The Topeka state journal., 1901-01-25
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Tncendiaries were busy again last night
Mrs. W I Miller of 11z6 Tyler street Is
seriously ILL.,
During the legislature the Topeka hotels
are overcrowded-
The grading for parks is almost COM
p1eted on Polk street
The Kansas editors meet in the city next
Wednesday and Thursday
Fennimore P. Cochran Of Cottonwood
Falls was in town yesterday
HoytTs "a Milk White Flag IS the at
traction at the Crawford tonight
The next regular meeting OF the Com
merciaI club viii be on February l8
Schoolboys are already playing marbles
This is said TO be a sure sign OF spring
The Salvation Army viii give Drunk
ards Home and Saloon Scene Saturday
When two grip convaIescents meet now
adays they quarrel over which had 1t the
Danefne was the entertainment Afforded
those who stayed late At the Auditorium
last night.
by a stroke of paralysis This IS the sec
a meeting of the Bowman League Of
Mothers IS being held this afternoon at
Central church.
The State Temperance union meetings
begin in this city next Monday and con-
tInue two days
Sherin Beach and ". K Myers OF
Chase county brought an insane man 70
the asylum yesterday
Washburn students are burning mid
night oil and worrying through the throes
of midWlnter examinations
A case Of diphtheria exists at 11u1 Kan
sas avenue and a case OF chtckenpox at
1905 North Kansas avenue.
The Wnbur-Kirwin Opera company has
Cancelled the date at Sa11na on account OF
the smallpox In the company
The Py1raHIns5Ss nj vii givs free social lat at
for their members and friends
A good many Topeka people are wonder
ing whether OF not this city IS place TO
be visited by the Nation crusaders
Miss Lucy r Dougherty of the Wash
burn faculty went to Kansas City yester-
day .on account Of the sickness of her
The meeting Of the committee Of twelve
from the Republican Law Enforcement
club has been postponed to the evening OF
February /
A thimble party is being given by the
ladies of Beulah chapter of the O. E. $.
sonic temple
P. P. Bnhorn. the ,evangelistic singer.
may return e 4, ,nopeka II 43qut s3a Two 5wq
Presby yterian church
The bills for broken glass caused by the
century ball have been presented to the
Commercial club and amount TO $50.
A Kansas avenue department store IN
the vicinity of Fifth street is very much
agitated over the possibility of losing two
of its clerks through ua1rimony soon
The case of the Consolidated Electric
Light and Power company has been ap-
pealed from the court OF common pleas of
Wyandotte county to the supreme court
=
a special meeting of the Kansas Academy
of Science IN Representative hall. this
evening, on the water supply OF Kansas
cities
Carl Dryer of MarshaT's band and late
of the Twentieth Kansas band has gone
to Winfield to assist the band there in
giving a concert He plays drums and
traps
The Modocs viii probably give a con-
cert in the near future at the Auditorium
Workmen who were employed on the
mentary tickets
Lawrence Journal. Topeka is talking of
electing General Hughes mayor of the
city. If that Is done. General Miles ought
to be invited to come to Topeka and show
of clothes with General Hughes.
The mayor office was besieged yester-
day with a small army of applicants for
jobs The men are those who have been
thrown out OF work through the compile
ton OF the city contracts for paving and
grading
The Dorians and the Ionlans. two liter
airy societies at Harrison school, contested
for honors yesterday afternoon The con-
test was in essay. recitation, Grafton and
debate The Dorians won the contest
with margin Of three points in five hun
dred-
Notwithstanding the flood OF calendars
given Tree distribution this year. one lost
mortal telephoned to the State Journal Of
fee to know what day Of the month and
week yesterday was. He wanted to know
TO decide n bet SO there must have been
two Of them
at the entrance to Crawford's theater last
night when the five horses used in the
production of tShena ndoah'' were led to
the stage The horses we're taken up the
the theater and cver gangway to the
stage