The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-07
LOCAL MENTION.

There will be a meeting of the streets
and walks committee of the council
Friday afternoon.
c. V. Wolf left this afternoon for
Elkhart, Indiana. He will be gone two
weeks on a vacation.
A night blooming cereus belonging to
Mr.. and Mrs. N. c. Flyntom, 636 West
ern avenue, opened Monday night.
O. ]. Shannon. the grocer at Tenth
and Topeka avenue. will attend a fam
lily reunion at Edna, Kan, Sunday, where
50 relatives will be present. ai
A street car motorneer on the East
Sixth street line found thirteen dyna-
mite torpedoes on the car track Mon
day night. They were the kind used
for signalling locomotives on railways,
and were provided with tin strap to
fasten them to the rails. The motorneer
says that it would have wrecked his car
if he had run over them.
George Gaydon. colored. VINO took
three shots at Clarence De Moss, also
colored. with Zulu" shotgun and
then told some policemen that the fail
ure to commit homicide was due to the
crookednesS of the gun rather than his
own efforts, had a hearing in city court
today. He was bound over to stand trial
in the district court, and his bond set at
$500. The charge is shooting with in
tent OF kill.
Valley Relief Workers yesterday after
noon it was decided to issue a call for
$250,000 to aid flood sufferers. This call
will not be sent out until it has been
submitted to and endorsed by the relief
committees in every locality between
Kansas City and Salina. Representa-
tives were here from committees in
Kansas City, Wamego, Granville
Rossville, Perry and Menoken.
United States Marshal Mackey has
returned from Salina where he was
present during the examination of two
men before United States Commission
John Bigley who is charged with coun-
terfeiting United States money He
was bound over for trial under a bond
of $500. A jointist named Powers was
liquor to Indians. His bond is $3.50
Neither had the money and both went
to iai.
The Santa Fe today appealed to the
supreme court the damage suit which
was tried recently in the Shawnee coun-
ty district court involving the death of
Mark Withers at the Fourth street
crossing in February, 1902. Margaret
Withers, widow of the dead man, recov-
cred verdict against the company for
81 900. Withers was a brakeman. and
was run over by an engine. Arkansas
City, Kan, also appealed damage
suit today, in which Fannie E. Art
recovered a judgment in the lower
court for $1,000 for personal injuries re-
ceived because of a defective sidewalk
Several North Topeka workmen who
have been shoveling mud out of base
ments under the supervision of two men.
Conwell and Sprocket, who had the con-
tract of removing the mud from SlA
North Kansas avenue, claim they have
been refused their wages. 1t seems that
the contractors received 500 in cash and
a note for $50 of Mrs. Burnstein, the
owner of the property, but forgot to di-
vide with their laborers None of the
men have a claim sufficiently large tc
make a case against the contractors.
The three-year-old son OF l. ii.
Haven of Alb Lawrence street TEL from
a second story window of his home this
morning and struck upon a picket fence
in the yard below. One rib was broken
and several other serious bruises IN
nicted 1t is feared the child Is inter-
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