The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-12
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

Republican primaries tomorrow.
There are said to be over 1000 bicy-
cles in town.
The street sweeper was out on Quincy
street last night
Just now no dealer in town has a Fa-
Der No 2 pencil on sale.
Water in the lake at Lakeview is on
the rise. SO is stock in the club.
There are now a half dozen wheel
scrapers at work on the lower dam.
The two back seats of a street car
should be reserved for men who desire to
smoke
shawnee county peaches the best in
the local market sell for 30 cents q
bushel
A deserving but helpless family at 113
East Thirteenth street are said to be
starving.
John Nobel of the Johnson Nobel
Candy company is quite sick with rheu-
matism.
Judge John Guthrie wants all the
Populists removed from Office, no matter
what it costs.
The members of the state live stock
sanitary commission are boiling a meet
ing in Topeka
Ths Crawford who has charge of
Olympic park is no relation to the opera
house Crawford.
Mrs. Thorpe has given two bright little
girls to the Kansas Children's Home
Society this week.
A. B. Quinton is Frank Herald's attor-
ney in his fight for his job as commits
sioner of elections.
F. W. Parr donated four bushels ripe
apples to the poor of the city. He left
them at the police station.
Several hundred colored people bad a
union Sunday school picnic at Garfield
park yesterday afternoon.
A ear load of young people out riding
last evening with tin horns made more
noise than the Fourth of July.
A Santa Fe freight train picked up 81
carloads of potatoes between Topeka and
Kansas City one day this week.
An effort is being made to organize a
canoeing club in Topeka. It would be
well to wait till the dam is built, to have
still water.
The excitement at the Topeka bucket
shop. occssioned by the sudden fall in
wheat, has subsidized. The ''shorts" now
say 81 told you So"
The name of Miss Marie Hagan of
Topeka was omitted from the list of
teachers who secured certificates at the
recent examination.
A lodge of Sons of Veterans will be
organized at Vinland. Douglas county
Saturday evening. d. c. Tillotson will
! deliver an address in the evening.
| For the first time since Reister Joined
| the Topeka ball team he was in good
! pitching form yesterday. In st. Joe he
was known as an excellent twirIer.
Mrs. Thorpe wants sewing or fancy
work or ironing, for two ladies in re-
duced circumstances, who cannot beg
and should not be allowed to starve.
A gray haired old man, who will not
tell his name has been going about over
town, trying to trade bedspread for
something to eat. He is from Park
| dale
Eight small boys were kept all nigh
! In the wOmen's ward at the city prison
recently, for depradations on a vacant
house. They were all fine looking boys;
it seemed shame to keep them in jail.
The executive council will let the re-
naming contracts for the work on the
state house which is to be done this
year August 5. The contract for the
elevators will be let at the same time.
Four carloads of the Topeka colored
people went to Kansas City on the Rock
Island by special train today to attend
the meeting of the grand lodge of the
Knights of Tabor. Jackson's band went
along.
The county commissioners will sell
the last $4,000 of1he new court house
bonds August 1. Of course there wont
be any of the 100000 voted for the
court house left when the building is
completed.
Collacheba, the city's Indian prisoner.
/ has spells of "heart- going to- sleep"
| They became so serious Saturday night
she has been released for a few days
She fell in one of these spells cutting
and bruising her eye very badly, while
! in Jail