Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-06-25
THE STATE OF KANSAS

There are over 100 prisoners. in the
Hutchinson reformatory.
Sumner county Popuists instructed
for jerry Simpson for Congress.
Congressman Blue will deliver
Fourth of July Grafton at Girard.
Eleven of the forty.four old soldiers
who live in Wichita county draw pen
sions.
Marion county Republican conven-
ton instructed for Potter for gov
ernor.
Six hundred penitentiary convcts
have been farmed out to make chairs
and shoes.
Police Judge Leland of Kansas City
has been removed. He is an uncle of
Cyrus Leland.
Refined petroleum from the Kansas
product is now sold regularly in the
Eastern markets.
The Leland hotel will be headquar-
tiers for Kansas Democrats during the
Chicago convention.
Senator Dan Voorhees, has cancelled
his Kansas speaking engagements on
account of i'll health.
A. II, Lupfer of Pawnee county was
nominated by the Populists at Garden
City for State Senator.
Some one stole the tax books of Ell
dorado and now the property owners
can not pay their taxes.
Blackberries are ripe along the
Southern border and they are selling
at less than ten cents a quart
Farmers who have to use the Atchi-
son bridge are complaining of the
high toll charged for their teams.
Republican state committee will
meet at Topeka June 25 to fix a time
and place for the state convention.
First Natioual bank, Larned, closed
its doors owing to an unusual heavy
run being made on the institution.
The damage to farm and railroad
property by the rise of the streams in
Southeast Kansas has been enormous.
DR.. f. S. Olney was arrested at
Howard and taken to Sedan to stand
trial as an accessory to the famous
Frazer murder.
Ex-Mayor Sam Bodsworth of Leav-
enworth took an overdose of morphine
while in ST. Louis and died from it's
effects the next day.
The Populists have nominated M.
Schoonover of Garnett for Judge of
the court of appeals, Eastern division,
Southern department.
A. s. McAllister, recently elected
mayor of Herington, has resigned and
will go back to work on the Rock
Island road as engineer
Life certificates to teach within the
borders of Che Sunhower State were
issued to class of 100 graduates at
the State Normal School
Domestic trouble caused J. S.
Helme, prominent merchant aged rs,
Of Millerton, Sedgwicll county, to kill
himself with trough on rats"
A split is probable in the congrega-
tlon of the First Presbyterian church,
Topeka, as result of the forced re-
signation of Dr. S. B. Anderson.
A. N. Bontz, cashier of the Bank of
Sylvia, Harvey county, is under ar
rest, charged with making false re-
turns to the State bank examiner.
The railroad agents Of Leavenworth
have entered into combination TO
abolish the credit system. Hereafter
the rule will be spot cash before de-
livery.
Ed Howe wants an audience to as
semhle at fifty cents a head before
which he will undertake to prove that
1.-THE world would be better, and the
nation more prosperous if it was
written rs instead of 49,"
What docs it profit Kansas man to
grow big wheat, big corn and other
wonders for the Worlds fair and have
his name spelled wrong on the medal?
That's what has happened to Kansas
exhibitors so far in the awards.
James Overfeld, driver of grocery
wagon at Fort Scott, was publicly ac-
cused by Sarah Ogden of stealing her
diamonds and now Overfeld wants
$1,000 damages which he alleges he
has incurred from the false charge.
Senator and Mrs. Bowersock, OF
Lawrence, will go to Cambridge,
Mass, shortly, to be present when
their son Justin, who is one of the
honor men of his class, graduates from
the law department of Harvard uni
versity
Hon. Joe Lowe, who recently signed
the Murphy temperance pledge, held
revival at Cuba and one-half of the
people of the town took the pledge.
Miss Dolphin has succeeded Pro-
fessor Klock temporarily and with a
prospect of permanency at the head of
the Leavenworth public schools. She
is the first woman ever elected to this
position in any of the first class cities
of Kansas
License for joints at Arkansas City
was fixed at 500 per month by the
city council. Jontists "shut up
shop" and refuse to do business in the
town until the license or fine is re-
duced. Some of them have opened
just outside the city limits and are
doing fine business.
Topeka Mail: w. b. Hadlock of
Sterling holds as his most precious
relic of the war piece of bareback
which was issued to him as "rations"
in 1865. After being kept thirty-one
years it seems as well preserve d as the
day it was made. During the centen-
NAL year, we bought pie at the Hol-
iday eating house and we have that
yet, though, of course, this isn't as
long as Mr.. Hadlocl kept his hard
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