The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-08
SNAP SHOTS AT HoMENEWs

Walter Wilder will return to New York
today
A new commission firm has opened on
This has been a hard week on accident
insurance companies.
There were some people who attempted
to sleigh ride last night.
The Mid-Continent (Gormly's of bygone
days. band now has A members
Lieutenant Pattison of Battery B is
drill master at the reform school
The warm weather has spoiled the state
house grounds as a skating pond
The meetings of the state board of ag-
riculture will be held at Hamilton hall
Professor Black will give a reading
from Shakespeare King Henry ", part
The Methodist Sunday school, beginning
next Sunday will be held at 2:3O in the aft
ernoon.
W. ]. Black has returned from Denver
Ex-Governor Iewelling lives at the
Throop.
Route Agent James F. Lytle of the
Wells Fargo Express company is in the
city on business.
The Topeka Ralston Health club holds
an open meeting this evening at the Phys
icul Culture rooms
The new term of the district court will
begin next Tuesday. Monday the entire
docket will be called.
Secretary Coburn's book on Cow Gull
ture" is being used as text book in sew
eral agricultural colleges.
Fred L. Douglass of the Fifth ward has
announced that he viii be a candidate Tor
councilman at the primaries
Archie Barnes went to I.eavenworth
this afternoon to attend a party tonight
| given by Captain and Mrs. Irons
Edwin Bourke the tramp who was ar
| rested by the police while in alcoholic
| delerium, was fined $25 by Police Judge
| Ferry.
1t was Baihn John Coyne who suggest
| ed giving County Attorney Stafford some
! thing 20 remind him of his term in the
! court house.
Secretary Adams of the Pure Food show
| is sending letters to all the retail grocers
| in 10 a inv them be in Topeka
! on January %
one law suit has been occupying the at
| tention of the district court for three
| days. 1t is a court case and Judge Hazen
win decide it.
Judge Hazen has been on the bench OF
| the Shawnee county district court for
nearly four years. And he has two more
years to serve.
| j. A. PAUL of Ellsworth county, who
| has been appointed clerk in the office
of the secretary of state arrived in To-
| peka yesterday.
! has been filed by Jacob Shaddinger
against p. T. Rhodes for $500 on a mort
gage given in 1857.
citation has bought lot 235 Chestnut stree,
! Metslzer's third addition, OF Albert o.
At almost any hour during the day the
| crowd of politicians and applicants for
| positions extends from the Dutton house
door into the street.
Nora NJ and Sherman T. Allen have
sold to H. S. Diven for 81, 40o. lot $50 and
| south half of $50 Fillmore street, Martin
| & Dennis addition
The programmes for the Populist F1am-
beau club inaugural ball are out They
/ are gorgeous. The dances are named for
| the state OfficerS-elect-
Isaiah w Powell of Osi.a'oosa. aged p
years, has been granted License to wee
| Imogene Humbert. aged Il years, daugh-
| ter of w l. Humbert-
Chaplain ]. Morehead. of the Leaven-
worth penitentiary, is visiting his. son, Or
j. l.. Morehead, who is a physician at the
Topeka insane asylum
| There is but one murder case to come
! before the district court at the new term
| It is that of Dick Justis, for the killing
/ of Milton Harmon Thanksgiving day
| John Yardley, administrator of Eliza
| beth Yardley has begun a foreclosure