The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-10
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS

There is an epidemic Of measles in
PotWin.
DR.. John Work is visiting his parents
in this city.
The people will not be wearied by the
Hillmon case for at least six months.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Baker are the
parents of a son, Nestor Sheafor Baker.
The Topeka wooden mill is opening
city office on Kansas avenue near
Sixth.
for the session of the Order of the East
ern Star.
DR.. A A. Sharpe, of Larned, is at
tending the knights Templar conclave
in Topeka
Mr.. F. B. Barnes of Rock Creek, Kan
sas, spent Monday with his father and
sister in this city.
Harvey Livermore, of St Louis, is
making a visit in Topeka, the guest of
Oscar Woolverton.
The Topeka railway carshed walls
are nearly completed, are ready for the
roof, which will be of iron.
Seth Hammell of Topeka will proba-
bly, be appointed apothecary for one of
the Kansas regiments.
DR.. G. P. Ashton has returned from
Athens, O., where he was called by the
death of his mother, ten days ago
The Topeka delegates to the State
Federation of clubs went to Ottawa
this morning to attend the annual con-
VentlOn-
w NJ Thompson, who is an old Kan
san, says that he remembers one spring
since he came to Kansas that was
worse than this
Judge Williams has appointed Sam
uel Maher receiver of the Kansas as
sets of the Kansas City Safe Deposit
and Savings bank.
J. B. Bartholomew, who had an oper-
alton performed for an injured foot six
weeks ago, is able to be out of doors
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Dick Chapman, who was convicted of
stealing cattle from farmers in Silver
Lake township, has been sentenced to
two and a half years in the peniten-
tiary.
DR.. D. B. Eastman, who is the best
informed man in Kansas on insanity,
is always a member of the jury in the
probate court when insanity cases are
tried.
B. P Williams, ex-treasurer of the
Oakland school district, was given a
verdict in the district court. He was
charged with using $500 of the school
funds.
A patriotic service was held at the
First Christian church Sunday even
ing. A patriotic address was delivered
by the pastor, and national songs were
sung.
This evening at the North Congrega-
tiOnal church temperance meeting
will be addressed by Rev. A. M. Rey-
nolds, pastor of the Westminster Pres
byterian church.
Rev W. L. Grant, pastor of the col
ored Baptist church of this city, deliv-
cred a lecture on the DUTY of the Col
ored Men in the Present Crisis" at
Wichita last night.
w. H. Fisher of 1901 East Fourth
street, has been notified that his son
Harry, who formerly lived in Topeka,
was killed in a railroad accident at
Boulder on May 8.
Col. P NJ. Hoisington is captain of the
Knight Templar drill corps of Newton,
which arrived in Topeka today and will
contest for the prize in the annual en-
campment of the order.
Mr.. A. c. McKitrick, for several
years employed in the office of auditor
of freight receipts of the Santa F'e, has
taken a position with the Pueblo
Smelling company at Pueblo, Colo.
musical and literary programme
will be given at the Elks rooms tomor
row night, to be followed by dance
in the physical culture rooms. The en-
tertainment is for the wives and lady
friends of the members.
The total rainfall in Topeka for the
week ending May was 1.S4 inches.Th
greatest rainfall in Kansas for the
week was 4.80 inches at Rome, Sumner
county. The least measured was 81 OF
an inch at Morton county.
The members of the Emporia volun-
teer company passed resolutions thank
ing the people of Topeka who sent pro-
pecially to the State Journal for sug-
costing and helping to make the event
a success.
Every furnishing and sporting goods
house in Topeka has been sold out of
canvas leggings lately. Some of the
soldiers in a hurry to be uniformed,
bought 1eggings, and all the small sizes
were sold to boys who have caught the
uniform craze.
Henry Cowan, the employee at Hap
goods livery barn, who attempted sui
eide Sunday night by swallowing pois-
on, is recovering. Medical aid was pro-
cured so quickly that the poison had
but little effect. He came to Topeka a
few weeks ago.
Resolutions of sympathy and indig-
nation ought to be passed for Private
Bruzo who was kicked in the stomach
and perhaps fatally injured by Smoky
Row toughs although he had nothing to
do with the Camp Leedy outrages. n
dozen other volunteers who were per-
fectly innocent of those bouncings were
also pounded up with gaspipe These
resolutions of Indignation ought to be
more comprehensive.