Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-11-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

AT Wellington ana the city schools are
closed.
The republican gain of congressman
in Kansas was greater than in any
other state. f
Thomas Il, Kelley, of Paola, will
probably be assistant state auditor
under George e. Cole.
Gov. elect Stanley carried Wichita,
his home town, but was fourth man on
the republican ticket. Gov, Leedy had
a majority in the county (Sedgwiclt)
The remaining members of the
Twentieth Kansas regiment Lieut..
Col. Little commanding, sailed from
San Francisco for Manila November 8,
on the transport Newport
Judge Theodore G. Sears, who was a
former prominent resident of Ottawa,
Kan, being candidate for United
States senator at one time, died re.
Gently at Lakeview, near Tacoma,
Wash.
One of the first bills to be introduced
in the legislature will be to reappor-
ton the state into congressional dis
tricts by putting Shawnee county back
into the Fourth district, where it was
before 1897.
1t is given out that John Seaton, of
Atchison, will introduce resubmis-
sion resolution in the house the day
the new legislature organizes 1t is
said he will make his fight of the ses-
sion for its adoption.
In an election row at Big Springs,
Douglas county, Jeff Farris shot Ed
Duncan in the bowels, fatally wound
ing him, 1t was the elimination of an
old neighborhood feud. Farris ran
away and has not been captured.
Rev. r. E. Howell, travelling evan
gelist of the Christian church, killed
himself in hotel at Olathe because
Mrs. Cora Henderson, who had eloped
with him from Warrensburg, Mo-, re-
fused to stay with him longer. Howell
had wife at Eureka, Ill.
The prison officials at the state peni-
Tertiary at Lansing have fitted up a
room in the prison building and start
ed private school. The teacher,
Patrick Curry, is former school
teacher who is serving three-years'
sentence for stealing horse.
Coffeyville claims to be the home of
the oldest practicing physician in the
state of Kansas, il not in the United
States, He is DR.. John P. Wood, who
will be 81 years old on the 4th day Of
next January, and who has been prac-
ticing medicine continuously for "a
years.
The soldiers of the Twenty.frst
Kansas volunteers camped ON the Fort
Leavenworth reservation voted in
camp. Two republicans and one popu-
list acted as judges. The enlisted men
had charge of the election, and all an
officer was allowed to do was to swear
the board in.
Some of Gov. Leedy's political adj
visers were bringing pressure to bear
upon him to call special session of
the legislature at once to enact rail-
road law and pass resolutions submit
ting constitutional amendments for
state insurance and state stock yards
to vote of the people.
1t is probable that Morton Albaugh,
editor of the Kingman Leader Courier,
will be Gov. Stanley's private secre-
tavy. Albaugh is chairman of the re.
publican, state committee The an.
nouncement is also made that Secre-
tary Frank L. Brown, of the commit.
tee, will be handsomely rewarded.
James Bartlow, living near Marys-
vile, went out into the kitchen of his
home where his sons wife was work
ing and remarked that he felt as
though he was going to fall over dead
Scarcely had the words left his lips
when he plunged forward to the floor
and expired before his daug hter.in.
law could reach him, victim of heart
disease.
Kansas will furnish the first colony
of immigrants to settle in Cuba from
the United States John T. Keney, a
colored Baptist preacher we'll known |
in Topeka, has made arrangements to
make settlement of colored people |
near Santiago and expects to start
from Topeka with about 80 families in |
30 or so days. The new town will be
called Topeka.
Samuel II. Baughman the school
teacher, who lived at Rossville till the
9Th day of last June and then mysteri-
ously disappeared, has been located in
county, Neb., where he is
school. Banghman refuses
70 return to his wife, who is living
with her father, two miles from Ross
Vile. He also refused to give any ex-
olanation of his strange conduct.
A Wellington man who knows cy-
,lone when he sees one, has invented
/ patent stormhouse When you see a
cyclone coming you get in the house
md touch trigger, when down goes
he house in the ground in a previously
hole that just fits it. The
louse is fitted with windlass and
teel cable with which the occupant
an hoist himself up, house and all,
.fter the storm has passed.
The question as to whether or not
he slot machine commonly found in
igar and other stores is a gambling
Ievice under the Cnbbison law was
ecided in the district court at Lynn
EN-. The court ruled that, notwith-