Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-05-14
THE STATE OF KANSAS

Ness county has 1891 900 in the treas
ury
The woman shoemaker at Beverly Is
we'll pntronized,
Ex-Auditor c. NJ IIovey is bill coll
lcctor in Chicago,
Webb McNall Is president OF Col
orado mining company
Corn Is up in good shape all overthe
Western part OF the state
The bill for sending the militia to
ST. John will be about Si0O,
Calvin Hood of Emporia, is caudi-
date for United States Senator
Four new wells are being sunk at
Osborne to supply the city with wa
ter
The headless body Of man was
found in tho bills northeast of Hays
City.
The town OF Ramona in Dickinson
county has changed its name to
Jacobs,
During last year just eighteen Kan
sans came to the front with patent
car'couplcrs.
II, l.. Davis of Eureka was nomi-
mated by the Republicans for Judge on
the 207th ballot
Orchard and forest troes in Chautau-
qua county are being badly damaged
by the worm pest
Montgomery county papers report
the crops in that locality as fairly
dumping skyward,
State Senator King of Cowley
county is candidate for the Populist
nomination for governor
Lewis Kreecb, mayor of Clifton, has
, appealed to outside cities for aid for
, sufferers from the cyclone.
+ Rev Smothers Of Ebcue2er African
Baptist church ut Atchison baptized
, forty-threo converts on recent Sun
: day
, George 4, Challiss, one of the first
, settlers of Atchison, Is dead He was
= very wealthy once, but died u poor
man.
Hail during recent storm COM
! pletely destroyed all fruit prospects
d for the year in portions of Dickinson
i county.
I An ordinance has been passed in
}, Lawrence prohibiting the FASTING OF
< pictures of high kickers on the bill
!. boards.
= c. w. Shinn of Eureka has been
v named by the Populists OF Greenwood
y county for Judge Of the Thirteenth
:, judicial district
II At the oratorlcal contest at the Kan
o sas university at Lawrence first place
o was won by r. II. Osborn and second
Il place by II. e. Pope,
Silas H. Pierce, who died in Holt
county, Missouri April II, and his
wife, who survives HIM, were the first
l. white couple married in Kansas
i Wichita, Kansas City, Kan, and
D. Atchison have petitioned Governor
$, Morrill, to abolish the police commits
Is sioner boards. Ieavcnworth follows
h suit
If w. u. Ham OF Stockton received the
n Republican nomination for judge OF
n, the appellate court at the convention
10 at Oakley after 1870 ballots had been
~ taken.
~ viii Knott Is the proprietor OF a
W hotel at Newton and he does not hesi-
v tate to repeat his name with an "P
IN before IL when asked to credit for bed
n and board,
III Devoe Edwards, ono Of the Gaylord
he postoiIce robbers who turned States
he evidence, was sentenced to the Shaw
he nee county Jail for six months by
50 Judge Foster
Y. The State board of railroad asses
sors has completed its work. The
total assessed valuation of railroad
property foots up $780, 300, 900, or $500,
600 less than last year.
70 Mayor Fellows OF Topeka wired $l0t
TO Mayor Kreeck of Clifton for aid fol
en- victims Of the cyclone and Il. W. Sny
der of Leavenworth sent $3.50 which
d. he collected Of me rchants.
er r. c. Meade, formerly school super
intendent at Atchison and who wa
=, convicted recently OF embez2lement
w. was taken to the penitentiary to serv'
10 out his sentence Of three years.
The Wamego mill and elevator wal
destroyed by fire. The property wa
worth about $50, 900, Insured for $27,
le' 600. The capacity of the mill was 25
ny barrels, and of the elevator $500
IN bushels.
Colonel w. c. Whitney, the new de
partment commander of the Kansas
e. A. r., has dispensed with the ser
vices Of Maud Harrel of Independence
or who has been clerk of the department
for the past five years at a salary o
$500
~ ~ Warden Lynch, of the penitentiary
- recently asked Governor Morrill, II
DC would be in harmony with the law +
at take convicts beyond the bounds o
he the prison for the purpose of remoV
ing timber from tract of land 10
Is pcnitentiary use. The Governor re
inf ferred the matter to Attorney Genera
SnT Dawes who replied in the negative
Luz He cited paragraph 6i4O OF the ger
W. eral statutes Of $3.50, which says
est oBut no contract shall be made 70
the employment Of prisoners outsid
m, of the prison grounds"
his A branch OF the ex-Slaves' Pensio
be- association was orga nized in Atchiso
1y. with 200 members. 1t is estimate
IN that there are / 200 colored men an
MD women in Atchison who were slaves
and an attempt will be made to brin
them all into the organization. III
.nu Dnroinn aucnnia tim hn g IL