The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-09
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

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There is to be city council meeting
Monday evening.
Candidates for justice of the peace are
becoming Numerous.
The cold weather has made the price
of eggs go up ten cents per dozen
Two hundred people applied to the as
ISOLATED charities for aid yesterday.
The Flambeau club committee will
meet tonight at Charley Elliotts office.
Half the young lawyers in Topeka
have tried their hands at story writing
If the new police keep on they will
soon have the city Jail full to overflow
ing.
A great many farmers had their sup
ply of potatoes and apples frozen this
week.
Mike Wagner, the fireman who was
hurt at fire three weeks ago, is much
| better.
Mr.. Jennings, who has charge of the
biz yards, must be out of town or have
lost his key.
There was $4,000 insurance on the
casket factory building which burned
Thursday night
Mary Dick has sued the Union Pacific
receivers for $50, the value of baggage
which was lost
Rev. c. N. Sheldon is at work on a
new serial story which will be published
in the Youths Companion.
| A delegation of Topeka men have en-
dorsed James Ramsey for a place on the
state board of public works.
A q. Van Cleave of battery B, who has
been on the sick list the past ten days, is
now threatened with pneumonia.
A new time card will go into effect on
the Santa Fee. February IA. but it will
/ change the time of freight trains only.
The Santa Fe team beat the Cyclers at
basket bali last night at the Y. NJ. Z. A.
roOms The score Was Santa Fe IS, Cy-
clers 5.
Not more than twenty five cases of
pneumonia are reported today from sit
ting i'll the cold al the Grand opera house
last night
Kansas counties have already com
menced to pay their 1894 taxes. Some
Counties are paying 90 per cent more
than is due.
Chief Engineer James Dunn and Gen
eraI Superintendent II. U. Nudge of the
Santa Fe are Inspecting the Atcnlson
branch today.
The A. o. q. w grand lodge will
meet at Wichita February 20. The rail
roads have made a rate of one fare for
the round trip for the occasion.
Reuben Myers has sold twenty acres of
land seven miles northeast of Topeka, to
Martha C. Fuller, for $1,000. Fifty dol
lars An acre is a good price for farm
! lands.
At the annual meeting of the W. NJ
G. A. last night the following new d.
rectors were elected: Jesse Shaw, Z. II.
Morrison, j. T. Fulton, s. s. OFT and II.
| G. Bowman.
NJ. L. George, an Elmont farmer, has
paid cash rent of $3.50 for an eighty
five acre farm for the coming season.
This is said to be the highest rent ever
paid in the county.
When folks pay to see a performance
in Topeka, they stay and see it regard
less of pneumonia. The cheerful GUS
tom of having the pipes freeze up was
repeated at the Grand last night
The coal dealers are SO far behind with
their orders that large number of orders
given out by the associated charities for
coal for poor people on Thursday, had
not been filed up to this morning.
Mrs. Noble Patton, who lives at 1888
laudanum about 9 o'clock last night. The
members of the family deny that it was
taken with suicidal iztent, as was re-
ported on the streets
The members of the Douglass house of
1898 will hold their first annual reunion
in topeka next Friday. This will be the
anniversary Of the day the doors leading
to Representative hall were broken