The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-05
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWS

A. H Sharum has moved MS store anu
There are no less than twenty cand1-
dates for constable
Mr.. and Mrs. John Parkinson OF III
Adams street, are the parents OF BOY
Poor Commissioner Hale now gives out
bread to charity applicants. The bread IS
donated by the hotels.
The State Temperance union has invited
George W. Balm. q Kentucky temperance
lecturer, to speak in Kansas
George Wolff purchased promising
young PAGER in Kansas this week, SAID
to be capable of making record of PIP.
The Committee of Fifteen which was
scheduled to meet last night failed to
come to time and the meeting was post
poned
r. ]. Cornell and w. E. Thrapp have ar,
rived in Topeka, having been transIerrea
from the Santa Fe passenger department
in Chicago
Shawnee camp Modern woodmen, cele-
brated its second anniversary last nlSnt-
J. B. Hibben.
Tohmas NJ. Hows, Wednesday evening, al
the home of Mr.. and Mrs, E. ]. Bayzer
at 1927 Harrison street
Police Matron Thorpe says that there
are sixty children in Topeka who have
had to stop school lately because they
did not have shoes to wear.
petition is being circulated asking
Geo. J. Lepper, a merchant at 10 Morth
Branner, to be a candidate for councilman
from the Second Ward. He is Republi-
can.
The Throop Hotel drug store is no more.
It was purchased by l. Blackman and the
fixtures will be moved out and the room
turned into a hotel writing and reading
room.
In two eastbound trains this morning
on the Santa Fe were forty-three cars
of oranges and three cars of celery from
California for Detroit Philadelphia, New
York and Boston
news agent named Mcdowell. who
drives about delivering papers in buggy,
Kesson for leaving his horse standing on
the street without hitching it. He put up
IS for his appearance this afternoon.
Patrolman Rucker, the new eolored oftl-
Ger recently appointed, made his first ar
rest last night. He and Patrolman Muir
ply caught Jas. Moss and Bert R1chard-
son, colored, stealing coal from a coal
car near the Missouri Pacific railroad de-
pot. They were taken to the police sta
ton where they We're locked up.
Lottie Farris. the 1S-year-old wife of w
J. Farris, lies i'll at the Charity hospital,
fit of temporary insanity in North To-
peka plunged her wrists through pane
herself in the river. 1t is probable that
she will be taken to the insane asylum.
The Volunteers of America have decided
TO move further up town. They will va
cate their hall at 312 Kansas avenue on
Saturday. The new quarters will be in
the Keith building between Eighth and
Ninth streets. in the room formerly occu-
pied by the state silver headquarters. The
ing.
Rev. Charles NJ Sheldon. as chairman of
the committee from the Ministerial union
yesterday called upon City Attorney Bird
to assist in framing an ordinance which
win prohibit Sunday performances This
matter should be submitted TO the people
of Topeka for vote They are the ones
to decide what they want.
Mrs. L. o. Case, as chairman of a COM
mittee from the Equal Suffrage associa-
ton yesterday requested the Republican
city central committee to place the names
of Mrs. D. I. Furbeck, Mrs. P. b Steele
and Mrs. Lizzie B. Hamrick on the tickets
at the Republican primaries for positions
of members OF the board of education.
The committee allowed the names of Mrs.
Hamrick and Mrs: Steele to be placed but
refused Mrs. Furbeck. claiming that she
did not have any right in a Republican
primary. Her husband is prominent
Populist. Perhaps Mrs. Furbeck is a Re
publican.
Special Officer Roberts, who was doing
duty in the lower part of the city We'd
nesday night had chase after a chicken
thief. He was walking through an alley
when he discovered man coming out of
a yard carrying a suspicious looking sack
He called to him to halt, but this only
served to make him run. Roberts ran as
taSt as his legs would carry him, but his
victim was too swift for him. One by one
the chickens fell out of the sack. Roberts
soon gave up the chase and made at
tempt to catch the three chickens which
had been liberated. They too were good
runners, SO he returned empty handed
and out of breath.