The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-17

cleaned off, but there are many which
are yet covered with snow and ice.
The trial of Burley Hines and Mary
Marshall for highway robbery will come
up in the district court next Thursday
H N Bell, of 313 Branner street, has
been commissioned by Bishop Mills
paugh as lay reader for Calvary mis-
sion.
Rev. H. F. Smith will read a paper
before the meeting of the Ministerial
Union Monday morning at the Y. M. c.
A rooms.
State Printer Morgan has returned
from attending the meeting Of the Reno
county Republican central committee al
Hutchinson.
The popularity of MarshalPs band is
shown by the large advance sale for
the concert at the Crawford theater
Tuesday night.
A person always feels colder this
kind of weather after he looks at the
thermometer and finds it very close to
the zero mark.
John w. Breidenthal has returned
from Kansas City, where he read a
ers' association.
There is one thing that the motor
neers of the street cars have to be
thankful for, and that is that they now
ride behind vestibules.
There are about 1000 men in Topeka
LOUSY WHO are saying lOlQ you SO,
referring to the progress of the British
army in South Africa.
A member of the Methodist church
at Maple Hill raided the state house
this week and the state officers were
compelled to subscribe.
Many young women wanting domes-
tic work are making inquiries about
New Mexico with a view of starting a
movement on that state.
The noise of the explosion of the To-
connective boiler at the Santa Fe shops
Friday was heard for several blocks
distant from the round house.
Lieut. E. c. Huddleston, late of the
Twentieth Kansas regiment, is now one
of the stage force of the Crawford
theater. How are the mighty fallen.
Mrs Hilda H. Hardy has been elected
president of the Primary Sunday School
Teachers union in place of Mrs. H. A.
Tice, who has removed to Wellington.
A valentine is waiting at the city jail
for a woman prisoner who left there
Just before it arrived. 1t is horrible
affair and a Jail is the proper place for
it.
It is almost a daily practice now for
the Salvation Army or other kindred
organizations to hold services at the
different departments of the Santa Fe
shops.
Both Of the men who were killed in
the boiler explosion at the Santa Re
shops yesterday were members or the
A. 0. Z. W. and Garried insurance in
that order.
There is a middle aged white couple
on the east side of town neither of
whom can read or write nor tell the
time of day. Their children attend the
public schools.
DR.. Fisk will give an illustrated lee
ture at the First Congregational church
tomorrow evening on the subject, THE
Martyrs of Civilization from Caligula
to Diocletian."
A soldier in the Philippines writes
home that the best present that can be
sent to a soldier is a fruit cake. 1t is
a good diversion from black coffee,
bacon and bareback.
w. w. GaVitt Printing and Publish
ing company have been working their
entire force nights lately to keep up
with the orders received from different
parts of the state.
A Topeka woman came down town
this morning and claims she did not
know it was cold until some one told
her what the thermometer registered.
Then she nearly froze.
The Kansas members of the national
Populist committee leave tomorrow for
Lincoln to attend Mondays meeting.
They are ]. W. Breidenthal w. D.
Vincent and ]. NJ. Allen of Erie.
MarshaI's band will tender John
Philip Sousa and the members of his
band the usual after-concert entertain
ment on the occasion of the visit of
the latter organization here March g.
A Topeka man, F. NJ Spencer, has
been awarded the contract for building
the new school house at Lawrence. The