The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-13
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.


Very few women attend the Rillmon
! trial.
Dan Wyatt is the bailif at the trial of
the Hilimon case.
The man who planted potatoes a week
ago is repenting today.
The polls at the Republican city pri-
mary tomorrow open at 2 p. m.
The Commercial club is having trouble
in finding suitable quarters.
The 7. A. A. bowling alleys, billiard
and pool tables are crowded every even
ing, now.
Topeka sportsmen have been notified
that wild ducks are numerous IN south
ern Kansas.
w. b. Hornaday of Topeka wants to
be adjutant general of the Kansas G. A.
K. next year
1t is strongly denied that Col. Jeltz
writes for these readers the people are
fussing about.
The docket for the April torn of the
district court contains 474 cases, seven
more than last term.
Elk Sheriff David N. Burdge has been
more nervous than Frank Novels at the
latter's trial for murder.
When the Novels murder trial is ended
there will be no more murder cases in
sight in Shawnee county.
The amateurs have had the town this
week. There have been half dozen
amateur dramatic productions.
Judge Williams who is presiding at
the Hillmon trial does not allow any time
to be wasted by attorneys over legal
bubbles.
MEMS hats are getting homelier every
year" remarked a man in front of a win
dow today. EYES," said his companion,
"Mine isl
Otis HuRgate, chairman of the Repub-
lican city central committee, is taking
boxing lessons and has developed won
derful muscle.
A show which has a "Trilby bur-
lesque" is lowering on Topeka's borders.
1t isn't ashamed of it and even adver-
tises the fact.
1t is to be hoped that the split in the
Salvation Army will not extend to To-
peka. One bass drum on the streets in
the evening is enough.
Lent does not seem to have diminished
the number of dances nor increased the
number of good attractions at the opera
house. This is unusual.
The songs which were sung in "a
Breezy Time" last evening were SO old
in Topeka that the Grand opera house
orchestra knew the music by heart.
E. B. Fitz, of Fitz g. Webster's
"Breezy Time" company, attracted much
attention on his bicycle yesterday after
noon. He weighs about 275 pounds.
Whether Novels is Mrs Matsou's muir.
derer or not, he isn't safe to be at large.
Novels is the kind of creature that it is
a great pity dijn'r die the day of its
birth.
Prof. O. c. Hill has the grippe. He
will please walk over to his repertoire
which he defines in his reader as va
place where anything is kept" and get
the quinine.
1t is said that Accused Murderer Novels
has escaped from paying tho penalty of
his other crimes, burglaries, and mur-
der, by duplicating other people, as he
tried to do in the Matson murder.
There is young lawyer in Topeka who
walked up one morning recently and
found that gray spot as large as dol
lar had appeared in his hair; and he had
not been scared by anything, either.
This should be a very uulucky day.
1t is Friday and the thirteenth of the
month, and you have the chance to see
the new moon which appears tonight,
over the left shoulder.
Three young women stood for fifteen
minutes yesterday afternoon ia front of
the state house elevator shaft waiting for
a ride before they discovered that the car
wasn't running. Governor Morrill, will
not get their vote.
Sousa's band plays at Wichita and
Hutchinson but skips Topeka. This is
another of the ''good things" which To-
peka town of $4,000 people is not get
ting this season. Topeka is badly in
need of a theatrical Moses.