Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-08-25
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Ihe broom corn cropot central khn-s
sas will be the poorest for 90 years.
Mcpherson and Rice counties have
purchased two bloodhounds to capture
criminals
A local Tammany organization has
been organized among democrats at
Fort Scott
A big hay press barn at 0lathe was
destroyed by fire and with it 400 tons
of baled hay
Phillip Hayden, son of Attorney
Hayden, of Holton, was in the last
battle of Manila.
Perry Morrell, retired merchant of
Prescott, shocked the community by
committing suicide.
Texas fever broke out In herd OF
cattle at Cherryvale and rigid quar-
Rntine was established.
Cyrus Leland, OF Troy, predicts that
Admiral Dewey will be the republican
presidential nominee in 1904.
Edward Russell, one Of the Oldest
settlers of Kansas, died at Lawrence.
lie had held many positions Of trust.
Senator Harris is urging ex-Con-
gresham John Davis, of Junction City,
for place in the national labor COM
mission.
The Fort Scott & Memphis railway
is erecting at Pittsburg handsome
freight and passenger depot, of brick
and stone.
The post office at Eleanor, Harvey
county, has been discontinued because
no one could be found to take charge
of the office.
In Woodson county the proposition
to vote $50, 900 bonds for a courthouse
at Yates Center was defeated, III for
to III against.
The Kansas republican campaign
will be opened at Lawrence Septem-
Der 1. w. Il. Stanley, j. r. Burton
and j. d. Bowersock will speak
Chief Justice Doster announces that
he will make number of political
speeches, breaking over the custom
heretofore adopted by the state judi
ciary,
1t took Sl7, Ss4 49 to run the Topeka
insane asylum during July. OF this
$40, 4O2. 90 was for maintenance, So
8O0.4 A for salaries and S3,679 for in-
provements
Judge j. Il, Mcdonald, the WE'LL
known Fort Scott politician, who lo-
Gated settlers on railroad land in
Woodson county, has been located at
Lakeland, Fla.
Rev. John g, Miller, who has been
pastor OF Presbyterian churches at
Garnett, Topeka, Winfield and New
ton, is the new president of the coll
lege of Emporia,
DR.. Gill, secretary of the state board
of health, will try to suppress Union
State medical college at Winchester
alleging that they graduate students
in violation of law
J. II. Brown, of Hiawatha, took
part in a quarrel his boy was having
with another lad named Jones, whep
the elder Brown struck Jones with a
ball bat, killing him.
Attorney General Boyle says that o
person may be candidate for aud
legally hold the Office Of county attor-
ney without being Of age, II in every
other respect he Is legally qualified.
Capt. Fred Buchan has been appoint
ed assistant adjutant general to Col.
Funston, OF the Twentieth Kansas
Col Funston also appointed Lieut. @.
b. Walker adjutant to succeed Lieut..
Deford, resigned. =
A young woman school-teach In
western Kansas offered S25 to State
Superintendent Stryker for a list Of
questions, together with the answers
for the coming state examination.
This Is penitentiary offense.
The funeral Of Capt W. D. Sherman,
of the Twenty.second Kansas, who
died in camp, was hold at Seneca, hlM
former home. Services were held in
the courthouse yard, no building In
the city being large enough to hold
the crowd.
At San Francisco, the military board
investigating the accounts OF Quarter
master Young, of the Twentieth Kan
sas, held Young criminally responsible
for the shortage, but decided that
Lieut.. Green, regimental commissary,
must pay the shortage.
Probate Judge Dolman, Of Shawnee
refused to marry white man to a
negro woman. The Judge said al
though there was no law in Kansas
against miscegenation he would not
be party to such a marriage. Az
there was no legal ground on which
he could refuse license he granted
one.
The Kansas court Of appeals, sitting
at Wichita, rendered decision sus-
tanning in every point the opinion OF
Judge Simons, OF Fort Scott, holding
that the anti-scrip law is valid. The
decision will affect about 5000 miners,
and Attorney General Boyle says he
will begin prosecutions against all
mine operators who violate the law.
While out riding with his young
wife near Topeka, William o. Hum
mer shot her in the head, producing a
fatal wound. Hummer had
been married to the girl three weeks,
and it transpired that he had another
wife from whom he had not been d.
voreed. He was arrested and is locked