The Topeka state journal., 1899-11-22
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS

The Salvation army now has a band.
last night.
The county commissioners were in ses-
sion yesterday.
Candidates for county commissioner
next year are becoming thick
business, He bought out Ben Walker.
The Twentieth Kansas globe trOtterS
are now certain the world is round.
Oliver Scott's colored ninstrels will be
at the Crawford theater next Tuesday
It is expected that the Fort Scott term
of federal court will be concluded this
The Rathbone sisters gave a dance in
the Knights of Pythias castle hall last
evening.
w. D. Vincent Of Clay Center was one
last night.
At Lawrence the golf links are laid out
in a corn field. The shocks of corn are
the hazards.
The Santa Fe basketball team won last
score of 16 to 5.
The Knights and Ladies of Security will
give reception to Twentieth Kansas men
on Friday night.
I. T. Lockard has joined the race for
county commissioner to succeed I. P.
Rodgers next year.
Miss Sadie Coe, formerly of the Stor-
mont hospital has taken position at the
Santa Fe hospital
band of 50 pieces to play at their open
ing tomorrow evening.
l.
road, with headquarters at Kansas City,
is in town on business.
A new gas stove has been added to the
equipment of the county jail, to be used
for cooking purposes.
Postmaster G,uthries private office was
given its annual house cleaning during his
absence in Washington
City Clerk J. II. Squires spoke last
night at Lincoln Post hail on the subject
of AndersOnville prison.
Dave Harvey who has been arrested
several times in Topeka, is under arrest
in Chicago for forgery.
The new stone shed at the city prison
does not mean shed built of stone, but
a shed for breaking stone.
Fred CoIver, the former manager of the
Lambardi Italian Grand opera company,
is now visiting in Topeka
Topeka viii have an opportunity tonight
to see a comic opera star of the first mag
nitude, Jefferson De Angels.
Judge Hook will come to Topeka next
week and hold United States circuit court.
1t is expected to begin Monday.
Ralph W. Beede and Miss Elizabeth G.
Thompson were married yesterday by
Dr.. G. S. Dearborn in Highland Park.
The spires on the new German Catholic
church are nearing completion. golden
cross will be placed on each of them.
The revival services at the Presbyter-
ian church Tuesday were conducted by
Rev. Charles N. Sheldon and Rev. a. E.
Wagner
The elevator in the federal building is
running this week on account or the cen
sus examination, 1t has been resting all
summer.
Mrs. Savanna Giles has asked the dis
her husband. Warren Giles. She alleges
desertiOn.
a company to publish a Populist. paper
at Mcpherson has been INCORPORATED. Miss
Anna Fakes is to be the editor This is
H. n. Gaines, ex-state superintendent
of public instruction, is down from Sa-
lima attending the meeting of the Reform
Press association.
The public would like to know what has
become of those smoke consumers which
the legislature ordered attached to the
state house furnaces.
Ed Demoss was once a Santa Fe tele-
graph operator; then brakeman and lat
cific at COffeyyiue.
Wichita's commercial club is trying to
M 8fooy y nov GeElTai bI1s
trying to save himself.
A civil service examination for clerk
nee is being held today. There are 81 ap-
plicants taking the examination
When the <. T. football team plays
the first time for years that a K. u. foot
ball team has played in Topeka
The kind of weather the weather bureau
i fre{s in ..sfic,'' con9iiTiSn hsrG
rain would wash the streets of
MI S. T. Abbott. superintendent of the
southern division Of the Rock Island with
at the Victoria hotel in Chicago
An explosion in the air shaft at the
of coal. The state house supply IS short
and coal famine Is impending at the
insane asylum.
Two civil suits against J. D. Sullivan
have been appealed from the city court to
the district court. George Keller is the
plaintiff in one and L. A StrobeI is plain
tiff in the other.
Charles Crane Of Ottawa passed
through Topeka Tuesday with the re-
mains of his wife who died in Colorado
where she spent the summer hoping TO
improve ner health.
Governor Stanley has gone to Lansing
to inspect the damage done by the boiler
in the penitentiary coal mine air
shaft He was summoned by a telegram
from Warden TomlinsOn.
Josiah Ross who served several years
as a constable and who is now a deputy
under Fred StOnestreet, the cOIored mar
sha1 of the city court, says he viii be a
candidate for county commissioner.
E. T. FerreI, Populist, who was defeat
ed for sheriff of Geary county is contest
ing the election His Republican oppon-