The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-05
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

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One of J. NJ. Knights white hearse
horses died yesterday.
MarshalPs band will give its last
open air concert OF the season tomOr-
row.
The county horticultural society met
yesterday at the Coleman farm near
Menoken.
x-Policeman Hobson has turned up
in Topeka and says he did not intend to
run away.
The manufacture of big tin horns for
the campaign is occupying the atten-
ton of the timers.
A matinee of the home talent Uncle
Toms Cabin is being given this after
noon at the Grand.
A tennis tournament in singles is be-
ing held this afternoon on the courts at
Tenth and Fillmore streets.
The PopuIist state central commit
tee has refused to bill candidates for
fairs where admission is charged
The police force had its picture taken
yesterday afternoon by new firm
which has recently been established
here.
The young mems Republican club
will be organized this evening at the
office of Noble & Merriam, GIL Kansas
avenue.
Councilman Warner of the Fifth ward
is the permanent assignee of the To-
peka branch of the Columbus Buggy
company.
The county text book committee
which has been in session in Topeka
for two days, receives no pay. The
members are elected by the school
boards.
Luther Vollmar, the Garnett young
man who pleaded guilty to passing a
forged check for $12 on Jas. SprOat,
has been staken to the Hutchinson re-
fOrmatOry.
Police AIatron Thorpe askes donations
of school books of all kinds that can be
used in Topeka schools for children too
poor to buy. High school books of first
year are needed also
A man named Cook from Eskridge
was in Topeka yesterday to make ar
engagements for the entertainment of
so people from that place during reun-
ion and festival week.
Up at the state house yesterday in
making change one of the officials
passed a 80 cent piece with a hole in it
on a visitor. This is worse than re
pudiatiOn and dishOnor-r-r."
The board of county commissioners
will receive bids for supplying the
county with collins Tuesday. 1t now
has p on hand. F. H. Traver of North
Topeka has been official coffin maker.
United States Marshal Medley has
sent Paul Reese, a prisoner confined in
the military penitentiary, to the gov
eminent prisoners insane asylum at
Washington. He is hOpelessly insane.
Some bad boys got into the ticket
office at Athletic park and used the tel
ephOne to say bad things to certain
people. Manager Bayless has pulled
out the connecting plug at the central
station.
Somebody has suggested that the
name to be given the carnival crowd
of Friday night be 1.-The Mystic Merry
Makers" Kansas City people call
theirs the Kansas City KarnivaI
Krewe."
When little black Herb Jackson's
time was out at the city Jail for dis
guests, he was surprised to receive a
suit of clothes. Pete Callahan had Sc
cured it for the boy, and he walked
away proudly.
If anybody knows where that prom
ised hot spell is, let him keep it secret
About the only kind of a hat a man
can wear now is a black hat if he
cal preference.
Monday will be Labor Day, but Tope-
ka won't celebrate it for three weeks
City Jailer Hopkins doesn't care what
sort of food Nick Chiles feeds the pris-
Oners if he just don't drip grease on his
clean Office floor.
The cOlOred mems state convention
which met in Topeka Thursday. in its
resolutions declared in favor of a col
Ored newspaper in every town where
there were 500 cOlOred people. The en-
thuSiaStic editor should wait until the
800 colored people, declare for it, how
ever.
Mrs. Hattie Johnson, a Smith county
woman whose husband deserted her
after a few months, and whom neigh
bOrS sent to Topeka, was sent on to the
LeavenwOrth home for the friendless
by Police MatrOn Thorpe. She is 10
years old.