The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-18
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWS

+. J.. cage IS a TaQlcal Tree SILVER al
vocate.
The rain spoiled two band concerts
last night.
The Kansas medical college will
open Sept. %
H. c. Lang, the painter, is seriously
i'll with typhoid fever.
A pOrtico is being built in front of
the Grand Opera House.
There will be Grange picnic at
Berryton, in this county, next Fri
day.
Some of the Topeka women say the
curfew age should be put at IS instead
of 16.
Edna May and Cecil spooner will star
together next season in a new play by
Hal Reid.
DR.. Roblee has succeeded F. c. Gu
gel temporarily as physical director of
the z. NJ. c. A.
a baby was born in ParkdaIe night
before last to a family that hadn't
a rag to wrap it in.
Mrs. H. c. Fellow and Mrs. Thorpe
have established Mothers Mission
at Fourth and Polk streets
=. Prof Eli G. Foster is to deliver
lecture on the money question at Sill
yer Lake next Friday evening.
Il am just &c." said a sweet Topeka
girl today. I wish were the one
said a bright young man who heard
her.
JR Elliott of Topeka who whipped
Elder Green at Perry, was fined %
cents and costs by a Perry justice of
the peace.
Weather Observer Jennings always
takes a photograph of any peculiar for
nation of clouds.
It, The people living at WanaIn r.;I.
led with petty thieves.
DR.. c. A. MCGUIRE leaves tomorrow
for Galveston and from that point by
steamer to New York city.
Rev. NJ. c. Cooper has resigned as
n Sn0nn6 T,aT
Presbyterian church in South Topeka.
Miss Dora Cady, general secretary of
the Y. w c. A at Omaha, and for
merly state secretary of Kansas, is
visiting here.
The Y W. c. A will give a lawn so
cial on F. Benefits lawn, at Eighth
and Buchanan streets, next Wednes-
day evening.
Hereafter all the state property in the
state house will be invoiced and kept
track Of by the secretary of state to
prevent its loss.
John Gibbons and Samuel Emmons
each were fined SIS by the police judge
yesterday for being drunk. They were
committed to Jail
A Topeka man who attends the base
ball games, rolls his chewing gum in
piece of paper during the game, and
uses it afterward.
The picnic which the Westminster
Presbyterian church was to have given
today in Knox's grove, has been post
poned indefinitely
The silver convention in town this
week was the most orderly political
convention Kansas ever saw. There
was no drinking.
W. S. Grover. who was cut by color
ed toughs in North Topeka a few days
ago, is said to be slightly deranged in
mind. He acts queerly.
J. T. Benton of Oklahoma, who killed
his Wife's father in a fight over a claim
four years ago, has been pardoned from
the Kansas penitentiary.
Anton Maduska, Leavenworth's chief
of police, has written the Topeka So
cial Purity League that the curfew or
dinance works well there.
Miss Laura Radford, state secretary
of the Y. w G. A, who has been at
tending the summer Bible school at
Lake Geneva, has returned.
Governor Clicks report shows that
more money was paid for pensions in
the fiscal year 1896 than in 1895. Still
there are fewer old soldiers.
There is some excitement in the
neighborhood of Watson, in this coun-
ty, because some one sold beer at a
Woodmen picnic at that place.
Judge ]. F: Lee has served out his
sentence on the city stone pile and has
been released. He says he is going to
Guthrie, Ok, where he has a sister.
Mrs. r E. Chesney of Topeka has
been made rnatrOn of the new Masonic
home at Wichita which will open Aug
ust 1, and be dedicated September 10.
At 7:30 this evening the Flower Fes-
tiVal car ride will start from the trans
fer station. There will be choice of
three routes at Is cents for the round
| trip.
c. H. Ward came up from Junction
City with the team to root for them. He
is a little man about 90 years old, but
he can make more noise than a fog
| horn.
The house of John w. Smith, at 1913
North Van Buren, street, was damaged
! by fire yesterday morning to the
amount of $500. The cause is IN
| known.
| A sign on a vacant house near the
| Santa Feshops urges the renting of the
] building for the reason that 1T is too
| hot to walk across the town" good
| reason, too.
! Geo. Hargreaves. the IS year old boy
/ whose right eye was removed a week
| ago, the result of injuries received on
| the Fourth of July, is now wearing an
! artificial eye.
J DR.. G. J. Mulvane has decided not to
| build his new building on the corner
| of Sixth and Jackson streets this sum
/ mer. The building will be erected ear
| " next spring.
| The tramps are working a new game
| They claim they came to town to get
I work on the new bridge. There are
| plenty of respectable poor at home in
| need of work.
The trustees of Washburn college
] viii ANNOUNCE the name Of the new