The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-10

husband. Rev. J. M. Harrington, who
was state house guide at the time of
his death last fall.
''See how clean and fresh that fellow
tennis grounds. Perhaps the rest can't
afford 81 laundry bills every day." re-
marked another.
I'VE have got lots Of things to be
thankful for" said well known poll
tician this morning, as he purchased a
Chauncey NJ. Depew cigar, sold by r.
w. Squires at 1872 Kansas avenue.
]. ]. Kinney, head of the secret ser
vice of the Santa Fe, looks as wise over
a case of stealing Is cents worth of
brass as he does of news of the holding
up of a train.
The new Hurd building on Kansas
avenue, will have concave plate glass
windows in front, and luminous glass
windows in the rear. Luminous glass
is a late invention, and reflects light in
side a building.
The walls Of the new German Cath
Ole church are going up rapidly and
the building is beginning to assume i'm
posing proportions 1t will be one of
the handsomest church edifices in the
city when it is completed.
State Treasurer Grimes, who has
just returned from a trip out to his
home a t Leoti, says that it is much
cooler out there than it is here. He
says that people do not suffer nearly
as much from the heat there as they
do here.
Officer McElroy was thrown out of
buggy in runaway. He's six foot one
way, five foot tother way and he weighs
300 pounds his clothes were torn and
he explained that he tore them on
trolley wire coming down.
Mrs. F. W. BeutIer, of Canton, Kan,
had one of her eyes removed at the Sal
walton Army hospital, this week. The
sight of the eye was destroyed several
years ago by smallpox, and gradual
Inflammation had been going on since
that time.
r. o. Jeardeau, general inspector for
the treasury department, is in Topeka
checking over the expenditures for fuel,
heat, light and other incidental expen-
SeS of the federal building here. This
is necessary in making the annual ap-
preparations for the various buildings.
Mr.. a. A Hurd, Santa Fe attorney
for Kansas, has started a gallery of
general counsels and general attorneys
of the road. The gallery now consists
of lkenesses of Ross Burns, George r.
Peck, F. D. Kenna, John J. McCoOk,
Victor Morawetz and George NJ. Nc
Crary.
People who have business in the third
floor of the federal building these days
wish that arrangements could be made
to have the elevator run. 1t never runs
except when Judge Hook is in the city,
and as he is hardly ever here during
the hot weather the elevator is of very
little use when people need it most.
Ed Dennis, who clerks for Warren NJ.
Crosby, was struck in the back of the
neck Tuesday with a stone which was
pushed through the wall of the store
by workmen who were making repairs
in the wall on the other side. 1t is said
that if the stone had struck him a lit
tie higher it might have resulted very
seriously.
An action has been brought in the
district court by the Rhode Island
Mortgage & Trust company for the col
lection of a note for SO, 100 which has
been running since 1894. It is alleged
that the note was originally given to
the Topeka Commercial-Securi COM
pany, and by it to the Rhode Island
company.
John Kirker has filed suit in the
district court to enjoin Sheriff Cook
from selling his home at sherif's sale.
H. Puetze obtained a judgment against
KirlSer in Justice Wright's court, and
then secured an execution in the dis
trict court for the sale of property in
Walnut Grove which Kirker claims is
his homestead and therefore execution
proof. To stop the sheriff's sale on the
execution, which has already been adj
vertised, Kirker brings the injunction
proceeding.