The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-17
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

night.
Dogs are dying in Topeka of dis
temper.
Councilman Stephenson is again able
to be around.
A few hogs have died of cholera at the
reform school.
Dust is about six inches deep on the
Silver Lake road.
The Topeka City railway has twenty
miles of electric road.
MarshalPs band will play at the Atch-
ison corn carnival September 90
The Kansas sblue book" tor the pres
ent year will soon be published.
Captain j. T. Wintrode has gone to
soldiers reunion a: Newark, Ohio.
A Topeka crayon portrait artist says
he did $3.50 worth of work last week.
Mrs. Fletcher Oliver has gone to Fort
Scott to see her son, who is dangerously
sick.
A Topeka young business man has
been keeping company with the same
girl seven years.
Washburn promises to show to Topeka
people this fall what the game of foot
ball is really like.
A street car conductor says he feels
better since the school mistresses have
begun riding again.
Police Matron Mrs. L E, Thorpe says
people run to doctors too often with in
significant ailments.
The Topeka branch of the American
Liberal league last night adopted Irish
! home rule resolutions.
The Salvation Army have changed
their place of evening meeting from
| Fifth to Fourth street
KauGas storao kanf oman LATER
| than usual last evening on account of
it being Santa Fe pay day.
Bishop Whipple baptized Bank Com
missioner Breidenthal when Mr.. Breiden-
thai was q small boy ia Minnesota.
John Macdonald says he didn't say it
and is in favor of holding the teachers
association convention at Los Angeles
The street commissioner has the road
| scraper at work on Seventh and Clay.
| But the road is too hard and dry for good
results.
]. B. Larimer has a picture of the
! Saturday Night club. taken eight years
| ago. There were only fourteen mem
! bers then.
| The Populist candidate for county
treasurer says he is in the race to stay.
Frank Stahl says he is in the Office to
stay a while himself.
| D. c. Tillotson has been hired to look
after the interest of some of the Potta-
watomie Indians who are not satisfied
with their land allotments.
An old fashioned auction was held in
a 'tSmoky Row" store room last evening.
| The auction er wore very high hat and
sold genuine" Australian diamonds.
The superintendent of the state house
| grounds, who is a landscape gardener by
/ "a nf Ia
board OF public works bright orange
Miss Laura Radford, state secretary of
| the Y. w. G. A of Topeka, will visit the
| different colleges in the state and assist
| in organizing the Christian Endeavor
work.
/ I. F. Dennis, well known in Topeka,
has been assigned as special pension ex-
1 aminer ut Topeka for few months. Mr..
Dennis expects to be here until Decem-
Der l.
All the stores at Silver Lake, except
the drug store, keep open on Sunday.
/ The druggist goes in the back door and
locks it after him when he has pre-
scription to fill.
1t was eighteen minutes past twelve
I Sunday night when Under Sheriff Tom
Wlkerson attached the Uncle Toms
Cabin shows special Car. He couldn't
have done it eighteen minutes sooner.
/ DR.. R. S. Magee has a bed of Gamma
lilies at his residence, 4O9 Buchanan,
that are the envy of the neigh borhood.
He bought them for dwarfs, but they
are at present seven feet high and
growing.
Fl. Pillow post is to celebrate Enamel
patton day next Saturday and no pains
have been spared to make the event
success. There is to be parade at II
o'clock and the exercises at the city park
will follow.
w. K. Edgar, general manager of the
Edgar-Se bring car lock manufacturing
peka. MIR. EdgAr's mission is to get
a contract with the Santa Fe company if
possible.
There will be a special service at
Grace cathedral at 8 o'clock this evening
under the auspices of the Brotherhood of
St Andrew. An address will be made by
the Rev. F. Z. Brooks S. T. D., bishop of
Oklahoma
After we have doomed the Galveston
exposition perhaps Topeka can do lit
tie something for state fair at Topeka
next year. Galveston first, then Topeka.
Nothing like having lots of public spirit
for every town but your own.
VIII Nicholson has gone to Chicago
to become chief clerk in the Santa Fe
| general passenger office. Miss Maud
Tegart, P d. Cook, and either n. z.
Black or C. ). Nichols will be transferred
to the Chicago office from Topeka about
| October 1.
Bank President Indicted.
PORTSMOUTH,, O., Sept 17-John W.
Overturf, pres dent of the defunct Citi-
zens Savings bank, was indicted today
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