The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-29
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


Colds seem to be quite fashionable.
Some cali 1t hay fever.
The street railway tracks at the Ouiuton
Heights terminus are being relaid.
n. H Embry. of the Rock Island has
returned from a trip in the west.
Judge Hook returned to Leavenworth
after holding court here Tuesday after
J. A. Swan paid one dollar to the police
court for riding bicycle on the side
walk.
There will be given in the Railroad z.
NJ G. A. parlors this evening a special
song service.
Chief Ramsey was in Hutchinson yes
terday, and no joints were raided during
his absence.
Henry Marker has asked for a divorce
from Eva Marken- He gives no reasons;
he just wants it.
Charles K. Holiday has ordered a shirt
waist. 1t remains to be seen whether he
will wear it or not
Thomas II. Grishanl the fusion nominee
for congress in the Fourth district, speaks
at Harveyville today.
Chester 1. Long, the Seventh district
congressman, has returned from q bust
ness trip to Chicago
Jackson's Twenty-third regiment band
will play at the Modern Woodmen log
rolling tomorrow at Alma
Ben Hebard. of the Rock Island treas
urer's office, has returned from two
weeks vacation in the east.
The addition to the city prison has been
completed and is ready for occupancy as
soon as the council accepts it.
The McKnight-Hessin controversy has
been submitted to the election board,
which will render a decision soon.
court yesterday for interfering with 'i an
officer in the discharge of his duty.
Guilford Dudley, jr., left yesterday to
e Rfne before sSoreat entering Yale this fal.
c. e. Carroll, of Alma, in the city to-
day, reports prospects of Republican sue
cess in his home county never better
VIII Gilbert and Carl Dwenecke, two
runaway boys, from St. Joseph, were
caught by the police and sent back home.
Chief Justice Dester of the Kansas SUI
preme court will deliver a political speech
at Turner hall in Atchison, September s.
The Epworth League watermelon social
There was a big crowd which enjoyed the
fun.
maha county, has been appointed Justice
of the peace to succeed b. w. Thomas,
who resigned.
The city prison was given a thorough
ever a woman prisoner is found who Is
willing to work.
send out 100000 copies of the Kansas City
platform, also 100000 copies of Bryan's In
dianapolis speech.
The state temperance convention to be
held in January in the Auditorium will
be opened with a mass meeting to be ad-
dressed by Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon.
The men and women employed at the
state soldiers home at Atchison have or
ganized a ball team. The women play
There are seven women locked up in
the city Jail, six colored and one white.
This is the largest and toughest" lot or
women that has been in for some time
A colored man named Noble was fined
$4 for failing to pay tax on a dog The
dog tax collector has decided to prosecute
people who own dogs and yet decline to
pay the tax.
city Clerk squires continues to receive
INQUIRIES concerning the sale of the water
works bonds. The eastern bond buyers
want them and are anxious to learn when
they will be issued.
Tuesday afternoon q jointists were be-
fore the police court and their cases were
dismissed. as there was no evidence The
cases were the arrests which were made
during the raids August %
Fritz Durein, one of the arrested joint
lists, spent a night in jail. He is the first
give bond Immediately upon being taken
to the station. Judge Magaw could not
be found.
A Topeka married man asked a clerk
in a Topeka dry goods store for hose
today. The smart clerk drove a customer
out of the store by muttering to a girl
clerk near her., He ought to go to a
hardware store
G. j. Allen, of New Orleans, is in the
city today making arrangements Tor
bringing his troup of minstrels to this
city. There are about forty members IN
the company and they give their per-
Torrance in a tent.
The Robinson Ward trouble in Shorey,
which was aired in the city court, It de,
velops was not the result of political
feud. Mr.. Robinson is a Republican in
stead of a Populist, and the people of
Shorey stand by the Robinson family IN
the controversy
Mrs. s. E. Peterson, of Topeka, who went
to Emporia and with S. Higgins estab-
Hshed mission, is stranded in the town;
Higgins took the property IN sight ana
left Mrs. Peterson without money She
has been ordered to vacate the rooms
where the mission was conducted.