The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-28
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


The T. A. A. will soon issue a club
directory.
Judge A H Horton has returned
from Washington.
DR.. ]. C. Egelston is now practicing
in Kansas City.
Mrs Annie L. Diggs will speak at I'm
aty church Sunday evening.
Mrs. J. H. Ladd is seriously sick at
her home at 11S6 Clay street.
Swedish revival meetings are being
conducted at 426 Jefferson street.
The police spent yesterday looking for
the escaped prisoner from the county
Jail.
The Ferris Comedians will close their
engagement at the Grand Opera House
tonight.
Eugene S. Quinton has the finest bird
dogs in Topeka. He paid 5000 for one
of them
A farmer named William Cooney, who
lives at Meriden recently sold pacing
horse for $315.
Amos D. Holster has been appointed
postmaster at Silver Lake in place of
c. w. Newkirk.
OF the State Bar association left for
their homes today.
Marshall's band will give their annual
concert at Crawford's Opera House
February 16 and II.
The Daily Legal News in speaking of
the justice courts says "sit all the year
round, night and day.
Frank Brown was bound over in JUS
t1ce Guys court yesterday to stand trial
in the district court for burglary.
The Republican city central commit
tee will meet tonight at the old court
house to fix a date for the city primary.
The Mormons who labored in Topeka
on the street corners for a long time,
are now working the country around
Topeka
Out at Silver Lake new kind of en-
tertainment has been invented by the
ladies of the NJ. E. church. It is might
cap" party.
Pick Smith has consented to be NJ F.
H. in Romeo and Chief Strauss "blood
hounds will be borrowed for Pick to
be master of.
Isaac N. Huntsberger, lawyer from
Toledo, O.. stopped in Topeka Friday to
visit his uncle who is employed in the
pension Office.
E. B. Wood has commenced an action
against the Topeka Journeymen Bar
bers union for $1,000. He claims the
union tried to have him discharged be-
cause he was not member.
The hinges of the big outside doors of
the state house should be supplied with
oil. Every movement of the doors is
now accompanied by wall destructive
to an ordinary persons nerves.
"Calhoun's Bluff" the well known
picturesque place north of Topeka and
the 500 acre farm with it has been sold
to Clate Hummer. The view from the
top of this bluff is the finest in Shaw
nee county.
Judge William Thompson of Burlin-
game, who went to Washington to 1ook
after his chances in the direction of the
federal judgeship, says that it is a diff
cult task for a private citizen without a
strong "pull' to see President McKin-
ley on personal business.
A Topeka Democrat, who is one of
Topeka's orators, said today: 1.-THE
Democrat or Populist who opposes hold
ing the Philippines is a fool If the
question were put to a vote today, ex-
pansion would carry by 5000, 900 ma
jority. 1t is senseless to fight the sent
iment of the American people,
The piano at the Grand Opera House
is in urgent need of tuning. 1t used to
be that every time there was a heavy
rain the water backed up from the sew
er and come up about q foot into the
piano. After these occurrences, it was
always impossible to play anything on
the instrument, but cover the Ocean
Waves "On the Banks of the Wa
bash,'' Rocked in the Cradle of the |
Deep" and other pieces Of an aqueous |
nature.