Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-11-19
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

! sounds like music to the ears of the
hor1y-hsted toiler Of the soil. Irving
Leader.
The Fort Scott teachers are making
extensive preparations to entertain the
many delegates who will be there
Thanksgiving week to attend the meet
ing OF the Southeast Kansas Teachers
association.
The schools of Mulvane have been
closed on account of diphtheria.
L. D. Scott Of Smith county killed
an eagle measuring seven feet from tip
to tip.
Six thousand head of cattle have
been sent to Smith county for the win
ter, and more are on the way.
The Circuit Rider is the name of a
venture 60 fill long-felt want at At
tica, OF course, a preacher is ut the
head of it.
An Atchison girl has a kick to her
walk that makes common muslin skirts
rattle like silk. Necessity is the
mother of invention.
An Atchison preacher is on trial be-
fore the sewing societies for kissing a
pretty sister. He pleads in defense
temporary insanity.
The man who has the contract to
sprinkle the streets of Garden City has
good thing of it this fall; soaking
rains three or four times n week.
Carl Noting of Atchison county,
who went to Alaska to get rich, has re-
turned with bunch of whiskers and a
bearskin, the sum total of his possess
sions.
A skunk crept under White Cloud
church just as the evangelist had
rounded up q lot of mourners. The
next night the meeting was held in
another building.
The new Congregational church at
Atchison, which is to succeed the old
editice given to the society by Samuel
G. Pomeroy, will be ready for worship
the first Sunday in January.
A buzzard with small bell attached
to the neck was caught in Butler
county. The tinkle of the bell at
tracted attention for dozen miles
before the bird descended to the
ground.
In taking an inventory of the
manned and wounded, Mr. Brickeye, of
Abilene, should not be overlooked.
1t is'said that both John Breidenthal
and Ex-Governor Lewelling will be-
come candidates for United States sem
ator against Mr.. PETER.
Dyche has the distinction of being
the only Kansas man at present at
tracing attention without running for
something
Fred Funston, son of ex-Congress-
man Funston, is now in Cuba, He has
probably travelled more than any other
man in Kansas.
There is no longer any question as to
the defeat of ongressman-at-Larg
Dick Blue, Long in the Seventh dis
trict, Kirkpatrick in the Third, Calder"
head in the Fifth, Ellis in the Sixth
and Harris in the Second. The Repub-
licans secure only Broderic1 in tho
First and Curtis in the Fourth. Tha
Populists have elected five of the six
appellate court judges, the single ex-
ception being Wells in the Northeast
ern division. So far as can be ascer-
tanned every officer of high or low de-
gree elected by the fusionists is Pop
ulist.
1t doesn't follow always that man
becomes secure in the possession of
wife when the license has been issued,
the marriage ceremony performed and
the preacher paid-leastwise not in
Kansas. A few days, ago Michael
Manslein married Carrie Schrader at
Hiawatha. He took his wife to tho
house at which they intended to board
and then went down town to perform
some errand. Scarcely had he left the
house when Mr. Schrader, father Of
the bride, appeared on the scene and
forced his daughter to accompany him
home Since then he has refused to
allow Mr.. Manslein to see his bride and
she is kept under such constant sur
Vigilance that she cannot escape to
him. The bridegroom has brought
habeas corpus proceedings. The father
says his daughter is not of age and
that the license was secured through
perjury.
A woman in Hiawatha did not think
it was proper to mark spoons sent to
church social. She sent twelve and
got three back.
We may not find much heart from
music, but that in no way subtracts
from the legislative majority of Mr..
Vogelgesang in Russell county.
Smith county has an unparalleled
corn crop, some fields yielding an aver
age of seventy-five bushels to the acre
and hardly one falling below half that
figure.
Corn has been coming into town in
great quantities this week. The price
IS fair and as consequence the mer-
chants are enjoying good trade.
gusta Journal.
An Atchison man is having engraved
on tombstone for his wife, who died
that she was the faithful wife
If ''as good, loving and true man az
ever walked"
An appropriation of 1854 900 for the
Soldiers home at Leavenw worth has
oeen granted by the national board Of
The young lady in the kaleidoscope
lance, ''who will wear one hundred
yards of silk and will change the colorS
md effects every ten minutes" has
been billed for Larned.
The Clay Center Times says that
printers will understand the full depth
If mechanical misery when they I'M
la,s+ond tbat that office MED a large