The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-11
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWS


This is ideal weather for comfort.
Dean Low was starter at the bicycle
races yesterday.
The pavement on Eleventh street has
been completed.
The state house wires will soon be
put under ground.
The Democratic Flambeau club is
expected home tonight.
The sidewalk gangs are working at
Sixth and Topeka avenue.
A year ago at this time Topeka was
having two suicides a week.
Andy Jordan has the cake won on
exhibition in Sims window.
There are no cases of contagious dis
eases in the city at present.
The city employees were let out at
noon today to attend the races.
Mrs Annie Diggs will return to her
home at Perry this afternoon.
Several counterfeit half dollars were
passed at the fair grounds yesterday.
DR.. S. G. Stewart is convalescing
from a severe attack of stomach trou-
BILE.
Country bands are beginning to ask
for John MarshaHs State Journal
March.
Shawnee county Changers are prepar-
July q.
County Attorney Harry Stafford rode
down to the races in the "hoodlum"
wagon.
The Topeka Coal company has sub
scribed $40 to the Reunion and Fail Fes-
tivaI fund.
A Topeka photographer took pic
ture Of nine brothers at single sitting
yesterday.
Felix Morris, who played it here some
time ago, is now playing Behind the
Scenes" in London.
On an average, one-half the people
who apply to the county officers for aid
are found to be frauds.
Nearly the whole police force of the
city was present at the races. And it
was a very orderly crowd, too.
A class in stenography and a class in
sl1etching and drawing have been or
ganized at the Y. NJ. c. A. rooms.
Fred Gordon had two fingers badly
lacerated yesterday afternoon by hav-
ing his hand caught in an electric fan.
Col. Burgess says Bryan is too young
to be good candidate for the presiden-
cy. William Pitt was prime minister
of England at the age Of "A.
w. A Neiswanger is moving
seven-room house from Lowman Hill
to his lots on the corner of Mulvane
and Chestnut streets, College Hill
It has just come to light that the
most radical Englishman in Topeka
severely burned his fingers while firing
frecra ckers on the Fourth Of July.
The bicycles at the police station get
broken about as often as the jefferson
street hook and ladder truck. The po-
ncemen are learning the mysteries of
the wheel.
destitute Cuban insurgent who
served in the Cuban army IS months,
was furnished transportation to Kan
sas City yesterday by Poor Commits
sioner Hale.
Miss Anna Downey, state evangelist
of the W. c. T. U. of Illinois. will ad-
dress the Y. w. c. A. gospel meeting at
the First NJ. E. church tomorrow after
noon at AIS o'clock.
The county commissioners are having
hard time to cut down the court
house expenses to fit the allowance
and have shut off what little ice the
officers were allowed.
William F. Bowen, Topeka young
man who graduated from the State uni
versity two years ago, has been elected
assistant to the chair of chemistry in
the Kansas Medical college.
More buggy wheels are broken on the
trolley line switches at Huntoon and
Harrison streets than any place in the
city. Something ought to be done to i'm
prove the street at that place.
Miss May Nelson Of Wamego, the
Washburn student who was operated
on for appendicitis at Christ hospital
two weeks ago, is convalescing and will
be able to return to her home next
week
Mr.. J. H. Dom came to Topeka yes