The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-25
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

lodges IN Texas.
The renovation of the city building has
been completed.
This is the sort of weather Atchison
people should get used to-
There were two cases of insanity in
the probate court this morning.
The jury to try the Topeka club case
was drawn yesterday afternoon.
The firecracker nuisance is now wor-
rying people who drive in the evening
The Topeka Athletic club now charges
a cent piece for the use of barbed wire
towels.
There will be no ball games this week
in Topeka, or at least none have been ar
ranged
State Librarian King is sending out
the fifty-fourth report of the Kansas su-
preme court.
Tom Pounds, of the Topeka bank, is
taking ten days lay off and getting &C
quainted with his folks.
A Topeka merchant who is trying to
make special sale of overcoats should
be banished to Atchison.
The old scheme to establish a bicycle
track between Topeka and Kansas City
is being revived-the talk is.
Topeka Republicans have almost given
up hope of having Commissioner of
Elections Herald removed
Mark Howell, the street railway con-
ductor who recently resigned, intends to
go into the detective business.
General Manager ]. ]. Frey of the
Santa Fe is to be presented to Queen
Victoria on the Fourth of July.
A man who has just returned from
Texas says that what is most noticeable
there is the lack of newspapers.
Hackman Joe McElroy was fined So
today for not having his lamps trimmed
and burning after dark as required by
law.
J. B. MarshalPs arrangement of
'Amorita" as played by his band Sunday
afternoon is receiving a great many COM
Pliments.
Christopher Woodside, a small colored
boy wanted at Lawrence for stealing $40
from his mother, was arrested by Ser
geant Donovan last evening.
One of the incest girls in Topeka ia
greatly annoyed by the fact that a col
ored girl by the same name is constantly
getting into the police court
Why is it that deaf man makes bee
line for railroad track when he wants
to walk anywhere? 1t seems that in
many cases common sense departs with
hearing.
Those who are not able to take a sum-
mer vacation in the mountains derive
considerable satisfaction from hearing
their more fortunate friends discuss their
plans.
DR.. H. A Dykes, secretary of the state
board of health, got fat while he was Wis
iting in Tennessee. Mrs. Dykes and
daughter are expected to arrive in Tope-
ka before long.
The Knight Templars of Topeka, EN-
poria and Hutchinson have each selected
the Santa Fe route their official route
to the tri-ennial conclave at Boston East
of Chicago they will go over the Grand
Trunk.
The fifty-fourth volume of the supreme
court reports is now in the state library.
The classified decisions are as follows:
Horton, AZ; Johnson Al, and Allen 40.
The book is larger than usual and con-
tains 1918 pages.
Columbia Council No. 90, Knights and
Ladies of Security, will have lawn
social tomorrow evening at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. McGriffin at 521 Polk
street A general invitation has been ex-
tended to all the councils in the city.
The Topeka Athletic club has posted
a rule that hereafter any person who
rides away wheel belonging to any
other member without first obtaining his
consent shall be deemed guilty of ICON
duct unbecoming a gentleman"
The Topeka millers say the samples of
new wheat which have been received in
| Topeka are far above the average and.
although the wheat crop in Kansas this
year will not be large, what is grown,
will bring a good price and will grade
high.
There is some talk of Rev. N. s.
Thomas being appointed successor to
Dean Millspaugh in charge of the To-
peka parish, but his father, the late
Bishop Thomas. before he died, request
ed that this be not done, as it would look
| like favoritism.
A majority of the Episcopal dioceses
of the United States have given their
! official consent to the confirmation of
Dean Millspaugh as bishop, and he will
be confirmed as soon as the proper ar
engagements can be made. The confirm
| alton will likely take Dlaca in Topoko