Advocate from Topeka, Kansas • 2

CITY ITEMS. There is a case of diphtheria at 122 Tyler. Th3 Santa Fe shops cad closed Thanksgiving. lira. Sheldon, who resides at Fifteenth and West, fell Monday and sustained quite eovero injuries.

George Ward, who was badly bnrned by the fire on West Tenth a week ago Sunday, is getting well quite rapidly. II, CI ark son, the insurance rata man, will have a school of instruction in electricity in the city to day and tomorrow. A number of serious accidents resulted from the slippery condition of the walks and pavements Monday and Tuesday. Ex-Begister of Deeds S. J.

Bear has gone to Atlanta, where he will have man, the best dressed prisoner ever confined in the Shawnee county jail, He was fined $500 and given sixty days In jail. The police force continues to arrest poor men who are trying to make a miserable living selling a little whisky. Thoybij clubs and joints are not dis- The Second (colored) Baptist church trouble came up in Justice Guy's court Tuesday. Owing to the fact that title to property was involved the case was certified up to the District court. Mrs.

Kiernan, of the Vermont House, was in Justice Furry's court Tuesday. She got into some kind of trouble with a boarder who did not pay up in a satisfactory way. She conducted her own case and did it quite successfully. Charles Eagle, the cigar man, has been arrested on a charge growing out of an operation of a nickel-in-the-slot machine in his store. He will be tried under the city ordinance and the case is to be a test case.

John II. Bach, of Morris county, was sentenced in Judge Foster's court. Bach had sent in halves of a twenty-dollar bill at different times, making affidavit the other half was andhehsd received a new bill each time in exchange. He was fined 31 ,000 which he paid. Eugene Ball, the defaulting County Treasurer of what used to be Garfield county, has been brought back from Oklahoma.

He tried before coming to The Erie Sentinel thinks that the person who published the card of thanks in the Emporia Gazette In which everybody, Including the grave-digger, was thanked, did not use very good taste. Kansas City Gazette: "The Populists in several States have set the Democrats a good example by taking down their signs and "retiring from business." Name one of the several States. The grave of Gen. Henry Leavenworth, after whom the Kansas city was named, is In a cemetery at Delhi, N. Y.

It is in a badly neglected condition and will be looked to by the people of the city bearing his name. Judge Benson, of Douglas-Franklin-Anderson district, who has been on the bench for twelve years, has given notice that he will retire at the end of his present term. He is regarded as a good, fair and able judge. The Kansas railroads have entered into an agreement by which State officers and members of the State boards who are entitled to mileage will be refused passes next year. It is.

not stated whether the agreement will apply to members of the Legislature. Clerks of the District courts will be favored in addition to Sheriffs. Kansas City Gazette "A calf fell into a hole near John J. Ingalls' house in Atchison and died. The owner of the calf sued Ingalls for its value.

Ingalls says he did not put the hole there. The man declares that makes no differencethat it is Ingalls' business to keep watch of things around his premises. Ingalls says the calf had no business to be at large. The man says calves have rights as well as men. These are the issues and the sum involved is 035.

The man has hired a lawyer and Ingalls has turned his son Ellsworth loose in his defense, holding charge of the electrical exhibit for the company with which he now employed. Scott Ferguson, real estate men, sold the residence property at the corner of Mulvane and Huntoon to M. Hughes, of Valley Falls, for $2,800 recently. Mrs. Herbert Armstrong fell on the slippery ice at her home and broke her right limb.

She will suffer considerable pain before the broken member gets well. The Journal is responsible for the i statement that there are 7,000 young women in Topeka, of whom 2.000 are The Eldorado Times is for Harrison. A Bluff City farmer still works a horse that Is S3 years old. The Hays City Sentinel has been consolidated with the Free Press, J. It.

Burton says he had nothing to do with the change in the Capital, Leavenworth is already making ar rangements or next year's carnival. A half dozen jolntists were convicted in Washinton county recently. Twenty-nine hungry redeemers want a job as landscape gardener at the State House. It is eaid Judge Foster has subscribed for the Capital since Hudson retired. In 1893 the average Republican majority in Morris county was 458; this year it is 187.

It is hinted that Warden Lynch1 wants to be the Republican nominee for Governor, Marshal Neeley, it is said, owns a controlling interest in the Leavenworth Standard, A. G. Stacey, assisted by his daughter, Miss Maude, will publish the Newton Daily Herald, Sixth district papers say that Congressman Baker will not be a candidate for re-election. When the Wichita newspaper men get short on stuff to fill up with they interview Mrs. Lease.

"There is no more patriotism in Wall street than there is holiness in hell," says the Wichita Eagle, II, Juneau, who was recently appointed on the Soldiers' Home 'Board by Governor Morrill, is a bank president. The Wichita Eagle says that George Martin is about the only prohibition editor in Kansas who does not drink himself. Chester I. Long is telling the fellows down at Washington that the Republicans gained sixty-five county officers in Kansas this year. Bailey Waggener, Democrat, will be a candidate for Representative from Atchison county on a 'platform of Atchison and Resubmission." The Aphony Journal (Rep.) says very truthfully that the Republican party was beaten in the county because of its gold-bug platform.

The Kansas City (Kas.) Bimetallic League has passed resolutions commendatory of the good work being done by ex-Congressman Bryan. The Concordia Blade thinks that it would be a big joke on the Republican candidates for Senator if the next Legislature should be a Populist one. There is a school out in Rooks county where the enrollment is eleven, and ten of the pupils bear the name of Bishop. Two other Bishops constituted the visitors for the last month. Republican papers call attention to the fact that the Populist candidate for Treasurer in Dickinson county got 1,473 majority, while the Republican candidate for Surveyor got 1,144.

They don't say anything about there not having been any Populist candidate for Surveyor. his son Ralph in reserve. Meanwhile, the old man is hustling in the lecture field at $500 a night to pay expenses." YY.U. A. Mrs.

J. W. Farns worth slipped and fell at the rear door of her home Monday evening and broke both bones of her right arm just above the wrist. The wrist was also dislocated. The annual reunion of the Old Settlers1 Association will be held at the I.

0. 0. F. hall, 701 Kansas avenue, December 5, from 10 a. m.

to 4 m. Everybody who lived in the State prior to 1801 is invited to be present. The bear, which was the last remnant of the Oakland menagerie, was killed Tussdayand sold to a city Boom Basted. The great business boom and revival of prosperity bo heralded and belauded by some of our political contemporaries get the Supreme court of Okianoma to grant him a writ of habeas corpus, but he failed. He will now go to the Kan-1 eas Supreme court for the same kind of relief.

Dee Wilkerson and "Jfegleg" McCaf ferty will be tried in Police court this afternoon. The trial could not take place Tuesday for the reason that -Wilkerson was not in fit condition to be cut. Wilkerson was pretty badly handled in his Saturday night row. It is hard to determine what brought on Dee's troubles, but the Police Judge will probably know something about it before he gets through with the case. DEATHS.

November 25, at 335 Locust, S. G. Brewster, of heart trouble. November 26, at 305 Madison, Harry Forster, the young son of P. Forster.

November 25, at the home of her parents, 723 Madison, Ida Matteson, aged 11 years. November 23, at Silver Lake, John Schwartz, a Union Pacific section man, aged 25 years, of apoplexy. PERSONAL. H. Mahan, of Abilene, who was the Populist candidate for District Judge in that district at the recent election, was in the city Tuesday.

Ex-Warden W. Chase, of Win-field; was In the city Tuesday and Wednesday. He spent most of the time visiting! with his son, John who now lives in Topeka. Hog Thief Pardoned. Morris Stevens, who was eentup butcher.

Nothing' is now left of the park except the exposition building, which is not in very good condition. W. E. White, who is with 0. 0, John- seems to have fallen into the sere and' yellow leaf.

Because there was marked increase in the demand for goods during the spring and summer months, following a couple of years of economy and self-denial on the part of the people, the apologists of the tariff legislation of the last Congress assumed that the tide had turned and that legislation was bringing the nation But it now appears that the real cause of revived activity was the exhaustion of stocks from curtailment of operations, and hence was temporary in its character. The immediate wants supplied, demand has fallen off. The revival was not built upon the solid basis of protection to American industry, and hence was temporary and evanescent in character. The commercial- agencies in their review of the week, say: "It is a time of waiting." "Trade has halted de cidedly at the close of October." "Commerce is not up to what was expected CO days ago." "The demand is almost entirely for staple goods, but with a decided falling off in volume." The Tribune has no disposition to play the role of calamity howler, but as a faithful recorder of conditions and eventa we Cannot afford to ignore facts. Minneapolis Tribune Nov.

4. Our "dollar library is a good thing to put lata Oe hands of people wto have net fcccn rcsulln rs'onn litcriiLturs. It frt 3 rrlHi tlrco 1 to eon's gents' furnishing house, had the misfortune to let the forty-pound cannonball which is. exhibited there dropon his foot Tuesday. He has painful injuries, but they are not serious.

The death of S. G. Brewster, of 335 Locust street, Monday night was a very sudden one. He entered the hcus of his next-door neighbor and eat down. After sitting a few moments he fell and before a doctor could arrive he died.

Heart trouble is said to fca the cause. He was a carpenter. COURT NOTES. The Sheriff is not being overworked now. Judge Hazen has ordered a new trial in the case of the State vs.

Baaghman. The case against Frank Mlleham end 0. W. 0ee will not be tried for a week or two. "Hockey" Jim Funston maneged to pet into a row Sunday and the Police Jcue entered a fine cf $15 and cccU tin.

j. Vuu-J I from Mitchell county in 1693 for three years for stealing hop, has had his sentence cut down by Governor Morrill eo that he will be released at once. Another Whliky Pardon. Governor Morrill has granted a pardon to D. 0.

Foss. Foss was fined 0100 and to thirty day in V' Judge Vandevert, one of the most partisan judges in the State, has decided the County Clerk contest in Edwards county in favor of the Republican candidate, notwithstanding the fact that the vote was a tie asd that C3 Ict3 dnrrn in TJ,.