The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-06
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

electric lamp burning all night
Sixteen bushels to the acre is the way
some wheat failed in this county.
The only thing in sight now of interest
is the primaries on next Saturday.
The Fourth of July orators who were
storm bound have all reached home
There is tent and stage and scenery
for sale at the Office of L NJ. Crawford
Councilman Fulton has not fully re-
covered from the effect of his sunstroke
City Engineer Barnes was shocked by
a stroke of lightning night before last
The family of N. Snattinger had one
of the finest displays of fireworks last
night
Topeka has had over 800 newspapers,
which have sunk over one million dol
lars.
Fifteen old soldiers have been buried
by the county during the last three
months.
The STATE JOURNAL is the only daily
newspaper in Topeka that isn't in trouble
in the courts.
The most cordial men in Topeka,
strange to say, are candidates for the
office of sheriff
The fireworks that weren't exploded
en- the evening of the Fourth of July
we've used last night
The Kansas avenue pavement was
thoroughly washed night before last, but
hasn't been ironed yet
The application for a receiver of the
daily Press will be heard before Judge
Hazen Monday morning.
The summer meeting of the Eastern
Kansas District Medical society will be
held in Topeka, July 9.
DR.. Miller of Rossville performed the
post norton yesterday on the body OF
the murdered man Ross.
The railroads who didn't have any
crops to haul last year would be glad OF
more washouts every year.
Mr.. Jennings had better get his plug
ready or he will overdo the thing. We
will soon have too much rain.
The river continues to rise and there is
a large amount of drift collecting at the
south end of the electric railway bridge.
It is said all of the Sons Of Veterans
did not get back from Moons grove until
after daylight on the morning of the 9th.
The most trying moment in a young
married mans life is when he first starts
out to wheel the baby buggy down town
The funeral of R E French will take
place from the First Presbyterian
church at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow after
noon.
VIII. Stack, the Kansas City whole
sale liquor dealer, will be tried in police
court Monday for violating the prohibit
DRY law.
YES" said Frank Novels to a trusty,
81 am learning the lesson of meekness
and patience. have been sorely tried
lately"
Why does your grass die out? Because
you sprinkle it in the hot sun. hen
| nature waters the grass she covers the
sky with clouds.
Soda water with vanilla syrup has been
discarded by good society in Topeka. 1t
is rumored also that lemonade is about
to be shaken"
Superintendent Rogers of the Athletic
club is visiting relatives at Clyde and
| will ride to Denver on his wheel before
/ he returns to Topeka.
| A man who attended Topeka party
last week indited poem to one of the
young ladies present, which was inspired
| by her perfect dancing.
| One of the most appropriate things
about the temperance convention was
that walters were in attendance with ice
water for the delegates.
One Topeka physician treated four
/
attending the temperance convention for
affections of their eyes.
Dirty little boys and Atchison cry al
being cleaned up The trouble with
Atchison is she doesn't want to be de-
cent and clean and respectable.
The Kansas Orphans home society,
which has found homes for more than
| 5000 orphans in the past eight years, has
good homes for twelve little girls.
Any person desiring to purchase {
good lot of second hand fireworks car
probably find a big supply in Topeks
that failed to go up at the proper time.
Chief of Police Wilkerson has beer
notified that young man who says he i
Charles Roe of Topeka is in Jail a
Springfield, Mo-, in a demented condi
ton.
A Topeka society young man who ha
been to Kansas City and Montreal nov
goes about affecting the panied and mel
ancholy air of imam who has seen tn
world"
a Topeka clairvoyant is about to qui
business. The present is SO disagreed l
to many people that they are afraid t
hear about the future for fear it will b
worse.
Several well known Topeka peopI
who live on King street say they saw
ball of lightning fall in the street aboU
10 o'clock Thursday evening Such thing
happen in electric storms,
"If you had to sacrifice one of you
senses, which would you sacrifice first,
asked a man of another today. "Wel
if had to live in Kansas City, I woul
sacrifice my sense of smell" was the II
ply.
For the first time in years there wa
not 'drunk" yesterday in the Atchiso
police court The Atchison joints ha
been closed OF course Atchison is il
dignant.
Charles Kinshera, an elsven-year -ol
boy, left his home at Ala Locust street
week ago yesterday and his parents al
. ignorant Of his whereabouts They haV
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