The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-26
SNAP SHOTS At HOMENEWS

Lumber men say that the trade in shin
giles has been unprecedented.
W. W. Wick of Topeka has been COM
| missioned as notary public.
The Topeka Y NJ c. A will hold a BIZ
BILE school at Wakarusa July II to 26.
E. P. Lindsay is nursing a sore head.
the result OF contact with a small hall
| stone.
Mrs. J. NJ. Jamison is dangerously i'll
| with ma1ariaI fever at her home, S16 East
| First street.
| D. J. Greenwald is one of the men who
never misses a session of the Committee
! Of Fifteen.
The Loemister Shirt company of Mass
| achusetts has brought suit against A. L.
| House for s579.
Four hundred and thirty panes of glass
/ were broken in the Hall Lithographing
| company building.
| If the roads permit the Topeka Athletic
! associa ton wheelrnen will make run to
! Carbondale tomorrow.
| Governor Eeedy will spend Sunday at
his home in Lawrence, returning to the
! executive office Monday.
| Judge Hazen has had a respite during
the Hubbard trial. He has spent the
! time reading up on cases.
| Three hundred and fifty window panes
were broken at the reform school by the
hail storm Thursday night.
| The Emporia and Topeka base ball
teams seem to be more evenly matched
than any teams in the state.
The state board of charities is expected
to meet in this city Thursday to close up
the business of the fiscal year.
People living in the vicinity of the base
ball park can tell how the game is going
by the noise that comes from the
| bleachers.
Representative Ed T. Hackney of We'll
lington was in town last night on his way
home from attending the Bryan meeting
at Ottawa.
Judge c. E. Foote of Kansas City. Kan.
will not be superintendent of the Hutch
inson reformatory. Let sigh of relief
be breathed.
Con Norton, a Santa Fe switchman. had
| his head cut open by a hailstone Thurs
day evening. He was compelled to lay
off as result.
The second of the series of subscription
parties for the benefit of the Floral fund
will be given at the wooden mill in Oak
land next Wednesday night.
c. B. Maxwell of the Union Pacific is
in Rawlins, Wyo., where he underwent |
an operation for an affection of the
nerves on the right side of his face.
Chas. Wolff made colored man a pres
ent of the horse which his daughter was |
driving when she was thrown from the |
buggy at the corner of Sixth and Lane |
streets.
The T. A. A. w. bicycle races at the |
fair grounds have been postponed until |
July TO- The home stretch on the track |
was one foot and a half under water this |
morning.
Mrs. Staten of Eighth and Lawrence |
streets was one of those injured in the |
hail storm. She was struck on the head |
while trying to rescue her child. who was |
in the barn.
The towers at either end of the bridge |
were not high enough and they have been |
raised twelve feet. The cable sagged so |
much that heavy loads could not be taken
over the piers.
Jesse Sutton, the bus driver who was
the victim of a live electric wire. is not
dangerously burned. His injuries are ex-
tremeIy painful and his system was great
ly shocked by the current.
During the storm yesterday morning
the residence of Vincent Kaczynski in
Potwin was struck by lightning. The
lightning ran down the chimney, blowing
SCOT over the furnishings Of several
rooms.
The bridge across the Shunganunga on
Lake street between Fifth and Sixth
streets was loosened by the high water
yesterday afternoon. The water was
within a few inches of the floor of the
bridge.
The boy who had his skull crushed by
hailstone Thursday night is named john
son and not Jansen. He was removed to
the Stormont hospital yesterday after
noon and the crushed bone raised by a
trephining operation. His condition is
dangerous.
When child drinks concentra ted I've
it always leaves the mother under the
suspicion of not having real good sense,
or she wouldn't have left the I've where
the child could get it. A thoughtless wo-
man can do twice as much harm as
malicious one.
Water from the shunganunga creek
backed up to Eighteenth and Kansas
avenue yesterday and hoated wooden
sidewalks and culvert covers from their
positions. South of Eighteenth street
every cellar, cistern and well Is full of
dirty creek water.
Ex-Governor Thomas A. Osborn has
lived in Kansas since 1857, and says he
has never seen a storm that compared
with that of Thursday night. There
never was anything in Kansas like that
before. It exceeded. especially the hail.
anything the state has ever experienced"
Most people in Kansas and the west
never saw a varsity boat race and are
about as much interested in it as in a
gymnastic contest in China. The East
always fires about five columns descrip-4
ton of it to western papers, however. AS
in everything else they think we ought to
like what they like.
Jean. the 2-year-old daughter of DR.. W.
S. Lindsay, drank fly poison from a
saucer yesterday afternoon and came
near dying as the result. DR.. Lindsay
and Dr. Stewart worked with the child
for several hours before then succeeded