The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-08

mains inside of sc days, the time given
in the ordinance for the work to be
commenced.
PARSONS-Rev. w. E. Harlow, who
has been pastor of the Christian church
of this city for over three years, has
rendered his resignation to take effect
June l. Rev. Harlow has fully decided
to enter the evangelical work again,
and after June 1 will conduct a series of
meetings in Texas, Iowa and Chicago
FIT. SCOTT. W. Simmons, an old
gentleman who lived at 529 North Ma
tfonaI avenue, dropped dead while sit
ting on the front porch of a house on
South Main street about 1890 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon. The cause of death
was heart failure. Mr. Simmons was 60
years old and had lived here for four
years.
ATCHISON-The board of education
has decided to go back to the old meth
cd OF holding commencement exercises.
The idea of employing a lecturer will
be abandoned and the graduates will
hold the exercises at the theater. The
class this year will be composed of Is
graduates, five of whom will be boys.
WELLINGTON-Th city council last
night passed an ordinance abohshing
the office of night marshal. The fee and
ing the duties and fixing the salary of
the night marshal, but when that sec
tlon was read during the attempted
passage of the bill it was stricken out
with common accord.
PITTSBURG- Tuesday, April 10,
the PreSbytery of PittSburg will meet
at Beulah At the same time the an
sionary society will take place Quite a
number of delegates are expected. Rev.
-SWagger of ChetOpa will hold services
in the evening, and open Presbytery,
which will be continued Wednesday.
LEAVENWORTH-T new brick
buildings will be erected at once on the
lots at the northwest corner of Fourth
and Chuctaw streets. The plans for
these buildings are completed and the
work of building will be commenced
are owned by Mrs. Chapman. She has
arranged to have a building 36X90 feet
erected on the corner for an eastern
firm that proposes to locate branch of
their business here.
INDEPENDENCE half dozen
boys of ages ranging from IA to 16 years
and sons of respectable people, were in
toxicated and making night hideous
with profanity and other hard language
Sunday night about the time that
from church. Later Nightwatchman
Wine arrested four of them at the San
ia Fe depot and locked them up and
this morning they were released.
PARSONS-J. Milton Turner. the well
known colored lawyer, of st. Louis, ar
the case of the Freedmen. He has
from the Indian Territory, where he has
been for several weeks past, and says
that he succeeded in collecting about
S12 600 of the fees due him for handling
the case of the Freedmen. He has
had this case for the past Is years and
says that he has collected as high as
$104 900 in fees from this case at one
time.
PARSONS-Charles H. Rulhauf was
arrested here Tuesday charged with at
tempting to pass a Freedman"s check
for $685.. 25, payable to the Bank of Fall
River. A dispatch from the latter place
stated that the checks were stolen. When
confronted with the telegram from Fall
River, the fellow handed out three more
checks, the aggregate amount of which
was $754.96, claiming that he found them
in joint at Coffeyville yesterday morn
ing He afterwards told the officers
that he had traded some stock and re-
ceived the checks in payment for the
stock.
TRIAL, A PTCKPOCKE FIT.