The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-22
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SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

The new street signs are being put up.
The total registration is little over
1900
The railroad conductors will dance
tonight.
Governor Morrill, has gone to Salina
with the shriners.
The street commissioner is looking
! after the bad sidewalks. I
| 1t is said that the colored people will |
hold another mass meeting soon.
| Home lodge K. of P, will give an en-
tertainment and banquet March G.
| The Masonic excursionists will return
to Topeka early tomorrow morning.
Eight tramps slept in the new tramp
receptacle at the city prison last night
| If this weather keeps up you will soon
have to begin taking sarsaparilla and
dandelion.
The college students seem to vie with
each other to see who can wear the long
est ribbons.
The ladies of the First Presbyterian
church are holding a missionary meeting
| this afternoon.
This is the first time Washington's
birthday was ever observed in Kansas as
legal holiday.
The plaid neckties which have made
1
Toned bed quilt
The women in the city jail spend most
of the day on their cots smoking cigar
cites and reading.
The case against DR.. Tobias was dis
missed in the police court this morning
by the prosecution.
P. II. Zickefoose has sold eighty acres
of land four miles north of Rossville to
Irsik Brown for $4,000
Ex-Police Sergeant Henry Steele
wants it understood that his name was
not on the resubmission petition.
Police Officer Capron resigned his star
last night and began work in a West
sixth street butcher shop this morning.
The town is full of rising young Amer
leans with canes and ribbons today. They
are here to attend the oratorical contest
F. L Jeltz is anxious to have it appear
that it is his brother who has departed
his raiment'' and is to start Populist pa
per.
The Topeka delegates to the A. o. U.
W. grand lodge at Wichita will leave To-
peka Sunday by the Santa Fe on a spec
| ial car.
There was no session of the district
court today. Police court pays no atsen-
ton to holidays. Neither does the pro-
| bate court
Decatur, Sherman, Pratt, and Ellis
counties have already applied to the state
for their share of the seed grain to be
distributed.
The police court business for February
will reach an income of over $780,. 1t
? was seldom over $500 under the Popuiist
, administration.
/ John Tomlinson of PlainfeId, ILL.,, and
I Polly Randall of Tecumseh, have been
licensed by the probate court They are
2 both sixty years old
The county attorney for Russell coun-
ty has applied to the attorney general to
J know if that county will be compelled to
: take the seed apportioned to it.
Miss Kate Adams of the governors
). Office and Miss Nora Norris have gone tc
= St Louis to visit Miss Adams mother
J and will return to Topeka Monday
s Three attendants at the asylum have
v been discharged during the last week
: for allowing patient to get out of one
of the wards by using duplicate key.
8 A change has been made ia the police
9 court room that gives more room for tbs
witnesses and diminishes the space TO
t the spectators. The railing has beer
q moved back several feet.
: Chief of Police Wilkerson has beer
notified that boy named Ralph Cassell
B who said his parents live in Topeka, had
; died ar Assumption, Ill No one of thai
name has been found here.
Topeka woman who is engaged il
1 charity work this winter for the first time
does not understand why it is that mos
, of the people depending On charity are
so filthy in their homes
r DR.. s. McLallin of the Advocate, W. J
a Costigan of State Printer Shows paper
+ and l. w. Pack of the Shawnee hide
: pendent, have gone to Kansas City tt
attend a meeting of the National Reform
h Press association.
l. Frank Klingaman was tried in police
court yesterday morning and afternoon
If on the charge of keeping a gambling