The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-21
SNAP SHOTS ATH0MENEWs.


doesn't capture that reunion it had bet
ter not come home.
A Topeka suffrage woman who was
trying to learn to ride a wheel has
given it up. She is afraid.
Mrs. Thorpe wants some clothing
and bedding for a sick old lady, and
shoes, No or 8, for an old man.
That accrued interest on the bridge
bonds we hear SO much about is roll
ing up at the rate of s2O.S3 a day.
The evidence must be gilt edged to
get a jury in the district court to con-
Wet man of selling liquor illegally.
Captain Henry Booth, chief clerk in
the office of Secretary Billy Edwards,
has benin Kansas nearly forty years.
The state board of public works viii
occupy rooms in the state house after
their building on the grounds is re-
moved
The Ellxhorn club viii give their last
complimentary dance before disband-
ing for the summer at Hudson's hall
tonight.
Judge Joe Reed is expecting a new
installment of campaign buttons bear
ing the likeness Of Cousin Tom, within
a few days.
Prof O. c. Hill, the governors exc
Cl-AAe C4GLAAs WHO rs eLA GllLA4llSlol1AA1 N1
A. r. man, will not go to the Beloit en-
campment-
Both the state and city cases against
Robert KneisIer for selling liquor have
been dismissed because witnesses could
not be obtained.
The jury last evening in the district
court acquitted Sam DIcLamore Of sell
ing liquor to w. M. Brown. 1t was an
appealed city case.
A cyeIist who rode fifteen miles north
west OF town yesterday had the pleas
ure of carrying his wheel back, the
result of puncture
Yesterday was the first day for a long
tive that the district court got ahead
of itself. Tt finished the days business
at 4 O'Clock and adjourned
Frank Thompson. charged with coun-
terfeiting. has been released from the
county jail. as the United States grand
jury failed to indict him.
The American Volunteers have their
hall just over a billiard hall and hop
tea stand and the clinking of the balls
and glasses mingles with the hymns.
Reporters do not pay much attention
to people who want them excluded from
trials and inquests. but who want their
side OF the story published afterwards.
Father Michael, the Passionist mis-
sionary, has been invited to deliver an
address at the Santa Fe shops, and
viii speak to the shopmen Friday at
noon.
While Bishop NTillspaugh was east on
his recent trip he secured $1,000 in do
nations to Bethany college and it will
be applied on the $50, 600 mortgage yet
remaining
The 5-year-old son of ]. L. Campbell,
of 1879 Hawthorn street. Auburndale,
fell from a tree at his home Saturday
night and fractured his right arm at
the elbow Joint.
The world marveled greatly at Annie
Abbott's feats some years ago A lit
tie sirl IS years old does the same
thing as well at the medicine show on
Quincy street, nightly
The weekly rainfall report Of Wealth
er Observer Jennings shows that in the
eastern portion of Kansas last week
III inches Of rain fell, and in the west
ern portion 81 inches.
When Tom Anderson puts on his blue
clothes and brass buttons and his
white hat and pocket fun of troches
and goes after a G. A r. encampment,
look out He did that yesterday.
Tt has been over month now since
the county commissioners issued their
manifesto about fee buying, but no
one has noticed but that e. B. Good
is doing business at the old stand.
Flower thieves demolished the hand
some tulip bed in front of C. c. Ba-
ker's residence on West Sixth street
Saturday night. The bed contained
thirty tulips in full bloom, and all We're
taken.
This wind is responsible for the blight
of two young lives. They met on the
street yesterday just as some dust blew
in his eye and he winked She says
she was insulted and viii hear no ex-
PLANTATION
Young Lee Atherton, son Of State
Treasurer Anterior, IS receiving les
sons in sketching. stenography, boxing
and other accomplishments at the
hands of the clerks in the office of the
treasurer.
The asylum extension of the City
railway has been built as far as Knox's
creek in Auburndale. and the stone for
the bridge abutments is now being
hauled. The timbers for the bridge are
on the way from the east
Just before the probate judge left for
Beloit he was told that there are about
six women in town who are going
crazy over spiritualism and hypnotism-
Now we'd be in a fix if it wasn't fixed
so that Clerk J. H. Bevelle can hold in
sanity trials.
Deputy Sheriff Frank Leech arrests
nearly all those charged with insanity.
He believes in using strategy with them
instead of force. Saturday he pur-
suaded man to so to the asylum by
buying him a good dinner at restau-
rant.
Answers to many inquiries: The
cost OF the new state Journal build
ing viii be something over S1O.000-AIr
Feery's portion of the contract is s.. 500
The building-weather permitting-win
be completed by the latter part Of July.