The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-07
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWS

SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWS
City Physician NJ R. Mitchell drives
| Clydesdale horse.
The state live stock sanitary commits
sion is in session.
The supreme court is attended by
| large crown of lawyers this week.
]. Harvey Firth, one of the leading
| lawyers in Emporia, is in the city
| A crowd of bfcycIists are in active train
| ing for the races at the fair grounds Sat
urday.
The false work of the new bridge which
was threatened by high water is out of
| danger.
Probate Judge Dolman has removed
Mrs Louisa K. Vawter as Administrative
of ]. D. Vawter.
There was a small fire last evening in
| barn at COZ North Monroe street. The
| damage small.
| Politicians say that it is difficult to
| pick the winner in any of the contests
! for county offices.
Paul Torrington promises to reveal the
| identity of LORNA just after the Carnival
festivities Friday night of Fall Festival.
| President Baker of the Topeka City
railway is enthusiast in photography.
/
Anna Hare has filed suit for divorce
| from Thomas Hare. She says that he had
had another wife when they were mar
ried.
Charles NJ. Irwin of Wichita, chairman
of the division racing board of the L. A.
w, was in the city yesterday official
business.
1t is probable that the state tennis tour
nament will be held at Emporia this sum-
mer. Several Topeka players will enter
| in the contests.
In the five years J. H. Squires has been
a member of the board of education he
| has attended all but two of the regular
monthly meetings.
hundred dollars year. Divorce suits are
| filed and then the parties make up and
| the suits dismissed.
Sheriff Kepley says he thinks the Popu-
| lists and Democrats will come to a salts
factory agreement fusion at the con-
ventiOn to be held July II.
Charles Pattison of the Kansas cream
cry, is manager of the Abilene base ball
| team which opens with Topeka series of
games tomorrow afternoon at Athletic
park.
Chas. B. Paddock, old Washburn
student, passed through the city to his
home at Wichita. This year he was grad.
uated from law school at Ann Arbor,
Mich.
J. NJ. Allen of Erie, who wanted to be
a member of the state board of railroad
commissioners, now seeks the chairman
ship of the Populist state committee to
be vacated by Chairman Breidenthal.
On account of sickness at home, the
Rev. A. NJ. Reynolds was unable to be-
gin his duties as pastor of Westminster
EOToc To- 10 will
probably occupy the pulpit next Sunday.
Topeka admits that the Queens Jubilee
drew quite crowd to London, but init
mates that she will do something he Self
in the crowd business when the time for
her Fall Festival arrives.-Salina Record.
Miss Julia J. Spillane, who travels
through Kansas representing the Cycling
West of Denver, one of the most progress
sfve cycling papers in the west, has gone
to Salina after a few days sojourn in To-
peka.
Chairman Gault of the Republican coun-
ty central committee says he was opposed
to the plan to shut out Silver Republi-
cans from voting at the primary, but be-
lieves that the judges will challenge very
few.
Nit whites Emporia base ball team
has disbanded. They weren't strong
enough for other teams played with. Will
hite says he lost $500 the venture. To-
peka played Emporia this week and
beat them q to 1.
The two Mormon elders, Messrs. Daley
and Miner, spoke to a large crowd last
night at the corner of Seventh and Kan
sas avenue. They declared emphatically
that polygamy had been abolished by the
Mormons everywhere.
The headquarters for the street force
w. soon be moved to the city property
at the south approach to the bridge. The
Sherman house is to be moved to the
vacant lot the east side of Kansas
avenue and it will be used for store
house.
The city ordinances require that all dogs
running at large this time of the year
shall be muzzled. There is a provision in
the ordinance which allows any citizen
shooting any dog running at large during
the summer months which has not a
| muzzle on.
A Topeka man who was known among
| in the city and absolutely opposed to all
| leisure, has recently married a lady on
| short acquaintance and he is now the
| happiest man imaginable.
| This evening at 220 West Twenty-frst
| street, Miss Media Kennedy and Mr..
! Samuel L. Deck will be married. The oc-
| casion will be participated in by Scotch
and German friends of the bride and
| groom-to-be- Mr.. Deck has been appoint
| ed engineer at the Topeka insane asylum
/ to take charge August L.