The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-19
SNAP SHOTS HOMENEWS

The Modocs will go to Beatrice tomor-
row.
The state board of charities adjourned
today.
Frank Washburn has gone to Ottawa
to visit the assembly.
A great many new brick sidewalks are
being built in Potwin.
w, E. Bush. secretary of state. visited
Kansas City yesterday.
Mrs. c. L. Frazer has gone to South
Dakota to visit relatives.
The Meriden creamery distributes "a, 500
per month among the farmers.
Reports from the country say that
chinch bugs are injuring the oats.
A fambeau club in the country north
of Topeka is practicing for the Fourth of
July.
The first night concert of Marshalrs
band was given last night before a large
crowd.
Judge Foster and the officers of the fed
eral court have returned from Leaven-
worth.
Capt. ]. C. Waters says that he expects
to be knighted by Queen Victoria for his
jubilee address.
Poor Commissioner Hale says that the
county saved $1,000 last year by furnish
ing work for charity applicants.
The price of admission to ladies at Attn
letic park has been reduced to 10 cents.
On Fridays ladies are admitted free.
o. NJ. White. the only 'base ball man
ager'' from Emporia, was in town yester-
day looking after the new base ball
league.
Undersheriff Lucas has returned from
Eudora with Ernest Fleming. who is
wanted in Topeka for selling mortgaged
property.
Councilman Drew says that the lum-
Der in the old Red, White and Blue"
that is being taken down is better than
can be found now.
A delegation from Acme lodge No. 4O
A. o. U. w. of Valley Falls, was in To
peka last night. The visitors were the
guests of Upchurch lodge No. pa
Representative I. N. Try of Fort Scott,
returned home today. having been in To
peka attending the Republican league
meeting and transacting business.
The Ministerial union will hold the last
meeting of the season Monday at the Y
NJ. c. A. rooms. The annual banquet will
be held the latter part of the month.
What a great pity that the little one
| story brick between the Hogeboom build
ing and the Jewell building can't be torn
out and uniform block 70 feet front be
built there. Who owns it?
Miss Jennie Hall, who used to attend
the Topeka high school is capturing ora
torical honors in Chicago. She recently
received a $50 cash prize in the Chicago
university oratorical contest.
A Topeka young man invited young
lady to ascend the state house dome a
few days ago. 1t has leaked out that she
tainted before reaching the top and was
oar led fxyf he 10
tire length of the stairways before re-
covering.
An Ell Dorado paper speaking of the
lecture to be delivered there June 29 by
John Macdonald has this to say: M
Macdonald is a quaint, original and
very interesting speaker and is known to
nearly all our teachers and he shines in
their esteem
Marshal's band played VIM. VanNess'
Lucille" last evening at Garfield park
and the audience was so well pleased
with it that it was repeated. 1t is rare
| that a Garfield park audience calls for
! the same piece twice and it is a mark of
extraordinary favor.
Elmer Magill of 1913 East Sixth street,
| got his fingers caught in a press at
Adams Bros. yesterday, while at work
there. The first two fingers of the hand
were torn nearly off and hung by threads
of flesh. DR.. Geo. Buckmaster seWed the
| fingers. on again and set the bones.
! Mrs. Albert Walker of 3O4 Clay street,
1 and her three small children were poison
/ ed yesterday by eating canned lobster,
/ which had become spoiled. All were in
| great pain for several hours yesterday
| afternoon, but it is now believed that
! they are out of danger. Mr.. Walker is a
1 draughtsman in the pattern department
! of the Santa Fe.
Jackson county authorities arrested
/ two men and two women near Hoyt who
4 are said to come from Topeka. They are
selling beer and making a big disturbance.
I The county attorney and sheriff resolved
! to put stop to it. Those arrested gave
: the following names, John Fink and L.
/ 3. Simon, and May Eldred and the other
woman would not give her name.
The North Kansas Holiness union lin
J terdenomina tionaD viii hold the third an
/ nual camp meeting at the fair grounds in
/ this city July 6 to 16. The people who at
/ tend will occupy tents on the grounds.
/ The principal speaker at the camp meet
/ ing will be the Rev. Isaiah Reid of Chi
/ cago. editor of the Christian Witness,
! published at Boston and Chicago.
Mr. J. N Hopper of ZIG West Eighth
! street. has an interesting relic of war
times, which is paper edited, set up and
/ printed by the Eighty-ninth illinois regl-
/ ment while it was quartered at Shelby
| Vile, KY, during the fall of 1862. The
members of the regiment arranged all
| the details and did everything to complete
/ the issue which was made October 4, 1862.
! The paper was a single sheet AXIS inches
printed on both sides. It was called the
Headlight" and the motto directly I'M
! der the heading was"Clear the Track"
! But the single issue was made
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