The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-20

| was not tuo pOOy Oh JONI W.
| HillmOu; clothes didn't fit body; pants
| short; coat sleeve too short; did not no.
| tice any scars on the legs; found large
mole upon the backbone. and a small one
on the hip. Witness testified that he was
in the army and had charge of the small
| pox hospital, and that he had had much
experience in vaccination, and would say
| that the vaccine sores on the arm of the
corpse were fourteen to fifteen days old.
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.
The interest in the Hillmon trial is in
creasing.
There are 8, 500 people registered for
the city election.
Marshalps band will give another pop
! ular price concert in April
President Foster, of the board of police
commissioners, has new hat
People are still talking about the
books used in the city schools.
Spring house cleaning, spring moving
| and spring painting are at hand.
Superintendent Hinckley says there
will be six bids on the new Melan bridge.
There are now ffty-six prisoners in
the county Jail. That is pretty near the
maximum.
When Judge Williams laughs he can
be heard in every room on the top floor Of
bno I0OSEaI DuIlOln&.
The court house reception will prob
ably be given as soon as the electric
light fixtures are all in.
George A. Kile, young man who at
tends the Potwin school, has grown some
peanuts and cotton at his home
County Superintendent ]. W. Stout
will hold the first examination of county
teachers at his Office on April %.
The registration books are being we'll
scattered about town in order to admit of
good registration for the city elections.
The street force is busy filling West
street, at Eighth street. The deep ravine
is being brought to a level with the street.
judge Hazen has ordered Bort Irdin
to pay Edna Irdin $29 in thirty days and
$40 month until she can get divorce
1t was a Kansas City paper that ran
the recent list of Methodist conference
appointments on the sporting page by
mistake
George W. Crane is making the re-
visions in the Excelsior readers which he
promised he would make if he won in
this fight.
Governor Morrill, has appointed A. P.
Riddle regent of the State Agricultural
college in place of w. D. Street whose
term expires April 1.
Governor Morrill, will lecture at Ham
ILL, DEOWH county, GU bnS SOLn on --OOOQ
Old Times" Can it be possible this is
a resubmission speech?
The question of whether Lincoln post
will occupy the new room at the court
house, will be decided at the meeting of
the post tomorrow evening.
A group of young men last night were
discussing the probable coolest spot on
earth. A majority of them agreed on
the Kansas avenue bridge.
Owing to the state high school contest,
the contest between the two local high
school societies will not be held on the
evening of April was intended.
Governor Morrill, has committed the
sentence of George Garrison of Johnson
county to four years. de was convicted
of theft and sentenced to six years in the
penitentiarv.
A colored woman from Quincy, ILL
nois, who bears the name OF Mrs. John
A. Logan, is lecturiug through Kansas
in the interest of coIored people and will
visit Topeka soon.
The second examination for county
diplomas to be held since the state ex-
aiming board, of which ]. ". Stout is
chairman, was appointed, will take place
| all over the state on April and A.
Many poor people Mrs. Thorpe has
helped in her position as police matron
expect her to help them even after they
have moved away. She got request
from Atchison for clothing yesterday.
Clifford c. Baker has traded some
property in Martin s. Dennis addition
for the property at 203 West Sixth street.
He will not improve his new property at
present, though he will in the near
future.
One of the best collections of sketches,
pen and ink and pencil, in this city, is
that of Assistant State Treasurer George
Seward. He has any number of them
adjoining the wall in his Office at the
state house.
J. W. Moore. secretary of the Live
Stock Sanitary board, says there is no
truth in the report that he intends to
start an administration paper at Marion.
He says he is a personal friend of Ed.
Hoch, of the Marion Record.
Mayor Fellows as administrators of the
estate of Philip Zimmerman, has com
menced suit at Kansas City againsx VIM
Zimmerman for $4,000 which he is sup
posed to have, that rightfully belongs to
the estate of his brother, Philip.
A Topeka man of thirty-six recently
married girl of eighteen and good
old lady who was greatly shocked at it
exclaimed: "Why, just think; when she
| is young woman of thir:y-fve he will
| be an old man of seventy" aud the good
old soul was in earnest about il, too.
The lot numbers ON the streets running
east and west are not the same as the
numbers of the buildings. The dividing
line for the former is Topeka avenue
which was formerly intended as the
| center of the town, east and west; but
the schemers forgot part of their trick;
they didn't get a bridge at Topeka
| avenue.
| If the hair is falling out and turning
/ gray, the glands of the skin need stimu-
| IAtlng and color food, and the best rem