The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-06
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS
The citv ofrices are closed today.

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evening.
The peach crop is being damaged by dry
weather.
Interior repairs are being made in the
Columbian building.
The Kansas River Baptists meet to-
morrow at Eskridge.
The dust on the roads north of Topeka
is a bane to wheelmen.
It is three weeks from today that the
Fall Festival commences.
The frame work has been removed from
the first arch of the bridge.
H. P. Jordan of Austin, Tex, has been
appointed commissioner of deeds for Kan
sas.
Col John D. Norton has accepted the
position of chief marshal of the Fan Fes-
tivaL
A new brass band is being organized in
the neighborhood of Bellevue school
house.
The Kansas State university at Law
renee will open for the fall term on We'd
nesday.
Judge J. B. Johnson has some fine
peaches that he raised on his place just
west of town.
Major Inman has gone to Salt Lake
City to begin work on his new book-the
Utah Trail
The executive council will open the bids
for the completion of the State library
rooms tomorrow.
The state house was closed this after
noon and the officers and employees OBJ
served Labor day.
Ben Perkins. who used to be fireman
at station No. 3, is now a guard at the
state penitentiary.
September McCIure's entitled 1.-The Mar
tyrdom of Mea1y JONES'
Bishop Millspaugh will return Wednes-
day from Europe, where he has been for
the past several months.
Mr.. Willard Scott of the auditor of
freight receipts office of the Santa Fe,
is i'll with typhoid fever.
The last wooden mill dance for the
benefit of the Floral fund will be given
next Wednesday evening.
The Reform School band gave another
concert yesterday afternoon. The band is
now better than ever before.
Bert Hackett, the Olathe bicycle racer,
has been suspended for non-payment of
fees at the Kansas City race meet.
About the only suits filed in the district
court now are against stockholders of
dead concerns. for their double liability.
Two Topeka students who will attend
Kansas university this coming season
will be Dana McVicar and Frank Shella-
barger.
When the Federal building is enlarged
Weather Observer Jennings headquarters
will be moved into it from the Columbian
building.
Ruth, the little daughter of Geo. w.
Tincher of the state printing house, broke
her left arm yesterday by falling from
'teeter-board."
Amateur minstrels were given at
Lukens' Opera House Saturday evening
for the benefit of a deserving poor family
in North Topeka.
Chief Wilmarth of the fire department,
has returned from New Haven, Conn,
where he attended the national conven-
ton of fire chiefs.
AS a result of the dry weather two
thirds of the buggy wheels in Topeka
rattle from the shrinkage of the wood
from the steel rims.
A Good Citizenship meeting will be
held at the Central Congregational church
this evening. Other churches have been
invited to participate.
Percy Hemus, who used to live in To-
peka, is to give a concert at the First
Christian church. September 10. He has
achieved fame in concert work.
The condition of the man at the Saliva
ton Army hospital who is afflicted with
jaundice is not improving. The disease is
far advanced and may prove fatal.
MarshalPs band yesterday played the
new march entitled 'McKinley's Tri-
umph," which was composed by Miss
Wilma Mills, a blind girl of North To.
peka.
A Topeka real estate dealer wants to
be burned during Festival week. The
committee has neither money nor houses
to burn.
Abe Fulford has agreed to comply with
the eight-hour law on the work at the
asylum and Labor Commissioner John
son has withdrawn complaint against the
contractors.
The new shoes for fall wear which are
''the latest have broad bull dog toe
and an extension sole half an inch thick.
They will be unpopular and many will
not wear them.
George Green, a prisoner in the county
Jail was found unconscious in a bath tub
late Saturday afternoon He had been
overcome by the heat from the water
but was soon revived.
The old Harrison telephone wires have
been taken off of Quincy street and work
in taking down wires in the suburbs will
be commenced. The Harrison switch
board had over 400 wires on it.
The sale of Karnival Knight buttons
was commenced Saturday afternoon at
John F. McManus' store. There was
large demand. Tomorrow night at the
monster mass meeting at Hamilton hall,
they will be on sale at 25 cents each.
The Spiritualists locked the gates of
the fair grounds yesterday and refused to
let any one in except upon payment of 10
cents. H. A. Uterman and his tourna-
ment riders threatened to ride over the
gatekeepers and they got out of the
way.