The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-18
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Mr.. Jennings has been a little easier
on US today 1t is cooler.
The Fourth of July orators are work
ing hard their orations.
The Topeka ball team is having a race
with Leavenworth for the last place.
Clerk Sharitt of the United States cir
cult court has returned from Fort Scott
Atchison and Leavenworth are quar-
reling again. Whisky always was a
fool
Frank Mileham's fast trotting horse
CELIA CO was stolen at Dubuque by one
of Its trainers.
Hail fell in North Topeka yesterday
afternoon which measured an inch aud a
half in diameter.
The Whiting Holton base ball team
is reported to have raised $500 for the
support of the teams.
Maria Coleman has sued Austin Cole
man for divorce, alleging failure to pro-
vide and abandonment
The rain yesterday afternoon did not
extend west of the Reform school on the
north side of the river.
The time limit of six miles an hour
in the bicy Gle ordinance will probably be
changed to eight or ten.
A Topeka young lady who wears a
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no matrimonial significance.
Congressman Charles Curtis and Cap
tain Joe Waters will he the Fourth of
July orators at Moons Grove.
Just to save work Weather Officer
Jennings is going to have arubber stamp
made with "drenching rain today" on it.
The Shawnee County Horticultural
society will meet next Thursday, June
| 81, at w. p Popenoe's farm at Berryton
R. NJ. Miles and Fl. ]. Newman were
/ fined So each in the police court today
for riding their bicycles on the side
walks.
Chief of Police WiIkerson has one
man on duty for the special purpose of
arresting bicycle riders who ride on the
side walk.
N. F: Rigby will build new front in
his building on Kansas avenue, and will
also extend it back to the alley, twenty
five feet farther.
Lincoln Post G. A R. and the ladies of
the G. A r. will tender a farewell recep
ton to Mr.. and Mrs. II. K. Devendorf on
Saturday evening.
DR. A. s. Embree says he is not going
to Europe to look through art galleries,
but to rest and see how the people on
the other side of the water live.
q Topeka young men are hereby official
| ly notified of a ukase from the New
York -four hundred" against wearing
tan shoes with cutaway coat
"Before I'd let woman work for me
at fifty cents day." said Sam Jones in
his sermon Sunday, "Pd sew nv shirt
up with barbed wire and wear it."
Sheriff Royce of Wichita came to To.
peka yesterday and took back James
Lille, who is wanted there for breaking
Jail, where he was confined for larceny.
A North Topeka wash-woman left a
tub full of clothes to soak on her back
porch last night, and this morning both
the tub and clothes were gone. The case
was reported to the police.
A Topeka young man who publicly
congratulated the wrong woman on being
married is out of town for few days
The idea of congratulating a woman
anyway. 1t smacks of Atchison.
Last week Mrs Sheldon asked for a re-
strainiug order to prevent Sprague
Chase's cows from annoying her. Today
Judge Hazen denied the writ. holding
that Chase's COWS were well behaved
Chase says the suit was spite work.
The bicyclists want an ordinance al
lowing them to ride ten miles an hour on
Kansas avenue and fifteen miles an houI
on other streets. Six miles an hour
said one of them today; ''Why Pm liable
to arrest every time I walk down town.
The height of luxury has beer
reached. Some young men who are 90
ing to give a picnic next week are goine
to have the entire picnic grounds thickIy
sprinkled with insect powder. SO tina
, there will be no chigger bites to com
| | plain of next day.