The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-08

turned home having been in attendance
at the supreme court
The ladies of the Y w. C A are maxi
ing canvass of the city this week to re-
duce the association debt
The country roads are in better condi-
ton today. except for dust, than at any
time during the past two months
The officers report a general renewal On
the part of yearly members of the League
of American WheeInen in Kansas.
Mr.. s s. OFT has returned from Chicago
where he attended meeting of the ma
| tionaI bureau of Children's Home socie-
ties.
market in connection with his grocery on
Kansas avenue Andrew Hanson will be
in charge.
Rev. w. ]. Dalton of Annuneiation par
ish. Kansas City. made an address be-
fore the SpauIding Reading circle in this
city last night
]. W. Stoker's colt ran away yesterday.
It fell on the stone curbing at jackson
and Fifth streets and cut its forelegs and
shoulder badly.
Webster Davis. who made the Fourth
of July address at the foot of Washing
ton monument quoted from one of Joe
Waters poems.
l. z. Baldwin of the Rock Island teIe-
graph department, returned to Kansas
City yesterday after q visit with his par
ents in this city.
Chas. NJ Ross, assistant secretary of
state has a hobby 1t is: To believe that
all men and women are honest until pos
sessed of evidence to the contrary.
VIII Wadsworth will leave next week
for New York to make arrangements for
ha Ri Ia will
probably not appear in Alabama" next
season.
Adrian Sherman, who was graduated in
law this year from the state university,
has been secured to act as umpire in the
Topeka Abilene games this week, begin
ming today.
The subscription dancing parties at the
wooden mill in Oakland for the benefit of
the Floral parade fund will be continued
every Wednesday up TO the opening of the
Fail Festival.
In the office of President c. c. Baker of
the Topeka railway, there is an English
ivy growing. which has been trained and
is covering the wall. It grows about six
teen inches a month.
Fred Lyman. formerly of the station
cry department of the Santa Fe in this
city and now in the stationery depart
ment of the Mexican Central road, is
visiting relatives in this city.
Senator J. c. Morrow of Washington
county is in the city He says there is
an epidemic of hog cholera in that county
which is causing the loss of considerable
money to farmers and shippers
Dan Mccoy has returned from Phfla-
delphia. He Will be advance agent the
coming season for the Always on Time
company of which Marie Sanger is the
star. The company will start from Gin
cinnati.
Last night at the Deck-Kennedy we'd
ding on West Twenty-first street a crowd
of boys numbering fully forty. gathered
about the house armed with horns, bells,
tin pans and all kinds of instruments of
unearthly noise They were finally quiet
ed by the groom donating S.59-
The Topeka police board has decided
to retain Detective Chas. Price on the po-
lice force, as the publication of the zeal
intents in removing hirn-for party rea-
sons-met with strong opposition by the
conservative PopuIists in the city-those
who were not after office Chief Steele
was also opposed to Prices removal
There is a gang of young toughs who
loiter on the streets near Fourth and just
east of the Santa Fe tracks who contin-
ually insult people and are the terror of
the neighborhood- Complaints have been
made to the police about them but they
have not been stopped in their practice
The proprietors of the Topeka baby
lion are endeavoring to secure the services
of Mr. Charles J. Bell of the treas
urer's office of the Santa Fe, in training
it. Mr.. Bell was formerly with Billy
Rice in the show business and made the
education of lions a study. He will get
a microscope in order to see the lion
while he is training it.
Ed Whitaker, of the firm Of weiss &
Co, was driving in his buggy yesterday
noon and when at Eighth and Kansas
avenue two young women who were driv-
ing in a surrey, were careless and collid-
ed with whitaker's buggy, breaking the
axle. The two women drove away rapidly
without trying to ascertain what damage
they had done.
President c. c. Baker of the Topeka
railway, says that he will carry free of
charge all the children to Garfield parA
who take part in the spectacular opera
evenings under the trees on large stage
built especially for the purpose The To-
peka railway will see to it also that plen-
" of cars are furnished for transporting
all the crowds which will attend the per-
formances. The price of admission to the
performances will be placed low SO that
every one can attend The dates of the
presentation of Cinderella are Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday, July 20, q and
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