The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-11-07

guess when she refused to assist US in
| Kansas this year
An Epworth league sub-district rally
was held yesterday at the Parfzdale NJ Z.
| church in which local leagues from nine
churches participated.
DR.. A. H. Thompson is a member Of the
| faculty Of the K c. Dental college and
goes to that city every Monday TO deliver
| lectures to the students
Atchison gets The Old Homestead'' this
week Topeka is getting better attrac-
the state, and more of them
Rev Mr.. Harlan of Atchison. is in To-
/ a proposition to become a state evangei-
! list for the Christian church
There are two new cases of scarlet
/ fever in the family of James A. Grubbs,
/ 1912 Van Buren, street. Mr.. Grubbs is a
conductor on the city railway.
The talk about abolishing the office of
vived- Now the Republicans are willing
/ to get along without the office
The plank walk on Lincoln street be-
! tween Eighth and Ninth has nearly an
! been carried away by residents Of Tennes-
/ seetOwn for use as kidding wood
/ The employees of the Topeka postofffce
! and United States pension office are just
now wondering what degree of stickitive-
4 ness the civil service law possesses.
After all the instructions some man in
I the Second ward cut his ballot up into
strips on election day and undertook to
vote the column he wanted to singly.
Louis Van Hook has resigned his posi-
! ton in the general auditors office of the
charge of his fathers farm near here
A Topeka young woman who lost on cleo
ton bet 70 q young man friend is so mad
about it that she hasn't spoken to him
since and won't Never bet with a wo-
man.
w. L. Crenshaw. formerly in the en-
plOy of the St. Louis & San Francisco
road at st. Louis. has taken a position in
the tax department of the Santa Fe in
There is an old Russian who lives in
North Topeka who makes a tour of Kan
sas avenue twice day and picks up CT
gar butts What do you suppose they
are used fOr2
A. NJ. Eye has resigned his position in
the office of the auditor of freight re-
ceipts Of the santa Fe and viii probably
take position with the Midland Terminal
railway in Denver.
The latest story is that the endless
chain" ballot was used to vote ignorant
Russians for Bryan and Leedy in the
sounds like a fake.
At a meeting yesterday of the state
penitentiary directors the output Of the
penltent1ary coal mines was awarded to
the Southwestern Fuel company of To-
peka at $1.16 per ton.
A. J. Ewart has traded his residence in
Potwin Place to Frank H. Foster for the
and the two families have moved into
their respective houses.
A Topeka man who watched the count
ing of the ballots in one precinct Tues
day night says that as a matter of cur
iosity he timed the counting Of one bal
lot 1t took eight minutes.
The green tumble weeds that were hung
up IN some OF the stores for decoration
during the Fall Festival have been left
there for the benefit of the flies. Tumble
weed is a good fly trap, 1t is said.
Ex-senator H. B. Kelly of Lawrence,
was in the city yesterday comforting with
Governor-eIect J. w. Leedy Mr.. Kelly
was member of the state board Of
charities under Governor Lewelling.
There is a car conductor in the. employ
says just to pass the time away. He has
children attending school, and also has
money. but wished to be employed
Oral Rulings who lost that kind of a
bet to VIII Davis. will give him ride in
a WheelbarroW from Fourth street to
Ninth street ana return on Kansas ave-
nue. on the night of the ratification.
George H Murray, representative of
Yale's Twelve Temptations'' was in the
city today arranging with the Santa Fe
passenger department for the transpor-
tation Of the company through Kansas.
The state meeting of the Z. S A viii
open at Representative han Monday even
ing and viii be addressed by several
prominent Kansas women, among them
Mrs. A. H. Horton and Mrs. A. W. Dana.
VIII Hubbard, who has been assisting
in taking election news at the Western
Scott. Hubbard is a swift operator He
has several times taken the full Assoc
ciated Press report
Old Richard Boyd. the guard of the
stone pile at the city jail, has been i'll this
week and unable to attend to his duties
He was injured in a ditch by the walls
caving in eight years ago, and was con-
siderably crippled by it.
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the Santa Fe coal mines in Kansas, viii
not move his office to rooms on Kansas
avenue as at first decided upon, but viii
continue to occupy the rooms in the
Santa Fe office building.
viii Griffith, the North Topeka hard
ware merchant. was thrown from a Wag-
on on East Sixth street about 8 o'clock
last night and his shoulder dislOcated. The
injury is not serious and he will be able
to be about in few days
Mack DOnnelly, who is now in the
county jail for shooting Osborn and
-11a
a result of the fight. Osborn started the
fight and Faulkner Joined in. Donnelly,
it seems. shot in self defense
The old stone plastered house that has
stood for 50 many years at 40 Quincy
Knowles, who owns it. 1t stood there be-
fore the war and was at one time used
as sleeping quarters by soldiers MI
there
A Topeka reformer advocates the the
Ory OF appointing thorough hotel pro
prietOr to take charge of the running of
sioians Ie1-ofe f11eiI Whole firne to treat
ing the patients At present DR.. East
man has to spend over half his time in
the management of the institution.
The American Dramatic company which
plays at the Crawford this week at cheap
prices put on She in a most spectacular
manner last night ana barring one or Two
accidents II was cOnsldereu very good by
tie audience. 1t takes lots OF nerve for a
10-cent company to tackle She but this
one had the scenery and the rest of it.
The meeting of the Academy of AIedf-
cine and Surgery next Monday night win
be interesting to persons outside of the
medical profession. In addition to the
paper to be read by DR. MCLAUGHLIN on
How to Preserve Life Until Three Score
Years and Ten is Reached Dr. Coicord
viii read a paper along the same line en-
titled The Ebbs and Floods of Vitality
There is q case of diphtheria in the fam
lily of Horace Wilkes. 2021 Van Buren,
street Also in the families of ". H.
Caldwell S25 North Harrison street. and
S. @. Palmer. g1S North Topeka avenue.
AT the last meeting of the lodge, the
Ancient Order of Pyramids decided to
give monthly dances during the winter on
the third Wednesday Of each month.
Professor Stryker Of Great Bend the
newly elected superintendent of instruc-
ton. returned to his home from this city
yesterday afternoon and viii take an
after-campaign rest