The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-28
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

N. Campbell of Guthrie is visiting
Captain Dan Wyatt
Eugene Hagan used to have a law
Office with George r. Peck.
Elk. Governor ST. John is second only
to Ingalls, in his ability to draw crowd.
One of the venturesome teachers
climbed to the pinnacle of the state
house dome.
Sheriff elect Kepley's hair has turned
shade greyer since he was elected.
The place hunters did it.
A Topeka lawyer predicts that the
court house will be found to be too small
in less than five years.
East Fifth street will appear deserted
when the county Offices are moved out
of the Office block.
County Attorney Harry Woods of Well
ington was here this week on business
with the attorney general.
Sill Dixon ia up from Sumner county
and says he is for Cy Leland for ma
tional committeeman.
G. J. Evans is to read a paper on "The
Progress of Municipal Reform in
Europe" before the Unity club tonight.
A foundation is being constructed for
an addition to the Topeka Mill and Eie-
vator building near the Santa Fe shops.
]. J. Frey, Jr., youngest son of Gene
raj Manager Frey of the Santa Fe. is
suffering with a severe bronchial at
tack,
Governor Morrill, has already been en-
gagged to deliver the Decoration Day ad-
dress at Ballard Falls, Washington coun-
ty, next May.
Joe Waters favorite poet is Tennyson.
The fill around the new court house
has been made and the mud is ankle
deep.
A Topeka firm that employees a girl
and a boy has a long list of printed
rules governing the conduct of its en-
ployes.
E. E Roudebush, who has been con-
| fined to his home for the past two weeks
with badly sprained ankle, is down
town.
All of John P. St. Johns political enc
mics admit that he is the best stump
speaker Kansas ever had. This is not
chasing John J. Ingalls, as a stump
speaker.
n. 8. Kitchen, for several years driver
| for the Pacific express company in this
city, has been appointed agent for the
United States express company at Fair
bury, Neh.
County Attorney Stafford says the
criminal docket for the January term of
the district court will not have many,
but will have a few big cases which will
take up lots of time.
A Topeka old soldier saws he wants
his children to study some history of the
United States which will devote more
than one inch to the admission of Kan
sas into the Union.
County Attorney Stafford says it will
7n ho
return indictments against the people
connected with the medical college who
are already under arrest
Football enthusiasts seem to have the
fever, all the year round. Good players
end the games Thanksgiving Day, but
there seems to be some maniacs that
want to play in the snow.
Rev. T. r. Hawks, the Universalist
minister, is organizing a chorus, which
meets at his residence, 313 East Eleventh
street, Friday evenings The chorus is
not confined to Universalists.
The funeral of Walter Bennett, who
died Friday morning of pneumonia, was
held yesterday afternoon at o'clock at
| 41S Buchanan street. The burial was
made at Topeka cemetery.
Ex-State Superintendent George W.
| Winans, who worked in the trenches as
|
east wing of the state house, was prom
inent figure in the meeting of the State
! Teachers association.
H. G. Staley, secretary of the Demo
cratic Flambeau club, has received four
large scenic views from the Fitchburg
ana Great Northern railways, which he
will add to his present collection in the
| fambeau club rooms.
| George Higgins. who now holds
clerkship in the office of the sec'y. of
state, was the first man. to vote for the
nomination of John P. st. John for gov
srnor Higgins was then publishing the
Columbus Journal and st. John was
practicing law at Oiathe.
Sheriff Glover of johnson county, who
was reported to have been dangerously
wounded last Thursday by an insane
man, was we'll enough to attend the
sheriffs' meeting in Topeka yesterday.
| The report was incorrect as he was only
wounded in the hand.