The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-26
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

General Passenger Agent w. J. Black
has returned from Chicago.
Ensign A. Foster is now in charge of
the Salvation Army hospital.
The Y. M. c. At. A. A. contest in
'1ve-back" will be held next week
There will be three new members in
the city council after the spring cleo
ton.
being repaired between Fifth and Sixth
streets.
]. w. Ferguson has sold his fine pair
of black driving mares to Ed Straight
of this city.
The students of Drury college spent
an hour visiting the state house yester-
day afternoon.
Mr. James Moore will sing at the
Catholic Cathedral in Leavenworth on
Sunday morning.
A small buggy in town has the run
ming gear covered with silver and the
body with gold leaf.
Earle r. Seymour has taken a posi-
ton as travelling salesman for the I'm
ion Overall company.
During the closing days of the term in
the district court, few lawyers are seen
about the court house.
A man who holds political office in
Topeka, spends twO-thirds of his time
scheming how to keep it.
The Republican city central commit
tee will meet Monday evening to confer
with the city candidates.
taking his sons velocipede to the re-
pair shop to be mended.
Civil service examinations for mail
clerks and stenOgraphers were held yes
terday at the federal building.
In a downtown show window a sign
which was manufactured at that store,
stands upside down on an easel
One of Topeka's prettiest girls uses
so much paint that her appearance is
an object of pity among her friends.
The Washburn team won the first
ball game of the season yesterday from
the Palace team, the score being to 4.
Chief Wilmarth made one of the fast
est runs on record yesterday afternoon,
when he went to the North Topeka fire.
A Topeka doctor is authority for the
statement that more germ diseases oc-
cur from bad food than from bad wa
ter.
After using all the colors that could
be thought of, the bicycle dealers proph-
esq that this years wheels will be just
plain black.
Walter Houston, of Council Bluffs, Ia,
was in the city yesterday. He owns
what is considered one of the fastest
horses in Iowa.
James A Swan, foreman of the Santa
Fe brass foundry, was a manufacturer
of shells and projectiles during the war
of the Rebellion.
Twenty persons, the largest number
present in several months, took the civ
building yesterday.
James McElroy, a son of Isaac NIGEL
roy the Santa Fe elevator man, Will
leave on April 1 to join Mains circus as
a bareback rider.
Steinberg's orchestra played at the
T. r. B. dry goods store opening yes
terday instead of Marshall's band as
previously announced.
Miss Jane Nye, who will be gradual
ed next year from the Kansas Medical
Will n
office of DR.. S. E. Sheldon.
John A. Bright has been employed by
John Seaton to act as one of his boom
ers during the campaign prior to the
Republican state convention.
The piles on the south bank of the
river have been driven and the tops are
being connected on the west side of
the bridge to form the breakWater.
Washburn college recently purchased
a lot of fire buckets. When the fire oc-
Cured there a few days ago bucket
brigade was formed and then the pump
broke.
Justice of the Peace w. S. McClip-
took has given Mrs. Martha p. Harris
possession of the Great Dane dog,
MARK Hanna" which was replevined in
Manager George BayIess, of the tele-
phone exchange, says that new sub
scribers' card will be printed soon con-
tanning a revised list of telephones in
Topeka.
college boys are the pent-up quin-
tessence of fzz,'' said a sedate Topeka
man yesterday when he saw four street
cars go by filled with shouting stu
dents.
Jailer John Dagg says he thinks of
getting a slot machine at the city Jail
for the prisoners to use in paying their
fines. He thinks the money would come
easier that way.
Dr. Roby has been presented with
two handsome puppies of the coach
breed by some one unknown and he
would like to thank the donor, if he
knew who it was.
Our esteemed morning contemporary
is beginning to turn yellow after all
these days. It has discovered that the
explosion that blew up the Maine was
from the outside.
The Shearer divorce case which was
filed in the district court, has been dis
missed. The action was brought by
Ida Irwin-Shearer against her hus-
band Joseph Shearer-
A Topeka woman was dining with
minister when oysters were brought in.
"Oh, I love oysters!' she exclaimed.
The minister said: You should love
the Lord and like oysters"
The delegates to the conference of
cOIored preachers, now in session in
North Topeka, for the most part stop
on this side of the river. They walk
each way three times a day.
The geese seen flying around Topeka
q few nights ago were simply making
their annual inspection to see if Tope-
ka had kept her promise and built an
auditorium.-Fort Scott Monitor.
The proprietor of a business house in
Topeka broke his leg, the next in rank
was kicked by a horse, one of the book
keepers had the grip and another had
chill all in one week.
General Manager ]. ]. Frey of the
Santa Fe will return Sunday with his
family from Dallas, Tex. Mrs. Frey and
children have been spending the winter
in New Mexico and Texas.
Merchants are complaining that po-
licemen on the Kansas avenue beats do
not watch their business in regard to