The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-02
sNAp SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

10 the Orphans home car ride.
Mrs. Thorpe has received SO felt hats :
or the poor from A. II. Sharum.
People at Lawrence know by this time
whether Z. .. can play football or not.
Let's catch the man that burns leaves
IN the street and add him to the bonfire.
About 800 people attended the concert
1T Hamilton hail last night by Jackson's
band.
Erwin lodge $50. A. o. I. W. will give
d ball at Hamilton hall Thanksgiving
aight
The pension office will begin the quar-
terly payment OF its 100000 pensions on
Monday.
The interior woodwork in the Santa Fe
general offices is being repaired and re-
vanished
Tho state house is almost deserted.
gone home to vote.
Nobody but the county commissioners
want to sell the old court house in this
time of depression.
The pavement on East Fifth street,
from Kansas avenue to Madison street, is
wonderful in its, variety.
The old peanut stand has been moved
from the east entrance of the state house
to the court house corner.
Flash light views were taken of all
the Offices in the Santa Fs general office
building yesterday afternoon.
There were $40 cards used in the deco
ration of the Casino" costume and whesl
ia the Halloween bicycle parade.
The state bank commissioners office
will be removed to rooms ~ and ID in
the Real Estate building next week.
The first thing a person thinks about
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whether his clothes were there or not
Rev. B. L. Smith will receive $1,000 a
year more in ST. Louis where he is going
December than his present place pays.
0. II. Coulter. o. c. Hill and Captain
Fisher of Lawrence, were the speakers
at Fort Pillow posts camp fire last night
Recent bookings for the Grand which
will be looked forward to with pleasure
are Alexander Salvini and Richard Mans
field
Andy Fuller's horse, which was
thought to have been stolen, was found
not far from home. He had wandered
away.
Those who had made up their minds
to see n Northwestern play foot ball had
better make them up again to go to
Chicago
David Overmyer and j. G. Waters will
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charged with numbering Charles
Hoover.
Here's nerve. On the "Black Crook
programmes last night it was advertised
that the electric light effects were by
Edison.
THE Drunk's Awakening" is pic
! ture displayed nearly every morning at
the police station. Somebody ought to
paint it
One of L N. Crawford's bill boards on
Ninth street was set on fire yesterday
afternoon. The chemical engine put out
the blaze.
Tho scandinavian political club dis
cussed the candidates last night but
came TO no conclusion about whom they
will support
We have had an earthquake and Hal
! loween this week and if We may have
choice, the next time we will take the
earthquake.
The meanest Halloween prank yet
brought to light was the lacking of red
diphIheria sign on City Physician
MitchelPs front door.
John S. Rhodes says that it is mistake
that the ship he used in the Halloween
parade was built by an ex-sailor. He
built the ship himself.
Mrs. Frank Mileham and child have
arrived from Southampton, England,
where they spent the summer. They
were ten days in coming home.
Someone must have sprinkled tscks in
the path of the bicycle parade Halloween
night. Several cyclers dropped out of
the line and led their wheels home.
Dean Low went to Lexington, Mo-,
this morning, to umpire a game of foot
ball between Wentworth Military acads-
my and the Kansas City high school.
Rigby's candy store between Fourth
| and Fifth streets on Kansas avenue will
be abandoned in a week or two. The up
town store has taken away all the trade.
In Chicago a man who had disrepu-
table woman arrested for robbing him
was fined heavily for disorderly conduct.
! This is sugg estion' for TOPeka's police
court.
George Wolff will leave Monday
| morning with car load OF IS horses for
| Boston to sell to private parties. They
are good ones; some of them can go in
% and so, Wolff says.
The latest theory of the earthquake is
advanced by Santa Fs official. He says
that it was simply the vibrations of the
air caused by the lightning speed of the
new California limited train.
County Clerk McCabe says he has re-
ceived several inquiries in regard to
whether the street car tracks will be
laid on the proposed new bridge over
the river He says they will not.
The buggy which was on the viaduct
yesterday was on the Ninth street dummy
line viaduct instead of the Sixth street
one. It remained up there all day yes
terday, but was gone this morning.
When $50 of a DRINKS $50 was re-
turned to him by Jailer Disbrow today,
he wanted to play the jailer game of
poker to see whether he should pay the
entire $50 or his $40 should be RENTED.
A bicyclist who prides himself that
he can ride safely home in the dark.
nearly had a fit when he barely escaped
running into q hoase last night Il had