The Topeka state journal., 1902-01-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
LOCAL SUMMARY.

PopuliSt party calls a state convention
for Topeka, February Il.
Judge Hazen, of the Shawnee district
court, declares the liquor ordinance in
valid.
New Orleans.
At a pro-Boer meeting here resolu-
tions are adopted asking England to
submit to arbitration the questions In
controversy in the South African
Reported that the Topeka mayoralty
contest is to be decided ON January H.
The U. S. postal department an
nounceS that rural route carriers OF
Kansas will receive their salaries from
Topeka instead of Kansas City.
Chas. Wood, president OF the Kansas
and Missouri Hotel Mems association,
calls the annual meeting for January
TO- at Kansas City.
Bert Krug, an insane man, with two
guns stands off several policemen who
attempt to arrest him.
w H. Klusmire, the convicted E1olton
wife murderer, is sentenced to so years
in the penitentiary.
John p. Brown, secretary of the In
ternational Society of Arborfculture,
visits Topeka and advocates the plant
ing of immense forests of catalpaS.
City board of education sues the
bondsmen of c. E Sockler. contractor
for the Lowman Hill school for failure
to complete the building within the
specified time.
Saturday Nighters banquet at the Ma
tional hotel on New Years eve.
Delegates of the state and district
Christian Endeavor societies meet in
conference here.
Chief of Police Stahl announces he
will continue to make arrests of liquor
dealers under search and seizure Ordi-
nance in spite of the decision of Judge
Hazen.
The only musk OK ever brought into
the United States is christened in To-
peka in honor of Miss Olive Jones,
daughter of Buffalo" Jones.
Congressman Chas- Curtis announces
that he will come from Washington to
attend the Kansas Day club banquet.
Frank S. Thomas sues the Santa Fe
for $4S, 900 for alleged violation of con-
tracts in an arrangement for watch
and clock inspection along the Santa Fe
with H. S. Montgomery.
Arthur Capper calls a committee
meeting to set date for the First dis
trict congressional convention. The
committee meeting will be January %.
Prof G. P. GrimSley of WaShburn col
lege is elected to succeed B. B. Smyth
as curator of the Kansas Academy of
Science at the. lola meeting of the So
The meeting of the State Board of
Agriculture called to meet here jan
uary 8.
A movement is begun that has for
it's object the construction of an inter
Eskridge and Harveyville.
IELECTRARHlC MARY.
The fight is on between Hanna and
Foraker for control of the Ohio Iegisla-
ture.
Floods near Lancaster, Pa. interrupt
operation of railroads.
M. de Blowitz, the Paris correspond
ent of the London Times, resigns.
Governor of Nebraska grants par
don to former State Treasurer BARLEY,
who was convicted of embeZZling $201,-
600 state funds.
Secret of welding copper accomplish
ed by metalworkers of Des Moines.
Jeweler at Turner's Falls, Mass, made
insane by accidentally killing a clerk,
shoots four members of his family, kill
ing a son.
Football team of Michigan university
defeats Stanford university by the
score of Az to 0.
The cabinet selected the International
Banking corporation as fiscal agent of
the United States in China
Sacred Heart Chapel at Duluth blown
up by the explosion of a boiler while
services are being held.
Emperor William invites Miss Alice
Roosevelt to christen his new racing
yacht, now under construction on Sta
ten Island.
Robert Lebaudy gives $1,0OO,OO0 for
the establishment of a French indus
trial school in connection with the Uni
versity of Chicago.
Police discover clothing discarded by
Frank Ely Rogers and his aunt
at railway station in North Evans
ton
Four persons killed and twenty-five
injured in collision on the Northwest
ern road at Malta, Ill.
The governors and attorney generals
of seven Northwestern states agree on
a plan of action in opposition to the
Northern Pacific-Great Northern-Bur-
lington merger.
Crowds attend the New Years recep-
ton at the White House, President
Roosevelt shakes the hands of S,100 per-
sons.
Governor OdeI of New York in his
is firm in his declaration
against Sunday saloons in Greater New
York unless the entire state so votes.
Gen. Tomas Estrada Palma is elected
president of Cuba.
Frank H Peavey, largest owner of
grain elevators in the world, dies in
Chicago of pneum onia-
The Pacific coast steamer Walla
Walla bound for Puget sound collides
with an unknown vessel and 27 persons
are missing.