The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-16
LOCAL MENTION.

most ntirely enclosed
Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Conklin of 423 Lin
coin street are the parents of boy born
Saturday.
A new porch is being built on the front
of the residence of w. A. s. Bird at 71S
| Topeka avenue.
The Calhoun Opera company that is
! to visit Topeka soon is playing at the
Tabor Grand in Denver this week.
Curly Harrison, adjutant general of
the G. A R, has served as both sheriff
and treasurer of Franklin county.
About 800 carloads Of coal were dis.
tributed among the people of western
Kansas free of charge during the winter.
The Topeka Cycle company is build
ing a new store room at 11013 West
Eighth street. It is one story brick
room.
Mrs. Lease was so much inspired by
her Easter Sunday in Topeka that she
Immediately wrote a poem of seven
verses.
Mr.. Edward Wilder led the Sunday
school at Unity church last Sunday and
made an address on THE Swedenbor-
gian Church"
William Whitmer of Kellam's book
store is having a new porch built around
the front and sides of his new residence
on West Sixth street
The w. C. T. .. of Shawnee county
holds convention at Martin chapel to-
morrow at $3.50 p. m. AT 1870 Mrs. +. II.
RastaIl will give an address.
Major I. o. Pickering of Olathe, who
has replied to Governor Morrilps pro-
hibition Interview so forcibly, will make
the Decoration day address at Baldwin.
The first annual meeting of the Pres
hyterian Missionary union will be held
i'll the First Presbyterian church We'd
nesday, April 17tn, beginning at $3.50
u. m
President George T. Fairchild of the
Manhattan agricultural college will adj
dress the Topeka teachers on Language
Work" at the high school assembly room
Saturday. May 4th.
The state treasurer is now sending out
the money due the various counties in
the state for caring for the destitute in
sane. The whole amount to be distrib-
uted at this time is $79,27L05.
The first quarterly meeting, 1895, of
the Kansas society of the Sons of the
American Revolution will be held in the
west rooms of the State Historical society
on Wednesday,, the nth inst, at p. N.
All persons interested are invited to at
tend.
Forty nine professors and employees of
the state university have issued mani
festo giving Senator Rogers a certificate
of character a5 "a regent of that institu-
ton. Why don't they wait until the ex :
animation proves whether he ID innocent
or guilty.
A large number of the public school
teachers of Topeka expect to attend til g
meeting of the National Education al as
af in Tr1Ixy fnr
for the round trip rate has been admitted
by the railroads, and it is not unlikely
that a car will go from Topeka and vicin-
ity.
The late Democratic city campaign
cost but 500 40; of that amount DR.. L.
Y. Grubbs the candidate for mayor made
the largest contribution $15; Postmaster
A. J. Arnold, Eugene Wolff, II. o. Gar
vey, Lee Jones and DR.. e. A. Mcclure
each put up SO although they were not
candidates.
Roy Hoffhines, the son of rich Nc
Pherson county farmer, is being tried to-
day before Judge Foster and a jury in
the United States district court on the
charge of counterfeiting. 1t is charged
that he was associated with F. J. Turner
in the manufacture of 50 silver certifi-
Gates in Topeka last summer.
Rev. B. L. Smith, of the First Christian
church, will return to the citytWednes-
dav. He has been out over the state
giving lectures with a view to raising
money to help along the building of the
church in Topeka. He has been lee
turing in several of the towns and his
tour has extended over two weeks.
Work has been comm snced on beauti-
flying the grounds about the new high
school building. I. A. Hull has charge
of the work and has a force of men on
| the ground now 1t is being trenched
and will be sodded and sown in blue
grass. Flowering evergreens that bios
som will be planted on the inside of the
walks and elms on the outside. John r.
Mulvane will furnish the flowers gratis
to decorate the grounds.
Judge Foster dismissed the case
against D. F. Sewell of Seneca for send
| ing obscene matter through the mails,
this morning. United States District
Attorney w. C. Perry said that he had
not been able to secure the evidence in
the case, and Judge Foster replied that
he could not hold man when the pros
ecuting attorney failed to get the evil
dence, and he ordered the case dis
| missed.
The English are termed "a nation OF
shop keepers" They enjoy mundane
blessings though, as the export records
of Prices Cream Baking Powder testi-
est leavening agent
SMALLPOX IN THE DEPOT.
A Tramp With the Disease Sleeps All Nigh
in the Kansas City Union Depot.