The Topeka state journal., 1901-06-07
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The city library is being well patron
lied evenings.
L L cowley. of. Lawrence, was in
town last night
Major Shreve win give a comic carni-
val entertainment at the Crawford
June q.
Rev S. G. Coblentz will be general
financial agent for Lane university Of
Lecompton.
The last sermons IN Topeka by Dean
Sykes viii be preached Sunday morn
ing and evening.
County Clerk Wright has received a-sz AZ
new volumes of the acts of the recent
legislature for distribution
The railroad commissioners have re-
turned from a trip over the lines Of the
Union Pacific in western Kansas
G. II. Mays, of Emporia, is in town
for a few days He has been elected
principal of the Nicl1le Plate school,
William Taylor of Kansas City and
Lucy H. Simmons of Topeka received a
marriage license in Kansas City yester-
day.
Those who took part in the recent
flower and hatchet drills in the carnival
February p will meet at the Crawford
Saturday afternoon
Two new cases of smallpox have been
reported. They are Gideon Whitley. 1854
MulVane street. and the chlld Oh LOUIS
Brennan, 1115 North Taylor street
The Meriden band will give a celebra-
ton at that place on July f. A part OIL
the days entertainment is to be cake
walk put on by J. NJ Holt, of Topeka.
The commencement morning exercises
at Washburn on June II will consist OF
an address to the graduates by Chlef
Justice Frank Doster on the subject
THE Spirit of the Age"
The drill team of nineteen men from
Modern Woodrnen camp No. $500 will go
to St. Paul Sunday to compete for a
prize of $500 offered by the head camp
for the best drilled team
the Union Pacific depot Wednesday
night for picking d pocket, has been
turned over to the state. His trial will
be in the city court June IA
The regular commencement week ex-
ercises of Washburn will begin this eve
ming. The first entertainment, which
will take place tonight, IS the under
graduates musical recital. The recital
viii be at the college chapel
Atchison Globe: A woman with
cross baby was on a Central Branch
train the other day when Governor
Stanley was a passenger. He took the
baby and got 1T to sleep, and the peo-
pie are saying nice things about him
for it.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Sully expect to
come to Topeka to live. Mr. Sully is
well known here having been stationed
here at one time as the divisional OIL
Ger for the Salvation army. Mr.. Sully
is no longer with the Salvation army,
having left that work for work with the
Baptist denomination as an evangelist
Frank Woodruff and Harry SheafOr,
two painters who were working on the
interior of the Parkdale Methodist
church. were Thursday precipitated to
the ground floor of the church from the
interior of the Steeple, where they were
working, by a scaffolding giving way
The fall was about thirty feet, but
neither were permanently injured.
A $4,000 farm mortgage covering
about 5000 acres of Shawnee countys
bottom was fled in the register of
deeds Office today by Mr.. /. L. Better,
largest farm mortgage ever filed in this
county, with the exception of the old
mortgage on part of the same land
which is now being paid.
Topeka bankers and others will be in
terested to learn that by winning a suit
in the United States circuit court, the
depesitors of the First National bank
of Emporia viii come into possession of
$53, 000 The attorneys for the bank
were Lambert & Huggins. The total
amount of dividends paid to depositcrs
out Of the wreck of the bank Will prob
ably amount to 65 per cent.
The family troubles of the Tippins, of
2O3 Madison street. had an airing in
police court today. The Tippins have
been married less than year, but all
has not been serene. The worst came
to the worst within the past few days,
and yesterday Mrs Tippin swore out a
complaint against her husband and his
sister, Mrs. Mary I. Snyder. Mrs. Tippin
claims that the two have been abusing
her and that her husband has mis-
treated her.
Topeka people who have been COM
planning about the extOrtion of paying
20 cents a pound for beef steaks will
have to redouble their energy. The
butchers are about to put the price up
to % cents. The butchers say that the
packing house men are raising the
prices Of carcasses, and the packing
house men say that they can not buy
the beef on the hoof at the old prices.
The high price of beef is attributed to
the scarcity of corn, but the packing
house trust probably has more to do
with it.