The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-23
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


A tile floor is being laid in Rigby's
new fruit store
Two-tkirds of the property advertised
for sale for delinquent taxes will be sold
Some Of the inhabitants of the city
prison want more waiting on than inva-
lids.
The art department of Washburn col
lege is to be discontinued because it doe
not pay.
Hank Lindsay will start for Philadel-
phia in the morning with a car load of
horseA
A. D. Hubbard is to speak at the
soldiers reunion at Council Grove on
september 8.
The spurious are gathering in large
docks, which is taken to be u sign that
cold snap is near.
United States District Attorney W. c.
Perry will not go to Europe this summer
as he had intended.
The Epworth League of Walnut Grove
are to have their pictures taken Friday
evening c. A. Bruner, artist.
State Superintendent Stanley made
speech at harvest home picnic in Doug
las county yesterday afternoon.
E. W. Tatman has severed his partner
ship with ID. r. Hite and opened n law
Office in room 20, Columbian building.
Thirty five prisoners are to be trans
ferred from the state penitentiary to the
Hutchinson reformatoly next Thursday.
Seneca is going to spend So GOO on a
celebration of the opening of her new
waterworks. She had better save it to
pay the bills.
DIR. Embree says in most of the
churches he visited in Europe the Sun
\. RfND0
until .. Ii.
Mrs. Margaret Muelenbruch of Min
neapolis, Mimi. will have charge of the
department of English at Bethany the
coming school year.
There will be total eclipse of the
moon 6eptem Der 3, which will be visible
in Topeka between Q and 10 o'clock in
the evening.
Pat Coney and Captain Joe Waters
have gone to Benton county, Missouri,
On business trip. Mr.. Coney has some
land in that county.
According to Rev. ri Hicks we are
likely to have frosts between the first
and tenth of September to be followed by
more warm weather.
Judge j. l. Scott has been notified of
the death OF his brother, Charles I. Scott
of St. Marys, Ohio, who died of hemor-
rhage of the brain.
The officers of the Topeka land Office
have Eot yet heard whether, Chairman J.
s. Richardson will accept the appoint
ment Of register or not.
Night Jailer Hopkins and Night Watch
man Wiley often sing to each other over
the telephone. Wiley used to attend
singin' school years ago.
Mrs A. G. Lord is at work OF a new
plan for systematic mission work in To-
hrir1
before the Ministerial union in Septem
Der.
w. E. Brubaker who deserted his
trade, that of a cabinet maker, ten years
ago TO do clerical WORK has hunted up
his tools and is again working at his
trade.
n. A Low, attorney for the Chicago
Rock Island s. Pacific, has a beautiful
flower bed in the corner of his yard at
Thirteenth and Fillmore streets. James
Hayes arranged it.
The young telegraph pole bat which
Arthur Switzer, the eIonge ted twirler for
the Giants, had made this spring was
never used and now adorns Jesse Eli
otis show window.
The steamer Dr. Embree came home
on lost a man overheard during the storm
it encountered. The man had been
useless search for him.
Chief of Police Wilkerson says Mrs.
Riordan, who causes SO much trouble
when she is drunk and is drunk most Of
the time, ought to be sent to the asylum
for alcoholic insanity.
The nomination blanks for signature
to petitions asking for the nomination of
Judge David Martin as a Republican
candidate for chief justice of the supreme
court are being sent out.
Weather Observer 7. B. jennings has
left US. He went to Boston yesterday;
he is thirty second degree Mason, and
they do say that he will soon be thirty
third That degree is elective.
DR.. E. II, Brumbaugh of AtchisCn will
fill the pulpit of the First III. E. church
He is The man who fired the first gun
in the prohibition fight on the governor.
Receiver A D. Hubbard has closed
up the North Topeka steam laundry. He
says the laundry is good property for
some one who understands the business
and has money enough to buy the ma
chinery.
Kansas City. Mo, would like to put in
an alarm box system for its fire depart
ment like Topeka's but it would cost too
much now, The system in Topeka has
been built slowly, with the growth of the
city.
Two merchandise freight cars were
broken into Wednesday night and some
groceries stolen from one of them. The
cars were the property of the Rock
Island, but were on the Union Pacific
tracks near the junction
R s Graham, the Carbondale farmer
who drove his cattle up Kansas avenue,
Wednesday, is out of prison. His father
paid his So fine. The police book en-
trance opposite the name is, paid by
father, under protest"
"Ihere are three things lawyer takes
into consideration when he meets a
Client" said one of the most prominent
attorneys in Topeka "How much will he
stand: ~ at 10 tn in tia c.asa s.a la.-s