The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-02
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


This is ground hog day
The second term at Washburn college
opens today.
A hand ball court is talked of for the
t. A. A gymnasium.
d. A. Clements is in New York buying
goods to replenish his stock
with SV compiication nie Of diseases. "
Frank Oakley, formerly of Topeka, but
now of Toledo, is visiting here.
The LIQUOR sales reported by druggists
for the month of January were ,129.
The queerest thing about Topeka is that
the chief of police hasn't got an Irish
name
Physicians say that grip is on the de-
crease. The cold weather freezes the mi
The .Elks rehearse Tuesday and Thurs
and Juliet
Al Coyne has been given a position in
gone to that place
Special meetings are now being held
every afternoon and evening at tie First
Presbyterian church.
If the present bookings are carried out
there will be eight theatrical performances
in Topeka next week.
cat Gay Coney Island is booked for
return engagement at the Crawford the
alter next Thursday.
The Elks will entertain Beach & Bow
ers minstrels at social session tonight
after the performance.
John Ritchie is said to be slated for the
position of street commissioner if Frank
Brooks is elected mayor.
light the city. The lowest bid from pri-
vate corporation was $73.
Colonel w. H. Rossington has given Po-
lice Matron Thorpe five tons of coal to be
distributed to worthy poor people.
The. Santa Fes defeated the sunhowers
in duck pin contest at the T. A. A. last
night, the score being ,324 to 1902.
The McLean.Tyler- Hanford organiza ton
comes to the Grand Opera House for two
performances the last of next week.
Mrs. James Smith of 1928 Harrison street
trlPped, on rug WedneSSdsay afternoon
The people of the First ward are regis
tering this week at Kanes drug store.
week only.
But two. candidates for city clerk have
appeared in the field, but there are two
weeks more in which candidates may an
nOunce themselves.
Rev. G. b. Howard, president of the
cdndcf1 = encef ryeYivs at tbs
Parkdale NJ. E. church
A colored soldier of the regular army
accidentally shot himself in the leg, while
riding on a Union Pacific train yesterday,
bound for Chickamauga.
The first prospects of the marble season
vanished with the arrival of the snow;
ana aje n0W y H66iHngl ga Ameed is haT1ng good
The commencement of Lent is but two
weeks off. Ash "Wednesday falls on Feb
early for spring clothes and new bonnets.
The lowest temperature ever recorded by
the Topeka weather bureau was % be-
low, in 1889, and some persons were afraid
that it would be done again this winter.
Jail-breazer Frank Filing spent the en-
tire day, after he escaped, in the hay
loft of the barn belonging to Charles Rob
inson on West Sixth street near Harrison
street.
Charles Robinson, the hack driver, says
that he found the place in the hay in his
stable where Filings hid after he escaped
from all. The stable is less than a block
from the Jail.
E. J. Mcfarland, who has been in the
asylum for ten years private patient,
has been adjudged insane in the probate
court-,a proceeding necessary to make him
a public patient.
Alice Nielsen, who will be seen in 1.-The
Fortune Teller at the Crawford theater
next Monday night, was member of the
choir of one of the Kansas City churches
few years ago.
The condition of John Terrence, chief
clerk in the car service department OF the
Santa F'e. is reported to be somewhat i'm
proved, and the physicians now express
some hope of his recovery.
The band of the Twentieth Kansas
regiment at Manila received a copy of ''At
a Georgia Campmeeting" for Christmas,
and it is likely that the national dance of
the natives will soon be a cake walk.
Now the county officers propose to COM
mence a friendly suit to test the consti-
nationality of the new fee and salary law.
They believe in getting all they can out
of the taxpayers they are supposed to
serve.
stenographer for the house minority to
succeed Miss Julia Fitzgerald. who has
resigned. Miss Fitzgerald has accepted
a position in the Memphis offices at Kan
sas City.
The Kansas City Western league ball
team claims Elmer Stricklett, pitcher, and
Otto Kreuger, third baseman, for the
coming year: Both have played with the
a promising young player when he sees
one.