The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-20
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

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Lightning struck a tree last night near
Sixth and Van Buren,.
Telephone bells were set ringing last
night by the lightning.
Visitors at the Indian reservation report
an abundance of chigres.
The street car track at Sixth and Jack
son streets is being repaired.
Mr.. c. S. Gleed has returned after a
short stay in Boston and New York.
No grand stand will be built for the new
fourth-mile bicycle track at Garfield park
An entertainment for the benefit of the
dale.
A club tournament will be held satur-
day afternoon the courts of the Topeka
Tennis club.
Manager Crawford is negotiating for the
sale of the present scenery of the Craw-
, ford theater.
The street car wires were down in front
of the Grand Opera House last night dur
The maximum temperature yesterday
afternoon in the shade on Kansas avenue
was 1O2 degrees.
General Manager Frey and General Su-
perintendent Nudge Of the Santa Fe are
in New Mexico.
The Swedish Independent club will hold
a meeting tomorrow night at the hall, at
314 Kansas avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Gragert, who reside
five miles north of the city, are the pa
rents of a daughter.
Department Commander Eastman of the
G. A r. will meet the local reunion COM
nittee this afternoon.
The Sons of the American Revolution
ular quarterly session.
A favorite amusement among some men
in Topeka is to speed their horses in the
evenings on the race track.
People in College Hill have been annoy
ed considerably by careless residents al
AS soon as one denomination finishes its
steps in and makes it a continual per
Torrance.
The colored company from Kansas. City,
in command Of Captain Waller, will be
I ted
Kansas City.
The gardener at the state house cuts
bushel of flowers every day. They are
distributed among the women employees at
the state house.
troll Driver Harry E. Kelley is a good
penman and the permanent records are
now made by him
The electrical storm last night was re-
sponsible for the burning out of many
! telephone and electric light wires in diff
ferent parts of the city.
There was more than financial redress
| to W. J. Costigan in the sale yesterday of
the e: II: Snow printing plant 1t was
The patriotic entertainment arranged
| for last evening on the lawns of Colonel
postponed on account of the rain.
There is city ordinance which gives
person the right &c, kill chickens which
| annoy him, and stin not half the people
who keep chickens keep them penned up.
The court house does not present its
| that many Of the county officers are now
| out campaigning for the primaries Sat
l urday.
The electric light at the intersection of
Fifth and Lincoln streets burns about half
| the time. John Marshall seems to be IN
able to do anything with this troublesome
! light. 1t needs a new wire or new
something.
Mr. E. L. Copeland and DR.. W. n. West
| will return Saturday after trip through
| the east. They attended the National
! Whist congress as delegates from the To-
| peka whist club.
| H. B. F1eharty, deputy state. oil in
spector, and r. NJ. Ruggles, Topeka corre-
| spondent of the Kansas City World, will
| leave this week. for Salt Lake City to
| spend a ten days vacation.
On August 1 Jackson'S Military band
will furnish music at Garfield park. There
will be music also by the combined colored
! bands of Topeka, St. Joseph and Kansas
! City. It will be a fitting Emancipation
day celebration.
Stanley Evans. a, former Topeka. boy
who attended Washburn college for a
riders, having Joined the regiment in
Texas Evans parents still reside here.
He was president of the State Oratorical
association in 1895.
No settlement has yet been made in the
T. r. B. dry goods store case The goods
attached by Marshall Field & Co are
office. The stock has been appraised.
Claims in excess of the value of the stock
have been filed.
DR.. J. D. Countermine, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church, will preach
Sunday evening upon the subject: THE
Relation of the Newspaper to the Cos
sermon to reading the answers made by
Topeka newspaper men.
The annual meeting of the Shawnee coun-
ty w; c. T. q. will be held at the NJ. E.
church, corner Seventh and Lime streets,
Friday, July p, from 1890 a. m; to 2:SO
p. m. President J. w. Gleed of the State
Temperance union will give the evening
address. Members and friends are re-
quested to bring basket dinners.