The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-22
LOCAL SUMMARY.

from leaving the Roads.
LOCAL SUMMARY.
The telegraphers' strike on the Santa
/ Fe system is still on. Representatives
| Of the different railroad organizations
take a hand and request that steps be
| taken towards mediation. The different
representatives go to Chicago to con-
| suit with Vice President Barr Of the
| Santa Fe system.
Joseph Hoefner, a Russian, falls upon
his baby while in a drunken condition
and kills it. The coroner's jury finds
that he is guilty of murder and he is
arrested and put in Jail awaiting trial
His wife attempts to protect him.
Ex-Governor Leedy will move to
Salem, Ore, where he will reside. Be
comes state organizer for an insurance
benefit order.
Joe Downie a four-year- boy, in
haIes the fumes from gasoline can and
narrowly escapes death.
Engineer Mcclure addresses a big
meeting in the Auditorium and tells the
story of his life. Arraigns the young
men of today
Populists meet and discuss ways and
means of continuing the work of or
ganization during coming two years
State Superintendent of Public IN
structiOn Nelson recommends that leg
islature empower state school textbook
commission to authorize changes in
textbooks.
Temperance workers decide to hold
regular weekly meetings during the
Clay Center makes renewed effort to
secure the new asylum from the legis-
lature
Jacob Karlin, Russian, elected
county clerk of Ellis county, forfeits the
Office because he did not take out
naturalization papers until after cleo
ton Has lived in Kansas IL years
Senator John T. CLANCY to be chair
man of ways and means committee.
Announcement creates Juror in Baker
camp.
Railroads make small concession to
Kansas millers- Restore privileges on
domestic shipments.
Petitions are presented to city council
to pave Western avenue.
Senator James w. Tapp, Of Wichita,
talks about labor unions.
The Parkhurst-Davis Mercantile COM
pany to have new five story building
viii be erected by Joab Mulvane.
Collection of fees at state institutions
to be abolished. State auditor working
on a plan to stop it.
w. Il Reed searches for a home for
his five day old baby and is successful.
Mrs. King, colored, who just recovered
from smallpox, walks from Garnett to
Topeka. and is put in the pest house.
c. @. Johnson, a dray man, takes
arsenic and dies after great suffering
Dependency caused by drink the cause
Pool Grinstead thinks he will be ac-
Quilted on the charge OF violation on the
postal laws as charged by the grand
jury.
Louis James. of the James-Kidder
company, submits to an interview
Prof. Woodland delivers an entertain
ing lecture in the high school on the
subject of liquid air. Some peculiar ex-
periments.
Katherine Kidder made a countess by
imperial decree. appears with Louis
James in "A Midsummer Nights
Dream
Morton A1baugh threatens to sue John
C. Pollock, of Winfield. to collect cleo
fion bet made with Mack Love.
David OVermyer wants Fusion nomi-
nation for United States senator
Stormont hospital is partially destroy
ed by fire. Patients are all rescued. Loss
about $4,000
Thomas Horribly. a former citizen of
Topeka, returns from Klondike worth
STE, Goo
United States government to take a
hand in the joint fight in Topeka Joint
lists must show government license.
The state military board recommends
that soldiers of Twentieth Kansas who
paid their way from San Francisco be
reimbursed.