The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-09
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

H. s. Montgomery has returned from
Chicago.
The Santa Fe bill for transporting
troops was 4,156.19.
State Treasurer Hefebower is at his
farm in Miami county.
The recent rains have delayed the
work on the bicycle track.
Mr. and Mrs. a. c. Heating are the
parents of a son, born last night.
The bicycle repairers complain of
this wet weather. No road riding.
Mr. G. c. Sholes, superintendent of
telegraph of the Santa Fe, is in New
Mexico.
A large number of Topeka people will
soon leave for the west to work in har-
vest fields.
DR.. ]. P. Raster chief surgeon of the
Santa Fe, owns a string of 20 thorough
bred horses.
DR.. ]. NJ. Frankenburger. formerly of
Topeka but now practicing in Kansas
City, is visiting in this city.
Capt J. E. Towers of Co. A, Twen-
tieth Kansas is expected to be here for
recruiting purposes in a few days.
A lantern slide exhibition was given
last night by the Topeka Camera club
in their rooms in the Masonic building.
John McClurg, who has been pard-
oned from the penitentiary is well
known in police circles here as Irish
jack
Dr. c. A. Mcclure has been appoint
ed local surgeon of the Union Pacific
under the new medical association of
the road.
Rev. Maurice J. Bywater, rector Of
the Episcopal church at Pittsburg is
in Topeka and will train the church
choir this evening.
The meeting of the Woman's Home
Missionary society of the First Presby-
terrain church has been postponed on
VentiOn.
Frank Watson will take his orchestra
to Elkhart Lake, Wis, the first of next
month to play at the summer resort
there during the months of July and
August.
A small restaurant near the railroad
tracks that has a regular 'tbefore-de-
war" aunty to do the cooking is becom-
ing quite popular with chop house fire.
QuenterS.
On West Sixth street a carriage ma
ker uses about half the street for stor-
ing his old wagons. The rent costs
nothing, but the street is greatly block
AIDED. The streets belong to the peo-
pie.
Father J. F. Cunningham, recently
named as Catholic bishop of the Con-
cordia diocese, was the second Catholic
priest to be located in Topeka. 1t was
through his efforts that the Church of
the Assumption was built.
Noble Martin, a Rock Island brake
man whose home is in Horton, is at the
Santa Fe hospital in this city suffering
from number of severe bruises In
stepping from the rear of a train Tues
day night he slipped and fell down an
embankment a distance of 20 feet.
The Topeka railway car shed has
been completed, and it is now being
cleared and the transfer table is being
put in. The shed has two entrance
tracks. All the extra cars will be
kept in this shed and it will give room
for the storage of the vestibules which
the company announced it would remove
from the cars as soon as the shed was
completed.
A young man in the office of the au-
d1tor of passenger receipts of the Santa
Fe, who was married this week, was
compelled on the day before his mar
riage to sit at desk decorated with
ribbons, flowers, old shoes and embar-
RAISING signs. BY night he had bIushed
all the color out of his face, and it was
only through heroic treatment that he
was able to appear at the ceremony
the next day. The decoration was the
work of employees in the Office.