Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-04-30
THE STATE OF KANSAS

State Senator Harry Lands of Med
icine Lodge, Populist, has resigned.
Atchison county farmers are hold
ing two-thirds OF their last years
crop.
The bonded debt OF the city of EN-
poria Is S275, 900, and there is SEE, 900
in the treasury,
A Kingman county girl fred gun
in the air and killed dog which was
lying on the ground near her
Chief of police and Ave patrolmen,
armed with axes, demolished the So
loon of John Virgins in Wichita.
c. +. Weber and Alfred Dawson have
been appointed receivers OF the State
Bank of Goodland, recently closed.
Viola Edmond of Fort Scott, aged
7, burned to death, her clothes catch
ing from q fire In her parents yard.
The wife OF State Senator william
son of Doniphan county has come into
fortune by the death of relative.
New Santa Fe bridge over the Cana
dian river will be steel structure
and one OF the most substantial in the
West
Republicans met at Chanute and re-
nominated Judge w. A, johnson Of
Garnett for judge of the court of APP
peals.
United States Senator PETER secured
favorable report on the bill TO grant
pension to stephen Names OF Au-
gusta.
Colonel Anthony, of the Leaven-
worth Times, observed Arbor day by
planting 8, 900 apple trees on his High
Prairia farm.
The statement is made in the Atch-
ison papers that Miss Constance In
gals is shortly TO start on an extended
lecturing tour.
About $50 Masons from various parts
Of Kansas attended tho reunion at
Lawrence Over 800 plates were laid
for the banquet.
One firm at Parsons shipped to the
New York market $4,000 dozen eggs
and 5000 pounds of dressed poultry
within one week.
Nellie Myers, the 9-year-old daugh-
ter of w. H. Myers Of Topeka, was
scalded to death by falling into d
kettle Of hot water.
Sam johnson struck II, II, Bliss
over the head with club and killed
him in quarrel at LaCygne over
dollars worth of straw
Reno county people reduced their
chattel mortgage indebtedness from
$l,97S, 700 in 1894 to an aggregate OF
500, 00s at the close of 1885,
Police Officer II. Il. Gaines of To-
pelSa, who killed Albert Kruger about
six months ago, has been sentenced to
she penitentiary for one year.
At Atchison they talk OF closing
the schools month earlier than
usual, and spending the money thus
saved in fixing up the buildings
Bill Symons, the noted Missouri
horse thief, was sent to the peniten-
tiary for four years from Fort Scott
for stealing horse and buggy.
Judge ElriclS G. Cole, present judge
Of the appellate court, Southern divis-
ion, was renominated by the Repub-
lican convention at Dodge CITY,
Thirteen coal mining companies
which operate mines In the vicinity OF
Pittsburg, having capacity Of 1000
tons per day, have formed combine.
Mr.. and Mrs. Puppe of Wabaunsee
county are reported by one OF the
local papers to be rejoicing over the
arrival Of u little Puppe ut their
house.
A reward of $500 has been offered
for the arrest and conviction of Alfred
c. Parish, charged with the murder of
Henry Turner, near Junction City,
April 3.
John DevereuX, a farmer near Troy,
will plant forty acres in sassafras this
spring. lie proposes to build fac
tory and utilize the leaves in making
cigarettes.
The new administration at Parsons
starts off in a business-lke way.
Councilman Sourbeer has been placed
at the head Of the ways and means
committee.
House committee made favorable
report on bills granting condemned
cannon to G. A. II. posts at Wichita,
Pleasanton, Lawrence, Leavenworth
and Augusta.
Governor Morrill, has taken six
months off the sentence Of five years
given Fred Livingston of Butler
county for helping to rob q Frisco
train in November 1892.
j. A. Shortrdge, the Leavenworth
nurseryman, who disappeared from
Atchison April 10, wrote his employ
ers, stating that he had embezzled
81, 700 from them His present loca-
| ton has not been ascertained.
Edmond Stanley, state superintend-
ent of schools, says teaching in the
public schools must be in the English
language, but that German may be
taught as branch study If the dis
trict school board authorizes it.
An effort is being made by Leaven-
worth merchants to secure the estab-
lishment of large vitrified brick
plant at that place. Plant proposed
will cost $l2, 900, employ loo men and
manufacture $4,000 brick per day.
Atchison county farmers are organ
izing protective association with the
special purpose in view of being able
to show proper attention to ambitious
and enterprising horsethieves who
may happen to visit that locality.
Fifty.nine applicants for govern
ment positions took the civil service
examinations IN Topeka, last week.
Among them thirteen want to be mail
clerks, two, meat inspectors; sixteen,
taggers; eight, Indian school teachers;
nine, Indian school matrons; five,