Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-11-11
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

AuAi vi bhO NOTOlSlHbANN PARhs
At Hepler six-foot vein of coal
was discovered only ~ feet beneath
the surface.
A late report says Rev. Bernard
Kelly is not so sure Of his appointment
TO an army chaplaincy.
lola has become a city of the second
class. The recent enumeration gives
her n population of 2,765.
United States Senator Harris will
raise fine sheep on large scale on his
Leavenworth county farm.
Street cars in Atchison will be
equipped with vestibules, in accord
ance with the new Kansas law.
Capt, Hendry, who succeeds Lewis
Hanback, as adjutant general, formerly
published the Nickerson Argosy.
During October 20, 1868 head of feed
ing cattle were shipped into Kansas
from the Kansas City stock yards.
A Pennsylvania firm may establish o
big lampblack factory at Neodesha,
and use natural gas to do the work.
1t is said that Sheriff r. b. Kepley,
who was defeated for reelection in
Shawnee county, will contest the vote.
William Gruenert, a young joint
keeper of Atchison, committed suicide
because the newspapers roasted" him.
Thomas Davidson, aged SO, was killed
by blow in drunken row with eight
other prisoners in the Jail at Scammon.
Charles Haas, u young farmer near
Tecumseh, has invented flying ma
chine" which he thinks will be a sue
cess.
John Graham, of Abilene, produces
a "can-you-be at-it" sweet potato %
inches in circumference and nine
inches long.
President Andrews, of Brown uni
versity, has promised to address the
state teachers association at Topeka
December 30.
Perry b. Maxson, ex.railroad COM
missioner, has been appointed probate
judge of Lyon county to fill vacancy
caused by death.
j. M. Craft, a Missouri Pacific en-
ploye at Atchison, is an Adventist and
refused to work on Sunday, SO he is
out of employment.
J. E. Bruner, Kansas City piano
tuner we'll known in Kansas, is under
arrest for clipping with the wife of L.
E. Newell, of Nevada, Mo.
There were over 800 cases on the
docket at the present term of the
Montgomery county district court,
over 80 being criminal cases.
The state school fund commissioners
have about 10000 on hand for invest
ment, several delinquent counties hav-
ing paid up bonded Indebtedness.
DR.. f. Il. Grafton, phi ysician with
out money or location, was arrested
at Atchison for forging the name of A.
j. Felt, editor of the Champion, to
check for $72
Judge Fitzwilliams, at Leavenworth,
has declared void that part of the new
anti-blacklisting law which requires
employers to furnish written reasons
for discharging employees
The live stock sanitary commission
has withdrawn the quarantine against
southern cattle after November Is. The
local quarantine in Riley, Geary and
Cherokee counties was also raised.
The Hiawatha World says there are
25 practicing attorneys in Brown coun-
ty. There were more cases at the re-
cent term of court than usual, and if
each attorney got his share he would
only have four cases.
Bert Shafer, an Osborne county
farmer, says he shucked 1913 bushels of
corn in one day recently, loading and
unloading it himself and caring for
his team. This is the first record to
be chung up" Next!
In Doniphan county Cyrus Leland's
Nephew, AL Perry, was elected county
commissioner to succeed Leland, who
held the Office 81 years, by seven ma
jority, but the populists claimed fraud
and threatened contest.
The burial of destitute colored sol
der in the G. A. r. burying ground at
Hiawatha caused one white woman to
have her husbands body removed to
her private lot, and others declared
their intention of doing likwise.
Southeast Kansas is getting to be
fruitful field for daily newspapers.
Cherokee county has more daily papers
than any other Kansas county, there
being six within the county, as
follows: Two at Weir City, two at
Columbus and two at Galena.
At Topeka, Mrs. Anna McCullom has
brought proceedings against the Kan
sas Home society to recover her two
boys, aged seven and nine, who were
placed in the home two years ago.
The boys have been adopted by strang-
ers and the society refuses to reveal
their location.
The Methodist Episcopal conferences
in Kansas will be held next spring as
follows: Kansas conference at Law
renee March Q; South Kansas at Of
tawa March 8; Southwest Kansas at
Lyons March IS and Northwest Kansas
at Minneapolis March 90. Bishop
Cranston will preside at each confer
ence.
The state bankers convention at
Wichita last week was big success
A. Dobson, Ottawa, is the new presi-
dent; f. NJ. BonebralIe, Topeka, secre-
tary, and j. w. Thurston, Topeka,