Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-10-20
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Prof. Edwards, an aeronaut, fell
1900 feet from balloon at Grenola
and was killed.
Maggie Fletcher, young Wichita
girl, was permanently blinded by a
horse splashing water in her face
Capt Fred Buchan, of the Twentieth
Kansas, has been placed in command
of the Oregon troops at San Francisco.
While attempting to cross a bridge
In the Missouri Pacific yards at Fort
Scott j. X. Dye, wealthy stockman
of Metz, Mo-, fell and was instantly
killed.
At the annual meeting of Kansas
Friends at Lawrence steps were taken
to centralize the work of their uni
versity at Wichita and to push an en-
dowment.
Over 200 delegates attended the an
nual meeting at Atchison of the Gen.
trial Protective associations, an organ
ization to run horsethieves to earth.
All the old officers were reelected.
The Fort Scott e. Memphis railroad
had two freight wrecks in one day last
week-one near LaCygne and one near
Garland. About 10 cars were derailed
and several cars of merchandise were
destroyed.
After search of two weeks detect
ives located Miss Mamie Norton, for
whom SIS, 900 in property was waiting
at Centralia, Kan. Miss Norton was
employed as stenographer in Denver
commission house.
DR.. L. d. Mckinley, of Topeka, was
chosen superintendent Of the Topeka
insane asylum to succeed DIR. G. II.
Wetmore, resigned. DR.. Mckinley is
democrat and has been physician at
the asylum for several months.
The annual meeting of the Southern
Kansas G. A. r. Reunion association
was held in Griswold park, Wichita
There were nearly 100 tents pitched in
the park, and liberal representations
of veterans from every county in south
ern Kansas.
A San Francisco telegram said the
Twentieth Kansas might be the first
of the troops to embark for Manila.
BY sickness, death and discharges the
Kansas regiment has been reduced
from its full strength Of 1897 men and
AZ officers to l. 121 men and 43 officers.
The state convention of the Chris
tian church denomination at Washing
ton last week, elected w. Chenault, of
Fort Scott, president, and Mrs. Ora
Mcpherson, of Topeka, secretary. Rev.
O. L. Smith, of Wellington, was elect
ed superintendent of Christian En-
deavor work.
Ethel Brewster, o 16-year-old Topeka
girl, took morphine with suicidal in
tent, but the prompt arrival of ply
stefan and stomach pump saved her.
The girl was mixed up in runaway
escapade about week ago, and it is
thought that remorse over this affair
caused her to attempt her own life.
The congregation in the Christian
church at Wichita cheered last Sum
day night when their pastor announced
that mortgage for 5000 which had
been hanging over the church for Is
years had been fully paid off. The
mortgage was burned on silver plat
ter on the altar before the congrega-
ton.
Councilman A. Benson, of the Sec.
ond ward in Topeka, complained to
the health officers that there was tar
in all the wells in Parkdale, suburb
of Topeka. How it came there he
does not explain, but more than 100
wells were reported to be so polluted
that water from them was unfit to
drink.
Marie A. Ems, q stenographer,
brought suit in the court of common
pleas at Kansas City recently, through
her attorneys, Hale, Craig & Fife, to
recover SIS, 900 damages from Oliver M.
Schee for breach of promise. The de-
PENDANT is one of the wealthiest and
best known farmers of Wyandotte
county.
The Woman's Relief Corps and
Ladies' Aid society at Solomon held a
reception in honor of the Twenty-sec-
ond Kansas volunteers before they re-
turned to Leavenworth. The guests
numbered over 300. An interesting
programme, consisting of music and
recitations, was given, after which
there was a banquet
After running his horse in the races
at Marysville, Charles Birney had it
taken to a stall and rubbed down,
when Ed Delair threw a bucket of
cold water over the animal. This so
enraged Birney that he assaulted De-
lair, who. took out his pocketknife and
cut Birney across the bowels and
breast inficting fatal wounds.
DIR. A. Fl. Robinson, one of Hutchin-
sons prominent dentists, fell down
flight of stairs the other night and
died from the effects of the fall. When
found his body was lying at the foot
of the stairway of his Office. He was
taken to his home and doctors sum-
moned, but he never rallied except to
state that he fell. 1t is supposed,
from the symptoms of his suffering,
that in the fall blood vessel in the
head was ruptured. He was one of
the early settlers of Hutchinson.
Loren Baker, a single man aged 80,
was found hanging to tree on the
Davies farm near Auburn, Shawnee
county, where he had week before
committed suicide Spiritualism was