The Topeka state journal., 1898-03-11
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS
Tim Donovan has been in police service
u years
St, Patrick's day falls on Thursday of
next week.
o. w Blood of the Santa Fe fuel de-
partment is sick
Mr.. and Mrs. John W, Mowers are Wis
1tlng in Kansas City.
A. D Hubbard is travelling for a Bos-
ton wholesale house.
Bishop Vincent will preach at the re-
form school on March 20.
Homer Low of this city is in Fort
Worth, Tex, reading law
J. S. Caldwell of Lawrence was in the
city on legal business today.
The city is making a fill on it's lots at
the foot of Kansas avenue
The Republican Flambeau club will
meet tonight to reorganize.
The Lake View club members are hav-
ing lots OF sport with ducks
w. w. Phillips has returned from a
business visit to Kansas City.
G. c. Clemens will lecture on Elmer
son" before Unity club tonight.
The man who owns a new bicycle is
the only complainant against the rain
Ex-Detective Zeller and Mrs. Zeller are
the parents of a girl, born Thursday.
Miss Kate Adams has recovered from a
severe illness of several days duration
Representative VIII I. Stuart of Troy
argued case in the court of appeals yes
terday.
The preliminary contests in cooked hat
are being held at the Y M C. A bowl
ing alleys.
DR.. J. D. Counterrnine is to deliver the
address at the reform school Sunday aft
ernOOn.
A special class in dissection is being
held at the Kansas Medical college for
three weeks.
J. B. Cunningham of Nebraska, who was
recently appointed national bank exam
1ner for Kansas, has moved to IOpeka-
The lumbermen are already feeling the
effect of Topeka's building boom. They
are all busy.
ie q ooI5
and is not able to attend to the business
of his office.
c. w Harrison, buyer of the New York
Mercantile store. has returned from Chi
cagO and New York.
The first attraction now booked ateither
of the opera houses is julie Walters in
"Sidetracked," on March 1S
Otto King, the escaped Iunatie from
Bedwelfs asylum, is stin at large. No
The infant daughter of Prof. and Mrs.
L. D. WhittemOre, at 1615 College avenue,
is dangerously i'll with pneumonia
City Clerk McFadden, who made good
record in the late war, thinks that Spain
should be whipped without delay.
The Hub Clothing company received
from Costa Rica, Central America, an
order for large shipment of clothing.
A Topeka hveryman had every rig in
Thursday evening-provided it were nice
day.
The Santa Fe officials are making a tour
of inspection over the western Kansas
tonight.
John CLANCY ordered a man to trim
his grape vines and when he went home
he found that they had been cut on close
to the ground.
swell colored literary organization is
called the Benjamin Bannecker club. 1t
will meet Monday evening in the office OF
Justice Guy
Jas. l. Kings term as state librarian
expires on March 20 Mrs. Annie L Diggs
viii formally go into the office on the
Puccini's 'Manon Lescaut'' will prOba-
bly, be the opera put on in this city by
pany on March q.
The piles that are being driven in the
river to protect the approaches to the
of the river bank.
General Superintendent Nudge and As
sistant General superintendent Turner
are inspecting the Southern Kansas di-
vision OF the Santa Fe-
Some of Topeka policemen carry cheap
revolvers which couldn't be fired with ac-
cIrate aim. Only a few of them carry
arms of standard make
Mr. T. J. Maxwell, bookkeeper for War
rem M Crosby. was instrumental in
bringing EItweed Pomeroy to Topeka to
talk about the initiative and referendum.
Senator Milton Brown Of Garden City,
who is managing the campaign OF A. II;
Burtis for secretary of state, returned
home yesterday from trip to Fort Scott
Owing to the heavy loads OF stone be
ing hauled over the Kansas avenue track
by the Topeka railway work trains the
tracks have sunk in places, necessItatlng
repairs.
Governor Leedy went to his home in
Lawrence yesterday afternoon after issu-
ing his interview on the supreme court
decision in the Nebraska maximum rate
case. He said he needed rest
The county commissioners will accept
the proposition of the citizens of Tecum-
sch to take the old Kansas avenue bridge
and erect it between Shawnee and JEFF
ferson counties without cost to Shawnee
county.
DR.. Gill, secretary of the, board Of
health is preparing a standard blank
form for county boards to use in making
records. Several additional statistics Will
be made and a uniformity of record books
will be required.
A meeting will be held this evening at
Trades Assembly hail for the purpose OF
organizing a Direct Legislatio league.
Eltweed POmerOy will be present and VIII
explain the various points in the 1n1ua-
tive and referendum The Trades Assem-
bly, hall is al 420 Kansas avenue
DR.. Gill, secretary of the state board of
health. says that every quack doctor in
the state could be driven out OF business
if the regularly registered physicians
would make an effort to have the law en-
forced-by making complaints. There are
others too, who have made enough blum
ders to be driven out of business. No
body is very mad at the ''quacks" except
the doctors.
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