The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-11-21

SNAP SHOTS At HOWE NEWS


early in August
The Grand opera house viii be dark
until Thanksgiving night
John COllingsworth is visiting for q
/ few days outside Of Kansas.
The executive board Of the 7. IL G. A
held a meeting last evening.
The Salvation Army have a reformed
cornet player with them now.
There are two amateur minstrel shows
in course Of evolution at present
The county commissioners adjourned
yesterday afternoon TO Novem Der p.
Fred Close left today for Galveston,
Texas in the interest Of his railroad
Fifty five men are at work cutting and
laying stone on the new Santa Fe hOspi-
tai
The managers of the wooden mill say
the building Will be completed within
week.
There is still hope for Topeka. Joe,
the Turk, is here, and Madame Yale is
coming
The senate chamber is being cleaned
and renovated for the coming session OF
the legislature.
The latest popular song is entitled
Dear Louise" and IS by the author of
sweet Marie
Mr.. and Mrs. d. r. Carson who reside
at 1903 Kansas avenue, are parents of a
daughter born yesterday.
The ladies who are getting up the
minstrel show are in need of two boys to
do a " eapolitan dance
The wives Or the tiremen Of Station
No 1 will give a big dinner on Thanks
giving Day at the station house.
Dr. McCasey says he may start a pri-
waite insane asylum IN Topeka after the
state concludes it can pare him.
whole block Of new brick sidewalk
has been butt on the east side Of Quincy
hnfr p 4 &c ,,
streets.
There Is another budding poet ia town.
She is a young lady who il employed in
the freight auditing department of the
Santa Fe
Topeka liveryman says that he does
ten before bicycle riding became fash
ionable.
A bicycle stolen in Topeka four months
ago from John Stewart Of the Wells
Fargo express office, has been recovered
in Los Angeles, CAL
The state board Of election canvassers
will meet in the Office Of the secretary Of
state next Monday to canvass the re-
turns of the late election
T. G. Noel has been appointed dele
gate for Shawnee county to the trans
Mississippi commercial congress, to be
held ID st. Louis next week.
Mr. and Mrs. y. n. Neher Of 14O5
born yesterday. Mr. Neher is a clerk in
the office Of the secretary Of state
J. H Johnston a rate clerk in the
Santa Fe general freight Office has been
given a position IN the Office of the
freight traffic manager in Chicago.
Lincoln and Polk schools are the only /
ones in the city which dep end solely on
their windows for ventilation Pol
school looks like it was built for a Jail
3 L1~.1-. T
windows Of the city Jail washed aud the I
floor scrubbed, preparatory to turning il +
over to his Republican successor, per +
haps.
At the last examination conducted By
the state board of education, ten teachers /
were granted state certificates. Matte
b. Newell Of Topeka Of that
number.
The presence of joe the Turk, IN To-
peka viii be hailed with delight by the
Equal SuHragists, who will now have a
chance to see pair Of real Turkish
trousers.
President Andrew S Draper Of the
State university of Illinois, who is to lee
ture before the State Teachers associa-
ton next month, receives a salary Of ST.
500 year.
B. +. Irwin, who was defeated for the
Office of probate judge on the Republic
can ticket IN Usage county At the late
election, is talking of moving his family
to Topeka
4Irs. l. MI Crawford's attachment
against the drug stock Of Dr. Burkett /
has been dissolved. Burkett showed
that he had sold out to Assistant State
Auditor Mackey.
The officers Of the law are respectfully I
notified that William Myers, the iointist
Of 112 Kline street who eluded arrest /
last spring, has returned to the city and I
can be hal for the asking
"A Topeka young man wanted BY the
police escaped from the Grand opera +
house Monday night by unbarring one
Of the side doors while the officers /
guarded the main entrance
The executive committee Of the Kan
sas Good Iemplars held a meeting at the +
arranging for a lecture tour through /
Kansas for DR.. r n. Iracy Of Kentucky. /
Judge Joseph Culver of Emporia.
George +. Fullenwicer Of ElDoradO aud +
Rev. 1. It. Underwood Of LeavenwOrth. 4
are here attending a meeting of the exc +
cutive committee Of the Kansas Good I
Templars.
The man who calls himself "Simon /
Peter, raised from the dead attended +
the meeting Of the Ministerial union +
this week and attempted to prove his 1
identity to the local pastors. He dis
tributed a number Of his tracts
The teachers and students of Baker /
university propose to have their head 4
quarters in the posto flee building dur
ing the session Of the State Teachers as
sociation meeting between Christmas F
and New Year.
The Kansas association of trotting
horse breeders held meeting last night
ar al ftaI F-ff De-