The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-12
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS

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Police Matron Thorpe says she is in
| need of shoes for poor people.
"Pudd'nhead WILSON, which was
| booked for the Crawford theater Sat
| urday evening, has cancelled.
The Washburn college base ball team
| has not been successful this season.
| They are particularly weak in batting
| Horace Swayze, Lutte Wikidal, Reu-
| ben Spivey and Roland Medlicott have
enlisted in the Atchison volunteer COM
pany.
One of the most attractive windows
! in Topeka is that of the Hub Clothing
| company, which has a display of lodge
| robes.
| Nearly everyone in Topeka has re-
| ceived a check for four cents from a CT
| gar company to advertise a brand of CT
| gars.
The receipts are so large at police sta
| ton that a cash drawer with combi-
4 nation lock has been placed at the jail
| er's desk.
| The entrance to the Crawford theater
| is to be remodeIed this summer. An
| awning will be built from the entrance
| to the curbing.
| DR.. McCurdy's suit against Mrs. SUIT
| ton on account of Fall Festival ex-
I penSeS has been continued for the term
| in the district court.
| One Topeka hardware merchant yes
| terday sold % revolvers by o'clock in
| the evening. Most of the purchasers
] were volunteer SOluleES.
| Should the weather permit, MarshalPs
band will give the first of a series of
J open air concerts at Garfield park Sun
| day, beginning at o'clock.
Mr.. NJ. D. Henry, chief clerk in the
office of Superintendent Barnes of the
Southern Kansas division of the Santa
Fe at Chanute, is in the city.
The new arrangement of the jailer's
desk at the city Jail allows of much
more freedom in searching prisoners
a fo Of hot If
fects.
Manager Crawford has two large
portraits of the late tragedians, Booth
and Barrett, which he will place in
prominent positions in the Crawford
theater next season.
When the state university, college of
Emporia and Manhattan agricultural
college volunteers arrive in Topeka to-
day, they will be consolidated and will
then elect their commissioned officers.
There Is talk of reviving the Topeka
Press club Mr.. H. A. Heath, who was
president of the old club, has asked the
Commercial club for the use of its
rooms in the event the club is reorgan-
lied.
The Committee of Seventeen might
secure some evidence against the joint
lists by consulting the provost guard at
Camp Leedy. They make the rounds
every night gathering up Stragg1erS.
Louis Charowhas has been arrested
by United States Marshal Sterne for
selling liquor without a government Ii
cense. Charowhas makes business for
the courts when they haven't anything
else to do.
One of the handsomest flags in the
city, mounted on flag pole, is upon the
printing house of Hall & Co., on Jack |
son street. More Topeka buildings
should have fagstaffs. 1t is the only
right way to fly a large flag.
S. c. Garrard of the probate judges |
office has invented a new war button. |
Above a cut of the Cuban and Ameri- |
can flags are the words Remember the |
Name and below them the date of the |
declaration of war |
A F. Williams was the attorney who |
won the case of John c. Douglass VS.. |
the Union Depot company of Leaven- |
worth. Douglass was trying to have the |
Leavenworth depot condemned and won |
the case in the appellate court. Mr.. /
Williams took the case to the supreme |
court and won