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

in Topeka
The maximum temperature yesterday
was 81 degrees.
The board of education meets in reg
uIar session this evening.
The talk about a base ball team in
Topeka has been revived.
This week is the time to buy straw
berries. They will soon be gone.
The board of county commissioners
met today as a board of equalization.
Clerk w. H Thompson of the appel
late court has returned from Seneca.
Terrence Ewart has started into the
lumber business on East Fourth street.
The worst road to be found around
Topeka is that leading to Cages lake
on Sixth street.
The Shawnee County Normal insti-
tute opened this morning at the high
school building.
Special children's services were held
at the Salvation Army tent, Sixth and
Quincy streets, Sunday.
The bids for putting in the new di-
agOnal walks in the state house grounds
will be opened Thursday.
r Ex-Attorney General Dawes prom
ises to tell some startling things when
the Evans libel case comes to trial.
The Kansas Christian Endeavor
union holds the annual state conven-
ton in this city commencing Wednes-
day.
a marriage license has been issued
to Frank Peck, aged 81 years, and
Annie Wright, aged q years, both of
Topeka.
The festive fly is about six weeks late
on account of the rainy season but the
advance agents are here and the whole
show will be along soon enough.
James Kerr, a young man who lives
in Lowman Hill, had a narrow escape
from drowning in Mission creek Sun
day. He was saved by Oscar Naylor.
The Rev. Chas. NJ. Sheldon and fam
lily left today for Colorado to spend
several months. The pulpit will be
filled by supplies during the summer
Ten car loads of doctors passed
through Topeka yesterday on the Rock
Island bound for Denver to attend the
meeting of the American Medical as
ISOLATION.
Along the north side of the river to
Calhoun bluffs is one of the favorite
drives around Topeka Every body who
visits it says what a model site for a
summer hotel.
The board of railroad commissioners
has arranged to inspect an interlock-
ing system at Hutchinson, Wednesday,
and incidentally to attend the Republi-
can state convention.
Bob Cushenberry, the colored prisoner
now awaiting trial for assault with in
tent to kill, is also suspected of the
murder of the city marshal of Cameron,
Mo, about year ago.
Unless the sheriff's force stops ar
resting the jointists the town will be
overrun with restaurants. From the
Joint business to the restaurant is an
easy step and the side boards and bars
work as well in one place as the other.
James S. Coe says that it takes a
man with a great deal of the martyr
about him to run base ball team IN
Topeka and as he is not that KIND OF a
man he refuses to have anything to do
with base ball. He was one of the man
ayers of last years team
Frank Morrow deposited So with the
police for having left his team on KAN
sas avenue without first having h1tched
it. The policemen have been given
strict orders to arrest all who leave
teams standing unhitched on the
streets. Several runaways have oc-
CURED lately which were traced to this
cause.
of a practical joke Satur7
day night which caught several would%
be volunteers. He pretended to be re-
crlIiting officer of volunteers and sew
eral Young men on lower Kansas ave
nue. presented themselves to him for
enlistment.
At Washburn college Saturday even
ing was held what is known as a
sing" About 100 students assembled
at the west steps of the chapel pullolng9
songs. Will Letson was chlef conduc-
for Everything from My Bonnie Lies
over the Ocean" to ON the Banks OF
the Wabash Far Away" was sung
Whom Patrolrnan Rucker attempted
to arrest ode Dupree in Smoky Row
Yesterday afternoon, the latter stuck
his revolver in his trousers pocket ana
started to run. The revolver was us
taro-s5 BURNING the colOred mans
body and tearing a hole in his trousers
He was arrested for having made
disturbance in Smoky Row carrier III
the afternoon.
At SIS o'clock Sunday afternoon fire
men were called by telephone to the
residence of A A Robinson, at 80
TYLER street, to extinguish a fire caused
from the ash pit under the Kitchen
range. The pit had become intensely
heated and had set fire to woodwork
in the kitchen. The hot ashes were re-
moved and the fire put out with the
aid of chemical engine No. 2. The dam