Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-10-17

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Mrs. NJ Il. Miner Is the Republican
nominee for register Of deeds in Ed
wards county.
Feeders are buying great quantities
OF corn in Bourbon county ut fifteen
cents bushel
A large number of tobacco growers
from Kentucky are locating in Kansas
to grow tobacco.
Altogether there have been fifty
cases of diptherla reported in Topeka
and twelve deaths.
The mayor of Emporia paid $3.50 to
an accountant to find out that the city
owed the city clerk SO.
Charles X, Holiday has filed his
nomination papers as u candidate for
chief justice of Topeka,
Atchison school teachers did not got
their money for September services;
no money in the school fund.
A, j, BirchAeld, once wheel horse
of the Kansas Democracy, is now pub
fishing paper at Alvin, Texas,
David 0vermyer has been appointed
w w ~ lllSlllbRl Vi viz nuhlOHul
mittee of the Free Silver Democracy.
State Historical society has chosen
Governor Il. N. Morrill, president Of
the society, to succeed the late Scion
0. Thatcher.
An application for the appointment
OF receiver for the Topeka Capital,
Major j, X. Hudson's paper, has been
filed at Topeka.
Ed Davis, William Workman and
Nelson Mosher, under arrest at Leav-
enworth for counterfeiting, have con-
fessed their guilt.
September, 1896 was the windiest
September on record During the
month SOL inches of rain fell. Frost
occurred on the 2sth.
Supreme court has decided that the
laws of 1895, abolishing n number of
judicial districts and attaching them
to other districts, are valid
Professor Dyche will remain two
weeks in New York. mounting speci-
mems, before he will report for duty
at the Kansas state university.
AT the soldiers reunion ut Salina,
Father 0'Leary rounded up all the
Catholic children in the town and
marched with them in the parade.
There are $4,000 members of the
l. o. o. i. in Kansas, The local lodges
number 420 and they are entitled TO
1000 delegates in the grand lodge.
Governor Morrill, has pardoned
James Dempsey of Ford county, who
was sent up for twenty-five years in
1891 for the murder of his wife az
Coolidge.
Missouri and Kansas Telephone COM
pany raised the rate from Troy to
Kansas City, and to get even the
county commissioners Of Doniphan
raised the company's assessment.
The militia encampment at Emporia
cost the state Of Kansas $1,000 The
heaviest item was railroad fare for the
troops, $4,00IG1. The salary item was
&,356.37 The supplies cost 81 ,642. ~.
Internal Revenue Collector II. d.
Morris has declared that the Kelly
institute at the Soldiers home, Leaven-
worth, is not liable to the tax imposed
upon all persons dispensing liquor for
pay.
Mrs. Hatch, the mother of Clyde
MattoX, is disappointed in the action
Of President Cleveland. She thinks
he should have committed her sons
sentence to only five years imprison-
ment.
Joe Talbot, who died at Parsons,
Kan, October 1, was the originator Of
the Nevada guarantee bond invest
ment company, which gained so much
noteriety in the state and United
States courts.
The Wichita minister who has been
leading the whisky fight has just de-
clined to accept call to Pittsburg,
Pa, which carried with it salary Of
$500, an increase of 81, 300 over his
present salary.
Chairman Breidenthal favors hold
ing the Pop national convention at At
lanta, and not later than some time in
February. He thinks nothing is TO be
gained by waiting for the declarations
OF the old parties.
Twenty-eight clerical and seventy
lay delegates were present at the
meeting of the presbytery OF the Neo-
Bho district at Cotfeyville. Rev. II. A.
Cooper of Paoa was elected modera.
tor. Next meeting at Neodesha.
The Democratic state central COM
mittec met at Topeka and decided that
II was III txpedient to nominate can
didate for chief justice, inasmuch as
Charles X. Holiday ha6 entered the
race as an independent candidate.
At the fall stated meeting OF the
Presbytery of Emporia nearly 100 pas
tors and delegates were present. Sew
churches were represented.
Bourbon county authorities have ar
ranged for securing portraits of all the
deceased former district judges who
have occupied the bench in that coun-
ty and will have them appropriately
placed in the court room in Fort Scott.
Report OF State Treasurer o. L.
Athertcn shows the total receipts for
the month of September to be SjO,-
54045. Total disbursements, $aU1,-
t66.7t. Amount on hand, sos. s17.79.
Bonds now owned by the permanent
school fund, So ,s6;,s 80