The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-26
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.
Policemen Fowkes and Lowe are sick.
What does Mr.. Jennings mean by this,
anyway.
The man is yet to be seen who objects
to this rain.
There are only two women prisoners
in the city jail.
The Y. M. c. A. has purchased three
new sets of ten pins.
w. II. Simpson came home yesterday
and went back to Chicago today.
Chief of Police Wilkerson is at his
Missouri farm near st. Joseph, today.
The Santa Fe double quartette gave a
concert at noon today at the coach shops.
There was too much rain for comfort
yesterday and not enough for the wheat.
Thomas Dillon, messenger in the west
wing of the state house is sick with ty
phoid fever.
Jake Kennedy and Archie Cole will
play with the Lincoln, Nebraska, ball
team this year.
Frank P. MacLennan returned from
New York this afternoon after an alb
sence of two weeks.
Will March come in like lamb or
like lion Friday? And how will the
Kansas legislature go out?
A mortgage for $1,000 on Bill Hig-
| gins home at 1866 Van Buren, street has
been filed with the register of deeds
Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon is to read a
| paper on Toronto" at the meeting of the
Municipal league tomorrow evening
John Birdwhistle has been bound
over to the district court by Justice
Chesney. His bond was fixed at $500.
The residence of G. F. Shultz, 4O4 Clay
street, was burglarized Sunday night
The thief took gold watch and 90 cents
1t is to be hoped Miss Morton will re-
frain from singing "Little Alabama
Coon" and "The Fatal Wedding" to-
night
The Santa Fe has commenced cutting
rates between the Pacific coast and Chi
cago The first cut makes a reduction
of So so.
Midland college at Atchison came
within one vote of being admitted to the
Kansas Inter- Collegiate Oratorical asso-
citation.
Mrs Mollie Phillips has applied to the
district court for divorce from her hus-
band Joseph ]. Phillips on the ground OF
abandonment
All of next week will be devoted to
court cases in the district court and the
remainder of the jury cases will be tried
afterward.
A Topeka firm, which occasionally
buys a piece of western land, recently
purchased 800 acres of bottom in Barber
county for 5000.
Assistant City Attorney Hungate some
times goes with the police when they
make a raid to instruct them in the Law
governing the case.
A horse and wagon belonging to A. B
| 10 ~
Seventh and Quincys street about
o'clock last night
The proposed Wichita s. Southwestern
railroad was sidetracked at a public
meeting at Wichita last night and the
road will not be built.
The Knights of the Maccabees will
hold state convention in this city or
March ~. A programme is being ar
ranged for the occasion
j. G. Egan, who resigned his position
with the Santa Fe at Chicago, and wal
succeeded by Robert Dunlap, is in the
city. He has not yet located.
Paul Torrington, Harry Overholt, Wal
ter Noble and G. III. Culver, are member
of the new male quartette which is 5000
to sing at the First NJ. E. church.
Mrs. Emma D. Pack, matron at tn,
asylum, has written book about the asy
lum, entitled "The Mad House." whiol
is now being published in New York
A Topeka book agent was suar
enough to hunt up the candidates 70
city offices yesterday. The agent ha
"inflooence" and his book had a read
SALE
, 1t is expected that there will be chan
, ges made in the pastorates of most of tn
Methodist churches of Topeka by tn
conference which meets at Leavenwortl
March 13.
, Charles Murray, a Jackson count,
prisoner, who is now in the county iai
here, is thought to be the man VIII
killed the Rock Island agent at Within;
} last September.
} The railroads of the Western Passen
ger association have decided not to sci
homeseekers' excursion tickets to KAN
} sas points during March and April, a
has been announced
The Mortgage Trust company O
Pennsylvania has secured a judgmen
: against Henry s. Nudge of Hodgema
county for $4,000 before Judge John
son in the circuit court
Atchison has discovered that there is
song entitled "My Pearl is a Bower
, Girl" Atchison ia the place where tn
| folks are making inquiries as to wha
Paul Kauvar will play there this year.
O1Is ou0 MIS- 0aS10 411RK A6V6 az
| piled to the district court for divorces
a | George Biddles is named as correspond
ent in the petition and both Mr.. and Mr.
. Higg agree to the charges made in tn
petition filed.
. Prices Cream Baking Powder is {
uniform excellence, because it's absC
lutsly pure.
= Grip Is Epidemic.