The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-19
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.


The river has stopped rising for few
hours.
The bicyclist has a kick coming. The
roads are muddy.
Nothing has yet been booked for the
Crawford opera house for next winter.
Mrs. P. l. Bonebrake and Mrs. Eliza
Chrisman are at Excelsior Springs, Mo-
A F. Poole, the chicken thief, is down
in the city directory as patent right
agent.
President Fulton of the city council Is
acting mayor of Topeka in Mayor Eel
lows absence
{. The house of Robert Hitchcock at 221
West Laurent street was entered by
burglars night.
Many Topeka people have spent the
greater part of the time in trying to get
the water out of their cellars.
"The Hidden Hand" is to be played in
Topeka tonight. What's the matter with
the "Hidden Foot or Trilby in Disguise"
There will be no fireworks at the band
concert if there is one tonight Topeka
had fireworks enough yesterday morn
ing.
Eighteen men, five women and one
! tramp were fed at the city prison. The
police assign the tramps to a separate
gender
The Santa Fe has six work trains on
the line between Kansas City and En-
poria fixing up the washouts and repair
ing the track.
| A colored man near Sherey lost his
horses by lightning during the storm of
Thursday morning. They were tied to
a tree in the yard.
A Meriden man who was followed to
| Nv rjc II in
the Santa Fe yards last night He had
been on a spree for several days.
Valencia. a Topeka horse, was dis
tanced in the three minute trot at Leav-
enworth yesterday.
A Topeka base ball crank started out to
recoup his fortune yesterday by betting
on the Kansas City base ball team.
An electric lamp fell to the ground at
| the corner of Seventh and Monroe streets
last evening and burned in the street all
night.
A Topeka old soldier insists that his
"bullet-in" his leg is a more accurate
weather indicator than Observer Jen-
nings' "bulletin."
A junction City man by the name of
Ezekiel who was reported as having
committed suicide ten days ago was in
| Topeka yesterday.
Boru-to Mr., and Mrs Shelby Walter
who live about two miles west of North
Topeka, Tuesday evening-a boy and q
girl. All are doing we'll.
When the city board of health has
completed its Investigations of the lower
dam question another chapter will be
added to this much vexed question,
Show long have you been wearing
duck trousers, Willie?" one Topeka
chappie asked another. sob. I've been
wearing them of and on all summer
]. II. Vanorsdale, president of the East
Side Circle railroad, is out in a card say
ing he is following the Instructions OF
the city engineer about repairing the
Ninth street viaduct.
City Clerk McFadden says that the
council reduced the rate of bicycles al
we'll as other vehicles to six miles ar
hour at the last meeting. The council
did not understand it that way.
Lena Schultz, a woman so diseased
that even the colored prisoners at the
police headquarters object to her com
panv, was arrested in the City park las
night and was fined $40 today.
f The news of the death of Seth Simon
ton. the first sergeant of the Topeka Pc
t lice force under the metropolitan system
has been received in Topeka Simonto
} died at Guthrie Oklahoma. where he ha
been engaged in the milling business fo
, | three years.
, A set of barber tools which wer
t | thought to have been stolen from Charlie
Orendorf the barber, who recently com
? | mitted suicide, have been recovered b
: the police. A grip containing razor
4 brushes and comb have been return
ed to his widow by the officers,
e Speaking of coincidsnts, dog tax Co
p T4h flw
l dog named "Grover Cleveland" fror
: Mrs. 8. E. Taylor, 51s Lime street. TIL
t next place Allen went was to the hous
i of W. q. Shaffer at 500 Tyler, where b
q collected SIS on "Frances Cleveland"
Mrs. Nicholson Very HI.
A telegram was received at the SAM
q. roctardzu