The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-10
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

The district court was closed yester-
day afternoon.
The county commissioners have been
in session today.
Tuesdays and Fridays are visiting days
at the county Jail.
Lesvenworth ia now asking for the
state G. A. R. reunion next tall
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. VIM of North To-
peka avenue are the parents of q boy.
Tho business of the United States
district court will be cleaned up today.
The annual meeting of the State Hor-
ticultural society opened at Lawrence to-
day.
r B. McMasters is now commissioner
of elections, and has taken charge of the
office.
F. ]. Stickney, who has been very i'll
with congestion of the brain, is slowly re-
covering.
Walter N. Allen says he is a Demo
crat of the Democrats and also considers
himself Populist.
Special Officer Mathews of the police
force is known among his comrades as
"Hotfoot" Mathews
A carpenters wife cannot blame her
husband for being a "jiner," for all OF
them are carpenters and joiners.
But two prisoners are pounding stones
| for the county now. 1t takes a guard
and big fire to keep them going.
The Washburn Glee club is making a
tour. 1t is az Kansas City tonight and
will be at Leavenworth tomorrow.
The old Durein property at the corner
| of Fifth and Kansas avenue is being
overhauled to be used as fruit store.
Judge Foster gave Joseph Brandon
burg a year in the penitentiary for
swearing falsely to secure a pension.
The Third Christian church at the
corner of Third and Lake, which was
completed Oct. /, will de dedicated next
Sunday.
| A Topeka man who went in for the
most expensive bicycle he could get has
| had $3.50 worth of puuctures in five
weeks
Few burgIaries are being committed
now, and the purse snatching fad seems
to have blown over. Now it is body
| snatching.
City food Inspector Farnsworth found
grocer yesterday afternoon whose
| packages of sugar we're one and two
pounds short.
Chairman Richardson of the Demo-
cratic state central committee is still lost.
His position as register of the land Office
| awaits him.
The patrol wagon attracts the most at
tention of any rig in town when Benja-
min Mitchell Alexander Bundy is out ex-
ercising the horses.
Saturday evening, December 81, Judge
| G. A. Huron will tell the members of
| Lincoln post his personal experiences in
the Battle of the Wilderness.
The county Jail Is being visited by
| scores of people daily who have friends
| among the large number of United States
| prisoners who are confined there.
A small barn was partially destroyed
| by fire at 1903 North Jefferson street
| Yesterday afternoon. The loss was $15.
The barn is owned by R. Matthews.
siubad played to only 5000 in Topeka,
at Lincoln it played to an $500 house
and 5000 at Wichita. 1t would have
done as we'll here if the peopls were not
sore"
The residence of Bernard Tobias at $40
Lawrence street was fumigated yester
day, Mrs. Tobias and two children having
recovered from 4 severe attack of diph-
liberia.
Twenty-Five dollars in cash was stolen
from DR.. D. T. Long Sunday night at his
home, corner of Morris avenue and Tenth
street. The burglar got in through a
back window.
Friday night, after Lew Hanback's
lecture at Hamilton hall, all the G. A. r.
posts in Topeka will be entertained by
the members of Fort Pillow post at
'possum carving.
The city would like to trade the bay
horse on the patrol wagon for a good
one. No one wants to trade, and it ism t
likely there will be a new patrol horse
until the bay dies.
Ten persons arose for prayers at the
First 81. E. church last night. and eight
of the ten were at the altar. The revival
meetings at this church are to continue
during the week.
Mr.. T. F. Dennis, who has been here
for several months as special pension ex-
aminer, left this afternoon for Washing
ton 10 resume his duties in the pension
commissioners office.
Evangelist Boles will preach his clos
ing sermon at Hamiltoa hall, Decemb
10. He says that Uncle Sam is sick. and
that he wishes to tell the people of To-
peka how to cure him.
The Knights Templar of Topeka are
making elaborate preparations for
Christmas services at the Masonic Tenn
pie on Christmas morning. The services
will be open to the public.
The Retail Grocers association ap-
pointed a committee last night to formu-
late plan Tor the collection OF bad
debts. The members are W. Dransf1eid,
n. Robbins and G. Kinsell.
Judge Foster sentenced George Young
young colored mnn to serve twenty
days in the Leavenworth Z. S. peniten-
tiary for an assault committed on the
Leavenworth military reservation.
Lewis Ransom, a young colored man
has been arrested for criminally assault
ing Hanna Dunn, a colored girl, who
lives with her parents on Washington
street His preliminary examination il
, the Justices court begins wednesday
morning.
At the regular monthly meeting of the
Topeka Academy of Medicine aud Surg