The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-06
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEwS

Lieutenant Governor Harvey is in Law
The Retail Grocers' association meets
tonight.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Quinton are the
parents of daughter
This is the time of year when all lodges
elect and install officers
Idlewild addition has been vacated by
the county commissioners.
A. A. Hurd, solicitor of the, Santa Fe,
has returned from a visit in Chicago
Mr.. George H. Wallace is seriously i'll
at his home. 927 North Kansas avenue
A smart boy yesterday used a sail to
propel him on his skates in the Capitol
Mr. De Forrest Jetmore attended an old
fashioned corn husking bee at Alma yes
terday.
1t is about time that something should
be done to clean the ice and snow off the
sidewalks.
rison street, are the parents of girl born
yesterday.
The colored people of North Topeka will
send delegates to the state temperance
Thee. Hindmarsh has been elected to
the first chair in lodge S. Order of Sc
Harry seabrook has taken position
in the office of the auditor OF passenger
receipts of the Santa Fe-
Frank J. Dale of Elmporia; is in the city:
He says he came not TO seek an office but
TO transact private business
The Topeka society of Elks is planning
to give a big ball at Hamilton hall a few
Gays DSlOIt lliS opening VI Lent
The south school at Oakland has been
dismissed on account of the prevalence Of
measles. There are Is cases in one room.
Thomas w Martin. Governor Leedy's
newsboy.' is distributing cards announc-
ing himself as a candidate for page in the
The reception to be given by the Co
lumbia club will occur tomorrow night
instead of the evening of January y, as
previously stated.
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs. w. L
Fox of 1916 Lincoln street, died of rheu-
TT1eatiG nrf1ox he h1Jrf al
were held this afternoon.
Thomas Hicks. an old colored man liv-
ing at the corner Of Crane and Madison on
shoulder yesterday afternoon.
The Topeka Ralston Health club will
Physical Culture rooms on jackson street
instead of at the Y. NJ. c. A. rooms,
Sneriff Kepley had a difficult time to
have the county attorney of johnson
charged with the murder of 12-year-old
Annabel Williams
w J. Black. assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Santa Fe. returned to-
day from Denver. where he attended
meeting of the transmissouri committee
of the Western Passenger association.
Samuel Dolman has gone to western
Kansas with gang of % men and their
ing reservoirs for the Rock island rail
road which viii require several weeks for
completion
A portion of the office now occupied by
Mr.. w. ]. Black, in the Santa Fe gem
eraI office building. is being partitioned
Mr. Avery Turner the newly appointed
assistant general superintendent
The B street Baptist choir has elected
the following officers for the coming year:
w. T. Turner. president; Frank Findley.
vice Pr9sident; Caleb i Barke er; treasurer;
Bledsow. secretary; Amanda Finley,
chorister.
himself of the opinion that Nick Chiles
cannot be prosecuted by the county for
opening If he could, says the county at
torney, then all hotel proprietors in the
done much.
Mrs Willis Norton and Mrs T. I.
Thompson, while sleighriding yesterday.
barely escaped without injury The sleigh
was overturned at the corner of Fourth
and Harrison streets and the ladies We're
thrown out upon the pavement. The
horse ran away but was caught near
All the wooden rosettes of the electric
light fixtures of the. Santa Fe general
office building are being replaced with
made at the instance of the fire marshal
as wooden rosettes are. considered dam
gerous. RosetteS the little rounded
castings in which the electric wires
connected
An old lady was walking on a slippery
sidewalk the other day She came TO a
place that was unusually slick. She hest
TO rescue her, at the same time another
man from an office building came
10 nef assistance. Both men offered their
assistance and all three started 20 cross
the dangerous place. They went ten feet.
then all fell "Humphl 1 could have done
this we'll by myself. said the lady.
Some time ago w. II. Neddo and VIM.
P Lienard of Rossville. were arrested at
the instigaticn of Farmer lack Reiser. who
claimed that they had burgIarfzed his
barn and stolen two sets of harness. Al
their preliminary hearing Gelen Nichols
defended them and secured an acouittaf.
Now the two men have filed damage suits
in the Shawnee county district court ask
far
whom they hold liable. Neddo asks S1O,-
$50 damages. and Lienard SO. 700. OF these
sums each asks SO. 900 damages for mem
tai anguish" and the other for attorney
fees and losses in business. The case was
tried before Justice J. T. Hopkins. which
resulted in the acquittal. and ii is on this
decision that he Suits are based