday afternoon
from cinders from an engine. The dam
age was small.
The Santa Fe clerks no longer stable
their bicycles in the grounds of the
Baptist church. There Is a sign keep
off the grass"
Mary Carruthers has sued for $500
damages in Justice Furry's court from
Morris Stevenson, who ran against her
with a bicycle.
The state board Of railroad commits
sioners propose to make the Pullman
company report to them just like other
common carriers.
A drum corps practices upstairs at the
corner OF Sixth and the avenue every
night An auction man also rings a bell
there good part of the time.
The Home Missionary Sewing society
or the First Presbyterian church will
meet tomorrow afternoon with Mrs. r. A
Wallace al lib Monroe street
Estella Osbon, the alleged murderess
from Holton now confined in the county
jail, spends most of her time sitting in
bars.
F. F. Brown, tho milkman from near
Quinton heights. has furnished good
milk free to the poorest and sickest of
Police Matron Thorpe's charges since
January.
Twenty-three years ago General su-
perintendent A j. Hit Of the Rock Is
land was teaching school at Omaha al
s., 800 a year. He quit to go braking
on a railroad
The Topeka Knights Of Labor will hold
a meeting tomorrow night to talk about
the strike. There are only a few mem
bers of the local assembly. Frank Curry
is secretary.
John Sebastian general passenger
agent Of the Rock Island, who is well
known in Topeka, wore star and acted
as guard several nights during the strike
troubles in Chicago.
Attorney General Little has returned
from Greensburg, where he prosecuted
c. W. Myers. the Kiowa county bank
wrecker, who was found guilty and will
20 to the penitentiary.
Pearl Howard, the woman who gave
an exhibition of her command of pro
family in the police court this week, has
been sbailed out" by some Of her young
gent" acquaintances.
At the recent primaries in the south
legislative district which nominated 5.
NJ Gardenhire the total vote cast WAS
/ .047, of which Gardenhire received 500,
f arnsworth 357, and J. b. McAfee 81.
James A Troutman is billed to speak
at Republican meetings at BurlingaIne
this afternoon, at Independence Satur-
day afternoon and evening, Hiawatha,
July %, and at Mankato, Tues
day, July "a
ENGLIGH NnT AERAIn