The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-09
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


George NJ. Stone is planning a John
Brown picture.
Mrs. DR.. H. A. Warner is seriously i'll
with neuralgia of the stomach.
Kansas university plays Nebraska uni
versity league foot ball Saturday at Lin
coin.
DR.. J. P. Kaster, chief surgeon of the
Santa Fe, has returned after a visit in
Albuquerque, N. NJ.
The new pension board has been organ
lied and will make its first pension ex-
aminations tomorrow.
Webster Street has been appointed chief
justice of Arizona He is a brother-in-
law of c. J. Brown.
Some Shawnee county people are trad
ing apples for potatoes. barrel for barrel
with western Kansas friends.
The Free Methodist church in ParkdaIe
holds temperance rally regularly on the
first Sunday in every month.
Police Matron Thorpe says that she has
received a request from Goodland for a
good boy u or Il years old.
There is a demand at the new bridge
for men and teams The contractors say
they cannot get enough men.
Mrs. May Anderson Trestrail, formerly
of Topeka, is now leading lady in The
Pulse of New York company.
Washburn college students last evening
celebrated the foot ball victory at Man
haitian by ringing the college bell.
R. F. stinson, county attorney of Phil
lips county, who was here last week on
business in the supreme court, has gone
home.
w G. Magaw, who was graduated from
Washburn college last spring, is now tax
ing post graduate work at the state uni
versity at Lawrence.
DR.. Robert L. Greene, surgeon in charge
at the Santa Fe hospital in this city. and
Mrs. Greene have gone to Fort Worth,
Tex, to visit relatives.
VIII Hopkins will return this week from
hunting trip on the Solomon river. He
sent home a large box of wild game which
was result of his labors.
A break in the trolley wire at Sixth
and Kansas avenue shut down the plant
twice. The wear on the wire and switch
plates at this point is especially heavy.
Police Matron Thorpe has received word
from officers at Fort Riley that compe-
tent colored girls and women are very
much in demand at that place in officers
families.
Mr.. Joseph Franklin of the car depart
ment of the Santa Fe shops, has been
discharged from the Santa Fe hospital
after an illness of four months with ty-
photd fever.
The stamp and coin collectors met last
night at the Commercial club rooms.
Owing to the bad weather but few were
there and another meeting is called for
Saturday night.
Tom Davies, alias Tobe Thomas. who is
wanted at Clay Center on the charge of
burglary, was arrested yesterday by De-
tective Capron. The Clay county sheriff
will arrive today to take Davies to Clay
Center.
J. P. Wilson. clerk in the office of Pro-
bate Judge Dolman, expects to go to work
in the pension office soon He has been
reinstated. His place will be taken in
the office of the probate judge by I. A.
Strauss.
Charles Mattingly, for several years an
employe in the car service department of
the Santa Fe in this city, has resigned
to accept a more lucrative position in the
same department of the Colorado Mid
land railway.
The will of Mrs. Barbara Bilmeyer has
been filed for probate. She leaves $1,000
each to VIM. Macferran, NJ. w. Macfer
ran and Horace Macferran. The rest of
her estate is left to her sister, Mrs. Mary
E. Macferran.
A young attorney in Topeka recently re-
ceived some bills from a man to be col
lected. The mans name was Limerick
and the young attorney indorsed on the
back Come to Limerick" and sent them
to the debtors.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Campbell of Ben
dena, Kan, have issued invitations to the
marriage of their daughter, Miss Mamie
Campbell to Frank W. Elliott. the well
known Populist politician who is editor
of the Troy Times.
On the suburban lines of the Topeka
railway where cross walks extend but
from one side of the street, residents have
placed ash heaps on which to alight when
the rear vestibule lands them on the side
on which no crossing is built.
General Passenger Agent W. J. Black
of the Santa Fe went to St. Louis yester-
day afternoon for the purpose of attend
ing a meeting of passenger officials, called
with view of reorganizing the South
western Passenger association.
Mr.. E. c. Cooling. who lives on Beacon
hill brought handful of potatoes to the
Journal office yesterday which he said
was the third crop he had raised on the
same piece of ground this summer. Last
weeks frost stopped their growth. They
were about as large as quail eggs.
Lewis Turner, an incorrigible colored
boy, was arrested yesterday by the po-
lice on complaint of his parents. He is
Il years of age and runs away from home.
He will be sent to the Hutchinson re-
formatory. He was confined at the re-
form school for a year, some time ago.
Il wish it would rain like thunder while
this train pulls in remarked a hackman
yesterday at the Rock Island depot as he
stood in the falling mist. But it was a
street car crowd which got off the train.
If hackmen at depOts only charged
quarter they would get ten people where
they get one now.
Hal Nelson, son of VIM. Nelson, who