The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-14
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWS

l.
Plum and peach trees are already in
bloom.
There are at present thirty-two inmates
at the county poor farm.
This evening 3 free musical recital will
be given at WaShburn college
County Treasurer Stahl yesterday gave
IS TO the Salvation Army hospital fund.
City Jailer Jones is the oldest man on
the Topeka police force. He IS 81 years of
age.
The Kansas Bible institute is to be held
at Washburn college from May 10 to May
at Westminster Presby terrain church to-
day.
The tennis season is here and men are
busy laying out new grounds and repair
ing old ones.
There are but five patients at the Sal
walton Army hospital There may be nj
teen by tomorrow.
Dry goods merchants say that the April
trade is nearly double of that of last year
for the same month.
The newly appointed jury commission
erS of Shawnee county were sworn In
yesterday afternoon.
Rev Michael Burnha-m of St. Louis win
Washburn this year
The Barber company has refused & f9 re-
street without extra pay.
The Silver Debating club is still alive.
A meeting will be held in the old court
house tomorrow evening.
The Committee of Fifteen will make
final arrangements TO attend the Chanute
encampment tomorrow evening
S. S. Reynolds, q gold bug Democrat.
has written a. letter scolding David Over
11lyer because he favors free silver.
d. B. Jones. the sexton of the Topeka
cemetery, has been released from the
county jail, having furnished his $50 bond.
Morris Gould. who used to carry a Jour
nal route, now makes $500 a month as an
notwithstanding writer in Kansas City, Mo.
Dr. O'Leary gave the first of q series
of lectures on health last evening at
TT-,v,, leon hall Nl1eaVa
ance.
Mrs Peake, the actress evangelist, win
close her meetings in Topeka on Friday
evening at the United Presbyterian
church.
Some one has stolen Major Anderson's
endorsements for pension agent. A little
thing like that will make little difference
with the major.
Mrs Thorpe says that she is gratifed
to see that the coIOred people of the city
are beginning to take better care of their
sick and destitute.
The Topeka railway work train is kept
busy every day now distributing cinders
along the line to be tamped around ties
in the rOadbed.
Policeman BlumenStOck, who was dis
charged this week, gave up good posi-
ton in the Santa Fe shops TO take place
on the police force
At present the work of the Associated
Charities Is being done through the agen-
cy of Ingleside. The district visitors re-
port to Miss Mendum at 1ngleside-
Jack NIcAuHffe, the lightweight cham
pion pugilist of the world, Will give a
House in this city next Saturday night
A. F. Poole, who was sent to the state
penitentiary. from Topeka for chicken
stealing and was pardOned by Governor
Morrill, is now holding a good position in
Kansas City, Mo.
1t is rurnored that a well-znown young
married IS now working for $50 month
Six members were initiated into the
Woodmen last night.
The black flag of despair the east
wing Of the state. house has broken tts
rope. The next thing the executive coun-
ell ought to buy is a smoke consumer for
that horrible chimney.
There is a very bad hole in the asphalt
pavement on the west side of Kansas
avenue between Eighth and Ninth
streets. 1t is 50 deep as to be menace
to Wheelmen and horses.
Chief of Police Steele yesterday took
the incorrigib1e girl. Barbara Archer, to
the Industrial school at Beloit. Police
not secure 2. pass to go on.
There is a baby boy, six weeks old, with
health, in charge of Police Matron Thorpe.
The child is homeless and the police mat
ron would like to place it in some good
home.
John Ambrose Knight, an old soldier,
60 years of age, was adjudged insane by
noon and VIII be sent to tf1e Topeka asy>
lum. Knights relatives asked that he
be committed.
asylum, died yesterday afternoon OF epl-
lepsy. At the request of relatives he viii
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of the city. Stepnais home was in Bige-
low, Marshall county.
Nick Chiles the colored hotel keeper,
says that he fled bid with the board of
police commissioners to furnish food to
the city prisoners at cents a meal, and
that in spite of this they let the contract
to Ben Walker at g. cents per meal
Rev. Father Leary, pastor of the Cath
olic church of Chapman, Kan, will de- |
liver lecture THE Great Issues of
the Civil War; before the Columbus club
in this city the evening of April p.
Father Leary was a chaplain in the I'm
ion army during the civil war.
Application was made to the Salvation
Army hospital for an aged man who is
sick at 924 Kansas avenue. Upon jnves-
tigation it was found that the man had |
measles He was refused admission, but
DR.. Agnes Mckee Wallace, who has
charge of the hospital, is attending him !
free of charge
The county commissioners and several
mem bers of the Committee of Fifteen |
visited the fair grounds yesterday after |
noon for the purpose of determining the |
repairs necessary to be made by the COM
mittee. as result of the enc2Tnp1nent |
last fall. The grounds will not be leased
by the commissioners until these repairs
are made.
Weather Observer Jennings will not
have telephone in his office in the Co