The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-15
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS
Lemons are worth So a case.

Lemons are worth So a case.
| Ex-Policeman Jack King is in town
! in the role of politician.
| Hucllster's wagons have commenced
| Their summer rounds.
James r. Wick will be the stenogra-
| pher in the Collins hearing.
DR.. ]. P. Lewis will return this week
| from ten days visit in Colorado.
| Mr.. H. x. Devendorf, now a resident
of the City of Mexico, is visiting in this
| city.
at the home of her son, Mr. H o.
| Carney.
The children of the Catholic schools
will picnic at the fair grounds next
Tuesday.
Col. Fred Funston stopped in Law
at San Francisco.
The Topeka Y. NJ. c. A. will conduct
a summer Bible camp at Wakarusa
from July 16 to %.
Harry Seabrook has taken a POSITION
IN the office CT the assistant treasurer
of the Rock Island.
The Catholic parochial schools will
close with appropriate exercises at the
school hall next Monday morning.
While recruiting for the TWenty-sec-
ond regiment, Col. Lindsey maneg es to
spend all his nights in Topeka
Climbing up the porch of EFF. Wares
residence on West Sixth street, is one
of the handSOmeSt rose bushes IN town.
Lloyd GarretsOn, son of N. P. Garrett
son, is one of the latest recruits mus
tered into the service in the Twentieth
regiment.
A marriage license has been issued to
@. ]. Roglitz, aged % yearsan Hattie
y. SIENNA, aged 81 years, both of To-
peka.
Ben J. Gum, the Arcadia, Kan, edi-
tor and poet. was in the city yesterday
on A fr.I1T
Democratic convention.
This evening at Washburn college the
president and faculty will hold the an
nua1 reception in the college library
college.
An excursion train of ten Cars was
run from ST. Joe to Topeka over the
Santa Fee this morning for the national
meeting of the knights and Ladies O.
Security.
Superintendent of Machinery John
Player and Master Car Builder John
Hodge OF the Santa Fe, are attending
the Master Car Builders association in
Saratoga, N. Y.
Herbert White, formerly stenogra-
pher in the engineering department of
the Santa Fe, and now with General
superintendent Wells of the Southern
California road, will visit in this city
next week.
Jimmie Robinson, a colored boy, has
been sentenced to the state Reforna-
tory at Hutchinson. He it was who
snatched a pOcketboolz from Mrs Ella
avenue several weeks ago.
The Aston battery of three officers, 80
men and the guns presented by Mill
nonaire Astor to the government, are
their way through Kansas t. rein
force Admiral Dewey at Manila. They
did not pass through Topeka but went
by way of Ottawa.
A well known society young, man at
q fn a nY-Ixy
house on Smoky Row, and after break
ing some window glass, was walked to
police station between two policemen.
He deposited IS and gave a fictitious
name, and all was over.
Jennie May Curliss the incorrigibIe
girl who was sent from Topeka to the
Industrial school for girls at Beloit. will
have to remain in the school Her
mother attempted to effect her release
through o technicality, but the supreme
court held that the proceedings had
been regular.
The board of directors of the Topeka
Athletic association have decided to re-
NIT the dues of all members who have
enlisted in the army and to allow their
membership to continue till their re-
turn. The following are the members
who have enlisted: Clad Hamilton, H.
c. Streeter, Ed Little, E. w. Ellis, H.
A Smith and Lutte Wikidal
Instead of invitations being issued to
guests for the annual BANQUET Of the
Commercial club this year, each mem
Der will be supplied with as many tick
cts as he desires to invite guests al 81 80
per ticket. The dining room of the
Hotel Throop, where the banque- will
be held, accommodates but 125 and it
is expected that this number will be in
attendance at the banquet.
Secretary Anderson reported at the
meeting last night that $218 had been
collected in subscription from the bust
ness men of Topeka to pay for the use
of the camp grounds for the Kansas
volunteers. He said that bills paid UP
to this time, including $3.50 for the
Douthitt tract, amounted to within $21
of this amount, and that a. few small
bills yet unpaid would exhaust this bal
ance.
The board of trustees of Washburn
college met yesterday and elected the
following as members of the board for
the term ending 1901: The Rev. Peter
McVicar, D. d. Topeka: the Rev. Rich
ard Cordley, D. D., Lawrence; the Rev
James G. Dougherty. D. D., Kansas
D., Washington. D. c.; Able B. Whit
ing, Topeka; L. H. Greenwood, Topeka.
E. W. Congdon, who used to live in
Topeka and has relatives here. is on
mis- way here having escaped from pris-
on in Mexico. While there he was sus-
pected OF having stolen 81 900 from
bank, and while being held by the
authorities he shot a guard. He was
sentenced to 20 years in prison. He has
been in prison nine years.
There is a sidewalk on the west side
of Harrison, between Third and Fourth
streets, which the neighbors say would
pool. The city grade was given and the
walk was put down. but the walk next