The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-13

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The Municipal league meets tonight
Mr.. Jennings said it would be colder
today and he hit it.
Potwin will elect a mayor and five
councllmen next month.
Dave Mulvane is back from a business
trip to Monterey. Mexico
Harry GarVey is expected home from
San Antonio, Texas, Friday.
A Topeka man has been discovered
who does not ride on pass
Nearly 5000 men have registered.
There ought to be 5000 women.
Congressman Charley Curtis called on
Governor Morrill, yesterday afternoon.
About 5000 Topeka people have regis
tered; about 5000 men and 1000 women.
Miss Mabel Cavert recited "The Little
Girls Wish" at Lincoln Post hall last
night.
The death of Dressmaker Worth
causes sincere regret in Topeka Society
circles.
A. W. Earnest fell from a wagon yes
terday and dislocated the thumb of his
left hand.
Among the eighteen tramps that slept
at the police station last night was Grover
Cleveland.
Mrs. Lease will lecture on "Heredity"
before the Woman's Kelley league in
Topeka soon.
Albert Brown, who has served 104 days
in the county jail for lighting, was re-
leased today.
Over ninety marriage licenses have
been granted by Judge Wood in the last
two months
Sam Long, who was sentenced to fifty
days in the city Jail for selling liquor, is
very sick there.
A party of Topeka people will go to
Englewood today to inspect large irri-
eating plant
The unsightly pile of ties at the cor
ner of Tenth and jackson streets, is be-
ing hauled away.
There are still two Populists on the
police force; these represent the civil
service reform idea
Jasper Earnest is in Kansas City,
where he has had a very difficult surgi-
cal operation performed.
About 100 people attended the closing
meeting of the Knights of the Maccabees
at the Bij ou theater last night
Items of a sporting nature addressed
to the sporting reporter of the JOURNAL
will receive proper attention.
Mrs. Lease and her son, Ben Hur, are
attending meeting of the state board of
charities at the Reform School.
A wise thing was done in putting up
the new street signs. They were nailed
SO high that the small boy can not get to
them.
Ellsworth MCGEE, state agent for Kan
sas of the Kansas Mutual, is this week
moving his family from Marysville to
Topeka.
The food bill at the city Jail for the
first month of the new force was $40 less
than the food bill for the last month of
the old force.
riculture is sending out the blanks for
the census to be taken this year by the
township assessors.
T. F. Riley will read paper on Gas
Economical Geography before the To-
peka Philosophical society this evening
at the high school building.
David Overmyer, as special master in
chancery, heard some of the arguments
in the famous Black Bob land case in the
United States court room today.
The large crowds that go to see Mckee
Rankin, show that there are a great
many theater going people in Topeka.
when it doesn't cost too much.
Topeka now has several whistling
soloists Miss May Evans, who whistled
at the G. A. r. entertainment, will give
concert in a western Kansas town soon.
A Topeka barber received three
new barber chairs last evening. He
needed them. His old chairs threatened
to create an epidemic of curvature of the
spine.
The greatest objection to "Oliver
| Twist" as produced by Mckee Rankin
last night, was that the murder scene in
the last act was too suggestive of the
Matson murder.
Clyde Mattox, the condemned MUIR
derer. puts in much of his time walking
to and fro in his cell singing "The par
don came too late" His will probably
not come at ALL
| Several Topeka school teachers are on
the programme for papers and talks be-
fore the Northeastern Kansas Teachers
association which is to meet at Kansas
| City April IS to 90.
The people have an opportunity of
| showing whether they desire the econo-
mical business-like administration of
| city affairs by Mayor Harrison, or
whether they want to experiment
An official state paper to succeed the
| Topeka Advocate will be selected by the
executive council March 81. The
weekly paper known as the Topeka
Breeze, it is asserted, stands the best
| show.
o. M. Chesney has invented and has
had patented a mechanical device for
locking mail pouches. Mr.. Chesney says
the Yale lock company has written for
information about the lock and his terms
for the royalty.
James Smith, private secretary to J.
| B. johnson, master in chancerY for the
Santa Fe receivers, has gone to Las Vegas
hot springs for treatment for sciatic rheu-
matism. His brother, w. Fl. Smith, ac-
companied him.
| One of the members of the Amphion
! club says if Herr Hoch had only put two
little American flags in his ears and
| PLAYED yankee Doodle" on a mouth
! orran the audianca wonld hava nnna