The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-06
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

trip to k1nSley.
The river is high and the fishermen
are taking a rest.
It was nice thing to have a whole
Sunday to rest up in.
Wheelmen found roads in the coun-
try very rough yesterday
The man who spent SIS for fireworks
wishes today he had it back.
Fx-PoIiceman Gaines, who is in the
penitentiary is carrying mail.
Ingleside denies that it has given up
charity work for the summer.
The only races in sight for Topeka
this year are those this week
The regular monthly meeting of the
city council will be held tonight
There is no Fourth of July to spoil
this week and it viii probably not rain.
There was a rainbow visible in the
western horizon just before dusk last
night.
The hay crop at Athletic park should
be cut. F7ielders are in danger of get
ting lost.
J. w Morrow's hack was demolished
in a runaway in North Topeka Satur-
day evening.
a Topeka Democrat has already TAX
en- several bets from Republicans that
Mckinley will be elected
A bright young Topeka lawyer was
insuIted when asked to make a Fourth
of July address to the asylum inmates.
E. A Prescott, Frank Petree and E.
Z. Cowan of the Topeka insane asylum
win visit the state penitentiary this
week.
Fred Waters, who addressed Sc
lect audience at Kansas City on the
Fourth of July, returned home this
morning.
The supreme court meets tomorrow.
tt will not hold q session in August as
the justices take their vacation during
that month.
Charles n. Nelson, superintendent of
the Topeka Athletic club, was at one
time the champion Oarsman of Roch-
ester, n. Y.
duty, is sick Saturday night a patrol.
man was called upon to take his place
for the night
If the county commissioners do not
soon improve the court house grounds
a private subscription for that purpose
should be taken up.
Prof T. ". Ellis of Washburn col
lege, left yesterday for AnsOnia, Conn,
to spend the summer He will return
to the college September 1.
Sunday" the smallest horse in the
of E. B. Guild of this city, is now owned
by the Sells-F'orepaugh circus
Nearly all the Topeka principals Sc
cured their transportation free to Buff
falo by getting up parties to attend the
National Educational association
The State Journal March was played
by request at NarshaI's band concert
Saturday evening and was received
with more applause than any other Sc
lection.
Tim Donovan made the men and
boys stop shooting off fireworks and
hrecrackers after midnight Saturday
night. Most of the noise was on kan
sas avenue.
Students entering the Kansas ATedi-
cal college will hereafter be required
to show a high school certificate or take
the examinat ton before the county ex-
aiming board.
Topeka chapter No. 5, R. A. NJ, will
confer the Royal Arch degree on a
class of candidates this evening. This
Will be the last initiation until after
the hot weather is over.
Will Farrell will pay the doctor bill
and the concurrent expenses caused
by his shooting the thumb off of Bud
Brown Saturday and the state warrant
win not be served against him.
John Marshall says the State Jour
nal March is going to be a good one
to march with. At present the band
scores are written on sheets of paper
too large to be used in marching.
A co1ored man went into the John D
Knox orchard about dusk last evening
to gather apples, leaving his horse
hitched to a cart standing in the road
The horse ran away, badly wrecking
the cart
The Lincoln street goat had a rare
feast yesterday. He came along near
a place where the Fourth had been eel
ebrated, and devoured the remnants
of three rockets, six roman candles and
several punches of frecrackers.
A young man on the rear platform
of an electric car tried to throw can
non frecracker into passing buggy
Saturday night, but the fuse was short,
and his hand was split open to the
bone by the explosion. Served him
right.
The fire department was called out
twice on Saturday evening Electric
wires at the Golden Eagle clothing
house, and at the KimbalI piano house
set fire to the wood work near the front
doors. The damage in each case was
trihing.
A real raccoon appeared at the back
door of S15 Monroe street last evening
and scratched on the screen. Mrs. A.
B. Pomeroy, who lives there, once own
ed raccoon for a pet and opened the
door. The animal went in and is now
boxed up.
Tt Needs Attention.