The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-25
sNAP SHOTS az HOME NEWS.

AcLO lS a tOuUSlOu0 lOE edl0 III d i u.
I RsAa second hand store. Do you want
= Governor Morrill, will address an old
soldiers reunion at Pleasonton, tomor-
row.
Grand Secretary Main of the /. o. o
F. lodge is at Mankato on official bus
mess
Mrs, Lee Jones is dead shot with a
rife. She can hit sparrow's head at
fifteen PAGES.
Bernard Kelly will speak at Hamilton
hall Saturday night. His subject will be
"Local Issues"
The county commissioners will COM
plete their settlement with the county
treasurer today.
Mrs. Parish has decided that though
the world may be her parish, that Parish
is not her world.
The ceiling of the Crawford has been
newly papered Audiences must be look
ing up in Topeka.
The managers of the Halloween bicy-
Gle parade are anxious to have lady
riders join the procession.
Small children are the most frequent
cause of the neighborhood quarrels which
are settled in police court.
Scott Kelsey is receiving a visit from
OAOIA1 buIlbudQps VI CO0ubJg
Indiana, Kelsey's old home.
A Topeka man who in sists that it is
too early for overcoats, slipped and fell
on frosty sidewalk this morning.
The reason the T. A. A. didn't put a
football team in the field this year was
because all eyes were on Washburn.
1t is said that Becky Sharp" will step
off the platform of the Orphans Home
car, and assist "the new man" to aiight9
A redbird behind the prescription case
in an uptown drug store entertains custo-
mers while waiting for their presrip-
tions.
Voters are registering pretty rapidly
now. Last night a line extended out of
the registration Office clear down on the
! stairs.
This is the last day to register before
election. The commissioner of elections
will keep his office open until o O'Clock
tonight.
Joe OFT, the man who will present "The
! Star Gszer" at the Grand next month,
usedt to be the leading comedian of the
"Dazzler."
Mrs. George T. Anthony, of Ottawa.
will spend the winter in Topeka with
| her husband the state superintendent of
insurance.
A great many people on Kansas ave-
nue. yesterday watched a man working
on the pinnacle of the tower of the new
court house.
The Statesmen and Clerks union has
appointed a committee to wait upon mer-
chants who have been keeping open
later than 1870.
There is a man in Topeka who says he
can control $50 votes. 1t is always safe
for the candidate to ask such men how
much they want.
The Santa Fee laboratory in the stone
building at the corner of Crane and
Adams streets, is the most complete labo-
ratory in this city
City Attorney Bird is kept busy when
he has tO defend the city in the district
court. He has to leave police court at
$50 these morning.
The absence from and closing of the
North Topeka schools was timely ac-
ton. The diphtheria is gradually dying
out in the First ward.
A man who is going to the apple car
nival says that he is glad that Governor
Nj drill "set the dogs of war" on Wichita
rather than Leavenworth.
A floor paint, which is supposed in
some manner to attract all dust to the
floor, is being introduced in some of the
business houses in this city.
Some of the toughest professional
| tramps on the road drift into Topeka
with regularity. The same ones are at
the prison every two months.
/ Poor Commissioner Hale says he wants
the bridge bonds voted because the
building of the bridge will provide work
for Topeka's poor this winter.
There was Jail delivery at the city
| pound last night Four dogs which were
to have been executed at sunrise this
morning escaped III the night.
The first big football game in Kansas
this season will be a week from tomor-
row at Lawrence, when K s. Q. meets
the Iowa state university team.
! Dean Colwell formerly of Grace cathe-
! dral passed through Topeka yesterday on
his way to Greencastle, R. l., where he
has been called to "a new parish.
A dispensation has been issued from
the grand lodge, /. o. o, F., for the
formation of lodge of the Daughters
of Rebekah" at ingalls,, Gray county.
A card offering a $4,000 reward for a
gang which robbed the passengers of a
Chicago street car, has been received at
police headquarters. This is tempting.
A Lromident Topeka bachelor said TO-
day: II have warm spot in my heart
for the orphans, and am going 10 ride
on that car Tuesday and give a dollar
for IT."
"Becky Sharp" will ring up fares. pull
the bellcord for stopping aad starting
TIE Orphans Home car, and even put the
t-ollev on when it comes off-at least &C.
casionally.
State Auditor George Cole, who has
been sick for ten days with an attack of
old fashioned ''cbills and fever" was
able to be at his Office for short time
yesterday afternoon.
There will be a political meeting at
| Heery's hall. 100 East Third street to-
night at o'clock. The meeting will be
conducted by the Scandinavians' Inde-
pendent Political club.
A party of eighty Normons in charge