The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-01
SNAP sHoTs AT HOME NEWS.

'Palmer's" Trilby is to play at Law.
renee at 81 per seat.
The state university at Lawrence opens
Tuesday, January z.
/ Irving /. Scott has Joined the l. A. w.
He is lumber 1889.
Ex-Policeman Gaines has disguised
himself with beard.
Secretary of state Edwards was in
Kansas City yesterday.
One Topeka undertaken says he had
261 funerals last year.
A gold fish will live six weeks sealed
up in an air-tight bottle.
The banks are all closed today, as New
Years is legal holiday.
"The stuff's Off is the latest expression
Tor New Years resolution.
Mount Olive M. Z. church, colored,
held New Years services today.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Troup of sgt jackson
street are the parents of son born Mon
day.
Rev. R. L McNabb, of Topeka, organ
lied the first Epworth Leag in
Bennett R. Wheeler has returned from
Boston. where he has spent the past two
weeks.
Under Sheriff Lucas and Deputy Leech
will each be paid $40 month by Sheriff
Kepley.
The man who went to the box Office of
a theater and asked for a scatter his dog
was given the check, & 9.
Ed Howe writes a long review of
''Trilby," in the Atchison Globe and spells
it "Svengalia" every time.
Part of the sheriff's party liked the
penitentiary, or Leavenworth, SO we'll
that they stayed over day.
Novels attorneys say all they want is
an early trial next term with or without
Tony Smith, they don't care.
Real estate is almost as cheap as horses
A Topeka man was offered a six-room
house and lot yesterday for $75.
A Topeka Wholesale house increased
its force of travelling men today by two
men. The old year was prosperous.
Col. c. K. Holiday has returned from
New York, where he has been attending
q meeting of the Santa Fe directors.
There has been less complaint about
the work done by City Scavenger John
Haisch than anyone the city has ever
| had.
The members of the Cooper college
quartette. which is to sing in Topeka,
! played here with the football team in the
fall
Clint Watson, the present superiutend-
ent of the stone yard at the county Jail,
says that it is better job than being
! jailer.
The supreme court is expected to
! hand down its decision in the Hudson
Snow state printer case Saturday, Janu-
airy IL.
A thunderstruck druggist finally
! guessed today that woman who asked
for a perfume syringe" wanted an
atomizer
Two Bell telephones are being put in
! on College Hill this week, one at the
rcac Of 4
| o. F. Sawyer's.
There is said to be a joint with car
pets on the floor and pictures on the
walls on Kansas avenue upstairs between
Fifth and Sixth streets
w. F. Rightmire. D. Shelton and J. D.
! Shively have started an immigration So
] ciety and are arranging honeseekers'
| excursion to Arkansas.
Judge Grover says of the fourteen
| prisoners taken to the penitentiary by
| Sheriff Burdge, not one of them had any
preliminary hearing in his court
Gospel meetings will be held at the
| Ladies' Library hall on Kansas avenue,
United Brethren church, every night
this week. S. c. Coblentz is pastor.
B. F. Dun of Wichita, A. W. Cooley of
the Indian Territory and F. E. Davis of
Atchison, are here closing up the bust
ness of the year of the Wear Coal com
pany.
License Collector Kinsland discovered
a pool room nnder the sold shot tower"
! on Quincy street and he compelled Chas.
| billiard, who runs the place, to pay a H.
cense.
Judge Hazen will hear the applica-
ton of NJ. E Lowe, accused grave rob-
| Der, for release from the county Jail on
habeas corpus Thursday morning at 10
| o'clock.
| n.-.1 IT - ella ia =: Al =.
| district court against John r. Price and
| Joab Mulvane, administrator of r. R
i Price, for $4,000 loaned to the Prices on
| April 10, 1885.
A scheme which is being worked in
| other cities and which some Of the police
favor here is to make tramps pound
rocks an hour or two for a nights lodg-
| ing and breakfast
People who shoot ball cartridges in
revolvers on New Years day should be
| suppressed. A bullet went through a
window in the Capital hotel last night,
but fortunately hit no one.
Charley Sampson sold the diminutive
| Brazilian horse Domingo for $500 to E
| B. Guild, who made his son a Christmas
present of the animal. Sampson says
the horse business is all right with him.
Judge D. c. Metsker, who is visiting
in Topeka, said if he had been leadin 2
the anti Leland forces he would have
just gone ahead without saying anything
about it and have elected anti-Leland
delegates.
E, n. Gums wife has left him and is
now suing him for divorce. She says he
| drove her from the home on December
10. They have been married since jan
uary 8, 1888. Mr.. Gum is the well
known lawyer VIII lives at 1885 North
Jackson street, and this is his second
wife.
meeting will be held at Pierce's ad-
! i,1et-s1,1ath c,E 1a;t