The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-18
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


Cincinnati by the death of her brother.
There are two cases of scarlet fever in
the family of William Drant, Oakland.
Next week in the district court will be
devoted to cases appealed from police
court.
W. NJ. Shaver and A w. Wilson are in
Wichita attending the Scottish Rite re-
union.
Frank shaffer of North Topeka was
badly hurt in a runaway yesterday after
noon.
Mr.. George stoker returned today from
a business trip in the southern part of
the state.
a number of visitors are expected from
out of the city to attend the Lotus party
tomorrow night.
Tom Flannelly, who used to practice
law in Topeka, is now in Oswego, where
he has a law office.
Mr.. C ]. Bell of the treasurer's office
of the Santa Fe has gone to New York
to spend a weeks vacation.
George Stansfeld and Ben Criswen are
shooting ducks today-that is, they went
out north of town for that purpose.
Stafford county has remitted 81, ,646 in de-
lnquent taxes to the state treasurer;
Phillips has paid in SIZES; Ness, $1,113.
There are very few wild ducks in this
vicinity this fall. Low water is sup
posed to be the cause of their absence.
Henry Allen and wife of Ottawa were in
the city yesterday. Mr.. Allen manages
the Ottawa Herald for Mr.. J. L. BristOw.
The Unity club will meet tomorrow night
at the Unity church. F. NJ. Kessler viii
read a paper on the life of Alexander
Dumas.
Black and Pounds and Merrick and
Trautmann compose the prize teams of
the Topeka whist club. Neither team has
yet lost a game.
Every laundry manager in town declares
he is the only one doing a paying busi-
ness, yet all of them have as much work
as they can do.
Rev. Nathaniel Thomas, who used to
live in Topeka, has been elected to the
pastorate of the Episcopal church at
Wheeling, w. Va.
The second meeting of the Women's In
ter-Denominational Missionary union was
held yesterday in the parlors of the First
Methodist church.
city Clerk McFadden invested $1,000 in
the stock of the Atchison Champion when
it was placed in charge of A. J. Felt. He
has disposed of the stock.
William Wetherly and Queenie Barton,
colored, were married the home of
the bride, Twelfth and Washington streets,
by Rev. ]. r. Ransom. last night.
A Topeka inhaler who has the distinc-
ton of having survived 1900 boxes of Gig
arettes has been offered a coffin by the
manufacturers if he smokes another 1900.
I. E. Lambert, United States district at
torney. who has been sick for some days
at his home, has recovered sufficiently to
come to Topeka and assume his official
duties.
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perintendent of the Rock Island, return
ed yesterday from Chicago after aiding
in the arrangement of the new winter
schedule.
George H. Gillies of the Hall Litho>
graphing company has purchased the c.
W. Douglass printing plant from the
mortgage and will hereafter conduct the
business.
Attorney ]. C. Waters got into his Of
fee yesterday by means of the fire es-
cape. The corridor was so filed with pen
sion office equipment that he could not
get through.
State house people talk of asking the
next legislature to pass an anti-smoke
law, because occasionally the smoke from
the Santa Fe office furnaces descends up
on the capitol.
The trip made by the children who are
attending the kindergarten from the
transfer SLaUlOn 10 InG central OOnSEtSt-
tionaI church is one of the interesting
sights of the day.
It has been decided to give the farce
"A Perplexing Situation at Library hall
on the evening of Tuesday, November 80,
instead of in the Copeland parlors on
Thanksgiving evening.
Fred Gibler, a blacksmith employed at
the Santa shops in this city. had his
left hand painfully mashed by an anvil
falling upon it yesterday. The injury
was dressed at the Santa Fe dispensary.
James F. Lytle and family of Emporia
have moved to Topeka and reside at S23
Huntoon Mr.. Lytle is a route agent for
the Wells-Fargo Express company and
Topeka is a more central location than
Emporia.
Mabel Crawford, the contralto with the
Sherwood Concert company, who used to
reside in Topeka, toured last year under
the stage name of NIabele Crawford. This
year with the same company she is tour
ing under the name Isabelle Crawford.
At $40 o'clock last evening firemen were
called to 623 East Tenth street, where the
building occupied by c. D. Moss as
grocery and residence was on fire. A
lamp exploded and set fire to the part oc-
cupied as a grocery. The building was
damaged to the extent of $500. There was
a small insurance. Mr.. Moss had gone
to a wedding and left the light burning.
A gun club tournament and a foot ball
game will be in progress on Thanksgiving
dav in Topeka. If it is real cold and
SHOWS a little it will be ideal day for
both sports and pneumonia for the audi
ence. Death does not always reap its
harvest from the players alone; 300 peo-
pie died Of pneumonia after one of the
big eastern foot ball games.
(which is your favorite poem among
al those YOU have written?'' was asked
of James Whitcomb Riley last evening. Il
like An Old Sweetheart of Mine better
than any other, and I viii tell you why.
1t is because it is the only serious poem
the public would ever accept from me.