The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-16
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWs

Mrs. Sutton says that the FAN E'eStlVal
flower garden is increasing every day.
The base ball players now ride to and
from the games in an express wagon
Deputy County Attorney Galen Nichols.
who has been quite sick, is able to be up.
Sanitary Officer Fowler has furnigated
the last case of contagious disease in the
city.
Judge VIM. Thompson, who has been
holding court in Topeka this week has
gone home.
A preparatory service to communion
will be held this evening at Westminster
Presbyterian church.
County Clerk McCabe is no longer man
ager of the base ball team. He has been
replaced by J. S. Coe.
Deputy Constable W. x Williams has
resigned his position and is now connect
ed with the Immigra ton Land & Loan
company.
Frank Stitt, the well known transfer
man for the Topeka City railway, is a
happy man. A new daughter has arrived
at his home.
Miss Effie Hazen, daughter of Judge T..
T. Hazen, will be the queen in the opera
Cinderella" She will wear a robe of
brocaded blue and white.
Superintendent Hart of the reform
school says that he has not yet heard
from any base ball team willing to try
their fortunes with the reform school
team.
Francis Schrader, the man who wears
long hair and claims to be a healer, pass
ed through the city yesterday the Rock
Island westbound. He is a poor imita-
ton of Schlatter.
The demand for the story of "Cinderel-
La at the city library has been SO great
that both books have been out for some
time. Two hundred performers have been
gathering ideas.
Who We're those old soldiers who were
going to get up that Calithumpian band
to welcome Cy Leland when he gets off
the train to take his place pension
agent at Topeka?
Chas. Kleinhans, secretary of the To-
pel1a Commercial club, left Thursday for
New York and the east on a business and
pleasure trip. He expects to be gone
about two weeks.
A small blaze at 211 East Seventh street
called out the department at 6 o'clock
last evening. The fire started from a
gasoline stove and was extinguished
without much damage.
The members of the Bachelors club
will give a dance at the Wooden mill on
Monday night for the benefit of the Fall
Festival fund. Each member is supposed
to invite his friends. Tickets are so cents.
The proposition of President Street of
the water company to settle the trouble
with the city will be rejected at the next
council meeting. The councilmen rightly
think that there should be some conces-
sions in the rates to consumers.
Prof. Waldemars chorus which will
sing Tannhauser will not begin active
practice until in September. The solo
parts in the grand opera are being prac-
ticed now and the opera will be presented
in Topeka in the fall, fully staged.
S. ]. Bear, ex-recorder is in Washington
where he has his eye on an office. The
place which Mr.. Bear has decided will
be to his liking is national bank ex-
aIniner. Mr.. Bear has for two years been
in the employ of telephone company.
Police Matron Thorpe yesterday found a
family on Emmett street in Parkdale in
destitute circumstances. The husband
was sick with consumption, and the wife,
although SICK was washing clothes to
earn enough to feed her hungry children.
The coIored man, Robt. Lampkins, who
arrested and held by the police on
suspicion of being Thomas Clark, Kan
sas City murderer, was released A Kan
sas City detective came to Topeka yes
terday to identify the man, and he says
that the wrong man was arrested.
Secretary of State William Bush an
nounces that work will be commenced at
once the library department, which in
cIudes the upstairs of the entire south
wing of the state capitol. About SIC, 900
is available for the work at this time and
will be sufficient to put it in good shape
for occupancy.
The doctors are all doubling the au-
Of a
rus in Egypt containing the saying of
Jesus not heretofore published. One of
ct is not acceptable in his own country;
neither doth a physician work cures upon
them that know him.
A Buffalo paper says: cit will be sew
enteen years before we celebrate another
Fourth of July Sunday It will be
much longer than that before we do it
Chicago Times-Herald. Topeka man
says he never will do it again until after
he dies and goes to the place where they
have a Fourth of July celebration all the
time.
A. Young, a conductor the City rail-
way, living at 1705 Van Buren, street, was
robbed of IS in change Wednesday night.
The thief entered the house through one
of the rear windows and took the money
out of a shaving mug where it had been
hidden. Mr.. Young thinks the robbery
was committed about 2 o'clock in the
morning as he was awakened by a noise
at that time but did not pay any atten-
ton to it.
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