Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-10-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Malignant diphtheria was reported

A calf II months old sold at EN-
poria for 5000.
EX-Gov Morrill, was seriously sick
at his home in Hiawatha.
Seven mules were burned to death in
a mine that caught fire at Weir City.
Local capitalists will build $50, 900
vitrifed brick plant at Independence.
A new wooden mill will be estab-
lished at Topeka that will employ 80
men.
Frank Elliott, of Troy, succeeds II.
B. Fleharty as executive clerk to Gov.
Leedy.
Probate Judge Reaburn, of Lyon
county, dropped dead in his office, a
victim of apopleXy of the brain.
The state council of Red Men, in
session at Pittsburg, elected j. G.
Penny, of Chanute, great sachem,
Western Kansas farmers reported
that they could not secure drills from
manufacturers fast enough to suit them
in sowing wheat.
Mike Riley, a wealthy citizen and
democratic politician of Fort Scott,
was found dead in a room at his home,
victim of epilepsy.
Miss Livermore, of Smith Center,
will soon sail for India to do mission
AIRY work under the auspices of the
Methodist Episcopal church.
President Hall, of the Massachusetts
Mutual Life Insurance company, has
made gift of $4,000 to Bethany coll
lege, the Swedish institution of learn
ing in Mcpherson county.
A report from Hutchinson said the
citizens there were Disguised at the
conduct of their militia company and
would petition Gov Leedy and the
state military board to disband the
company.
Mrs j. C. Smith, of Moline, will be
crippled for life as the result of her
sister-in-law swapping "didn't-know-
t-was-loaded" revolver at her, the
charge striking Mrs. Smith in the
shoulder
Many farmers in Barton county are
blowing up alfalfa fields and will put
the land in corn. They claim that
grasshoppers hatch in perfect swarms
in the alfalfa and greatly damage adj
joining crops.
The 14-year-old son of Attorney Nc.
Donald, of Baxter Springs, was acct
dentaliy killed by a rifle discharge
while hunting on the Neosho river.
The ball struck him in the forehead,
penetrating the brain.
An effort will be made at the coming
session of congress to secure claim of
500, 900, now pending, for the destruc-
ton of the old Free State hotel at
Lawrence in 1856. The claim is held
by the state university.
A satchel containing the body of
little child was found by boy while
walking along the railroad track near
Parsons. An inquest was held, but no
trace of the history of the satchel or
its contents was discovered
Bank commissioner Breidenthal says
Ellsworth county banks have deposits
subject to check camounting to 1888
for every voter in the county. The
aggregate deposit is S5S7, 4O7 and the
cash and sight exchange $3.50, 4O2.
The large barn of John II. Alloway,
near Lebanon, was burned the other
night and six horses persisted. The
night previous John Kennedy's barn,
in the same neighborhood, was de-
stroyed, nine horses perishing. lncen-
diarsm was suspected.
Not single one of the G7 under
ground" fire insurance companies has
needed the warning of Superintendent
McNall to keep out of the state or
move into it. The companies allege
they have legal right to write Kan
sas risks from Kansas City, Mo.
A gigantic scheme to connect all inn
portant southern Kansas towns as far
west as Wichita is now under way by
the Missouri & Kansas Telephone COM
pany, which was given franchise to
use the public highways for the cree
tion of poles and wires by the last
legislature.
Chancellor Snow has prepared bull
letin on how to eradicate grasshoppers,
which will soon be issued. He sug-
gests the construction of machine
built of tin, 10 feet long, feet wide
and inches deep. When filled with
coal oil and drawn over the ground it
attracts the grasshoppers and they fall
into the oil and die.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal says
less than a dozen of the 800 Kansas
state banks have loans in excess of the
amount allowed by law Banks are
also complying with the law prohibit
ing the loauing of stockholders over
so per cent. of the banks capital.
Breidenthal says bank failures will
soon be thing of the post in Kansas.
The grand lodge of Kansas Knights
of the A. 0. U. w., in annual session
at Parsons, elected Ben Lillard,
ottawa, grand commander; e. M.
Forde, Emporia, secretary, and 7. H.
Z. II. Nettleton, Ottawa, treasurer; D.
W. McKeen, Russell, medical exam
liner; G. w. Reed, E. NJ Forde and G.
M. Leake, supreme representatives.
Leavenworth will get the next meet
! ing.
The first action to compel forfeiture
of property held by aliens in Kansas,
under the new anti-alien land owner
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