The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-23
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There were three trolley car parties
last evening.
Ten county conventions will be held
next Saturday.
Tomorrow is ladies' free day at the
base ball game.
Was it really cooler last night or was
it only bluff?
Justice Furry is wearing a gold bug
on his coat lapel.
There is a man in Topeka selling life
sized pictures of Mckinley.
Ex-sherif H. E. Bush is dangerously
sick at his home near Auburn.
A Mckinley club is to be organized
at Highland Park Saturday evening.
The ladies already have several thou
sand flowers made for Flora's FAN
Festival.
Mrs. Van Cleave's night blooming
cereus bIoomed agin at 1872 Polk street
last night.
George Stansfeld and Seymour Hey
man are planning a trip to Denver on
their wheels.
A Marion man has written a poem
booming Gen. J. c. Caldwell for United
States senator.
Seventeen members of the sunfower
lodge of WOOdmen initiated 50 candi-
dates at Burlingame last night.
Governor Morrill, has pardoned VIM
HOag, a Lawrence man, who was sent
to the reformatory for burglary.
Marshalrs full band has been en-
gaged to play a the Atchison corn car
nivaI in the middle of September.
The men in Topeka who know the
most about the financial question re-
fuse to discuss it on the street corners.
J. G. Fletcher is erecting a frame
dwelling house a 375 (old number)
Madison street. It viii cost $500.
VIM. Horacez has a plan to swing In
dian clubs with fire streaming from the
ends in the Fail Festival hambeau pa
rades.
A Topeka firm got a letter from
country customer yesterday addressed
BLANK & Co., Telephone rs, Topeka,
Kansas"
A Topeka man who intended to take
an outing in Colorado spent the money
set aside for that purpose in beautify-
ing his lawn.
Frank Patterson and E. L. Pounds.
members of the T. A. A. w. of this
city, are touring Colorado on their BIZ
cycles.
Police Judge L. S. Ferry is having
such a pleasant visit in Pennsylvania
that he will not return to this city till
August 10.
The Topeka Equal Suffrage associa-
ton will not only have carriage in the
Floral Parade but a float in the big
Fall Festival Parade also.
A Topeka base ball enthusiast sug-
gests that two of the National league
clubs be secured to play a series of
three games during the Fall Festival
week.
Two or three Topeka mothers who
were over anxious to get their daugh-
tiers into amy old society are now ap-
pealing to the police to help keep them
at home.
Louis Rusk, the jointist, was to have
been tried yesterday in police court but
the case had to be continued because
the chief of police had not subpoenaed
the witnesses.
NJ E. Barry has sued John Barry and
others on a note for $500 in the district
court and wants to foreclose on lots
124 and 126 on Chandler street, in Nets
ker's addition.
George Betters, the young man who
walked to Topeka at the command of
spirit voices. has had the portion of de-
pressed skull removed. He has entire
" recovered from the operation.
James Benner a timer of Valley
Falls, who accidentally shot muriatic
acid into his left eye while soldering
came to Topeka yesterday for treat
ment The sight Of the eye is destroy
ed.
Hiatt Weatherby and Frank Ellis, two
bad colored boys, stole carpenter tools
a short time ago, but yesterday in Pc
lice court they each swore that the
other had done the stealing. The judge
discharged them
VIII Swan. a 10-year-old boy with a
queer shaped head, stole a bottle of
Russia shoe polish yesterday at the To-
peka Cash Dry Goods store. Judge
Furry fined him SO in police court, and
told him that for the next offense he
would send him to the reform school.
The State Journal is sorry TO lose any
subscriptions of the Republican Flam-
beau club, for political reasons; there
was. however, a net gain of "a subscrib-
ers to the Journals subscription list
today. We guess we shall have to
keep right along in the same course,
hoping the fambeau subscribers who
stopped will see the error of their way
before long.