The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-29
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.
The day is close and dark and dreary.
The wind blows and blows and neYer'S weary.
The vine doesn't cling to the garden wall
For the winds blown away wall. vine and all.
Cherries are ripe.
The town is spelling for a circus.
The state house will be closed tomor-
row.
Bishop Millspaugh was Al years old
last month
Many flower beds were ruined by the
wind yesterday.
The new council chamber is to be re-
papered and painted.
Twelve men, six women and tramp
were fed today at the city prison.
The city engineers force ia locating
the street corDe rs on Branner street
The state auditors office will hereaft-
er be closed every Saturday afternoon.
There is talk of organizing bicycle
club in connection with the Y. NJ c. A.
Little Harry Eagle, five years old, re-
Gently rode to Carbonate on his bicycle.
The Topeka ball team is playing a
second game with Troy at Seneca today
The lower dam company must begin
chise.
off the trees by the strong wind yester-
day.
A daughter was born yesterday to Mr..
and Mrs G. w. Plat, 1927 Fillmore
street.
Major ]. Z. Hudson will deliver the
Decoration Day address at Osborne to-
morrow.
The name of Mills, Flower, Adams
company has been changed to Mills,
Adams Co.
Probate Judge j. G. Wood will make
the Decoration Day speech at Richland
tomorrow.
Let US all hope it will not rain tomor-
row afternoon in Topeka. Let the corn
wait one day.
Lizzie Pershin has petitioned for a
divorce from w. II. Pershin, charging
abandonment
A clothing firm in town has inaugur-
sted a series of living pictures in its
show window evenings.
The high school commencement takes
place tonight. The other schools will
not close until Friday.
The police force failed to arrest any
one yesterday except an old man who
forgot to hitch his team.
There have been on an average SO per-
sons cared for at the poor farm every
day during the past three months.
Col Dick Morris, of A.chison, internal
revenue collector and Democrat. was in
attendance at the Episcopal election yes
terday.
The committee on public buildings Of
the city council has decided to substitute
the new gas burners for the incandescent
light now in use.
1t was resolved by the Episcopal con-
vention to have printed 600 copies OF
Bishop Spaulding's memorial sermon oil
Bishop Thomas.
E. J. Rawson, Jake Fogel. J. B. Doncy-
son, Fred BartelI and Morris Stevenson
will ride in the Waldo park bicycle road
race at Kansas City, May 80.
The $4,000 bond of the upper dam
company will be filed with the council
before Monday night so say the attor
neys for the dam company.
A colored boy who wanted to SHOOT
craps at the door of the grain exchange
today narrowly escaped arrest for gam
bling. The bad, wicked boyI
The session laws passed by the late
Legislature have been published. The
volume is the largest of its kind yet pub.
lished in Kansas and contains 624 pages
The State Bible school of the Y. III. C.
A. and the Y. w. c. A. will be held a.
Ottawa July 10 to 20 and will be con
Quoted by Prof. r. A. Lloyd of Oakland
California.
Mrs. Malinda Fuller is sick at the
home of her daughter Mrs. Noyes Mill
ken on west Fifth street, and is not ex
pected to live She is Captain A. Ii
| FuIler's mother.
There is a young lawyer in Topek;
who says that he would have every con
Wet in the penitentiary under sentence
of death, hung at once if he were gov
ernor. But he wouldn't.
]. G. Waters proved to his own ant
| Frank Herald's satisfaction at least tina
none of Warden Chase's accusers hav'
| during the past six months earned a cen
to support their families.
A recent account of a burglary in
neighboring paper spoke six times abou
the thieves gaining entrance" VIII
| didn't they t'get in" once in a while in
stead of always gaining entrance?"
| George Brown, we'll known here, hav
| ing married daughter of ]. Lee Knigh
has until recently been managing tn
Ponca Indian base ball club. He is still
manager of Crawford's opera house q
| Wichita
Aus. b. Piety, formerly member {
the West Side Gun club, who is now {
San Antonio, Tex, made an average {
| % peg cent during. the recent four day