The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-24
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

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The Athletic club has added bowl of
gold fish to its furnishings.
The state of Kansas now owns seven
million dollars worth of bonds.
Mrs, W. E. Dom's name is in the di-
rectory, but her husbands is not,
Judge Hazen has granted a new trial
to Carl Sheldon, convicted of assault,
There is $4,000 in gold in the state
treasury and $4,000 in silver coin.
The state house is almost deserted, but
the teachers will fill it up tomorrow.
Elk Governor John P ST. John will
speak at the court house Friday night.
Charley Holidays seat in the Ministe-
rial union meeting was vacant yester-
day.
Frank Menet, who used to work in the
Santa Fe offices, died Sunday at Law
renee.
Ex-Governor John P. St. John will
meke temperance talk in Topeka Fri
day night.
Nick Childs doesn't say how much
South Carolina whisky he brought home
with him.
North Topeka is threatened with four
Christmas weddings, but one of them
may go over until New Years.
The state central committee of the
Prohibition party will hold a meeting in
Topeka Tuesday, December 81.
A man in the guise of Santa Claus will
draw larger crowd than anything else
on the week preceding Christmas.
There is $457.26452 in cash in the
state treasury, according to count just
made by State Auditor George E. Cole.
Don't forget to hang up your stocking
tonight Of course it may be empty,
but then you can say that you hung it
up.
w. P Brush. of 406 Moaroe street, has
flied suit for divorce from his wife, who
married him in 1881 and left him in
1887.
A police officer is liable to a fine of
$40 and even discharge if he knowingly
writes wrong name for an arrested per
son.
E Merriam mas given F. NJ. spen-
Ger the contract for the erection of
! $4,000 house on lots PAT and 249 Fill
more street.
One Topeka man bought 81 worth of
| pipes for Christmas presents for his
friends Somebody is going to make
things smoke.
The colored members of the Ministe-
rial union have been especially interest
ed in DR.. Bailey's lecture on the book of
| Revelations.
1t is said that it is customary for the
telephone hello girls to receive Christ
mas gifts from users of the phones. They
are wondering.
"Racket Hill" is becoming more noto-
rious in police circles than Smoky Row.
This is on Lime street. The row is los
ing its prestige.
The official report of the recent cleo
ton of colonel of the First regiment has
not yet reached national guard head
quarters at the state house.
W. E. Dom started to working out his
500 fine and costs on the county rock
pile last Friday. He was not released
on Saturday as he had anticipated.
Mark Miller says it is his notion that
in general physique the boys and young
men af the present day are 90 per cent
better than those of SO years ago.
A Topeka G. A R. man says the only
reason he does not want war is because if
one should come the veterans of the late
war would have to quit telling war stories,
A Topeka woman who buys her Christ
mas presents early delights in tort0ring
herself by finding out how much the
same articles are marked down after
wards.
Marcus E. Lowe has been unable to
give bond and is still in jail. All the
other persons arrested for being impli-
Gated in the recent grave robberies are
out on bond.
The members of the Ministerial union
propose to attach the name of every
member of the union to the resolutions
| yesterday and send a certified copy to
Gov Morrill,.
Ex-Attorney General John N. Ives left
for Denver today on a two weeks bust
ness trip. He has just returned from
Iowa, where he attended the funeral of
his aged mother.
Mr. w. Il. Simpson of the Santa Fe
advertising department, who is the per-
sonal friend of almost every Kansas
newspaper man, was in Topeka yester-
day, but has returned to Chicago.
The Lawrence Water Works company
appeared before Judge Foster yesterday
afternoon and asked that the Santa Fe
Railway company be restrained from
building a switch across their wells.
The Topeka banks are holding state
funds just now in the following amounts
Merchants National, $33 sos 30; Central
National, $73, 357.33; Bank of Topeka,
$99, 397SU; First National, $23, 56243.
A Topeka woman says she doesn't like
to tell others what she wants for Christ
mas because she likes to be surprised,
but she tries TO come the Christian
Science on it by thinking all the time of
what she wants.
John T. Crisp, state fish commissioner
of Missouri, has notified Secretary CO.
burn of the state board of agriculture
that he will be here and deliver an ad-
dress on fish culture during the annual
meeting Of the state board of agricul-
ture.
The white man who was robbed by a
negro woman Sunday night promised to
reward the colored boys who helped him
out of his difficulty if they would call at
the Y. NJ. {. A. rooms. The boys called
but the white man was not around The
boys made up their minds they had been
fooled.
Il. OF p. DANCE.
Gala Division, knights of Pythias,
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