The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-06
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.
Little drops of wetness,
Fell-a-few today.
Wheat is king at present.
And must have its way.

F. B.
Mrs. Mary E Lease is sick at the Ma
tionaL
The Rock Island trains change time
tomorrow
The street commissioners force is
working in the Fifth ward now
No criminal cases are on trial in the
district court today.
Ice formed in roadway pools on Col
lege hill last night.
Under Sheriff Tom Wilkerson is learn
ing to ride bicycle.
D. C. Tillotson is to make the Decora-
ton day address at Leavenworth this
year.
Naneti Hazelett has sold to George
w Smith lots 357 and 359 Fillmore street
for $4,000.
]. 7. Franklin, 1900 Lincoln street, is
making a material improvement IN his
residence.
Walter L Russ has secured a building
permit to erect store room at 654 Buch-
anan street.
Mrs. Darlington Booth of the Saliva
ton Army, will lecture at Hamilton hall
Monday night
Santa Fe earnings for last month
showed an increase of nearly $4,000
over last year.
Thomas c. Vail, oldest son of the late
Bishop Vail, has been granted pension
by the government
Mrs. A II. Case was admitted to the
Shawnee county bar this morning at the
opening of the district court
After the contest last night the high
school boys ate up all the pie Dir. Scott
and Mr. Whittier had in stock.
The disease known as "pink eye" is
still prevalent in some parts of the city.
1t is contagious, but not serious.
The low ground in front of the north
steps of the state house is being filed in
preparatory to sowing blue grass.
George W. Reed took the precaution of
wrapping the flowers and shrubbery in
his yard in winter attire last night
J. Calvin McCoid has purchased forty
acres southwest of the city from James
A and Eunice NJ. johnson for $4,000.
Several Topeka sports expect to attend
the athletic entertainment" at the
Kansas City auditorium Monday night
Other towns near Topeka are to have
comic opera at 10, 20, and Soc. Topeka
| ought to have week of the same thing
About sixty members of Sloan lodge
of Masons will go to Holton to attend a
meeting of the Holton lodge this even
ing
The Woman's Republican association
of Topeka has elected delegates to the
state convention, to be held here April
25th.
Much of the Topeka talent will wit
ness the limited round contest between
Champion Tommy Ryan and Paddy
PurtelI.
Not street electric light was turned
on last night It was wet and cloudy,
but the moon was supposed to be shin
/ ing-somewhere.
DR.. J. F. Buck says the greatest obsta-
! Gle between him and the appointment to
| his old position as superintendent of the
reform school is the fact that he resides
in Shawnee county.
Mrs. N. E. Fry has petitioDed for di-
vorce from John Fry. She says her hus-
band has been guilty of cruelty towards
his better half-Fry. She calls her hus-
band too lazy to work.
John Nobel and Will johnson deny
that they had talked over the arrest of
George Hanley ten days before it occur
red, and particularly that they had ever
foreseen his defense of blackmaiL
Charley Elliott, formerly of Topeka,
has been transferred from the manage
ment of Pope's theater at st. Louis to the
management of Hopkins theater on
State street near Congress, Chicago. 1t
is a continuous performance theater, and
is packed with 1900 people at each per
| Torrance. Ben. Simpson of Topeka is
! his treasurer.