Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-22

Minor State News.
Mrs. Mary E. Lease has quit Kansas
for good.
State Mine Inspector McGrath has
appointed his wife as assistant in
spector. .
The Capital says that Topeka stands
second among the cities OF the country
In -four milling.
The venerable Matthew Weightman,
resident Of Kansas since 1855, died in
Topeka recently.
Fire at BeAttie destroyed a half
dozen business houses, entailing a loss
Of several thousand dollars.
Rev, Sam Small will conduct a series
of open-air temperance meetings
throughout the state in June,
There is row in the State High
School oratOrical society and the To
pelsA high school has pulled out.
Nine-te1Hths Of the whisk brooms sold
and used in the United States are made
from broomcorn grown in Kansas,
Fort Scott papers accused Attorney
General Boyle OF working to secure
the re-opening Of Fort Scott saloons.
The G. A. R. post Of Conway Springs
will erect handsome monument in
memory Of the dead members of the
post.
Fire from cigarette stub destroyed
several business houses in Chetopa re-
Gently and caused $4,000 financial
loss.
A Topeka women has brought suit
for $4,000 against her mother-in-law
for alternating the affections OF her hus-
band.
Chief Justice Doster tried to get his
son Chase appointed q cadet at West
Point, but he was rejected on account
of age, being "a.
Judge N. c. Mcfarland, of Topeka,
an honored Kansas pioneer, is starving
to death as result of a disease of his
digestive organs.
J. NJ. McCown, who was suspended
as postmaster at Emporia for alleged
embezzlement, was not indicted by the
federal grand jury.
The annual convention Of the State
Sunday School association will be held
at Newton May 25.1, E, O, Excel, of
Chicago, will lead the music.
1t is said that n certain member of
the recent Kansas Legislature saved
enough out of q salary of $3.50 to pay
off two $500 mortgages on his farm.
Teachers of northwest Kansas, in
session at Horton, elected W, A. Evans,
of Leayepworth, president, and Miss
Frances Katner, of Atchison, secretary.
1t is positively asserted that Gov,
Leedy will on May appoint ex-Sherift
Arnold, Of Columbus, as superintend-
emit Of the state reformatory at Hutch
inson.,
Incendiaries set Are to the big barn
of Farmer Wright, near Newton and
the structure with eight fine horses
and many farm implements were de-
stroyed.
Ex-United States Marshal "Diclz"
Walker has been appointed land Office
inspector under Assistant Interior Sec
rotary Ryan. 1t pays So, 900 year and
expenses.
The Christian Endeavor societies Of
Kansas will hold their annual conven-
ton IN Topeka the first four days Of
June. There will be 1000 delegates in
attendance.
TWAS reported from Manhattan that
George T. Fairchild, who was recently
deposed as president of the state agri-
cultural college, had been offered the
presidency Of oberlin college at ODER
lin, o.
1t Is probable that Secretary of Agri-
culture +. d. Coburn will accept the
professorship of agriculture and super
intendency of the experiment station
in the state agricultural college at
Manhattan.
A freak in the shape of double calf
was born near Parsons recently. 1t
has two backbones, eight legs, four
eyes, four ears, two tails, two upper
jaws, one lower jaw and one tongue.