The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-07
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

uted today
| Willard n. Hall will return soon from a
| visit in Florida
The directors Of Ingleside will hold a
| meeting next Friday
| The Foster Humane society met last
| night at the Throop hotel.
| A C Rankin win speak Sunday at the
| First Presbyterian church
The EIks will held their annual cleo
| ton of officers on March Is.
The merchants are now receiving their
| spring goods in large installments.
! j. B. Tomlinson, warden of the Kansas
| penitentiary, was in the city today.
| People who keep tab such things say
| a new beer wagon has arrived in town
1t is time for some one to prophesy that
| the backbone of winter has been broken.
The season for house painting has al
| ready been opened In various parts of
| Bishop AIillspaugh has gone to Mime
| sofa to attend the funeral of Bishop Hem
| messy.
The, state board of charities has COM
pleted the monthly tour Of the state in
situations.
Wagons go in the mud to the hubs on
| the unpaved streets where the ground is
| not frozen.
The paved streets are becoming dry
| once more, the first time since the big
| snow storm.
George w. Kanavel. of sedgwick. treas
urer OF the state board of charities, was
| in the city today
The regular March meeting of the Com
mercial club will be held on Wednesday
| evening of next week.
|
| health has been sent to the state printer
| by Secretary w B. Swan
6nsep To 0n De a Wher r he
| revival meetings last week.
The railroad companies are being
| troubled by sneak thieves breaking into
| cars standing on the sidetracks.
People who are expecting no more cold
does not real Iu begin Until March q.
The Twenty-third Kansas regimental
band has 26 members Leander North
| ington has been elected chief musician.
L. c. Bagley, of the Santa Fe tele-
graph office, has been called to Mani
toba, B. c., by the death of his mother.
The insurance companies doing business
| in Kansas are RENTING to the insurance
department their fremen's fund tax for
The, high school duck pin team de-
feated the T.. A. a. team on the Y. M: e;
A. alleys last night by the score of 1,246
The Clara Mathes Stock company will
open an engagement of three nights at
Monday.
A number of Topeka people. including
several Twentieth Kansas boys vii at
morrow evening.
The city engineers department is noti-
dylhg properly owners to trim thelr, trees
by the city ordinances
The case against Walter NJ. Thompson
their sidewalks will be tried Saturday
morning in police court.
The, Wills Brothers and their company
theater last hight An audience of fair
size saw the performance.
There are now four clerks in the money
still the department is having hard work
keeping up with the rush.
A J. Mcdonald has filed his final ac-z
count as administrator OF the estate OF
| r. U. Farnsworth in the probate court
" and has been discharged.
A man claiming to be soliciting aid for
I 1s-1 aft tod -fea ma
of trousers from the tailor shop of G.
Schmidt Tuesday evening.
Two justices of the peace were named
by Governor Stanley Tuesday: James
McGhie, for Vermillion. Marshall county !;
H. NJ. Frazier, for Clay Center
The permanent school fund commits
sioners have purchased $4,000 in bonds
issued to secure funds for the state bind
ing Irvine plant at the penitentiary.
Tom Hurley, who was arrested for
breaking into W. l. Osborn's store on
claimed he was drunk at the time.
Mabel Jackson, a homeless colored girl,
bate court Yesterday afternoon and will
be sent to the girls industrial school at
Beloit.
The fact that English dealers demand
corroborates the report that Queen Vic
flour.
A box kite became stranded on the cleo
trio wires at Fifth street and Kansas av-
parties were ORGANIZED among the BOYS
who saw it.
A NJ. Thomas has filed a motion for a
and Burley Hines, who were sentenced to
ID years in the penitentiary for highway
robbery.
Employees of the city engineering de-
paGtmeent are looking up the houses Which gfl
harad ~ 10 1oti ft,,iDp ne oTners 10 r1It
! the right number on them.
: The fact that the national Democratic
; this year is developing candidates for po-
sitions of delegates in every township
where there is a Democrat
A half dozen efforts have been made to
get s4ne one to run TOT Fepre5entat1ye n
NIcKeever, but thus far all efforts to push
a victim into the race have failed.
Judge Hazen has overruled the motions
lin against the city for damages. Both
plaintiff and defendant had asked for a
new trial, but Judge Hazen refused them
both
! The Commercial club is in a quandary as
: to where to hold its annual banquet this
spring. The club has become so large
t that 1t is difficult to find a. banqueting
= hall large enough to accommodate all the
5 The story which Tom McNeaI told at
. | the young peoples social at the First
The title would indicate that it was about
George Washington.
The Populists at Hutchinson adopted a
resolution calling upon the national COM
mittee of the party to take the national
convention lIOlu olOuA dis anu AlOlu II
in Kansas City in connection with the
7 ! Democratic convention
Mr. A c. Rankin, who will lecture al
the First Presbyterian church under the
: auspices of the Y. NJ, c. A, next Sunday
is a mouder by trade. He spent many
years in a stove foundry in Pittsburg, fill
, ing every position from apprentice tc
] foreman.
e The Kansans included in the non-parti.
: / san reception committee named for the
2 national Democratic convention at Kan
3 sas City are David Overmyer, General ]
= k. Hudson, DIR. S. F. Nicely, E. w. Howe
a Senator w. A. Harris, and ]. Mack Love
: The injunction suits filed some months
e ago by the insurance companies against
I which J. H. Richards. Of Fort Scott, hello
e a claim, to restrain Superintendent of In.
q surance Church from compelling them Il
: pay the claim, were dismissed in the dis
: trict court the controversy between
5 Richards and the companies has been set.