The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-11-09

knee cap fractured in a football game
in Chicago last week but viii be all
right soon. He is there studying art.
Claude Stanley, son Of Superinten-
dent E. Stanley and at present a clerk
in his fathers office in the state house,
will study law this winter at Law
renee.
The Washburn college football team
played the team at St. Marys Saturday
and were defeated 40 to 0. But Wash
burn got SIS for the game, so that isn't
SO bad.
The convention Of the week is the
Woman Suffrage one which holds its
first meeting tonight. Mrs. Katie r.
Addison is the president of the state as
ISOLATION.
Chief Of Police John w Gardiner re-
turned Saturday from Scandia, Repub-
lie county, whittier he and his wife
went to attend the funeral of the lat
ter'S brOther-in-law.
For the first time in the history of
the school successful weekly news
paper is being published al the high
school Roy w. Short is editOr-in-chIef
of the High School World
A Topeka merchant who was ordered
to put some lettering on a pieca of
work, made ridiculous mistake The
order was; "A, T. & S. F." He put it;
"18SF." It sounded all right.
w o. Neville chief clerk in the office
of the assistant general superintendent
OF the Rock Island, entered railway ser
vice as night caller to TrainmaSter Mer-
rift of the Santa H'e in this city in 1886.
The annual sermon to the A. O. U.
w lodges of Topeka will be preached
at the Lutheran church by Rev a E.
Wagner, on Sunday afternoon, NoVem-
Der p.
At the morning service at the First
Congregational church yesterday sub
scriptions to the financial fund Of tne
church for the coming year We're made,
and $4,000 pledged.
J. S. Collins bet So with DR.. Eva
Harding that Morrill, would have a ma
jority of 1000 in the state, and Judge
z. T. Hazen was a witness to the wag-
err Saturday Mr. Collins sadly paid
over the money.
The thirteenth semi-annual conven-
ton of the Sabbath schools of Ross
vile township will be held at the Pres
byterian church in RossviIle November
10, all day. Rev. H. d. Fisher viii take
! a prominent part.
One of the city policemen, whom the
others are always teasing about his
enormous feet became very angry re
Gently when one Of the officers suggest
ed that he might put rockers on one Of
his shoes and use it for q cradle.
An effort will be made during the
coming season of the state legislature
to have the Topeka state insane asylum
divided so that half the patients will
! receive homeopathic treatment. All are
now treated by the allOpa thic system.
Mary Roche, the demented woman
who scared people in the vicinity Of
Tenth and Quincy streets last week has
been declared insane by a jury in the
probate court and she is now in the To
pza insane asylum. She was willing to
go that she might receive treatment.
The Mckinley and Hobart banner
that has swung in the breeze across
Kansas avenue in front of the Repubh-
can county central headquarters all
campaign was blown down by the
heavy wind this morning and broken to
pieces.
Alfred Grove, the chicken thief whom
the farmer boy, E. K Kirkman, report
ed to the authorities, was captured 20
miles southwest Of the city Saturday
by Under Sheriff Lucas, and locked in
the county jail. He had u chickens ia
his wagon which farmer near Topeka
claimed as his.
The Shawnee County Teachers asso-
citation met Saturday at the high school
building, at which papers We're read by
e. A. Simerwell, John r. Carter, Misses
Daisy Hunter and May MaddOcks, and
Mrs. Anna Amos. The next meeting Of
! the association will be held on the first
Saturday in December.
Susan b Anthony. Rev. Anna II.
Shaw and Mrs. Chapman-Catt the WO-
men who have been conducting the
equal suffrage campaign in California
viii not stop off in Topeka as at first
intended They viii go direct to kan
sas City and from there to their homes
to enjoy rest from their labors-
A Democrat, prominent in business
] ana pOnllCdl circles IN Kansas. said
this morning if David Martin had been
nominated for chief justice by the Re
publicans there would have been no OBJ
i position to him. He says it was the
/ programme for the fusiOnists to either
indorse him or leave the place blank
Twenty young men of the English
Lutheran church have organized the
I Tyler club and propose to take up the
/ study of six great battles. waterloo
1 viii be the subject to be discussed at
/ the next meeting, November IS. Two
/ sessions of the club will be held each
month, one of which Will be devoted to
4 social pursuits.
Some of the young bIOOds of the citv
are talking of soliciting municipal in
! reference in the matter of hack fares
I In LeavenwOrth and AtchisOn it is
said, the hack fares are half what they
are in Topeka. Hackmen would Ger
tainly haul three times as many people
/ from trains as now if they reduced
/ their fares to 25 cents.
The Bryan and Leedy Flambeau club
/ has secured hall and adjoining rooms
at 61S, third floor, Kansas avenue for
! their permanent headquarters and they
viii move in Immediately. The club
/ has rs uniformed members and a total
/ of 125 members enrolled making it is
| claimed the strongest organization Of
the kind in the state.
Walter McLain a small coIored bov.
/ was caught in the act of stealing a pair
of ladies' stockings Saturday night at
! Harding's dry goods store, and Patrol
! man FOwkes arrested him This morn
ing he was fined SIS. Arthur Murphy.
| of Harding's, says that other goods
| were stolen by colored people who were
| with the McLain boy.
Miss Mamie Johnston. who is q mem
! Der OF the In MizzOurah" company,
which will be at the Grand Wednesday
and Thursday nights, appeared in To-
/ peka two years ago as Jane in the
/ Frohman company producing the play
4 of that name. She is a. sister of John
stone Bennett, the original Jane, and
( Of Sybyl tombstone, the original in
! THE Clemenceau Case"
The Y. NJ @. A of Topeka win ceIe-
I brate its anniversary this evening at
! the association rooms Miss Erar,la z,