The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28
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Judge Foster will go to Fort Scott
to hold court Monday.
Col Fred Funston is a former Sunday
school pupil of Mrs. Annie L. Diggs.
The enrolment at Topeka high school
is 572, which is the largest yet recorded.
The latest drink at this joints is "tin
roof" The main ingredient in it is
rum.
Frank Durein will move the residence
at 235 Van Buren, street to 2O9 Polk
street.
A Topeka jointist said today: 1--WE
have had to come back to the peep
hole at last
c. S. Hoods bicycle was stolen Tues
day night, and he has notified the po-
lice department.
The pupils at the high school now
spend 20 minutes every morning sing
ing patriotic songs.
The high school chorus will give a
concert Friday evening at the high
school auditorium.
Capt. Dan Wyatt says that he will go
to the war in any capacity the govern
ment will take him.
A flag was raised over Turner hall
Wednesday afternoon after appropri-
ate patriotic exercises.
About half the men who are married
by Probate Judge Dolman wear their
hats during the ceremony.
The place of holding the Populist
convention Will D0 III
politan hall. The time is IL a.
DR.. H. z. Gill will inspect the diaries
in and around Topeka with a view to
ascertaining the sanitary conditions.
The high school graduating class has
in it 81 pupils. 1t is the largest senior
class in the history of the school,
Terrence Ewart has returned from
Kansas City and will take a position in
his fathers lumber office in this city.
A Topeka tailor has received orders
for a number of uniforms by the volun-
teer officers already appointed by Gov
ernOr Leedy.
The Throop and National hotels
ought both to have fagstaffs. Let a
patriotic subscription be taken up
among the guests.
The south bank of the river near the
bridge has been much improved by the
filling done by the city. 1t will be
further improved.
A Topeka man says that if Col. David
Overmyer will only make one of his
speeches before a battle his men will
never quit fighting.
The circus season will soon open, but
as yet none of the greatest combined
shows on or off the earth" have asked
for dates in Topeka
Don Sebastian, of Chicago, is visit
ing in the city. And he is a patriotic
young American in spite of his name,
a son of John Sebastian.
Principal Williams of the high school
teers here will have a tendency to de-
moralize the city schools.
G. c. Clemens has decided not to go
to war. Il am so deaf L wouldn't know
when it was time to run away" he says
in explanation of his decision.
The building at 525 Topeka avenue
was damaged to the extent of $25 by
fire Wednesday morning at o'clock
The origin of the fire was incendiary.
Railroad Commissioner William Camp
bell was knocked down by a team near
Ninth and Kansas avenue late yester-
day afternoon and severely bruised.
An application will be made to Gov
ernor Leedy at once for the pardon Of
Walt Richards, the jointist who was
sentenced to the county Jail for 60 days,
Wednesday.
J. Frank Sherman, George Sharitt's
clerk at Wichita, is an expert on hand
writing and testifies in all government
cases where the question of authorship
of letters is considered.
The storage shed at Twelfth and
Western avenue has been torn down
and the material is being used to build
another shed adjacent to the livery sta
BILE short distance west of it.
John ]. ingalls, was invited to deliver
the principal address at the commence
school, but he has replied that it will
be impossible for him to be here.
The grocery store at the corner of
Topeka avenue and ST. John street,
was burglarized Tuesday night. Canned
fruit, tobacco and other provisions were
taken. The police department was no
titled.
Mr.. H. NJ. Payson of Portland, Me,
president of the Salina and Winfield
waterworks companies, visited Santa
Fe officials in this city Wednesday. Mr..
Payson has been looking over his Kan
sas interests.
John P. ST. John will devilver an adj
dress on Free Silver and the War at
Hamilton hall next Monday evening.
The address will be under the auspices
of the Free Silver Republican league of
this city and will be free.
Police Judge Atchison took pity on
John Shadbolt, man 76 years of age,
who was brought before him on the
charge of drunkenness, and discharged
him. Shadbolt had fallen down several
times during his spree and bruised his
face severely.
Bob Ransom, the colored city prison
er who tried to escape from the stone
pile gang and was shot in the arm by
Guard Roberts, is nursing a very sore
arm in the Jail room. The bullet splin-
tered the bone and made a serious
wound.
J. w. King and c. w. WILSON, both of