Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-06-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Riley county conducted a model schoo
ct five rooms during It's session.
The scheme Of the senior class Of Kan
sas university 20 raise fund for the as
distance Of poor students has material.
lied to the extent of 500.
Salina pupils have another year add
ed TO their school course. There are
now twelve grades, of which four are
included in the high school.
A petition has been presented to the
Wichita city council looking toward the
expenditure Of $4,000 in prospecting
for coal, gas, oil salt and artesian water
The LaOygne Journal is maintaining
q chinch bug infection station for the
benefit o. farmers in the vicinity. More
than 100 patches Of diseased bugs have
been sent out.
j. Ralph Burton recited "Shanus
O'Brien" at tho Topeka Club the other
evening in such way that Barney Lam
try exclaimed; II lay tin dollars that
the Elegant gintleman has Irish blude
in his veins"
The principal OF the Lawrence high
school receives 500 per month. Eight
Of the other teachers receive $50 or
more; fifteen receive $40 or more; and
fifteen Others receive amounts ranging
from $3.50 to $45.
Mankato Review: The county com
missioners decided to locate a chinch
bug experiment station at Mankato for
Jewell county. 1t will be placed in
charge Of a competent man at a stipu-
lated salary to be paid by the county.
Paola Republican,; Amey Reeves,
the 14-year-old son of NJ d. Reeves, is
probably the banner boy of Miami coun-
ty. He attended school at the semi
nary building in Paola the past three
years, and in that time has been neither
absent nor tardy.
The Leavenworth school children took
possession Of the lake at the Soldiers
home. In fact the little one took possess
sion of the place, and in the minds Of
the old boys, there was nothing too
good for them, and nothing but what
Governor Smith and Captain Wheedon
would let them have.
The colored miners who left Pittsburg
some time since to work in the Indian
Territory are coming back, being great
ly dissatisfied there. They are being
given their old places and are very hap
Ply thereat. There is active demand for
miners at Pittsburg, the calls for coal
making all the shafts wArk to their
full capacity.
At Hiawatha the populists Of the
Twenty second judicial district nomi.
mated Judge J. f. Thompson for re- cleo
ton. Thompson was nominated by the
democrats a week before. Four years
ago he was elected by combination of
democrats and populsts. The district
comprises the counties Of Dpniphan,
Brown and Nemaha.
From Arkansas City: During the
recent thunderstorm the large smoke
stack of the power house of the Chilocco
school house was strucd by lightning.
The brick down one side of the stack
from the top of the roof we're broken
into pieces and part of the roof torn
off. Pieces of bricks, shingles and
lumber were thrown all about the build
ings and into the hospital building.
At the competitive drill of the patri-
archs militant in Forest park, Ottawa,
Canton Colfax No. 2 of Fort Scott,
Major W. S. jennings, commanding,
carried off the first prize, the patriarch
militant colors. The second was won
by Topeka canton No. 3, being $50
cash, Two excursion trains with fully
1000 passengers went to Silkville to
the dedication Of the orphans home.
Mrs. J. j. Hawkins, wife Of a promi-
nent farmer near Redfeld, Bourbon
county, was caught in a light buggy
between heavily loaded wagon and
street car and 30 mangled that she died |
in few hours. She was twenty-four
years Of age and had been married but
two weeks. Her husband was also bad
ly injured in the same accident. They
were in the city purchasing a house
hold outfit.
Larned special; E. L. Chapman, ex-
receiver OF the United States land office
at this place and president OF the First |
National bank at Great Bend, committed |
suicide at the latter place by shooting
himself through the head. His family, |
who reside here, were notified by tele-
graph of the deed, and his wife, who
has been an invalid for years, is pros
trated and is not expected to survive the
shock. No cause can be assigned for
the act.
A new question resulting from the
Kansas prohibitory law was raised by j.
L. Allensworth, who filed suit in be-
half Of Emma j. Phelps against the city
and county of Atchison, claiming $10,-
600 damages for the sale of liquor to
her husband, B. H. Phelps, during the
past five years. 1t is charged in the
petition that by reason of such sales of
liquor she has been deprived Of support
she otherwise would have been receiving,
and that such sales of liquor have been
with the knowledge and authority of
the city and the county in consideration
Of sums of money received from liquor
dealers and that the city and county