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

w. W H Linninger Of the Union Paeiae
The city council win meet tomorrow
evening to canvass the vote of the city
The asylum dance tonight will be at
tended by two or three small parties from
The April term of the United States
/ district court will open in this city next
Monday.
W. S. .Ruggles left today for Youngs-
civil engineer.
WIN Bowen is at St, Marys looking af-
! ter the practice of q. local physician who
has gone east.
The state board of railroad assessors
| land this week
! E. W. Benedict has sold c. J. Evans,
six acres in Oakland near the old wool
en- mill for $1,000.
The number of coal wagons is decreas-
ing while the tours of the ice wagons are
/ becoming more regular.
r. C. Manley, chief consul of the L. A.
/ W, IN Kansas, Is in the city. He will re-
+ turn to Lawrence today.
/ b T Lewis will hereafter sign the San
been done by W. B. Jansen.
The officers and employees of the court
Z house are preparing to challenge the state
| house to a game base ball.
The revival meeting at the Friends
I church began this morning and will con-
/ tinue every evening indefinitely.
Commissioner of Elections Yount was
installed as president of Council No. 2
II
It only costs $3.50 per light to light the
| city during the month of March. That's
what municipal ownership does.
w A Snyder says that the law requir-
ing the appointment of jury commission
ers was abolished by the last legislature.
The legislative bribery investigation
committee was in session during yester-
/ day afternoon, but one was admitted.
The members of the board of manager
I of the state soldiers home at Dodge City
came IN this morning to see the COVER
] the Grand viii open next Wednesday
night for Nellie McHenry in her new
/ farce.
Justice Furry has closed the doors of
| his court and they will not be reopened
/ takes charge.
Governor Leedy today appointed Rich
ard Miller, Frank Pettingil and Robert
enworth county.
The :. only thing hi IT. regret about my
Wneei says W. = + RelcnenDacn, IS
the fact that I can't ride it down the
aisle at church.
T. s Williams will soon be named as
sanitary officer. The force has not been
increased since Mayor Fellows discharged
Officer John Allen.
The revival exercises at the United
presbyterian church, conducted by Mrs:
Edith l. Peake, the retired actress, viii
close next Sunday night.
Another installment of blue grass seed
was sown on the north side of the state
house grounds yesterday, in time to re-
ceiVe the full benefit of the rain.
Populist lawyers are mad because In
surance Commissioner Webb McNan en-
ployed A B. Quinton, a Republican at
torney to help in the insurance case.
The county commissioners have granted
the request of the Kansas Holiness union
meeting place for two weeks next July.
The next meeting. of the executive coun-
CT VIII De held April Il at which the
kind. size and price of diagonal walks in
the state house grounds will be settled.
Mrs. Hattie Topping. the old woman
cinity of the brickyards yesterday morn
ing. has been adjudged insane and will be
sent to the poor farm.
Red Laird has been released from the
Topeka asylum. where he was sent sew
to the use of cocaine.
Artist George. NJ. Stone has gone to
LeaVenWOrth where he will paint two
portraits for Paul Haven. the banker. He
has just completed a fine portrait of
Miss Mckinney daughter of Mrs. Joshua |
Martin. has returned from HOlton to at
with pieurisy Miss McKinneS has been
studying biography at Holton.
Mrs. Sylvia Addison, the colored woman |
hold goods from the residence of Fl. A. !
Heath, is not, IN jail. Attorney w. I. |
Jamison signed her bond for $500.
The old stone house in Highland Park |
evening was a station on the underground /
quarters for John Brown and his men,
Ex-Patrolman Jack King came over |
from LeavenWOrth yesterday to testify in 1
a case in the district court. Jack is now /
a guard at the state penitentiary, a Job /
which pays better than that of patrol |
man.
F. M. Croy. a Chicago travelling man |
purchased the house at the corner of /
Shawnee and Willow avenues in Potwin /
home there.
Mrs. Jennie A J. Miller. yesterday re- |
ported to Chief Steele that she had lost /
her pocket book on Kansas avenue some /
where between Second and Tenth streets /
She said it contained $3.50 in money and |
storage check
David R. Jones has filed suit for divorce /
in the district court from his wife Nettie /
B. Jones' As his chief ground for sep /
aration. Jones states that he was COM |
PEELED to prepare his own meals because !
of the absence from home of his wife.
JaiIer Jones says that at least six COM /
plants day are filed with him by resi- |
dents who say that their neighbors allow /
ordinance against it, said he, and they
it myself
A practice of thieves lately about the
railroad yards is to unscrew the brass
cars as they stand side-tracked. This
makes the brake useless and it is not US
uauy discovered until the car is coupled |
In a train.
The police commissioners are consider
ing the ACCESSIBILITY of buying new drop
harness for the patrol wagon team. IN
case of an emergency call considera bic
time is wasted in putting the old draught /
harness on the horses and hitching them
to the wagon
County Attorney Jetmore and Attorney
Ensminger had a tilt yesterday in the
district court while the former was adj
dressing a jury. Mr.. Jetmore replied to
the jury. 20, well, he gets mad easily |
Now he'll get worse than that before I
get through talking
Big frankie, Wallace, who was ar
rested on South Jefferson street Tues |
day afternoon and lodged in jail after a
nerce struggle, was yesterday fined SO by
Police Judge Atchison- Detective Can /
ron's arm where she bit it. is quite sore |
and he suffers considerable pain from it,
By reason of a law passed by the LAST |