Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-09-01
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The Twenty-second Kansas boys are
camped at Middletown, Pa
Atchison republicans renominated
John Seaton for the legislature.
Arkansas City will vote sos, 900 bonds
to purchase the waterworks plant
j. D, Bowersock will put the Law
renee iron works into operation again.
Tho citizens bank, of Mcpherson,
has been burned out twice since July L.
A Washington dispatch said the
Twenty Second Kansas would be mus
tered out.
An electric street railway will be
built in Lawrence to supplant the
present mule car system.
There are los, 533 pensioners on the
Topeka agency roll and they were
paid SIS, 594, 926 last year.
State Coal Oil Inspector Wharton
turned $l54.1O into the treasury, the
surplus revenues from his Office during
July.
The democratic state committee will
open headquarters at Topeka AND
render all possible aid to the fusion
ticket
Charles Lobdell, ex-speaker of the
house, has charge of the bureau of
speakers for the republican state cam
paign.
The state board OF health will try to
suppress Asbelps mill pond at Chetopa,
'on the ground that it is dangerous to
health.
D. X. Pearson, of Chicago, offers to
give $50, 900 to the Congregational col
lege at Wichita if others will give
$3.50, 900.
Newt Bridgeman, of Wichita, has
been appointed to 50, 500 position in
the commissary department of the
army in Porto Rico.
Jacob Fry and his sister, Mrs.
Oswald, living near Yates Center are
heirs to $3.50, 900 through the death of
a Philadelphia uncle.
Two farmers at Hesston killed 10
head of horses that had been quaran
tined for CHAMBERS, to remove all pos
.sibility of further contagion.
The Emporia school board and city
council are in clash over school-taX
levy, and the courts have been APP
pealed to to settle the matter
For some unaccountable reason Con-
'cordia, this state, is said by the wealth
rer bureau to be the hottest place in
the United States, outside the desert
region.
X. Henderson, black nego barber
at Fort Scott, aged so, is in Jail
charged with an unnamable crime
against Josie Collins, 13-year-old
white girl.
The first child born in Kansas was
Col. A. S. johnson, of Topeka, who
first saw the light of day at Shawnee
Mission. Johnson county was named
for his father.
Lieut. Henry Lamb, of the Twenty
second Kansas, died of typhoid fever
in hospital near Washington. His
home was in Parsons and he was iden-
titled with the Eclipse newspaper.
sensation was created in Atchison
religious circles when Rev. S. V.
Leech, pastor of a leading Methodist
church, was forced to resign for indis-
,creetly kissing a young lady of his
flock.
The Twenty-third Kansas (colored)
battalion was given a great ovation
when it Left Topeka for Santiago.
Gov. Leedy said the behavior of the
-colored troops during their stay at To-
peka was very creditable.
Ben G. Rich, who figured promi-
nently as chief clerk of the Dunsmore
house in 1898, died recently at Wa
Keeney, and was buried by the masons,
For several years he had been popu-
list leader in western Kansas politics
James A. Young, quartermaster of
the Twentieth Kansas, who was con-
victed of embezzliug government prop
,erty, was sentenced to one years inn
prisonment in addition to being dis
honorably discharged from the service,
with forfeiture of all pay.
At Hutchinson, divorce suit was
prevented suddenly in peculiar man
ner. Under Sheriff Metz went to the
room of H. B. LOOMS to serve papers
on him in an action for divorce
brought by Mrs. Loomis. AS the sher-
if entered the door Loomis gasped and
died.
The Union Pacific railroad must put
on war stamps in every county where
its big mortgage executed July 1 is re-
corded 1t takes over $4,000 in stamps
in each county the Kansas branch OF
the road runs through and will require
the payment of $4,000 in this state
alone.
When Farmer Seekamp, of Sedgwick
county, went to Wichita recently to
get an abstract of his property he
found that mortgage of 81, 200 had
been placed upon it by c. R. Cross, a
stranger. Seekamp easily proved it
forgery and Judge Dale set the mort
gage aside.
Alois Schmidt, aged 72, living near
Elbing, Butler county, was leaning
over the muzzle of his shotgun, which
was cooked, when a child pulled the
trigger. Schmidt's hand was torn off,
his chin mangled, his upper lip and
nose torn off, one eye destroyed and
the other nearly ruined. Fragments
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