Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29
KANSAS sTATE NEWS.

Lrlpune now nus Telegraph ONCE ~
result Of the state law passed las
winter, regarding telegraph offices al
county seats.
Miss Hattie Horner, the gifted Kan.
sas poetess, will be married June 21, al
her home at Whitewater to 0. e.
Louthan, Of Englewood, H., a suberb
Of Chicago.
Holton special: Campbell university
will run an excursion to the worlds fair
on July II. They figure that their to-
tai expenses at the worlds fair will not
be over $3.50 day.
Clay Allen, of Neosho county, stu
dent Of Baker university, has been ap-
pointed cadet to the government mill
tary academy at West Point Con-
gresham Hudson had him appointed.
Topeka Capital: A gentlemen who
has just returned from Chicago says it
is the fact that more people have regis
tered at the worlds fair from Kansas
than any other western state. And they
have just begun to go.
Topeka Journal: Poor Commissioner
Hale says there is very little application
for relief nowadays. There is consider
able application for transportation to get
out Of town, however. Many old SOL
diers apply for transportation to get back
to the Soldiero Home after being out on
leave Of absence and running out Of
money.
Garden City special: J. d. Yeiter,
late cashier of the Bank of Ingalls,, had
preliminary trial in Cimarron and was
held to await the action of the district
court. Judge Abbott held the prelim-
mary examination and fixed the bond
at $4,000, which he failed to give, and
since then has been confined in the jail at
this place.
The decision Of the supreme court on
the question of whether the reserve fund
Of the Kansas Mutual Insurance COM
pany was taxable, results in a benefit to
Hiawatha Of over $4,000 and to Brown
county at large of over $4,000. The
taxes we're levied by former officers when
the company was doing business there
and has been in litigation since.
Salina Republican,: The Santa Fe
train en- route from Abilene ran into two
horses near the bridge just this side of
Solomon. The horses were upon the
track and instead of going down the
embanlment ATTEMPTED to outrun the
train and were both killed. One of the
animals had ventured onto the bridge
and was half way across before he fell
through.
Hereafter a fee of 1875 will be charged
every law student at Kansas UNIVERSE
ty, to go into fund with which to en-
ploy able lawyers to lecture before the
school. Judge d, NJ. Valentine, of To
peka, was added to the list Of regular
lecturers, which now consists of Judge
W. A. Benson, Judge s. o. Thatcher,
Hon. S. A. Riggs and men of like abil-
ity and reputation.
Miss Helen Green, of Topeka, a COM
mercial traveller for "The Mound City
Color Company Of st. Louis, has been
invited by the board OF lady managers
of the worlds fair, by letter from Hell
en- M. Barker the chairman, to make an
address in the Womens building on any
topic of practical interest to women.
Miss Green will accept the invitation,
and will speak on the subject Of women
commercial travellers.
Topeka Capital: Judge William T.
Scott, OF Holton, attended the meeting of
the Sons Of the Revolution in the rooms
of the State Historical society. His faith
er was an officer in the revolutionary
war, and participated in the battle OF
Kings Mountain in 1880, He followed
Daniel Boone to Kentucky and was one
of the first settlers in that state. Judge
Scott is 81 years old and is the young
est of a family Of fifteen children.
At Emporia the dead body of man
was found in freight car of the Santa
Fe road. The car was loaded with iron
pipes and the body was found at one
end Of the car with one of the pipes
jammed through the head. The suppo-
sition is that the load shifted while the
man was asleep and thus caused his
death. From letters found on his per-
son it is supposed his name was Charles
Schuchman and that he has a wife and
family residing at Appleton, Mo.
Topeka Capital: E. G. shull and J.
r. Pagan, were the Topeka men who
were killed in the Washington disaster.
Mr.. Shull was instructor in the Shawnee
institute for three years, was on the
county examining board for num-
Der Of years, and one of our foremost
educators. Mr.. Pagan taught for
several years in northern Shawnee
and was successful teacher Hundreds
If pupils, now men and women, will re-
greet the sad accident that cost him his
life.
From Wichita: The Whitaker pack
ing house will continue to run. John
Whitaker says, "The company will be
reorganized to carry on the business
more extensively than heretofore. One
thing has been developed here, however,"
added Mr., Whitaker, "by the establish
ment Of these packing houses and that
is that hogs can and will be grown in
this rOnntrv in 1aroa ,upohare XUI,or