The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-30
SNAP SHOTS AT HomE NEWS.
Now isn't this weather too mean?

$1,000.
Most Topeka housewives welcomed
this mornings rain.
The patrol wagon hasn't been out on
business for week
Bishop Millspaugh was mistaken for a
Snowman in Atchison yesterday.
OF course the Atchison papers tried to
belittle the Leavenworth carnival.
People who write their own signs
should be sure about their photography.
The Santa Fe city ticket Office displays
picture of locomotive made of grain.
The tramp who sleeps in box car now
becomes dissatisfied with his occupation.
The mayor and council were delighted
with their entertainment at Leavenworth.
1t to be hoped the Tin horns will all
be thrown in a well before tomorrow
night.
The ice cream signs have been taken
down and "oysters" appear in their
places.
Lot $50 Taylor street has been sold for
$3.50 by May Irwin TO Elizabeth S.
Waddeu
Harry Lindsey and Nick WAGNER of
Hopkins theatre, Chicago are in Topeka
on visit
A generous commission merchant
placed the sign "Take One" over basket
of apples.
The capture of David Coulter proves
that The murderer is the most stupid per-
/ son GU earth.
/ This damp weather will please the
hunters. 1t has been too dry to hunt any
| kind of game.
Lawyer Frank II. Foster had a new
hat stolen from the district court room
the other day.
a great many people wandered around
town last night and waited for lynching
that failed TO appear.
Old opera glasses which haven't been
used for some time are being polished up
for "The Black Crook"
The county comm ssioners have taken
$5,95417 transferred from the county
poor fund to the general fund.
If it had not been for the intelligence
of Sturgis Bechtol the murderer of Ed
ward lll5ton might have escaped.
A colored policeman says that PIE"
Jordan has more political influence with
the colored people than John Jones.
jim Otterbridge was fined $50 in
police court for beating his sister at their
home in Redmondville and resisting an
officer.
Miss Kittie DeLorme, of the Holden
Comedy company, objects to being called
"dizzy blond" soubrette. Her hair is
black.
Rev. c. NJ. Sheldon has gone to Clifton
Springs. If Mrs. Sheldon is able she
viii return with him from the sanitarium
next week.
There will be a meeting of the Asso-
cialed Charities at Library hall Friday
afternoon for organization for this win
ter's work.
There we're many expressions of soV-
row on the street last night because the
murderer Illston had not been brought
to Topeka.
Jefferson must be bad county, as well
as jackson. The majority of the muir
derers in this vicinity come from Those
two counties.
Two attractions will be at the Grand
next week They are Green Goods
Man" Thursday and Primrose & West
Friday night.
Police Captain Gardiner is greatly dis.
appointed because there will be no foot
ball games in Topeka. He is an en-
thusiast athletics.
II. NJ Holden, leading man for the
Holden Comedy company, says he mas
walked good long distances on railroad
ties, years ago, however.
The Santa Fe and Rock Island free
trans portation bureaus have declined to
issue passes to state house clerks who
want to go home to vote.
NJ a. Waterman, deputy bank com
missioner, mas been called homo by tele
graph on account of the illness of his
little son who has the diphtheria.
Charles Kleinhans of Topeka has beer
invited to referee the football game al
Lawrence next Saturday between the
state universities of Kansas and Iowa.
Rev W. c. Veazie, state evangelist o.
the Congregational church, will hold /
series of revival meetings at Rev. c. II
: Sheldon's church, commencing tomorrow
evening.
1t becomes more evident every day
that the advice of DR.. Lindsay should be
followed in diphtheria contagion and
microscope employed to examine sus
pected cases.
Secretary Frank Flenniken, of the
state board of railroad commissioners, is
in receipt of telegram announcing the
.. death of his sister, Mrs. Jessie L. Bryan
at Jacksonville, Pennsylvania, yesterday
Marriage licenses were issued yester
day to Frank II. Parker of Cleveland
Oklahoma, and Miss Mollie Sipe of Fans
! lers, Iowa, and to Edward G. Nettles 0
/ Chicago and Miss Oral M. Chips of To
/ peka.
State Labor Commissioner Bird ha
sent TO the Commissioner of Labor 0
3 California for data concerning the fire,
g labor bureau in that state. Elk Commits
I sioner Todd had a scheme to establish
such bureau in Kansas.