Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-04-23
THE STATE OF KANSAS

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Times.
Cedarvale pays City cents per lamp
for its electric lights.
Coffeyville will have Democratic
newspaper next month.
Neosho voted n franchise for an
electric light plant 9l5 TO 5.
Kansas is now with more moisture
than it has had In seven months.
Theodore Byram and Miss Nellie
Seaton were married at Atchison.
State Representative II, NJ Bene6el
will resign before the fall election.
One of the imperative duties of
Atchison society is that the women
register
A man in Emporia keeps thirteen
dogs and refuses to pay u license for
any OF them.
Keepers & Thacher Of Detroit, Mich,
will build the new bridge at Topeka;
price Sl35, 600.
}. G. Maxwell OF Mcpherson has the
distinction of being the first person
born in Mcpherson county.
In the city election at Kiusley the
Republicans elected the mayor and
three out OF five councilmen.
Kansas has more life directors in the
national educational associations than
any other State in the Union.
An eighteen inch vein of lead ore
has been struck thirty feet below the
surface in Washington county.
An Emporia man named Weyler was
a candidate for the city council.
Needless to say he was defeated.
One firm in Leavenworth has grated
$4,000 apple trees, for the purpose Of
setting out 1000 acre orchard.
Hugh b. Farrelly of Chanute has
been nominated for Congress by the
Democrats of the Third district.
w. H: Higgins, editor Atchison Trib-
une, q new Populist paper, weighs S26
pounds and is an ex-football player
The water works we'll at Cherokee
is now down go feet. Oil has been
struck, but not in any great quantity.
Convent of the Sisters of st. Joseph
has been Incorporated at Parsons,
with seven sisters from Abilene as
trustees,
Only 1904 votes were cast in the
city election at Topeka. There were
more than 0,O00 names on the regis
tration list.
John Maloy, one OF the early set
tiers of Kansas, has written history
of Morris county which will appear in
print in short time.
Notwithstanding the low price Of
corn, Kngman county cattle feeders
have universally lost money the past
year, the Leader says.
magazine is defined by n Kansas
editor as u publication with story in
front and the rest Of the pages de-
voted to advertisements.
Kansas free silver party will hold
state convention at Topeka, July 10,
to elect sixty delegates to the ma
tional silver conference at st. Louis,
July 2@.
A Sumner county shoemaker has in
his shop rag baby with the sign
stuck TO it: IF you must handle some
thing, handle this" His visitors leave
his tools alone,
Mrs. Benjamin Creagley of Fort
Scott was shot in the eye and proba-
bly, fatally wounded by the acci-
dental discharge Of revolver In tho
hands of the little boy Of neighbor.
Chairman Breidenthal and ex-Gov-
ernor Lewelling went TO ST. Louis to
secure headquarters for Kansas dele
cation to the National Populist con-
vention July 29 Delegation will
number ninety-two.
Maggie Gray was knocked down and
badly injured in the street at Chetopa.
Shortly after Frank Rupert's head
was filled with shot and fatally
wounded. George Lloyd, q negro, Is
under arrest for the crimes.
Near Seneca John Hecht, young
farmer, while at work in the field was
struck by lightning and killed. Three
Of the horses he was working also
we're killed. His brother, who was
near, was knocked insensible,
Boycott of the Swift Packing COM
pany by the Trades assembly of Kan
sas City, Kan, has been raised, the
company agreeing to take back in
their employ the girls in the trimming
department, who went out on q strike,
at the old scale.
The river and harbor bill passed the
House in just one hour, carrying
among it's S63,O00,0OO for appropria-
tions, one OF $4,000 for the improve
ment of the Neosho river which is
Mr., Kirkpatrick's pet project.
Captain Thomas White died at Ar
kansas City after an illness of several
months. He acted for several years
as state lecturer for the Granger or
ganization. He served in the civil
war as captain OF colored regiment.
The Republicans of Anderson,
Franklin and Douglas counties met at
Lawrence to name a candidate for
Judge of the Fourth judicial district.
The Anderson and Franklin men OBJ
tanned control and shut out the Doug
las men and after a two hours
wrangle the latter bolted. The others
then nominated G. A. Smart of Ottawa
for Judge. The boilers named Judge
w. W. Hivison of Lawrence.
romantic wedding took place at
Sedan, in which Squire Turner Of
Cedarville, aged 20, and Amanda M.
Gillespie of Mclean county, ILL.,, aged
CO, were the contracting parties. By
appointment they met at Sedan and
were married by j. d. McBryan, in
| the nrasonca Of Mr. Turner's Children