The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-04-21
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.


New potatoes are on the market.
College Hill has been invaded by
tramps.
Rev. A. s. Embree is fond of marsh
mallows.
Mayor Harrison has returned from
| Wichita.
Deputy City Attorney Hungate has
! gone fishing.
A cigar with coupons is the latest
novelty in tobacco
Governor Lewelling has gone to Wich-
ita to spend Sunday with his family.
County Clerk McCabe and Archie
Williams are fishing at Cedar Grove.
The Theta NJ Epsilon society has
been introduced into the state university.
e. 5. Morris, of the state printing Of
nee, has gone to Chicago on visit to his
parents.
The street sprinkler mans motto:
Drive to the line let the drops fall where
they may.
A. NJ. De Bow is building new meat
market at the corner of Fifteenth and
Lane streets.
People who are never in hurry at any
other time will almost break their necks
running to fire.
J. III. Morphy of the secretary Of states
office is a practical joker. He always
laughs at his own jokes.
President Sheldon says the Kansas
Republican league now has $4,000 mem
bers and 700 local clubs.
If burglars should break into the Kan
sas Medical college, they would proba-
bly, do it with a skeleton key.
James Arterbridge, son of Policeman
AFTER bridge, was arrested last night for
trespassing on railroad property.
In the divorce of Scales VS. Scales, now
in the district court, the jury should
weigh the evidence very carefully.
{. NJ e IL
ter is here looking after his interests as
candidate for secretary of state.
Efforts are being made to raise money
to start a base ball club. Very little en-
enlargement has been received
A prominent county official said today
that there were thousand men in To-
peka who wouldn't work if they could
The white man who was arrested with
the crowd of colored boys for gambling
was the worst scared fellow in the lot.
Executive CLERK ]. B. French of
the governors office, has returned
from vacation spent in southern Texas.
small boy who said the Masonic
building was afire was responsible for
the second alarm at the Ripley fire yes
terday.
G. c. Clemens is getting his voice in
tune so as to sing marching on to War;"
at the Coxey meeting in the court house
tonight.
The lawn mowers have been taken out
of the barn and cleaned and sharpened
preparatory to getting into the push for
the summer.
"The Kansas Blackman," the newspa-
per in the interest of colored Republi
cans has made its appearance. W. d.
Driver is it's editor.
Chief of Police Lindsey took the two
Fit. Reno deserters to Fit Leavenworth
last night. They will be confined in the
military prison at that place.
Secretary of State Osborne said he
hoped no Coxey recruits would be or
ganized in Kansas, for everything of the
kind is blamed on this state.
Frank Durein is getting rid of his To-
peka property as fast as possible. He has
now sold lot No. on Monroe street to
Mrs Jennie Pierce for 1900.
At the Central convention of Congre- |
gational churches held this week at Nam |
haitian, a resolution endorsing equal suf |
frage was unanimously adopted.
Guy Foster, who graduated from Wash
burn college. 1892. was in the city this
week. and left for Oklahoma, where he
assumes the pastorate of a Congregation
al mission.
The recent cold weather is the last end
of blizzard from NJ anitoba that has
been lowering over the lake states, Iowa
and Nebraska for week. 1t is due to
leave today.
If any one who had designs on the
state treasury could see the weapons
within reach of every one, his heart
would fail him, no matter if he were Bill
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