The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-23
sMne sHoTs ar HOME NEWS.

This is just the kind of weather that
J suits the people.
Already arrangements are being made
for the Fourth of July.
Mr.. and Mrs ]. B. Sands have returned
/ from a trip through Texas.
viii Haskell is going to put on a lady
minstrel show at Hutchinson.
A boy of nineteen appeared on Kansas
avenue today in his bare feet
Capt. j. Lee Knight is now devoting
| his time to his patent calculator.
The day elevator boy at the National
has gone to Kansas City to work.
Lee Jones has purchased the state
agency of Kansas for a patent lamp.
Nearly all the steel rafters Of the new
! court house have been put in place.
Ex-State Treasurer Biddle still lives in
| Topeka, but expects to move to farm.
Chief Wilkerson was in Emporia yes
terday to subpoena a man in the Longen
| liquor case.
President A A. Robinson, of the Mexi-
! can Central, has gone to Boston on four
weeks trip
John Larkin, a runaway boy from
Usage City. was arrested here yesterday
and taken home
Hon. w. W. Thomas, who spoke at
Hamilton hall last week, will speak at
Salina tonight.
Conductor Charley Short of the Santa
Fe and Mrs. Short are in Canada where
Mrs. Shorts mother is sick.
J. R. Marsh and Floyd Mcdonald have
started a typewriting and stenography
agency at the National
Those who took the trouble to plant
early gardens are now eating home
grown radishes and onions.
State superintendent Stanley will de-
liver an address before the graduating
class of the Coffeyville high school.
Lee Curtis, a formerly OF Topeka
young man, is under arrest at st. Joseph,
charged with stealing gold watch.
Rev. Samuel Wakefield of Pitts burg,
Pa, an uncle of Harry Overholt, is said
to be the Oldest living Mason in the
United States.
The bad side walk on VanBuren street
| spoken of in yesterdays JOURNAL has
been torn up and will be replaced by q
new brick walk.
One of the Washburn college classes
in chemistry visited the gas works yes
terday afternoon to see the workings of
that institution.
A Dago whose name the police spell
B. Simmer. who peddles home made
statuary, was fined So today for not hav
ing license.
Mrs. Charles Wescott has brought
suit for divorce from her husband on the
ground of hsbitua1 drunkenness, cruelty,
and non-support
The funeral of the infant son of Mr..
and Mrs. George Scleich took place at 2
o'clock this afternoon from the church
of the Assumption.
The trial of E. R. Novels, who is &C.
eo6 Of ho T7rdn Of Mr, n LOT
son, will be commenced in the district
court one week from today.
Assistant Adjutant General Drew is
inspecting the militia companies in the
southeastern part of the state. He will
inspect the Ottawa company tonight
C. H. Kutz and his scholars in district
90, just east of the city, will give a
drama, Fruits of the Wine Cup" on
Friday evening. No admission will be
charged
Six commonplace men with common
place names who had been on common
place sprees from drinking common
place liquor were fined the commonplace
So in police court today.
Frank Montgomery the Topeka cor
respondent of the Kansas City Journal
has been Invited to read a paper before
the Western Author and Artists club at
n ansas NIty, may II.
Armstrong 6 Kassebaum, the commits
sion merchants, have purchased 81 acres
of land adjoining the reform school farm
on the west, from Fred Robinson. The
price paid was $4,000
The jury commissioners have pre-
pared the list of the residents of Shaw
nee county who are eligible for jury SER
vice this year and have filed their re-
port with the county clerk,
The state board of railroad commission
ers have completed the distribution of
seed wheat 10 western Kansas farmers.
The last shipment of millet was made
yesterday to Cheyenne county.
Miss Viola Stewart, a Topeka Young
lady, is studying to be trained nurse at
Ellsworth Hospital and Medical College
at ST Joseph, Mo 1t will require two
years to complete the course.
Prof. LoveweH's advanced class in
physics. which has been experimenting
at Washburn, has discovered that the
velocity of sound between Burnett
mound and the college is 113O feet pei
second
Chief Wilkerson picked up a little
boy on horseback Monday, who gave his
name as A. N. Jepson. The boy con
tessed that ne ran away from his father
at Nerdella, Barton county, Missouri, be-
cause he was i'll treated.
The Stevenson s. Company stock OF
dry goods will be sold in bulk next Fri.
day to the highest bidder. The cour
, has ordered the assignee to reject al
bids for less than 50 per cent of the ap-
, praised value of the stock.
r Councilman John Elliott, who is put.
: ting IN new front in his building at 62e
} Kansas avenue laid the brick for hi
building twenty-six years ago. 1t wa
then the only brick block on the ives
side OF Kansas avenue between Sixth
and Seventh.
The boy is father to the coming man
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