The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-28

Mayor Charley Fellows has bought
8 new piano
A Topeka firm sold dozen pocket
photograph cameras this week.
A son has been born to ]. B. Harris,
who clerks with Wiggin, Harding q Co
As soon as Police Officer Gaines gets
out of bed the massacre will be resumed.
Peaches from local orchards now sell
on the market for twenty-five cents per
bushel.
Some of Highland Parks amateurs
will give a show at the school house Fri
day night.
Judge Caldwell says that no judge has
yet been found to try the Hillmon case
next winter.
The Catholic schools of the Assump-
ton will open on September Srd with
seven teachers.
Bloody" Gaines ought to be on the
Chicago police force. Topeka Is too
tame town for him.
A Topeka lawyer has bunch of nam
moth ears of corn in his Office labeled
kansas Redeemers."
Judge Caldwell entered the Santa Fe
decree at Leavenworth last evening and
then left for ST. Paul
A Topeka guesser says the appoint
ment of E. D. Kenna to succeed George
R Peck will be permanent
After every picnic at Garfield park
small colored boys hang around for the
leavings. Cake! yum, yum!
A heavyweight clothing merchant OF
the city says he will learn to ride a wheel
this week and challenge Lee Jones.
The money to pay for the Keeley cure
for Mrs. Riordan was not raised and she
has been released from the city Jail.
Bicycling on the sidewalks is becom-
ing a perfect nuisance in some of the
districts. What are the police about?
The foundation is being laid for the
! new Second Baptist (colored) church at
the corner of Third and Quincy Streets
So many deaths lately has made rush
ing business for the coroner. Whenever
an inquest is held the coroner gets about
$50.
Sister Georgiana, who taught music in
the Topeka Catholic school the past year
has similar position in Denver this
year.
The new Third Christian church cor
ner of Third and Lake streets will be
completed ready for occupancy Novem-
| Der 1.
Wheeler H. Peckham aud family who
| were ia 1OD6hd J6Sb0todN Will oPOA0 -
month in Colorado before they return to
| New York.
Two boys were trying to knock the
chestnuts off the chestnut tree in the
state house yard Sunday. They were
stopped before they succeeded.
Policeman Gaines who is decreasing
the population of Topeka at the rate of
two week, will overcome all the efforts
of the real estate agents to "bOOm" the
town.
Sergeant Donovan thinks the bicycles
| should be made to keep on one side OF
the street 1t is actually unsafe, he says
on Quincy street after dark. There ii
| considerable speeding"
The city prison needs a cabinet il
which to lock up the valuables OF the
prisoners When man is searched there
now whatever he has is put into an en-
velope and locked in a drawer.
W. I. Jamison was at the farm of Ed
Jones, on the Burlingame road, yesterday
and auctioneered off a span OF mules. L
was the first time he ever acted as auc
tioneer. He sold the team for $3.50.
A Topeka man wants to know why
the law by which white man who
rides his wheel on the sidewalk is fined
in police court, does not apply to the
colored policeman who is guilty Of the
same offense.
The homestead of j. B. Whitaker, 4Oe
Harrison street. which Mr.. Whitaker
has occupied for twenty seven years hal
been vacated and the house is to be tori
down. Mr.. Whitaker now lives witt
his son Frank Whitaker at 513 ives
Fourth street
Father Hayden of the Church of th'
Assumption will return from Indiana to
day. For three weeks past he has beer
at the Spring Beach sanitarium taking
/ treatment for his eyesight, but no i'm
provement has developed. Father Coolil
was in charge of the church during hi
absence.
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