The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-10
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

weather.
Dr. H. C. Miner will spend next week
| in Omaha
Many country schools will commence
| work on Monday.
Bethany college will open for the
| winter next Wednesday.
Ex-Councilman E. B. Whaley is now
| selling books in Denver.
Reports from RossvilIe say that viii
| lage now supports two saloons.
Chas. Joslin is now a member of the
drug firm, The Sim Drug company.
Mr.. Edward Wilder, treasurer of the
| Santa Fe, has returned from Texas.
County Commissioner Williams has
! returned from the Omaha exposition.
Many people who have open fire places
had fires in them last night and this
morning.
Santa Fe. returned this morning from
New Mexico.
Carl Welding will return today from
Great Bend where he has been spending
several days.
Dana c. McVicar has opened a law
office on the second floor of the Column
bian building
Mr. w. A. Hodges, general purchas-
ing agent of the Santa Fe, was in To-
peka yesterday.
Crook Wright is no longer the star
boarder at the city Jail. His work sen
tence has begun.
There is some talk of putting in steam
heat in the city Jail If so, the Edison
steam will be used.
Commission men prophesy that po-
tatoes will be higher in price this winter
than they were last.
The assignment of teachers for the
city schools will be made this after
noon by superintendent Davidson.
A. M. Roberts has resigned his posi-
ton as postmaster at Wanamaker
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Ernest Simon, of the car service de-
partment of the Santa Fe, left today to
spend vacation at his home in Hoyt.
Lee Jones, one of the shining lights of
the K. K. MINISTRIES, says that he has
made his last appearance on the stage.
H. G. Dietrich, tracer clerk of the
Hall LithOgra phing company, has re-
covered from an attack of malarial
fever.
A good likeness of Miss Lottie Bowes,
Charlotte Crane" appears on the
front page of the last issue of the ORA
matte News.
number of Topeka Shriners will go
to Omaha next Tuesday. Tuesday and
Wednesday are Shriner days at the
Omaha exposition.
Clarence Hill, a young man employed
on Col Alexander's farm west of the
city, fell out of a hay loft yesterday and
fractured his arm.
Several ponchos are used by people
sliNlnS III 4OpGkd. Inc pOHCnOS are
about the only things that the recruits
left to be remembered by.
There is an organization in Clay Cen
ter known as the kansas Jack Rabbit
Packing company" of which Sam
LangwOrthy is manager.
The Soldiers Relief society of Kan
sas has turned over to the Salvation
Army hospital all supplies left on hand
amounting to some 500 worth.
Mrs. Mamma Lane has gone to Lex
ington. KY, where. her son Fred who
belongs to the Twenty first Kansas
regiment is sick with typhoid fever.
Ida jerks has filed a suit for divorce
in the district court asking to be legally
separated from her husband, Amos D.
jerks. They were married october IA,
1888
Miss Linda R. Haines principal of
Polk school, who was called to Waynes-
vile, O., several days ago by the ser
ious illness of her father, will return
today.
The KarnivaI Knights have unan-
imously voted u packages of breakfast
food, won by them as third prize in the
Labor day parade, to the Salvation
Army hospital.
The loud explosions yesterday that
sounded like cannons being fired came
from the Santa Fe shops where riVets
were blown from their places in old
boilers by dynamite.
Chief Strauss says that he gets
him of joints and disorderly houses but
fail to sign their names. He says he
pays no attention to them unless signed
J. B. Trinder, mayor of Syracuse, has
dismissed his complaint against the
Santa Fe alleging excessive freight
rates. He says he is satisfied that the
rates are as low as the road can afford.
The city board of education will not
admit children under Z years OF age
to the city schools this year but they
will continue to draw their share of the
school fund for every child over years
old.
Mr.. S. R. Ricaby, who was associated
with Mr. l., NJ Crawford in the man
agement of the Crawford circuit for
time last season, is now in advance OF
Harry Corson Clarke in w hat Hap
pened to Jones"
Mrs. Carrie BeIlmayer has filed a
cross petition in the district court in
answer to Henry Bellmayer's petition
for divorce. She asks that she pc given
the custody of her two-months-old child
which her husband took from her when
they separated. She also asks that ne
be made pay the costs in the case
Peter and Lewis Sells, through their
attorney, Howell Jones, nave nIed a mo-
ton for a transference of their case
from the district court to the y; ?,
circuit court. This is the case in which
Willie Sells sues his uncles for $15O,OOO
damages for alleged defamation OF
character.
The Atchison Water company has
filed an appeal from the Atchison coun-
ty district court to the court of appeals.
Judgment was rendered against the
company for 81 900 in favor of Mr.. ana
NTrq r IT Price for the drowning of
their SON. They asked $4,000 damages
and were awarded $1,000.
Liveryman U. B. McCurdy has dis
missed his suit against Mrs. G. 5. SUIT
ton which he appealed from the JusIIce
co11r+ He paws the costs. He sued in
Justice McCHntocl's court for $50 which
he claimed was due him for carriage
hire in addition to the regular contract.
He lost the case and appealed