The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-23

be chairman of the Republican com
mittee was a joke.
Paul Nesky. charged on two counts
with selling liquor. pleaded guilty to one
in the district court yesterday and the
other count was dismissed.
A private exhibition of the b~iograph
pictures, which will form the attraction
at the Crawford theater next week, will
be given at the theater tonight.
A team from the Topeka Business col
lege defeated a team from he insane
asylum in a game of baseball Tuesday
afternoon. The score was s to Z.
They do strange things and they say
strange things on the midway is now
the popular refrain IN the
hood of Fifth and quincy streets.
The work of vandals was discovered
in Grace Cathedral Sunday evening just
before the evening service. Damages to
the extent of about 500 were done.
Black, Laird & Blackman nave been
given the contract for plumbing the
new city hall for gas. Their bid was
$49S. The mex lower bid was $3.50.
The city has received a proposition
from Kansas City for the sale of two
dynamos which have been used by that
city. The proposition will be investi-
gated.
Mr.. C. S. Sutton. the newly appointed
auditor of the Santa Fe lines west o.
Albuquerque, will leave Friday for Bos-
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officers.
The Topeka tennis players AVE un-
| eerthed their duck trousers and have
come out Of the winters abiding place
for a urn at the game at Tenth and
Fillmore.
Louis f. Strauss. late of Denver.
Colo, has purchased the Star employ
ment and rental agency at 107 East
Seventh, room 4, Central National bank
building.
Mr.. Joe Williams, private secretary to
superintendent Dolan of the middle III
vision of the Santa Fe. who has been
i'll in this city. will return to Newton to-
morrow.
The tenth biennial reunion of Crock
er's Iowa brigadewill be held atKeokuk,
Iowa, September 26 and 81. Several ex-
members of the brigade reside in Shaw
nee county.
The state historical society has secur-
ed the original manuscript of the speech
delivered by William H. Seward in ia
vor of the admission Of Kansas into the
Union.
Thomas Hughes. candy maker at Rig
night. AS he told no one of his inten-
ton to cave, his friends are somewhat
anxious about him.
Staff Captain Potter of Kansas City
will lecture in the Salvation Army hall
Thursday evening on The Army Work
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in Japanese costume.
Superintendent Davidson announces
that on June 5, 6, Z, an examination will
be held in room 5 of the High school
building for the teachers of the public
schools of the city.
The State Temperance union is en-
deaVoring to raise 81. 900 Pledges to
the extent of $1,000 have already been
made. Three pledges each for $1DO were
made and one for $1,000.
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the bridging for the purpose of strength
ening the state library floors as some
thing awful. People at work in the var
ious offices complain constantly but 1t
does no good.
Frank Thomas, S. B. Isenhart, David
Overmyer, Oscar Krauss, Tom Haniey
and S. T. Cromwell. went to Wichita
Tuesday as delegates to the Democratic
convention. Major A P Shreye and d
H. Morgan accompanied the party.
The delegates to the national confer
ence of corrections and charities com
plain of the treatment they receive il
Topeka hotels. The Topeka hotels arr
as good and larger, too, than those II
the towns from which a majority o
Z these delegates come.
A Topeka man coming home from
Carbondale a few nights g sDsn
eight hours on the road. The team
stuck in the mud south Of town n Ia
? was compelled to walk in and get
? second team to pull the first one out
H. z. Adams. an old soldier who ex
5 perienced the ~hardships of Anderson
, vile prison, is seriously i'll with hear
= trouble at his home, 1920 Clay street.
Bishop Millspaugh will confirm tn
2 usual class of Bethany college youn'
f ladies tomorrow, Ascension Thursday.
Three carloads of implements to b
used in grading were received in To
r peka yesterday by Will Bradbury @
< the firm Of Bradbury & Bradbury, con