The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

John F. McAIanus returned last night
from Meriden.
The jury in the district court will be
discharged today.
Mrs. E. n. Stevenson returned yester-
day from Chicago.
Marshans band is practicing the music
for the annual concert.
A. Maxfeld of Minneola has been COM
missioned notary public.
The Mid-Continent band will give con-
cert at Hamilton hall on December Is
Councilmen Drew and Elliott have gone
to Texas to attend the Houston festival
Typhus fever at the reform school is
just about as probable as bubonic plague.
Major T. J. Anderson is confined to his
home with attack of sciatic rheuma-
tism.
Otto Kuehne and Charles Wolff have
gone to Houston to attend the festival
there.
Little Mildred Kepley is much better
and there is now little doubt of her re-
cOvery.
Mrs. Mary a. Cornelius of Twentieth
and Kansas avenue is seriously i'll with
pneumonia.
Thirty Masons of Holton will attend the
reunion of Sloan lodge in this city to-
morrow night.
W. J. Bond leads in the T. A A duelz>
pin tournament with average of s4A
for ten games.
The state does more business in issuing
commissions to notary publics than in any
other one line.
The tenth annual meeting of the Kan>
sas Farmers Alliance will be held in To-
peka on January and 6.
A damage case against the city is be-
ing tried in the district court. Mrs. Eliza
beth Myers is the plaintiff.
E. NJ. Duncan, travelling passenger
agent of the Rock Island. is in northern
Kansas on official business.
Mr.. John Hodge. master car builder of
the Santa Fe, has returned after Il visit
with his brother in Wisconsin.
Cadet Lumbey of the Salvation Army
left yesterday for Kansas City, where ne
will be stationed in the future.
The thirteenth annual reunion of the
Sloan lodge of Masons will be held at
the Masonic temple tomorrow night.
Mayor Fellows has signed the new water
rate ordinance and it will become a law
as soon it is published in the Journal
The auditorium of the Crawford thea
ter will be beautifed for the three en-
gaSements this week by the arrangement
of palms.
Mr.. J. D. Brusel of the car service de-
partment of the Santa Fe has gone TO
Hammond, Ind, to attend the wedding
of his sister.
A civil suit against the First National
bank of Hiawatha has occupied the time
of the United States circuit court for
nearly a week.
judd Coe, gang foreman in the Santa
Fe machine shops, has returned to work
after 4 weeks illness at the hospital. the
result of a friendly wrestling bout.
Glenn FairchId struck town yesterday
and worked the newspaper men who are
ont onto his conversational tendencies
with story about a special session.
H. A Keefer of Leavenworth is a can,
didate for the place on the railroad board
which he expects to be vacated by W. F.
billiard. Mr.. Keefer is member of the
legislature.
Mr.. J. S. Hobson. engineer Of signals cf
the Santa Fe, and Mrs. Hobson left yes
terday afternoon for Welland. Ont. with
the remains Of Mrs. J. Taylor. Mrs. Hob
sons mother.
The National hotel lobby is taxed to
its utmost capacity to accommodate the
crowd of bidders and others interested in
the contracts to be awarded by the state
board of charities
Konstantine von Rengarten, the Rus
walking around the world, will deliver
a lecture this evening at Turner garden.
He has walked SO far 12,5s5 miles.
The mother of Rev. f. r. Dlttus of San
Francisco. Cal. lies very i'll at 1888 Clay
street Rev. Mr.. Dittus will be remem-
bered as the man who addressed the
Christian Endeavor state convention here
last summer.
= lap-robe and whip were stolen from
Dr. C. P. Howard's buggy in front of his
residence. at 1908 Lincoln street. last even
minutes. When he went to his buggy
the robe and whip were missing.
Dick Rodgers of this city has been dele
gated by the state university faculty as
a monitor to watch the university boys go
on the glee and banjo club trip during the
holidays Two monitors were appointed,
whose duty it is to keep the chancellor
informed regarding any misbehavior of
the boys. The question now is. who is
going to keep the monitors straight?
Yesterday the executive committee of
the Interstate Literary society met anG
made the arrangements for the annual
meeting of the society in Topeka Decem>
Der 29 and 60. At the meeting yesterday
were H. Sawyer. Topeka; Miss May Lewis.
Atchison: Miss c. NJ. LanGston, Lawrence,
and Pro C. n. Grisham, Kansas City.
The society's membership is composed OF
colored people who represent the literary
societies in Kansas and Missouri.
The Union Pacific