The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-21
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS

Mr.. J. B. Hayden has returned after a
visit in the south.
Charles Rogers was initiated into the
Masonic order last evening.
Woven wire hammocks are the latest.
Guaranteed not to entangle buttons
1t has got so bad now that even west
wind will not drive away the clouds.
Mr.. James Lewis,s private secretary to
ley.
1t takes four horses to haul ton of hay
that.
The Life Saving Mission has moved from
avenue.
TIL. The members of the college company all
so it seems.
The flower beds in the capitol grounds
are being stocked with flower seeds and
The latest fad in Topeka now is to
fasten rubber cushions on the heels of
shoes to break the jar in walking.
Study in the Home at the Washburn COL
lege chapel next Monday evening.
A Topeka man wished to send an Off
sey and he commenced it Dear Hank
On next Tuesday evening DR.. Gordon of
terrain church on the life of SavonaroIa.
T. a: McNeal has announced his candi-
Arthur Capper viii not be a candidate
Many old soldiers visit Camp Leedy to
watch for the mistakes of officers so that
Dick Zeller confidently expects to receive
orders to report at Washington for exam
nation for the United States regular serv~
w. F. Lakes fixtures for his drug store
az ~ Kansas avenue have been put in
place preparatory to his moving to his
A new wire netting has been placed over
the new, large counter desk at police sta
ton which looks Like the front of wild
animal cage.
The dates for, the Kansas, circuit bicy--
Gle races to be held in Topeka are July
and 2. The Garfield park track is to be
finished by then.
State Treasurer Hefiebower personally
superintends all improvements at the cap
the flower beds.
Rev M. E. Harlan will go to Atchison
Tuesday to take part in the ceremonies-of
installing INSTALL af new pastor in the Christian
Holton June "A to confer the third degree.
Tbs, Northeastern Masonic picnic will be
held there the same day.
o. w. Blood, who has been in Las We
gas for Sc, several months in hopes of Inn
will return to Topeka soon.
Captain Stevenson of the college COM
pany will take his wife and child With him
II he thinks his company will not get into
a fight soon after leaving Topeka.
vd Mr F. " Ellis Tho was for ssTeTa
college, will graduate from the. Chicago
Theological seminary next month.
A force of Y young ladies' Isl, is now at
rooms arranging displays for the kan
sas exhibit at the Omaha exposition.
and Mrs. W. NJ. Stewart, a daughter. Mr..
Stewart was formerly employed in To-
pany.
The will of the late c. ]. Prescott has
been fled lie al the ProPTFty rs iGf6 TO MS ms
be continued by Frank Edison under the
old firm name.
George Rising has been appointed bat
TALON adjutant of the Twenty-second reg
iment, Kansas volunteers. under Junior
Major Case Doster, with the rank of Sec
ond lieutenant.
Out of the 20 days in May just past 10
of them We're rainy, 10 Of them were
The shower of Thursday morning meas
ured .0S of an inch.
1t is said that a difference can be no
ticed in the college company of the Tween
ty-second regiment in the mornings when
all the members wash their faces and
hands with soap and water.
Prof. William Mackenzie of the Chicago
ttneoIoglcaI SEMINAR VIII gINe sSer .Rp-
side the Bonnie Briar Bush at the First
Congregational church tonight.
The latest ruse of r. B. Turner who is
held for forgery in Kansas City. is to
have someone write a letter to the au-
thorities claiming. to have committed the
crimes with which Turner is charged.
The meeting, Of the Topeka Sportsmen's
hall adjourned until Monday night The
rain kept many members away and the
plans for the June shoot were not COM
pleted.
A board of education meeting will be
held sometime next week to hear a report
from the committee appointed to investi-
gate the charges made by Mrs. Henry
Laptad for the whipping of her S-year-old
grandchild at Harrison school.
Bishop ]. S. Mills of Denver, Col, is in
Topeka. He was the last bishop to visit
RotifunI1, Africa, before the murder of
the American missionaries. He will preach
Sunday morning at the United Brethren
hall between Eleventh and Twelfth streets
on Kansas avenue.
A letter received in this city from Con-
gresham N. B. Mccormick states that
for the appointment of Major A. P.
Shreve one of the additional paymaS-
tiers of volunteers. Major Shreve was a
paymaster during the civil war.
The Topeka police have had put into
their hands for apprehension the murderer
Frank Morgan and the assaulter of S. c.
Swartz. They have not been able to find
them. The Sheriff'S force, which is just
responsible and just as incompetent,
does not come in for any roasting" Why
not?
The u carpenters that o. Swanson, the
contractor, took with him from this city
to Omaha to work on the Kansas head
quarters building struck for higher wages
this week The men were contracted with
for 20 cents an hour, but Omaha carpen-
tiers receive 80 cents an hour and the To-
Swanson granted them the 10 cents addi-
tiOnal per hour.
have been a sufferer from chronic
diarrhoea ever since the war and have
used all kinds of medicines for it At
last I found one remedy that has been
a success as a cure, and that is Cham