The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS

SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS
The crackers have ceased to boom,
And Willie plays an engagement
In Spllnts and darkeneo ROOM
The government thermometer got up |
to Sc Friday.
Sloan lodge will hold a special COM
munication tonight
The Prohibitionists will hold Shaw
nee county convention July II.
Did you have enough punk? The
city supply was exhausted at noon.
The Fourth was a complete failure.
Not a school bell in town was rung
The wind last night was too strong |
for fireworks to make good showing.
Marshalrs band will not give a
concert at Garfield park Sunday after |
noon.
Most of the boys are with us today.
but some of them lost part OF them
selves.
Mrs. J. A. Grub, who has been in
Stormont hospital for an operation, con-
tinueS to improve.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Baughman Of
Lecompton are the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Cherry for few days.
The Douthitt Tract baseball team de-
feated team from the Santa Fe of1ces
yesterday morning on the Washburn
diamond to 2.
baseball team from Cranes plant
took fall out of the team from the
state printing shop Friday afternoon.
The score was IL to TO-
Gill lost a 10 game to Jefferson City
yesterday at Jefferson City. He Is play
| ing in exceptionally hard luck. losing
| games by very close scores.
| Reports are now being sent out that
| the Kansas river can give the Pecos
| cards and spades as a fine fishing
! ground, since the water rose.
| On account of sickness. I will sell
/ all contents of a IL room house at a
| great sacrifice Must dispose of same
at once. Call at 800 Topeka avenue.
In a double header played by the
I Boston National league team at Chi
| cago yesterday, Dick Cooley, the Tope-
| ka ball player got four hits including
two triplets.
| The Topeka Business college baseball
| team played the Emporia team at Lyn-
| don July 4. McCampbeH was in the
box for the T. B. c. team and won his
| game 10 to 6.
Fred Vandegrift and the dog have
| both emerged from the secluslon of the
| dust and dark under the porch They
report in the usual phraseology that "a
| good time was had"
Mrs. ]. B. Carroll Of Twenty-first and
| West streets, left today for Philadel-
phia, called there by the death Of her
| only daughter and serious illness of
other members of the family.
There is positively no foundation to
|
| cracker in the interior of COW which
| was slaughtered at Wolff's today, and
that the cracker exploded when the
| meat-ax struck it.
T. J. Coughlin's four-foot fire cracker
was fired on schedule time at 8 p. M,
July 4. The police wouldn't allow 1t
| to be fired in front Of the store, and
| it was taken to the vacant lot at Sew
| enth and Jackson streets.
The Santa Fe Reds, another baseball
| team from the shops and borrowing its
| title from the rainbow, played the nine
from the Democratic Flambeau club ON
| the Washburn field Thursday afternoon
The Reds won by the score of 13 to 9.
| Neither side could play ball, and about
| three dozen errors were piled up.
The Lather's Union of Topeka has
| been organized with J. T. Williams
president, Mr.. Florence secretary, and
| B. F. Edie treasurer. 1t has a mem
bership Of almost every 1ather in the
city, now meets on Monday evening of
| each week at their hall, Sixth and Kan
sas avenue. Their object is cooperation.
mutual improvement and good fellow
ship.
The Santa Fe Blues played the local
baseball team at Valley Falls the
| Fourth. Valley Falls made nine runs
and the Blues sneaked one run in dur
ing the last inning. Kempton pitched
for the Blues. He is the same twirleT
| who essayed to pitch for the Y. M. C. A.
team against the Topeka Business coll
lege nine. In that game he was knocked
out Of the box.
The State Journal will not vouch for
the truth OF the following: Frank ling
| helm experienced no end of trouble on
| the Fourth with his large frecrackes.
| The farmers around Burnetts Mound
| assembled there and refused to allow
| him to fire the immense firecracker for
fear it would blow the top of the hill
| away, and that the houses and barns
| for a mile around might be injured by
| the flying rocks and dirt. Zingheim fin
| ally tied a rope to the cracker and he
| and three other men lowered 1t into
well where the danger might soak out
! of it.
There was to have been an excursion
of the negro trades unions of ST. Joseph
| to Topeka today the excursionists in
| tending to spend the day at Garfield
| park; but on account of the strike of the
postponed. If the labor trouble is set
tied in a month, it will be pulled off and
| will partake of the nature of an eman-
cipation day celebration. The brick
| masOns of that city have demanded a
pay schedule of IS cents an hour and
because of the contractors refusing to
| pay it.
A Fort Scott paper says: "Gill. the
| crack pitcher of the Fort Scott team.
| is an exceptional character in the base
ball world. He is reported to be worth
| about 100000 besides money his wife re-
| Gently inherited from her father, who
killed himself at Arkansas City while
temporarily insane; 5000 of his estate
is in cash and he owns $40 acres of
fine land. 1t is not generally known,
but he is a teacher at Washburn col
lege and is coach for the football team
of that college in the winter season.
Gill has record that will make him in
demand in the metropolitan leagues
next year. but he may not go. He plays