The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-20
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Dick Cooley is sick and unable to
train for ball playing.
There are now twenty four men work
ing on the charity rock pile.
Assistant Attorney General GODDARD is
confined to his home with the grip.
There is one man in Topeka who is
not for Mckinley. He is cousin Joe"
The state house elevator has made
few trial trips and will soon be running
regularly.
II. s. Achenbach expects to travel to
w ashington and Baltimore on his bicycle
this summer
P. II. Butler. of Silver Lake, won sew
eral races at the New Orleans meeting
with his horses.
The county commissioners and the
poor commissioner visited BedwelPs hos
pital yesterday.
The pictures of the officers of the L
a W. will appear in a special edition of
NJ. K. Chesney's Kansas Cycler.
About a dozen out of town ministers
are attending the lectures by President
Gates at the Central Congregat
church.
Commissioner of ths Poor Hale some
times receives anonymous letters telling
him of frauds whom the county is sup
porting.
Judge Theodosius Botkin, of impeach-
ment fame, but who is now gaining
reputation as a temperance speaker, is
in the city.
Some unusually large specimens of
wild geese were brought to Topeka by
country sportsman this week and sold to
a local market.
The clergymen connected with Beth
any college and Grace cathedral hold
Episcopal services regularly at seven
different points.
Dean Harry Bodley, of Grace cathe-
dral, has been preaching twenty years.
He once started religious newspaper
which is still atiNe
Among thepeople who somatimes get
provisions from Poor Commissioners Hale
is former woman circus performer, re-
nowred in her day.
The piainest description of person
wanted which the sheriff's office has re-
ceived for months is of 10 year old boy
who wears No. 20 shoe.
J. E. Junkin, of the Sterling Bulletin,
says two kinds of punch were served at
the editorial banquet at Leavenworth.
They were red and white.
Ice about eight inches thick is being
cut on Soldier creek in large quantities,
and many of the ice houses about To-
peka are being filed with it.
Lawyers have already been retained
by medical college doctors to defend
them in the expected damage suits on
account of the grave robberies.
The state executive council was in
session yesterday afternoon figuring on
the kind of electric light fixtures to put
in the new rooms now being finished.
The friends and members of the R r .
Y NJ. G. A. gave tea to sixty persons
Monday night Several of the board of
managers were present and made ad-
dresses.
Prayer meeting at the First Congre-
gational church will be omitted this
evening to permit the members to attend
the lecture of President Gates at the
Central church.
Will Wads worth writes that it is fear
ed by the members of the "Alabama''
company the season will close suddenly.
Clement Bainbridge owes Frank Bangs,
the ranting @Col. Preston. $500, and he
has given two weeks notice.
! Circular and telegraphic descriptions
of Tony Smith, the important missing
witness in the Novels murder case, have
been sent to all officers in Missouri and
Tennessee, but Sheriff Kepley will not
hunt for him unless he gets clue.