The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-23
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWs

There is not now a case of scarlet fever
in the city.
Battery B gave a bean supper last night
at its armory.
Since the ground is frozen the state
house walks passable.
Mrs. Fred Nelson is quite i'll at the
Santa Fe hospital in this city.
There is a joint in full operation with
in half block of the state house.
Two drug firms at Rossville have ap-
piled for permits to sell liquor.
Albert Hopkins lost a valuable watch
charm at the Bryan meeting at Hamilton
hall.
Defending the Flag" was given by
Blue Post. G. A. R., in North Topeka last
night.
The probate judge of Shawnee county
makes more than 81. 900 per annum out of
marriage licenses.
w. w Curdy who used to have large
dry goods store in Topeka is now in bus
mess at Paola, Kansas.
Councilman Fred Roundtree of the Fifth
ward is distributing cards announcing
his candidacy for reelection.
Councilman Skinner says that if he
without the cost of a single cent
Mr.. w. NJ. Wiley of Holleys, Colo, gem
company is visiting in this city
This is the, time of the year when the
members of the country lyceum are WreS-
Ting with great rational questions.
]. B. Doncyson cf Topeka is coming to
fe fre 26r as Is t0Ty G Tri5e DoiHg OF ms
George L. Smart. of the office of audi
tor of freight receipts of the Santa Fe,
is seriously i'll at the Santa Fe hospital
Mr. Jack Mortified, now employed in
the office of the general auditor of the
Santa F'e in Chicago, is visiting In this
| city.
The pictures taken a week ago yester-
| day while the trees were covered with
| snow have been finished up and are beau
tiful.
Miss Lottie Bowes is at Kansas City
this week with the Nethersole company,
| She will spend one day at her home IN
| this city
c. D. Purden, assistant chief engineer
| of the Santa Fe and Mrs. Purden have
returned from a visit of several weeks
in Mexico
Dick Rodgers. son of A X Rodgers,
| broke his shoulder at Lawrence last week
while coasting. He is attending the state
| university.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hartley, SO4 Monroe
street are the parents OF daugnter-
| Mr.. Hartley is master painter at the San
| ia Fe shops
Mrs. Alex. Randall of Oakland was OPP
| Grated on for peritonitis at the Santa Re
| hospital yesterday. Her condition today
is favorable to recovery.
]. w. Perkins of this city, has accept
| ed a position as architect i'll the engineer
| ing department of the Mexican Central
railway at the City of Mexico.
| freight receipts office of the Santa Fe
| and Mrs Olney will leave in rev Gays
| for a months stay in California.
| New flags were put up at the state
| house yesterday but they We're taken
down before evening and the old ones
| Chief of Police Henry Steele says that
| there are rs young colored men and half
f as ni bave no Visible means of support.
| A fight between a colored man and wo-
man occurred last night on lower Adams AIMS
| street and the police were called. Inc
| woman had been beaten and the man es-
capped.
The Production of Hamlet by W 1aSdf
| burn students under the direction OF Prol'
| A. E. Palmer. will be given at the CraW.
ford Opera house on the evening OF
Most peoples ideas. of washington are
vaguely mixed up with placid looking
steel engaging fni 6 t1 celabre-
ting Lincoln's birthday.
| Police Matron Thorpe says that there
| is a destitute couple named Garter living
at 1925 Lime street who need food and
clothing. The man is blind. and the wo-
man is i'll with consumption.
The fifth anniversary meeting of the
six councils of the Knights and Ladies
| of Security will be held at Lukens
| Opera House Wednesday evening, Feb
ruary "a. A very fine literary and
| musical programme has been arranged
| Joseph Mcclure. a compositor who re-
| sides at So North Monroe street and
| ted on for empyema at the Santa Fe hos
| ton necesSitated the removal of the sixth
rib on the left side.
| Last evening at Topeka Post hall Wash
| fngton's birthday was celebrated by To-
| peka Post, G. A R., and the Sons of the
| American Revolution. Addresses were
made by Col. T. w. Harrison, DR.. J. L.
| Furber George D. Hale and others, and
| appropriate music was furnished.
| Mrs. Mary Robinson, the old colored
| woman who was found in a starving con-
| dition in Smoky Row, died al the Charity
| hospital yesterday. Her feet had been
| frozen and she was removed from the
| poor farm to the hospital in order to have
| her feet amputated. She died from the
| exposure before the operation.
For three consecutive Sundays the Kan
sas state university professors have en-
| tertained parties of legislators They give
| them a handsome dinner and show them
| about the grounds, and then talk to
| them 1t is a shame members of the
| legislature cannot appreciate the advan-
| tageS of the university without compelling
| the professors to act as a lobby to pump
| the truth into them.