The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-15
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.


porters, plays Carey Preston"
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.
Will c. Chatfee & Co., have pretty
sign.
Hogs in the vicinity around Topeka are
still dying with cholera.
Sloan lodge, A. F. & A. NJ. conferred
the first degree on ]. .. Eggleston last
evening.
There are now 219 inmates in the re-
form school; 220 is the full capacity of
the school.
City Clerk McFadden has discovered
that the county owes the city $4,000 in
back taxes
Ex-Manaeer of Baseball Harry Mote
is living in Emporia where he is running
a barber shop.
Tom Sheard went to Salina yesterday
to attend a meeting of the Knights of
the Golden Eagle.
Dust and sand is about six inches deep
on the level in the road between Topeka
and the reform school.
Sidewalks are being built in Auburn
dale aud that corporation has decided
not to secede from Potwin.
The man who tries to rake leaves off
blue grass sod with common garden
rake generally gets stuck.
The Wolff Packing company bought
thirty five head of fat cows recently from
F. S. Lord of Burlingame.
Colonel Jeltz says in the Ledger that
he is in eastern Kansas looking after his
circulation. Has he lost it there?
The state horticultural society is to
meet ut Lawrence this years. The meets
ing is to be held Dec. 10, IL and r.
The salary of the superintendent of
state house grounds is $500 year in
stead of $3.50 as has been published,
Benjamin Burton, aged 80. and Sarah
Jordan, aged 81, are both local colored
people. They were yesterday licensed
to wed.
A watermelon festival would be good
thing for one day of the next years car
nival, so says colored brother. By all
means.
A Topeka physician says, that in pro-
portion TO the population, Topeka has
more doctors than any other city in the
United States.
In nearly all the fire alarm directories
box Al is given as located at Van Buren,
and Twelfth streets. 1t should be Van
Buren, ard Twentieth streets.
Congressman j. S. Sherman of Utica,
New York, who is in Topeka says that
Congressman Charles Curtis has the re-
spect of all parties in congress.
Charles May berry, who formerly
worked for E. B. Guild, but now of
Ponds music house in New York, is
sick in a hospital with typhoid fever
E R. Westfall, ex-employe of the
Topeka pension office pleaded guilty to
forgery yesterday at Leavenworth aud
was Sentenced to one year in the peni-
Tertiary.
Rev. J. ". Stewart ex- presiding elder
of the NJ. E. church will preach at Low
man Hill Thursday evening. His topic
will be the "Mission of the Christian
Churches"
The people in Keith's addition are
| complaining abont hogs being kept in
side the city limits. One man has fifteen
! head he keeps in barn. The whole ad-
dition smells of il.
Edward Sweeney has been employ ed
by Barney Lantry as Overseer of his vast
ranch near Strong City. Sweeney form
| erly lived there but has lately returned
from Seattle, w ashin gton.
A city railway official says that per-
sons who kick because stoves are not
proach of cold weather will ride all day
in an open buggy and think nothing
about it.
| Sam T. jacks Extravaganza company,
which presents "The Bull Fighter" here
Thursday night will play at the Grand
instead of at the Crawford as originally
intended. The prices will be reduced tc
rs, so and % cents.