The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-14

| of his Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska
Amusement company to the National
/ Amusement company.
Mail carriers are no longer allowed to
take money from people along their
routes to pay postage with. You must
stamp your letter yourself.
1t is told of a Topeka man that when
he married he took his wife's name. He
has now applied for a divorce and will
ask for his maiden name.
A. J. Arnold, who is said to be author
ity next to Col. Dan Wyatt, says the
weather we had last week is the kind
that makes 'posum meat sweet.
The Topeka independents will
practice base ball this evening on the
vacant lot at Ninth and Polk streets at
6 O'Clock The public is invited.
The Garden City kid" Drum corps
of %, has said it will be at the Fall Fes-
tival and Reunion. It and the post
there will come in a special car.
The Homeopathic night school began
business Friday night with fifteen
members-students. It will not meet
agin till after the Fall Festival.
The daughter of a Topeka Populist
refused TO accept a young man this
week unless he would promise their en-
gagement ring should be of silver.
Kansas City's professional team, was
short time ago pitcher of the Cofey-
vile team that played here last week.
The Chicago Festival orchestra ad-
vertised to contain As members, has
been booked to appear at the Grand
Opera House on the evening of Octo-
Der 5.
1t has rained more this summer, the
old Inhabitants say, than it has in Kan
have to do to produce rain is point your
finger at it.
Otis Hungate is suffering from ''nerv-
Gus prostration'' caused by being lock-
ed in the inner cage with the prisoners
at the county jail who threatened to
kangaroo him.
Prof. Frank Nelson of Lindsborg, the
Terrible Swede'' who captured the
last meeting of the Kansas Day club
with his oratory, will speak in Topeka
next Saturday night.
1t has been discovered that the Chi
nese rode bicycles 1000 years ago. This
proves that it wasn't the Chinese that
built the Chinese wall. The rest of the
world built it to keep them in.
r. v. Wilson, who has been working
for a big lumber company at Texar~
kama, Ark, is at home till after cleo
ton. He says the political excitement
has ruined business and stopped it.
Look here said a barber this morn
ing to two money question friends, eff
you fellows are going to fight get out of
here. This floor was scrubbed yester-
day and I don't want blood spilled on
it,
Marshau's band will give an espec-
tally good concert at Hamilton hall to-
night for the benefit of the Fall Festi-
val music fund. Tickets are 50 cents
and more than 100 have already been
sold.
The Kansas avenue bridge will be
moved on immense rollers a span at a
time by electric power. The date is
Saturday night next. Procure your
standing room in advance and get a
little ahead on sleep.
J. Edward Connolly the curly haired
lieutenant of Sanders army that was
here more than two years ago during
the COxey craze and whom the girls ad-
mtred so much, has turned up on the
Leavenworth rock pile.
Bert Moriarty of ST. Paul, Neosho
county, is here visiting his uncle, John
Coyne, of the district court He says
large number of people in his county
are intending to come to Topeka's Re
union and Festival
Bert Williams, the colored boy who
was 1 Ill over Dy an electric car several
weeks ago and one leg SO badly crushed
that amputation was necessary, has
been discharged from the Santa Fe hos
pital entirely recovered.
Mrs. NJ. A. Cornelius of Twentieth
street was elected national chaplain of
the WOman's Kelley league at the
meeting at Indianapolis last week and
her picture was printed in the Banner
of Gold, the official organ
Miss Vera Wallace of North Topeka.
who went to St. Louis some time ago
to enter the training school for officers
Of the Salvation Army, returned sick
and is at home now She will go back
as soon as she is well enough
Mrs. L. c. Rice, who formerly lived
at 405 Polk street, died at Colorado
Springs Thursday, and will be buried
there Sunday. Her two sons, Malvern
and Irwin, who work in the Santa Fe
offices, have gone to the funeral
The Kansas State Horticultural So
ciety will hold its thirteenth annual
meeting in the Hall of Representatives
in the state capitol in Topeka, Kan, on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. the
9Th, 10th and 18th of December, 1896.
All the crowds who go to hear the
candidate you are opposed to, 20 out
of curiosity, don't they? And all who
go to hear your candidate, go because
of their deep enthusiasm for him.
Now, honest. this is fact, isn't it?
Colored Lawyer A. NJ Thomas and
Police Judge Ferry came together YER
bally in police court Saturday evening.
Thomas insisted on pleading not guilty
for Jim HightOwer, who had already
pleaded guilty to carrying a big dirk
Simon Greenspan says the Chester
field has received requests from six or
eight different parties numbering from
so to 100 asking rates during the Fail
Festival. Rooms have been reserved