The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-09
SNAP SHOTS AT HONE NEWS.


The straw hats are here.
Thirty-nine prisoners are being board
ed at the county jail
Tom Doran is to make the Memorial
day address at solomon City.
Secretary Coburn Of the state board
Of agriculture is investigating the
dairy.
ii. G. Larlmer lectures at Silver
Lake next Tuesday evening on Push
ms to the Front"
The stan 0ing news comes from Ross
Vile that corn is being cultivated on q
neIghboring farm
The Topeka waterworlIs viii be sold
under foreclosure next Saturday. They
are appraised at S525 600.
The list Of judges and polling places
for the Republican primary is pub
nshed in tonight's journal.
The candidates for Office this fail ad-
dressed the ColOred Republican club in
North Topeka last night
The Van Dyke and Eaton show viii
stay another week at the Crawford. A
good ten cent show pays.
The candidates are now spending
their time with the dear people"
There are meetings every night.
The rammed clay floor in the main
cell at the city jail is nearly ready for
the concrete 1t is hard as asphalt.
If MIR. Jennings lets it rain on the
/ State Journal March again tomorrow
lac may consider himself discharged
The committee on ways and means
Of the city council is wrestling with
I the fee bill in the Decker, Mullins &
/ Berry case.
The lecture of Francis Murphy. the
temperance evangelist, viii be held in
the First Methodist church next Tues
day evening.
city Attorney Bird spent today in
Kansas City taking dispositions in the
$4,000 damage suit Of Mrs. Mary Frost
vs. the city.
Jailer Disbrow, who is now on night
duty at the city prison, has been sick
this week and Officer Frank Purseu is
/ taking his place.
/ Dick Cooley's story Of Thursdays st.
/ LouIs-New York game was but a
/ thumb nail sketch it appears. only his
I thumb nail being lOOsened instead of
his finger broken.
4 Arthur Lockwood, the white boy who
+ pleaded guilty to stealing shoes before
Justice Grover yesterday. has been
4 adopted by Jacob Stitts who viii en-
4 deavor to reform him.
If the new bridge doesn't come pretty
/ soon people VIII begin falling through
the old one. Some Of the boards where
+
/ die, and loose at both ends.
Judge Body. of London. Ky, a re-
/ lative Of S A Johnson, indicted for
+ completely in the grave robberies, was
! an interested spectator at the change
Of venue argument in the district court.
The people may have some confidence
/ in Mr.. Jennings so far as the weather
is concerned but that story of his about
I riding sixty miles on his wheel in four
hours over country roads and never
batting an eye-whew!
The county commissioners today
4 viewed the Laughlin road, twelve miles
4 southeast The present road on the
I section line crosses Berry creek three
times. and a change is desired that
only one bridge may be required.
MarshalTs band concerts win begin
tomorrow at Garfeld-if it doesn't rain,
and the State Journal March viii be
the very first number on the pro
gramrne at 8 O'Clock. Don't miss it for
+ it is John Marshals best.
Oscar Bischoff was in the southwest
ern part Of the state in the interest Of
/ the Santa Fe Immigration society this
/ week He viii soon make a trip to
Germany and Sweden with a view Of
+ inducing immigration to western kan
sas.
NJ #. Rigby broke one Of his new
! plate glass windows last night He
was washing 1T and fell off the stool
The stool struck il and shivered it to
the corners. 1T was worth s240 and had
only been in since last fall 1T is a
mighty good thing for the boys" that
the old man" broke it himself
The large plate glass in the front Of
Rlgby's store. 96x120 inches was broken