The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-14
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

w. Il. Dom Is now ouglnSSE a. hAS
county jail.
bakers wagon.
The school population of Shawnee
county is 16, 298.
There are now two juries in constant
attendance at the district court.
VIII Wadsworth is playing with "Ala-
bama" in Louisville. KY, this week.
Policemen are prohibited by the rules
from taking an active part in politics.
Ash Wednesday, the commencement of
Lent, falls on Wednesday of next week.
The nine year old daughter of J. B.
Larimer is seriously ill with scarlet
fever.
The new state house elevator will look
lonely RAINING up and down in a cage
intended for two
The man who sells comic valentines
will not be bothered by the small child
rem for year, now.
The county attorneys Office in the
new court house is fitted up mostly with
the old furniture.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. V. Greek. residing on
the West Sixth street road, are the
parents of boy.
c. II. Nettles has completed the trans
cript of the evidence in the Burlington
water works case.
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Stout of Topeka died at Kansas City
Wednesday night
Dr. H. W. Roby received $50 for
prize story recently published in St.
Louis medical journal.
Marshall's band may go to the Repub-
lican convention at St. Louis in June.
1t is being talked up.
The county commissioners have in
spected the county jail and approve of
Sheriff kepleY's improvements.
The four men who are to 60 to work on
the state house grounds are expected to
push the Transformation scene"
Andrew Baird, the recently appointed
state secretary of the Y. M. c. A. will
take charge of the work next Tuesday.
One of the men in the county all for
burglarizing the Howard store is covered
with wounds. He says he was hurt in the
mines.
A mission will be held at the Church
of the Assum ption the latter part of
Lent by two Passionist priests of He
boken, N. j.
most prominent thing on the state house
grounds next summer until the grass
gets good start.
Poor Commissioner Hale says the poor
will cost the county less this winter than
for three years. at least. He says the
pleasant weather did 1t.
The STATE JOURNALS circulation con-
tinues to increase, A gentleman in Aus
tralia was reading a copy last evening
on the opera house stage.
Topeka is being flooded with green
goods circulars again. Suckers are in
vited to do business by wire with Xxx. K.
King, Waukesha, Wis"
The meeting of the Populist state CEN
trail committee this evening will be be-
hind closed doors. There are IA mem,
! bers of the committee.
Some time in April the Elks will put
on an original farce comedy by Will
Haskell entitled The Country Circus"
| There will be ring scene.
Charles P Elliott will turn his new
! Boston theatre into a continuous perform
| ance house and is advertising for vaude-
vile artists and players.
President Foster of the board of police
commissioners says that nine discharged
Santa Fee shopmrn have applied for posi-
tions on the police force.
1t is said that the orator who will rep
resent Washbu in the state contest had
his Grafton copyrighted SO that he could
suppress the Reporter if it printed it.
The trustees of the Santa Fe Hospital
association mat yesterday afternoon for
the purpose of auditing the bills for
plumbing work on the new hospital
Congressman Charles Curtis tried his
first case before Justice of the Pc; ce il.
seph Reed. He defended a 1ecumseh
farmers son charged with burglary and
won.
Harry johnson and Fred Smith who
were arrested at Wichita charged with
helping in the Howard Burglary have
| been released. The evidence against
| them was not sufficient.
An Oakland trolley car ran into a
buggy on Second street yesterday after
noon. There was a man in the buggy
and it was upset out nothing was broken
and the man was not hurt.
Ex-Police Commissioner F. I. Bone
| brake says that frequently men who give
| indications of making the best police Of
ticers make fat failures. and it's SO in
everything else, newspaper reporting in
Guided.
1t is said that several students in a
neigh boring college petitioned the fac
ulty to buy keg of beer for the German
class in order that they might get the
| accent
State Senator w. E. Sterne and Mayor
Fellows called on their friends at the
court house yesterday, taking what things
| they could fiud. They took Charley Nc
| Cabe's tobacco, pipe, mucilage and other
things.
Anything labeled Lincoln ]. Carter
| will not have an audience in Topeka.
| Topeka people want good acting; they
| don't care for windstorms and shipwrecks
and sawmills. Nobody went to see the
"Defaulter" last night
Howell Jones, Jr., has three PETS
which, however gruesome they may ap-
pear to other people, he finds most en-
tertaining They are alligators, each
| about one foot in length. He has named
them Texas Bill" Louisiana Traveller"
| and 'Rastus