The Topeka state journal., 1898-06-02
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS

A new style of mail box has been put
| up in Topeka.
Joseph Griley want to be a major un-
| der the second call.
George H Whitcomb has gone to
| Colorado to recuperate.
Seven new applications are on the
board of the T. A A
General Passenger Agent w. ]. Black
Of the Santa Fe is in Nnicago.
NJ. c. Long has given up all hope
of going to war a chaplain
c. c. Baker carries a fresh bunch of
roses to his office in the mornings.
T. F. DOran is building a large barn
at his home on Western avenue.
The Modocs have given up Pinafore
and are practicing for their trip to Gin
cinnad
Some of the gardens east of town
have several inches of water standing
on them.
Sheriff Cook is overhauling the Jail
thoroughly and cleaning the cells and
corridors.
The Topeka Dramatic club will pre-
sent the farce Mr.. Bob at Holton to-
morrow night.
DR. Moore of this city wants to be
assistant surgeon under the second call
for volunteers.
Captain Clark of the battleship Ore
gon is a brOther-in-laW of Sam Wood
son of Caldwell.
DR.. DeObert is seriously sick with
Inflammation of the bowels at his home
on Lane street.
The local union of the Christian En-
deavor will meet Friday night at the
First Baptist church.
Harry Richter says that Captain Joe
Waters Decoration day address at
Council Grove was a gem.
The jointists confined in the hospital
room of the county Jail amuse them
selves playing ball.
The money taken in by Marshall's
band as admissions to the concerts all
goes toward improving the park.
A Topeka man who has abandoned
politics for business says that he made
$3.50 the first day he devoted his atten-
tion to business.
For the month of May there was a
rainfall of 10.1S inches at Dodge City.
The rainfall at Topeka for the month
was 5.97 inches.
A lantern display will be made at
Presbyterian lawn social held at resi-
d6nces of Messrs. Parkhurst and Wear,
POtwin, tomorrow evening.
Boyer's meat market was robbed of
$8 on Decoration day, probably by
some one who had a thorough knowl-
edge of the surroundings
r. Pierce, one of the prisoners at the
government penitentiary who escaped,
is credited to Topeka. He was tried
here but lived in a western county.
Mrs. Annie L. Diggs will make tenn
perance addresses under the auspices
of the Kansas Temperance union at diff
ferent churches in this city this month.
Over 400 loads of cinders have been
used for driveways in Garfield park.
1t is impossible to walk with comfort
on the paths until they are rolled down.
The water in Lake View is deeper
than it has been for several months. /
The high water in the river has forced i
water through the long ditch leading to |
the lake.
Mrs George T. Anthony has removed
the picture of her late husband which /
has been hanging in the governors Of !
replace it with one prepared shortly !
before his death. i
Albert Roby, son of DR.. H. w. Roby, !
who is in the hospital corps q. s. A at /
Tampa, is recovering from a two weeks |
illness of malarial fever. he had been |
stationed in Wyoming the past year |
and the sudden transition to torrid |
Florida was too much for him.
Prof S W. Willitson of the state
university delivered an entertaining
lecture on the Extinct Animals of
to a small audience at Repre-
sentative hall last night. The occasion
was the semi-annual meeting of the
Kansas Academy of Science.
David w Norton son of Col. ]. D.
Norton, will start Saturday for the
east. He enters West Point June 20.
A reception was held last evening at
college to the graduates and
alumni of the college. 1t was largely
attended
Rev. S. z. BusSer, who used to be
Conversational minister in Topeka, but
since was ordained into the Episcopal
an ministry and is dean OF the church
1t Emporia, has been in the city at
ending the commencement exercises
1t Bethany college. His daughter Alma
vas one of the graduates.
About three-fourths of a mile of fine
piano wire was ruined Tuesday by
lightning at the government kite sta
ion in Washburn campus. A bolt of
ightning came down the wire, severely
shocking G.. Herald Noyes, the gov
rnment observer. The current heated
he wire and took the temper out of
At 11:3O o'clock last night firemen
we're called east on Tenth street to ex-
inguish fire in the stone dwelling
by a colored family named
stewart which was located in the
southeast portion of Parkdale beyond
he city limits and beyond the water
,ervice The house was totally des-
royed.
Miss Alice F. Ordway, who was as
istant state librarian under H. j. Den
lis and later under J. L. King, COM
nitted suicide at Greenfield, Mass, by Z
aking choral. She was taken i'll but
efused to have medical aid. 1t was
hen learned that she had taken chIOral
With suicidal intent. She lost her posi-
ion in the state library through pol1t-
cal changes. She was on her way TO I
Ter old home at Barton Landing, Yer ,
mont, for visit. Her sister, Mrs. Kit
lie Kellam, of this city, yesterday re-
eiVed word of the affair.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. !
The following real estate transfers