The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-04
SNAP SHOTS ar HOME NEWS

She was on the street this morning;
She'll be there all the day;
It's certain for some months at least
That she's arrived to stay.
She's seen on every corner,
It's everywhere she goes
The winter maid or maiden
With the red, red nose. 4. B.
There is no barefoot dance in "Trilby."
What has become of Mrs. Annie
Diggs?
The new state house elevator is to be
run by steam.
J5ab Af6lvane is confined to his home
with an injured foot.
The fCors of the now court house
have a cement surface.
There is $IS2,0OO in the general rev.
enue fund of the state.
Mayor Fellows is better, but still un-
able to leave his house.
The new bridge bonds are printed in
green with brown backs.
There was a balance of $751;, s1Z75 in
the state treasury January 1.
The state of Kansas now owns almost
$7,O00,UO0 worth of bonds.
Mr.. G. W. Todd is confined to his home
1871 Lincoln street by sickness.
The east side kindergarten opens
Monday at 935 East Sixth street.
Governor Morrill, has not yet made any
changes in the Wichita police board.
The earnings of the state penitentiary
for December amounted to over $1,000.
AIr and Mrs. Sam McFarren of 422
Madison street are the parents of a boy.
Judge o. A. Bassatt. of Ellsworth. has
had leg amputated at Christ hospital.
1t is said that Atchison's r C. Meade
with whiskers looks not unlike Svengali-
The final estimate for the completion
of the state house is now placed at $685.
COO
"Charley's Aunt" will be here next
week 1t plays tonight in Carthage,
Mo.
w. Cox will erect $3.50 addition to
his residence on lots 81 and 50 Lake
street.
Sergeant Jennings mercury only got
down to six degrees above zero last
month.
There is a case of diphtheria at the
residence of Frank E. Wear. 1859 Topeka
avenue.
'sCorinne" in Hendrich Hudson is com
ing this way. She appears at Wichita
next week.
On account of its New Years shoot,
the West Side Gun club did not shoot
yesterday.
The bank commissioner turned $61580
into the state treasury during the month
of December.
George NJ, Stone is at Leavenworth
painting a portrait of the widow of the
late Bishop Thomas.
The dramatic papers say that Cecil
Spooner is making big hit in Pennsyl-
vania and New York.
1t will cost $56, 900 to finish. ready to
be occupied, thirty-five unfurnished
rooms in the state house.
The weather records for Topeka show
that Jan 10 has been the coolest average
day of each year since 1881.
Prof. Leib is sick with an acute attack
of heart trouble, having been taken i'll
in Kansas City early in the week.
Harry Tracy, stenographer to United
States District Attorney Perry, lives on a
farm twelve miles west of Topeka.
It is said now that a Tecumseh man
feels hurt because he was sighted in the
makeup of the Venezuelan commission.
If a man can only get position as
receiver of a railroad for year or two,
he can enjoy leisure for the rest of his
life.
There are two prize fighters in town
who talk awful" about each other until
they meet, and then they are as friendly
as kittens.
An old theater goer says that abso-
lutely not single new play has appeared
in Topeka this season with the exec ption
of Trilby.
The New York papers speak approx
ingly OF Hal Reid and his play Human
Hearts," which was seen in Topeka
earlier in the season.
Mr.. Burdge and Mr. KepIey were seen
together yesterday afternoon, but it was
on back street and two large muscular
men were with them.
That Atchison may not be outdone by
Wichita, an Atchison man has proposed
to make a journey around the world
without changing his shirt
"Vindicated," melodrama by o. S.
TAYLOR and Fl. E. Merritt, of Topeka, has
been sold for $3.50 1t was produced by
the a 0. U. w. short time ago.
1t is estimated that in addition tosthe
state house levy provided for by the last
legislature, but $4,000 additional will be
needed TO complete the state house.
Clement Bainbridge will shelve ''Ala-
bama" after this season and put on a new
play. He says everyone has seen ALA
bama." Balm bridge wants to put Lotto
Bowes back in his company next year.
The Equal Suffrage association has in
charge the case of a Mrs. Day an aged
widow who lives in a room given her by
L. G.. Sain. Mrs. May is destitute. The
suffrage women say she is member of
the Methodist church.
airs. Elizabeth Wardall has been made
county president of the Equal Suffrage
association by State President Kate Ad-
Olson at the request of the members of
the association here.
Joseph Goats, the young colored man
who is charged with having forged John
Sutherin's name to a check on the Bank
of Topeka for $2T15 and passed it on
Joseph D. Seymore, will have his prelim-
mary hearing before Justice Guy next
Wednesday morning. He is in Jail.
VIM, Brown, the young colored man
who was recentlY fined So in nolica