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TOPEKA, June 20, 1894. SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS. A. B. Campbell will speak at Centralia on the Fourth of July. M. H. Dutton, proprietor of the Dutton house, has gone to Florida. The grass on the grounds in front of the state house is being cut. An old man with bicycle knee pants on looks twenty years younger. One firm in Topeka sells an average of 100 gallons of ice cream every day. The Rock Island train from Denver was almost two hours late last evening. "Dr. Yellowstone" opened the season of "summer opry" on Fifth street last evening. Rev. W. L Byers, of North Topeka, will deliver the Fourth of July address at Menoken. It is coming. Firecrackers are beginning to make their appearance in the store windows. Fred J. Close went to Kansas City this morning where he will testify in the Joe Smith libel suit. Billy Edwards left today for Mansfield, Pennsylvania, to an alumni reunion of the State Normal school. Chief of Police Hank Lindsey is one of the Populist fixers at the congressional convention at Emporia today. Secretary Lerrigo of the Y. M. C. A. has started out to raise $699 to furnish the new rooms of the association. The bank commissioner has been notified that the First National bank of Lincoln would reorganize as a state bank. Mr. Fulton's attention is called to the bad condition of the sidewalks on east Tenth street near the Santa Fe crossing. County Treasurer Rodgers says the tax penalty will not go until Saturday night on account of the delay in Santa Fe pay day. In front of a repair shop on Kansas Avenue is an old buggy wheel and on it the placard "This common wheel for sale." The Lincoln and Clay school nines played base ball yesterday. The game was a victory for Lincoln, the score being 13 to 12. The special trains which were to have been run to Ottawa tomorrow have been abandoned on account of the change of McKinley's dates. "Keep off the grass" signs have been put up in the Baptist church yard at Ninth and Jackson. There are commonwealers in town. W. G. Bateman has been appointed superintendent for the district of Kansas for the Metroplitan Life Insurance company of New York. W. A. Clay, of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, has been paid $100 of the reward offered by the state for the capture of the Mound Valley bank robbers. Colonel C. K. Holliday will go to California. The Santa Fe has placed a special car at his disposal and he will remain on the coast some time. F. Oliver, superintendent of the state house grounds says that the JOURNAL'S mention of the state cow pasture has driven every Republican COW from the grounds. On the glass door between the hall and the dining room in one of the hotels in the city are the words "Too Late," when the meal is over, the door is closed and the words greet the tardy guest. A picture has been taken of the medical college building and grounds at the corner of Twelfth and Tyler streets, and a plate will be made from it to be used in the new catalogue which is to be issued next week.
