The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-28
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWS


Early apples are on the market.
The night blooming cereus season is
The wet weather has delayed the wheat
harvest.
This is the last week of the teachers
institute.
q Four Sunday drunks were arrested by
the police.
The state board of charities meets at
BeIoit today.
Work has been commenced on the post
office elevator.
The last criminal case on the district
court docket has been disposed of.
The city calnciI has arranged to pay
the men employed by the city next Fri
day.
Webb McNaH, superintendent of fnsur-
ance, spent Sunday at his home in Gay
lord.
W. o. Trainer will go to Chicago Sep
TENDER 1, where he will make his future
home.
H W. Newcomb will accompany the
Christian Endeavor excursion to San
Francisco.
Governor Leedy returned today from
Lawrence. He pays his fare on the rail
roads, too.
" iiA4dH Taylor SulEfp6I q 0leN6Iduu u
cycle to Charles Records at Great Falls,
Mont, last week
The windows in the court house are all
plate glass. Eight of them were broken
in the storm last week.
The fence around Athletic park is in a
badly dilapidated condition, the result of
the wind storm last week.
The county commissioners have made
the annual inspection of the county poor
farm and they found everything salts
factory.
Hayti Weatherby, incorrigible col
ored boy was convicted of burglary Sat
urday evening and will be sent to the re-
formatory.
The Rev. A. L. Reynolds will arrive in
the city this week and will begin his
duties as pastor of the Westminster Pres
byterian church next Sunday.
Attorney General Boyle will go to Kan
sas City tomorrow and with W. J. Stagg
will continue the examination of the
stock yards company's books.
Prof. N. W. Van Dyke. pianist of note
in connection with grand opera, is in the
city He will play this evening at Bat
man and Hatfield's, S21 Kansas avenue.
Johanna Barnes, the woman of deranged
mind has been taken back to Atohison by
be taken to the Osawatomte insane asy-
l1Tn.
The stream of people going to the
mountains for the summer is already
passing through Topeka. In one week To-
|pekans will be leaving in large num-
bers.
DR.. J. P. Raster, chief surgeon of the
Santa Fe. has been elected to the chair
of associate professor of railway surgery
at the University Medical college at Kan
sas City.
A sick and destitute old soldier who
has been helped by Police NIatron Thorpe
is now being cared for by the Grand
Army posts of the city. He lives in North
Topeka.
A large number of people who own
horses are apparently ignorant of the
city ordinances in regard to bicycles.
They WORT give a bicyclist half the road.
A bicyclist is required by the law to dis
mount if a horse is frightened at the
wheel in meeting it.
. Mrs. Florence Thatcher has returned to
this city from Wisconsin to spend the
summer with her parents. Mrs. Thatcher
has charge of the vocal department in
one of the Wisconsin colleges.
The executive council will hold the last
meeting of the month Wednesday. State
Superintendent Stryker stands pledged
before the people to demand the resigna-
ton of Railroad Commissioner LeweIling.
There must be session of court going
on somewhere in northwest Kansas. r.
w Turner, secretary of the state board
of railroad commissioners has not been in