The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-28
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

There was POpulist rally At ROssville
yesterday.
Farmers are selling their wheat for 40
cents busheL
This years list Of property to be sold
for taxes il longer than ever.
The dust On Kansas avenue in North
Topeka is at least ak inches in depth
The state executive council has allow
ed the regular monthly bills for July.
Secretary of State Osborn il at Hia-
VEatha today, talking to Populist picnic.
Everybody talks about the new song
Sweet Marie'' but very few have heard
The Turner's are having 3 new roof
put on their gymnasium west of the city
par5-
August eth and 10th are the dates Of
the state wheelmen's meet at Leaven-
worth.
Topeka cyclists will not be allowed to
enter IN the six mile road race At Holton
Monday.
The state house guide, Rev. ". P
Harrington, viii preach at Tecumseh
tomorrow.
"The Forge in the Forest drew forth
the greatest applause at the band concert
last night
4 white woman sat on a doorstep on
Kansas avenue last night placidly smOk-
AuS q cigar
There is one man we sincerely envy
this hot weather. 1t is the driver Of the
ice wagon.
G. ". Peters. editor of the Prison
Trusty, called on Governor Leweling
last evening.
The Populists had a picnic at Ross
vile yesterday, and are having one at
Meriden today.
Hal Hazlett won a 5000 horse and
buggy last night on a ticket that cost
him twenty-five cents
Catalogues still command 10 cents
apiece. Raising cantalOupes Is the next
best thing 10 running bank.
5. F. right has been elected princi-
pal and Miss Maggie J. Bucher teacher
Of the Highland park school
Some children have BOAT in the old
water works we'll near the river. Some
day thereil be drowning there.
a man on Fifteenth street is keeping
four hogs in an enclosure in spite of the
ordnance against pigs IN the city.
Each member Of the Populist league
is expected 10 bring one Republican to
the weekly meetings Of the league
James A Troutman went to Mound
Valley today to assist IN opening the Re
publican Campaign in LaDette county
The Rock Island rainmaker began
work at Maple Hill yes erday morning
and it rained minutes here this morn
ing.
The only natatorium Topeka has is the
place below the Rock Island bridge
wnere the water is almost knee deep In
places
There will be big Republican picnic
al Silver Lake August -. Chas- Curtis,
DICK B.ue and +. b Dawes VIII be the
speakers
The hot winds had no effect on the
crop of grass and weeds that has grown
up on the street railway tracks on Jack
son street
DR.. Gilbert, Frank Crane and George
St0Il were the victims in three Funaways
last evening. None of them were Sc
riousiy hurt
J. W. Gleed will make a suffrage
speech at Garden City next Thursday
and one at KInsley and St John the eve
nings following.
Governor Lewelling has re-appointed
L. Van Y oorhis, of Lawrence. member
Of the board of directors of the Dodge
City soldiers home.
Judge c. f. Foote, OF the state board Of
pardons. gets 50 day and expenses for
his services in speaking at a PopuILst
rally at Ottawa today.
1t is pretty hard to be called a scab,
but then nobody ought to forget the
eleventh commandment Thou shalt not
take thy neighbours job"
a young man who ma5tIcates with his
mouth wide open wonders why he is not
taken into society; he is acquainted with
all the leaders of society, too.
The people in the vicinity of the state
house grounds are thinking of starting
an insurrection against the battery which
fires the sunrise gun every morning
Judge Frank DOster. the most talked
about Populist candidate for United
States senator, is in the city, and says be
will take an active part in the campaign,
commencing the middle of August
Mrs Annie L Diggs will not go to
Colorado, and has notified Chairman
BreidenthaI that she is ready for the cam
paign. She has been billed for almost
every day during the month Of August
There is said to be honor among
thieves, but the prisoners in the county
Jail have been rObbing each other. A
dollar was stolen from Pete Callahan
and another man lost $245 Two to one
the White boys know something about it.
Mayor Harrison objects because a lot
OF boys 60 swimming in the Kansas river
lust below the Santa Fe bridge, in full
sight of the Oakland cars. The police
have been notified with no effect Per
hzps the boys are paying for "prOlec-
ton"
When the scalp is atrophied, or shiny
bald no preparation will restore the hair;
ia all other cases, Halls Hair Remover
will start growth