The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-03
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS.

The Kansas Medical college opens Sep
TENDER 1s.
Christ hospital admitted seventy
nine patients in August
The government thermometer got up
to 81 Tuesday afternoon.
Marshall's band will furnish the mu-
sic for the Kansas exposition next
A bat at the Crawford last night
amused the audience in the long wait
between acts.
Charles Harris, Sheriff O'Conner and
D. A. Dryer of Emporia were in To-
peka yesterday.
has signed again with the Boston Ma
tionals for next season.
Oscar Crosswhite has asked for q di
vorce from Lizzie Crosswhite because
she will not cook for him.
The people of Potwin are indignant
because big bill board has been erect
ed near the Potwin trolley station.
Willie Buhrnam Of Emporia is in the
Reform school here. He is 13 years old
and was sent up for being incorrigible.
The entrance examinations at Wash
burn college will take place on Sep
TENDER 9, and school will begin on Sep
TENDER 10.
C. H. Rhodes of this city has been
selected to act as judge at the Potta-
watomie county poultry show to be held
at Wamego on December Is, 10 and 20.
Mrs. D. L. McEachron Is seriously
sick at her home on Mulvane street, in
this city. Mrs. McEachron il the wife
Of Prof. D. l. McEachron Of Washburn
college.
The copper and steel dome for the
Washburn observatory has been ship
ped from Cleveland. O., where it was
manufactured. It is expected to arrive
here in about two weeks.
All. the physicians of the city are re-
quested to meet this evening at the Of
fee of DIR. Lowrex at No. 500 Kansas
avenue to take some action concerning
the death of DR.. W. B. Swan.
Two gangs of carpenters are at work
at the fair grounds, building new horse
barns to accommodate the stables OF
thoroughbreds which cannot be housed
in the regular barns.
DIR. Clement Smith says that the re-
port that he run his automobile to Wa
mego. % miles. in hours, is mistake.
He mad> the trip in an hour and a
quarter d i'd came home in less time.
The Independent campaign for county
torney and sheriff will be given an
other push Saturday evening, when a
meeting will be held. at Richland. E.
B. Cowgirl and the candidates Will
speak
ment and sewer contractors back sew
eral weeks on their work, and the
chances are that several OF the 1902 con-
tracts will have to go over until next
spring.
L. H. Stewart. a Santa FEE brakeman
was brought to Topeka yesterday and
placed in the Santa Fe hospital He
fell between the cars at Offerly, Ed
wards county. and his right foot was
crushed.
While digging bitches for the city
water pipes at Washburn college, the
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had been dug about 30 years ago. walled
over, and covered with earth. The ex-
istence Of the wells had been entirely
forgotten.
The case against Devlin and Henry,
the two young men charged with as
night of August %. was dismissed in
city court today, the defendants paying
the costs, 1920. A compromise with
the assaulted party seems to have been
made.
Mrs. M. C. Irwin. of Lawrence. Kan,
has come to Topeka to become matron
of the Topeka Orphans home. For the
past Ave years she has been interested
in the work of finding homes for waits
Mrs Irwin is the mother Of George w.
Hart, one of the Associated Press oper-
ators in Topeka
benefit district for opening Second and
Third streets have refused to Withdraw
their claims against the city. and the
scheme for an amfcable settlement OF
the dispute has probably faller
through. The residents in the benefit
district will test their rights in court.
The Emporfa Gazette says: IAN ole
man 20 years old. named Geo. Suffers
has been wandering about town for sew
eral days. He seems to be slightly un-
balanced He says his home is in st
Louis. He arrived in Emporia Thurs
day from Topeka, where he had beer
attending the fair. He thinks he was
dragged in Topeka and he does no
know why he came to Emporia-''
A party OF seven young men, armed
to the teeth with modern artillery ane