The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-01
SNAP SHOTS ATHOMENEWS

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The City library will be closed all day
Saturday.
Tomorrow will be ladies' free day at
Athletic park.
Jack Newman will spend the Fourth of
July in Horton.
A portion of the base ball fence blew
down yesterday.
Fifty men are now employed on the
Kansas avenue bridge.
1t is said that Harry Stoops' attorneys
will at once apply for pardon.
Frank Keith left today for Port Arthur
where he will start a drug store.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Cowan at 1918 Polk.
are the parents of son, Clarence Jethro
| Cowan.
Judge Foster has appointed George w.
| Clark United States court commissioner
in place of John Mileham-
Judge Hazen is devoting his time to
disposing of the motions and small mat
ters the district court docket.
The supreme court will convene next
Tuesday. There will be no session of the
court during August and September.
The Bank of Usage Mission, or St.
Pauls, has gone into voluntary Hquida-
ton. William May was president and
the bank had a capital stock of S. 900.
Samuel Barnum has been appointed re-
ceiver of the Topeka Belt line by Judge
Foster. This is the abandoned railroad
built to Martins hill.
Someone left a box containing 75 baby
caps on Police Matron Thorpe's doorstep
yesterday for distribution among the
poor. Who left the box is not known
During the hail storm the telephone ca
BILE on Kansas avenue was damaged. Yes
iY- 10
night more wires were struck by light
ming.
William Gunther late of the Swift &
Holiday Drug company, will open drug
store in the new building at the corner
of Sixth and Jackson within the next
week.
The large plate glass cracked during
| the recent hail storm in the office of
| Quinton & Quinton in the Columbian
| building blew in during the storm last
| evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. It. P. Culley have taken
| the Swedenborgian church parsonage at
| the corner of Sixth and Harrison streets,
and will start housekeeping the first OF
next week.
H. NJ. Spradley, a co1ored man, was ar
rested yesterday by the police charged
with stealing a set of harness from the
| shoe merchant, Joe Watts, at his barn,
| 1920 Quincy street.
Mr.. A. Bird, proprietor of the st. Joseph
Canning company is in the city today es-
| tablishing the plant of the Topeka Can
| ming company. The factory will be in
| operation July Is.
The wind which accompanied the rain
storm yesterday afternoon broke down
the iron awning frame in front of w. S.
| Kale's grocery, 612 Kansas avenue. The
plate glass window was blown in.
| Michael Shase, a North Topeka char
acter, was arrested yesterday at the I'm
I ion Pacific depot he about to fall
| under the wheels of moving train. The
charge of drunkenness was placed against
| him.
| Private Secretary Little is the only man
\ in the state house who wears duck trOus-
| ers. He is carrying on a campaign of
| education among the Populists. Some of
/ them still wear suspenders with their
| belts.
| Mrs. J. G. Wood will read paper on
| Memory and Emotion as Subjects of
Hypnotisn' at the Nickel Plate school
| house, corner of Third and Buchanan
streets, tonight. There will be no admis>
| sion charged.
Indications are that the Holiness camp
meeting to be held at the fair grounds
| beginning July 6 will be largely attend
| ed. Rev. Isaiah Reid of Chicago, who
| will have charge of it, is said to be pull
pit orator of note.
| Mr.. P. I. Bonebrake wishes it under
| stood that he alone, and not Ex-Governor
| Thomas A. Osborn, (whom he says he ig-
ANONYMOUSLY defeated) was the victor in
| the Aunt Sally contest at Garfield park
| last Saturday afternoon.
Chief Steele yesterday received letter
| from a woman in st. Joseph who claims
| to be w. R. Wright's wife. Wright is in
| the county Jail charged with stealing a
| team from Farmer Peter Snyder. He also
ran away with Peter Snyder's daughter.
| A. P. Benson will furnish ice to the
| state house offices at % cents per 100 ac-
| cording to contract made with the exc
| cutive council yesterday. G. G. Boardman n
will haul the coal used at the building
from the cars at the rate of Is cents per
| ton.
| Owing to an unreliable report printed in
| a Kansas City paper the state auditor is
| flooded with letters demanding payment
| on Price raid claims. There were no ap-
| preparations for that purpose by the last
| legislature and there is no money to pay
| the claims and probably never will be.
| The first of the Rock Island excursion
| trains to the Holton races was run yes
terday, and about 40 Topeka people at
| tended the opening races. An excursion
| train will be run every day this week
| leaving here at 12:40 p. m. and returning