Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-10-21
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

very positively in favor of capital pun
ishment.
George w. Clark, as referee in the
stock yards suit, was allowed $4,000
and expenses.
Thirty head of early spring steer
calves brought $1s apiece at sale in
Jewell county
Frank Beaurman, young Leaven-
worth county farmer, was gored to
death by bull.
The 1s-months-old baby of Frank
Hagendeffer, of Everest, was drowned
in bucket of soap suds
Charley Clary, a married man with
two children, disappeared from Gar
land with Miss Annie Hall, aged 10.
Ed Goldberg, of Wichita, recently
appointed agent for the Quapaw In
dams, formerly resided at Canton, o.
L. L. Roby, of Topeka, has retired
from the Kansas Endeavorer, and the
paper will hereafter be printed at
Newton, with Rev. w. L. Garges as
editor
North Topeka has cooperative
clearinghouse, by means of which IS
persons expect to reduce the expenses
of housekeeping to about $1.75 per
week each.
Holton has a new public library,
with 500 volumes, which owes its ex-
istence to IA young ladies comprising
the Bookman club, literary society
only year old.
The Baptist Young Peoples union,
in annual convention at Lawrence,
elected w. II. Keith, Clay Center, pres
ident, and Miss Carrie Sheffield, To-
peka, secretary.
Bishop Jesse Engle and wife and
Miss Francis Davidson, of the River
Brethren denomination, have gone
from Abilene to Cape Town, Africa, to
work as missionaries.
The state military board has decided
to deal more harshly with the differ
ent company officers, and their ac-
counts and reports will be watched
more closely than in the past
The state temperance union has
issued an address to the church people
of Kansas urging them to join in the
observance of the third Sunday in
October as Temperance Sunday.
The real estate men of Kansas met
in convention at Leavenworth during
the carnival last week. E. Jameson,
Leavenworth, was elected president,
and c. j. Peck, Salina, secretary.
The state supreme court has decided
that where any company or concern
maintains large pond or reservoir
and permits children to play about it.,
it is liable if any of the children should
be drowned.
Burglars entered the Fort Scott
Catholic church in broad day and at
tempted to obtain two solid gold COM
munion cups, and were in the act OF
separating them with chisels when
frightened away.
During the performance of Lemen
Bros circus at Neodesha the other
night a small riot occurred between
the showmen and some citizens.
Charles Irwin was shot and several
persons were injured
The republican state committee
charges that Warden Lands shipped
penitentiary coal into the strike dis
tricts and helped defeat the miners in
their recent struggle. The charges
are, of course, denied
State Oil Inspector Wharton arrived
in Topeka recently and turned in s., OOC
in fees. He was smarting under the
criticism of the state auditor about
the conduct of the Office, and said
there was no truth in the charges thai
were floating around.
State Bank Commissioner Breiden'
thai requests all banks in Kansas tc
dispose of their real estate holdings
not that real estate is not profitable
holding, but that bank is not a rea
estate company, and land is not a
proper asset for bank.
The Brown county republican cen
tral committee has recommended thu
appointment of republican election
boards, on the ground that in fusin&
as free silver party the democrat
/ and populists lost their identity ant
forfeited all rights to representation.
The city of Hutchinson voted $S5, 90
in bonds as bonus for the Hutchin
son q Southern to build union depot
general office, roundhouse and ma
chine shops there. The company is t.
complete buildings and have shops il
operation before the bonds are issued
There are only 10 counties in Kansa
; where populists and democrats hav
not fused on county officers. The
are Barber, Cloud, Dickinson, Graham
Greeley, Gray, Haskell, Kearney, Lane
Meade, Ness, Pawnee, Rawlins, Rust
: st. John, Thomas, Woodson, Wallac
: and Wichita.
Judge Wells, of the appellate courf
> in test case submitted from Marsha.
county, rendered decision that pra'
\ \ tically invalidates the eight-hour law
u He held that laborer who work
u more than eight hours a day canno
) recover for surplus time because h
. helped to violate the law and is, there
> fore, barred from any benefit under il
y The only way that the law can appl
. is where an understanding is had /
+ advance between employer and en-