The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-09-13
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS
The summer girl looks charming on her daily
N rling ride
Her cheeks agIow with pleasure as she sits
But she shouldn't wear her low shoes while
sne's riding on her Wheel
punctures IN the heel
A new pretty girl has come to town.
Washburn college opened yesterday.
Ed DeMoss is sick with malarial fever.
Muscatel grapes are arriving from Cali
fornia
John Macdonald is visiting at his old
home in Scotland
The fair grounds track is in perfect
condition for next weeks races.
George Sharitt is attending United
states court in Wichita this week.
Men can be seen on the street now
wearing an overcoat and straw hat.
Mrs. Annie Diggs is reported to have
injured herself by falling out of a ham
mock
Up till Sunday people sought the
shady side of the street. but they don't
now.
Frank stahI, county treasurer, elect
has sore thumb as a result of playing
base ball.
Guilford Dudley says there will be 100
more horses at the Topeka races this fall
than last year.
Street Commissioner Naylor is expert
menting with vitritied brick in construct
ing street crossings.
Sheriff Burdge has bought a new re-
volyer with large number of ingenious
improvements on it.
Signs are being painted on the win
dOws Of the school board rooms in the
new high school building.
The new high school looks much nearer
completion than it did before the win
dows were washed and polished.
The family of N. D. mckinley, at 312
Clay street, is qnarantined for diph-
iberia This is the only case in the city.
President John ]. Valentine, Of the
Wells, Fargo express company, says his
company is operated at loss in Kansas.
The state board of railroad commits
sloners Will be in session Septem Der 26th
TO hear the Hutchinson Southern railroad
case.
The Musee expects to soon put on for
q week ''Around the World in Eighty
Days." witty Fifty, count 'em, Fifty, in
the cast.
Many young men are busily discussing
the proposition, (which do l need most,
a fail suit or an overcoat?" The over
coat hides the suit
It is said some Topeka Populists for
warded General Sanders the 500 to pay
his fine, and he was released from Jail at
Wichita last night
With both opera houses running all
next week, and one Of them twice a day,
Topeka will have seventeen perform
ances within period of six days.
Charley Taylor of the state superin-
tendent of insurance's office, took his
sword and brass buttons with him last
evening and started for LeavenwOrth.
Col Richard j. Hinton of New York,
one of the early associates of old John
Brown, is visiting a few days in Topeka,
on his way east from the irrigation con-
gress at Denver.
James B. Hayden says: "This matter
of the Decker, Mullins & Berry case
should be treated just as we would our
private debts. If the city owes the debt
it should be paid
A. L. Tracey, who had Mrs. Sturdyvin
Of Silver Lake arrested for shooting him
with intent to kill, failed to prove that
her assault was not in self defense, SO
Mrs. Sturdyvin was acquitted.
When Lee Jones read Pastor Sheldon's
interview in last evenings JOURNAL, he
said: "If that's the sort of religion Mr..
congregation mighty little hope for the
future"
The Texas railroads have agreed on a
of ten who want to visit the Lone SSar
state this winter. The Santa Fe, Rock
Island and Missouri Pacific are in the
agreement.
The Santa Fe has filed with the state
board Of railroad commissioners its state
ment in the case where the citizens of
Usage City complain of a discrimination
against their town in rates, by the Santa
Fe and Missouri Pacific.