The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-03

-F.B.
The base ball score card has been re-
duoed in size.
Heck, the new catcher of the Topeka
ball team is Topeka boy.
One of the candidates for sheriff has
posted bills all over the county.
W. Fl. Bennington is to make the
Fourth of July address at Keene.
The boys were up earlier than usual
this morning to see the circus come to
town.
F. o. Popenoe has cabled his Topeka
friends announcing his safe arrival in
Liverpool.
The Salvation Army's summer taber-
nacle tent is pitched on East Sixth street
this year.
The local members of the upper dam
company still refuse to talk. This is a
good sign.
Joe Cawthorne, formerly of the Patti
Rosa company, is TO be starred by John
W. Dunno this season.
w. s. Bush, who used to set type n
Topeka and is now editor of the Earth at
Brookville, is in the city.
Chief of Police Wilkerson ordered all
the Migrants shut up over circus day and
has caught more than fifty.
In Atchison, children are taught that
if they live good, moral lives they will
go to Topeka when they die.
At its meeting Monday night the city
council of Potwin allowed aud ordered
paid over $500 worth of bills.
The new secret society known as the
Ancient Order of the Pyramids held a
meeting last night and elected officers.
i Chief of Police John NJ. Wnkerson
spent yesterday in Atchison just to see
how the saloon closing order worked
| Tommy Warren, Santa Fe Office mes
senger boy, was locked in a vault in the
building two hours yesterday afternoon.
T. s. Hand, who went from Topeka to
New York to work for the Forum, is now
advertising manager of the Cosmopoli-
tan.
Paul Miner, a son of Rev. D. c. Mil
ner, is now stenographer to w. I. Allen,
assistant general manager of the Rock
Island.
Captain A. M. Fuller had two ribs
broken a few days ago by his driving
horse crushing him against the side OF
his stall.
A car load of provisions will be shipped
from Topeka to Oklahoma Friday, July
8. The car will be loaded on the Rock
Island tracks
Frank 7. Oakley, who was formerly in
the Office of the city engineer in Topeka,
/ has been appointed assistant city engi-
neer of Toledo, Ohio.
There was a lawn fete on Monroe street
last night and the neighbors will get out
an injunction if another is given soon.
| They were kept awake till after mid
night
The Wakarusa Republican club is to
celebrate the Fourth at Snyder's grove
near Wakarusa station. A number of
prominent Republicans have been in
vited to attend this celebration.
Director Rodgers of the Athletic club
ran down base ball thief on his bicycle
at the game last evening and was going
| so fast that he ran over the boy before he
could stop. The boy was not badly hurt
| but he returned the ball.
Frank Merrick, who for many years
| filed out all the passes from the Santa
Fe general managers Office, has sold his
drug store at Waco, Texas, and is back
| in Topeka. He says the Waco cotton
exposition is mostly talk.
The residence of H. D. Booge, corner
of Sixth street and Buchanan, was
robbed yesterday while Mr.. Booge was
sitting on the front porch. The thieves
carried away two gold watches, two gold
rings and 90 cents in money.
There is a man in Potwin Place who
for the last three years has fired rife
all night long on the third of July. 1t il
rumored that this year an avenger il
going to slip up in the brush of the
Keith tract and pop him over while he il
engaged in his heartless amusement
Some of the residents of school dis
trict No, 102, who were recently trans
ferred to district No. 80, by change O
boundaries, want the boundarie
changed back again. They object t.
helping pay interest on $1,000 bouds in
stead of $4,000 in being transferred from
one district to another.