The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-07
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

tered with a capital of 5000.
D. W. Mulvane left Thursday for Chi
cago. He won't be gone long.
Asher f. Pay, of Huron, South Dako-
ia, is in the city visiting relatives
Frank L. Brown, clerk of the U. S.
district court went to Galesburg, ILL.,,
yesterday.
The miIliners are already making de-
signs on pocket books in the way or
Easter bonnetS.
Rev Wilson, a colored Methodist
minister of Topeka, is conducting big
revival in Atchison-
Jay G. Lee has formally. announced
himself a candidate for councilman
, from the Sixth ward.
The Thompson Dry Goods company,
of Marion, has been granted a charter.
1t is capitalized for $4,000.
J. e Belts has announced that he will
be candidate for reelection as repre-
sentative from Shawnee county.
The Washburn college orchestra will
give a concert at the Oakland Congre-
gationa1 church Tuesday evening.
q. G. Briscom, a. prominent cattle
man from Overlook, was registered at
the Fifth avenue hotel last night.
The Republican county central COM
mittee will meet next Wednesday after
noon at the old court house at two
o'clock.
was not so naughty as it's name and
some people were consequently disap-
pointed.
Mrs. Harvey Moore, of Roeedale near
Kansas City, has been adjudged insane
and will be brought to the Topeka in
sane asylum.
NJ. B. Fulton, form erly of Topeka, but
until recently Union Pacific station
agent at Abilene, died of consumption
Thursday night.
G. NJ. Condor and L. S. Crun. of Os-
wego, have Contributed $50 and $25 re-
spectively to Governor Stanley'S Nc
Kinley's memorial fund.
The Haskell Indians basket ball team
from Lawrence will play the team of
the Topeka Y M C. A. February IA at
the Topeka gymnasium.
If you have any old clothes around
the house that you cannot use, why
don't you send them to Mrs. Thorpe
She can find use for them
Mrs. H. B. Giddings of West Atchison
who came to a Topeka hospital for an
operation two months ago is much i'm
proved and will return home soon.
Old sight near sight, far sight, crook
ed sight and painful sight are being
corrected by DR. Littlefield during his
sale for only s100. so Kansas avenue
Governor Stanley is scheduled to re-
BANQUET to be given by the Leaven-
worth Commercial club on February
George w. DeCamp. of Emporia; w.
G. Bissell, of Phillipsburg, and o. w.
yesterday to practice before the supreme
court.
THE Cowboy and The Lady" with
Miss Ethelyn Palmer in the cast, will
play in Kansas City next week. The
company will be at the Crawford to-
morrow night.
Col. Wilder S. Metcalf the newly ap-
pointed pension agent, left Washington
armed with his commission yesterday.
and will probably come to Topeka to be
checked in within short time
Charles F. Parham, who is trying to
arrange a tour of exploration after the
Ark of the Covenant in the Holy Lands,
will begin a series of revival meetings
at 1417 Main street, Kansas City. next
week.
William r. Carter principal of the To-
peka Industrial institute for colored
children has received an invitation from
Booker T. Washington to attend the
negro workers conference at Tuskegee
institute.
Major T. J. Anderson was tipped out
of a sleigh few nights ago. He was
not injured, the horse was not hurt,
the sleigh sustained no fractures, but
the majors gold headed cane was
splintered.
The suit of Mrs. Bell Chute against
the Western Union Telegraph company
for 81, 900 damages on account of the |
failure of the company to deliver mes
sage was begun in the district court |
Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Marie Drane colored, filed suit |
for divorce in the district court yester- |
day from Sidney Drane on the grounds
Of cruelty. He called her BLACK |
wench." Another case of the pot call |
ing the kettle black.
Archie Campbell, who escaped from |
the Reform school, has been captured |
in Wichita AT the time of the capture |
he was eating a pie. Warning, escapes |
from the school should never be busy ON |
a Wichita bakery pie. They are worse |
than steel traps.
Lawrence Journal: Topeka admits |
that she can't pull the Democratic state |
away from Wichita. There |
are things in which Topeka cannot hope |
to compete with Wichita, and one of /
them is in providing entertainment for |
a Democratic convention.
A bill has been introduced in the |
house of representatives at Washington /
bands. That should have been done be- |
to keep the United States Marine band |
from coming In competition with private /
fore the Marine was placed in competi- |
ton with Marshall's band at Louisville. |
The suit of John DonnelIey against the |
Topeka Transfer company was settled |
out of the district court yesterday and /
dismissed. The suit was for a few thou
sand dollars, more or less, and was COM
promised for $175. Donnelley was struck
by some leather being unloaded from
wagon belonging to the company and
was. injured.
Mrs. Nation has written the chamber
of comm cree of Colorado Springs offer
ing to go there and smash the drug
stores after June l when the tourist
season opens. In her letter she says:
II can come only from June 1 to 20. 1
will ask a round trip ticket from this
place (Topeka). Will wish to hear from
you an offer of other considerations"
The annual college play will be given
at Washburn Wednesday night. The
piece selected for presentation this
year is a drama tization of the trial
scene Bardel vs. Pickwick in the Pick
wick Papers, and the play will be un-
der the personal direction of Prof. r. L |
Cartwright The proceeds will go to
helm defraY the EXPENSES of the Wash