The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-06
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The city council meets tonight
The. Ralston pancake -four case is still
grinding
Several fishing parties went to Maple
Hill yesterday
The board Of directors Of the Z. W. G.
a. met this morning.
A great. many Topeka people spent Sun
day at Silver Lake.
The county clerk and his assistants ex-
ecuted zoo pension vouchers Saturday for
old soldiers
The police station is undergoing the
needed repairs ordered by the council at
its last meeting
Some Of ToPelSa,s younger dramatic zaTm5iic tall tall
give a minstrel show in the near future
Fishing on the several ponds near Lake
View was carried on yesterday despite
trary.
The residents of Topeka avenue have
made up a subscription list to pay for
Tner.
Ex-state Senator George ". Hanna. will
Clay Center, just chartered with $4,000
Mrs. Thorpe has transferred the sewing
cliiss which formerly met at her rooms to
the colored industrial institute in South
Topeka.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary So
iciety viii meet in the parlors of the First
Methodist church on Wednesday. May s.,
at oclOck-
A number of Topeka people will go to
Kansas City to see Richard Mansfield in
Henry " at the Auditorium in Kansas
City next week.
The Woman's Missionary society of the
Westminster Presbyterian CHURCH Will
IL. Todd 1875 Dillon street
Sullivan and Harris new sensational
melOdrama, THE Angel Of the Alley
will be at the Crawford Wednesday night.
There were heavy showers around To-
peka yesterday
The oxford Literary society has been
organized in the local Epworth league. The
society will meet on the first and third
Monday nights Of each month at the First
Methodist church
Mrs. Ida Eckert-Lawrence formerly of
this city. who is to read the poem at the
ioin Gov Nash's r1artV here She goes to
San Francisco alter in the week
John V Pettys. the young Oberlin law
tertiary for killing Albert Falker, in De-
catur county, has brought an appeal to
the supreme court. His bond was fixed
The supreme court has allowed writ
OF error TO the United States supreme
court in the case of r. NJ AIanley against
Richard Parks 1t is an old land case that
has been dragging for years through the
Atchison and supreme courts.
Since the state has cut an insane per-
sons board allowance to = per week.
private asylums may have to go out of
vate asylum on the east side. says he can
not afford to take patients at that price.
An ex-convict OF the Missouri peniten-
tiary has stand on Kansas avenue and
Is selling his book on the horrors Of that
institution and the cruelties practiced
tons of his cruel punishment for trying
TO escape.
The family of Press johnson. who fell
from wagon load of lumber Friday. is
receiving aid from Mrs Thorpe. Mr..
JOhnson's spine was injured so that a
partial paralysis of the face and neck Is
the result The family is in destitute cir
cumstanceS-
William NJ. Thomson. former deputy
warden at the state penitentiary. viii go
on the road to sell the states make OF
binding twine- His territory is southern
Kansas and Oklahoma It is Warden
Jewett's idea to send out statesmen to
break the trust.
Secretary Of Agriculture F. D. Coburn
arrived this morning. after an absence OF
two weeks with the board of regents OF
the Manhattan Agricultural college on a
trip of inspection of the agricultural col
leges Of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, In.
diana and Illinois.
A Topeka man has built an automobile
TO be propelled by a huge coil spring
which is in turn wound by two levers
operated by ones feet The wheels have
rubber tires and wire spolles- The bed is
made of galvanized iron and the whole
thing weighs about 400 pounds. It broke