Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-02-20
THE STATE OF KANSAS

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day,
Ex-Governor L. D. Lewelling says
he will not be candidate for gov
ernor
Judge Horton announces that he is
not Il candidate for United States
Senator.
The Union Pacific is filing its Kan
sas houses with ice from Green river,
Wyoming.
Three business houses were de-
stroyed by fire at Alma, entailing a
loss Of 81, 200.
"Coin" Harvey's new order, 1.-THE
Patriots of America" is gaining head
way in Kansas.
Kansas had cash in it's fist to the
amount of 1896, l59. 39 the first Of the
present month.
Topeka eX-slaves are holding meet
ings preparatory to petitioning Con-
gress to pension then.
Heads of depol tments in the Santa
Fe shops at Argentine will be cut ten
per cent in their wages.
A monument to Union soldiers will
be erected at Baldwin. 1t is to be
dedicated Decoration day.
Thomas j. Kelam, the Topeka
banker who was injured in q railroad
wreck near Victor, Col, is dead.
j. +. Willetts, Kansas man, pre-
sided at the sessions of the Farmers
National Alliance at Washington.
Henry Watterson, of the Louisville
Ky.) Courier-Journai, owns farm
near Eureka in Greenwood county.
Laura NJ, Johns says that the So
called Woman's Bible has hurt the
suffrage cause rather than helped it.
David Coulter was found guilty of
murder in the secoud degree at To-
pella, for the killing of Edward Ellis
ton.
Kansas mortgage redemption case
will be submitted on brief to the
United States Supreme court before
April %.
Rumor that the Missouri Pacific will
purchase the St. Joseph e. Grand Is
land is credited by railroad officials at
Atchi son.
Report that Clyde Mattox, the Okla
homa murderer, was dying in the
Federal prison at Fort Leavenworth
is denied.
w. P. Mcmahon, editor of the Tiller
and Toiler at Larned, is dead. Re-
mains were sent to Button, Ind, for
interment.
Andrew Raird of Minneapolis, Mimi,
has accepted the secretaryship of the
Kansas Y. M. c. A., with headquarters
at Topeka.
Major II. j. Anderson of Topeka has
formally announced himself as can
didato for delegate-at-large to the St.
Louis convention.
Topeka's police court receipts during
the month of January were only $2sS,
while the salaries of the policemen
amounted to $l,5l2
Kansas contributes $277683 toward
the internal revenue fund of the ma
tional government, and draws out over
$4,000, 900 in pensions.
Ed Howe, of the Atchison Globe, is
said to be at work on another book, in
which he ridicules and condemns the
evils of modern social life.
w. p. Harrington,a brother of Grant
Harrington of the Hiawatha Democrat
carried off the oratorical honors at
Leland Stanford university.
At the next Of meeting the Legisla-
ture the state solons will be asked to
join Atchison and Doniphan counties
in the same judicial district.
Tom Longman and Willis X. Folks
of Wellington are heirs to the Anneke
Jams estate, of which Captain Burt of
Arkansas City is also an heir.
A man at Newton wanted to learn
how fast a circular saw was running.
He found out but has only three
fingers On his right hand now.
w. NJ. Alternately, formerly state
agent of the Home Life Insurance
company of Brooklyn, has filed suit
in the Shawnee county District court
for $780,, 900 alleged back salary and
percentage due him from the company.
Daily Press Publishing Company,
Topeka, has been reorganlzed with
capital of S95 900, and it will publish
daily "resubmission" newspaper.
The st. AIMS academy will not be
rebuilt at Usage mission. The Sisters
of Loretto have received instructions
to dispose of their interests there.
Senator Baker has reported favora-
bly, bills to increase the pensions of
Wallace McGrath of Leavenworth and
the widow of General James &. Blunt.
Representative Curtis bill for cam
non and pyramid of balls for w. II.
Wallace post, &. a. R., Eldorado, has
been favorably reported to the Senate.
The Topeka Commercial club has
decided to invite the state encamp-
ment of the Kansas G. A. r. to spend
the week from Septe m Der % to Octo-
Der at the capital city, 1t is pro-
posed to inaugurate gala perio d
something after the fashion of Kansas
Citys carnival.
Lawrence jewellers engaged in war
of prices on small alarm clocks the
other day. Regular price of goods is
S1.2j, but the dealers cut and cut until
the price got down to twenty-five
cents. Hundreds of clocks were sold
and thousands could have been sold
the next day, but the dealers got tired
and stopped the war"
Pauline Lewelling, a daughter of
the ex-governor, is earning her way
through the State university. She at
tended the institution q year ago, but
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