The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-03
SNAP SHOTS ATHoMENEWs

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.sherir Cook was in Lawrence Tues
dax.
The government thermometer ranged
between 81 and AZ Tuesday.
The Grand opera house was a little
/ too cold for comfort last night
The Populist state central committee
spent $54.90 in the state campaign.
F. C. Bowen has purchased the prop
erty at 207 West Tenth street from T.
T.. Kelly for $4,000.
Pauline Johnson. of the Gordon Shay
company, was the originator OF TIE
Swedish ladies' quartette which used
to tour the west
Judging from the many vacant seats
at the Grand last night the. Topeka
public is not innoculated with the grand
opera nnicrobe.
1t cost Frank Doster s123 to make
| the race for associate justice on the
Democratic ticket. The money went to
the state committee.
An Oakland car struck horse driven
| to light delivery wagon in front or the
police station. Strange to say, the car
was not derailed, neither was the morse.
| Christ hospital guild will meet on Fri
day at O'Clock at the hospital Inc
members are requested to go prepared
to spend the afternoon and bind
blankets.
| Pennsylvania Anthracite. This falls
shipment. Have all you want Order
before it's all gone. 1t won't last long
J.. w. F. Hughes, Fifth and Adams. Tel
| ephone 400.
'.Patsie" Hill, colored, was found
guilty in the district court Tuesday
afternoon by jury on the charge or
robbery from the person of William
| Alison of $50. 40.
Justice Pollock attended the opera
| Faust last night, and perched his feet
on a radiator to keep them warm. But
then Faust is enough to give most
anyone cold feet.
J. K. Winchell was allowed a divorce
! Tuesday afternoon from Eta M. VIM
chell by Judge Hazen. 1t was not con-
tested. Desertion was the ground. Both
parties had been married before
This IS the day when a number of
country editors will hang Beautiful
Snow on, the copy hook, The third
lreader class in many schools will also
read the classic verses in unison.
Joseph Fredericks, the tenor of the
Gordon Shay company, has real name,
and it is Joe McCarty He used to be
a champion mile runner until he got to
running the do. ra, me, ia scale.
Washburn college has arranged for
two intercollegiate debates this year.
One will be with Highland Park col
lege, of Des Moines. Ia. and the other
with Park college, of Parkville, Mo.
F. A Warren, man who was ar
rested Monday night for disturbing a
woman on the street, was fined $40 and
costs in police court last evening. The
officer who arrested him claimed that
Warren was playing "masher-"
Lulie F. Philbin filed suit for divorce
from William M. Philbin in the district
court Tuesday afternoon. Phiibin is A
Santa Fe switchman, who lives at 1914
North Topeka avenue. The grounds for
divorce are cruelty, adultery and drunk
enness.
]. Ware Butterfield returned today
from Comanche county. Ok, where he
hoe 81 ria Tod Of 0,-oI,1 r-I or,
his farm. There are ten acres of apples
and it is the biggest orchard in the
county. .--s..1ols T. ~
i F. NJ. Frowe. Washburn graduate
who has been studying for the ministry
at Drake college in Iowa, died Tuesday
morning of typhoid fever. The body
has been taken to Mr.. Proves. home in
Pavilion. Kan
d Prof. Burriily who had charge of the
new Washburn college telescope at the
an-American exposition, is here to sup
erintend the setting up of the instru-
ment. The dome is com oleted.. and the
telescope will be in place by the end of
the week
Postmaster Guthrie has received auth
ority from Washington to appoint three
additional postal clerks in the Topeka
office at salaries of $500 a year. A. s.
Strain and r. M Hunter have been
given two of these positions. The sal
airy of Fred Parsons, has been increased
mailing clerk.
The Kansas Farmers Cooperative
Grain and Livestock association has
elected the following board of directors
James Butler, Topeka: J. W. z3ucklin,
/ Oakley; c. w. Peckhan. Haven; @. B.
Hoffman. Enterprise: H. c. Hawkins,
Winfield; w. o. Matthias, Mcpherson; G..
| E. Smith, Kensngton; Robert w Smith,
Delphos, and J. G.. Geisick, Bison.
I'm opening a bottle of patent med
icine at Ottawa the other day Barber
Jim Glover found a diamond worth $780,
Presumably it was accidentally dropped
into the bottle by some workman at the
factory" The Topeka druggists who
are having cut rate war on patent
medicines might call attention to this
fact. In Ottawa the ring cost the pur-
tie of patent medicine could have been
bought for IS cents, saving on the
ring Of 35 cents.
A reDIeyin suit filed in the, court of
Topeka against Frank Brasser, formerly
bookkeeper for the Waconda Oil and
Mining company, was dismissed this
morning by the court after the stock
holders who had brought suit failed to
appear. Recently the stockholders of
the company held q meeting and de-
manded the books and records of Tsras-
ser. He had some misunderstanding
with stockholders. and refused or failed
to deliver the books. and the replevin
suit was the result.
Prince May Succeed Won Holleben.
Berlin Dec 2-Tn the event of T1r xro,,