Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-01
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

AuJL Gen. Alien announces LnhJ ne
will reorganize the Kansas national
guard.
Cattle feeding in central and north
ern Kansas is beating all records this
winter.
New stucco works are being built at
Burns, where there are valuable de-
posits of agatite.
At Pittsburg serious coal famine
was threatened, caused by the inability
of railroads to furnish cars.
Miss Lizzie Fisher, OF Parsons, was
indicted by the grand jury for sending
obscene letters through the mails.
In North Topeka William H. Hayes
was shot and killed by t. M. James, a
prominent populist politician, in a
quarrel over a line fence.
The annual football game at Kansas
City ON Thanksgiving day between
Kansas and Missouri resulted in VIC
tory for Kansas, as usual,
Heavy losses Of cattle from the re-
cent blizzard are reported from several
places in Kansas. Grant Gillett, of
Dickinson county, lost rs head.
w. c. Morgan, an old and wealthy
resident, was found dead on the prairie
near his home seven miles west of
Cheney, victim of the blizzard.
Returns from the votes cast by the
Twenty-third (negro) Kansas regiment
in Cuba shows that 1888 votes were cast,
Stanley receiving t0l and Leedy 90.
Ed Whitecomb, of Nebraska, presi-
dent of the United States Bee-keeper's
union. will make an address before the
annual meeting of the state board of
agriculture in Topeka in January.
George Fowler, who was sentenced
to the penitentiary for seven years for
stealing chickens in Wyandotte coun-
ty, has been pardoned, on the ground
that the punishment was excessive.
Adelaide Towers, daughter of a
farmer near Lincoln, run off to st.
Louis to marry r. w. e, Meyers, a
stranger. She could not find him
when she reached the city, and she
was penniless.
c. E. Eckert, editor of populist
paper at Larned was knocked down
and beaten the other day by Col. Will
liam Mansfield, because of an article
by Editor Eckert rejecting on Mans
fields integrity.
The recent blizzard caught j. II.
Cranwell, his wife and child some
miles from Violenta, Sheridan county,
camping in a wagon. The horses
could not move in the sleet and the
child was frozen to death.
Two young girls of j. D. Paddock,
of Anthony, were kidnapped from a
Wichita hotel, where they were visit
ing with their father. 1t was thought
they were taken by their mother, who
was lately divorced from Mr.. Paddock.
In the county court of Fairfax coun-
ty, Va, the case against Capt. Louis
c. Duncan, of the Twenty-second Kan"
sas, who was charged with completely
in the dissertation of confederate
graves at Manassas, Va, was dis
missed.
A lone highwayman entered Ecker's
drug store in Kansas City, Kan, just
south of the police station, just after
dark the other evening and covering
the clerk with revolver robbed the
store of $1O2 in cash, then made good
his escape.
The private boxes in the state treas
ury vault in the capitol building, used
by state officers and employees as de-
positories for private funds, were
robbed recently of over 81, 900 by some
unknown person who evidently had a
key that fit the treasure boxes
At Troy, when Dr. Reeder's family
opened pumpkin preparatory to maxi
ing pies, they were surprised to find
pumpkin vine inside bearing leaves
and blossoms. AS the pumpkin was
not broken in any way, it is hard to
account for the freak.
Railroads have granted ~ fare
rate to the state board of agriculture's
meeting at Topeka in January. The
rates are also for the benefit of the
swine breeders, stock breeders and
poultry associations meetings, which
will be held in Topeka at the same
time.
Republican politicians have scheme
to relieve" Gov. Stanley of much
of the responsibility of the state pat
ronage. 1t is to prOrate it among the
congressional districts, the men who
get the Endorsements of the congress
sional committees to have the places.
Gov. Stanley has not given his APP
prevail to the scheme.
Charles N. Lee, who was serving
life sentence in the Kansas peniten-
tiary, was pardoned Thanksgiving
day. In 1894 he was sent up from
Pittsburg for the murder OF William
Chapman. The evidence was circum-
stantial, worked up by detectives to
secure the $500 reward. Recently a
convict in the Oregon penitentiary
confessed to having murdered Chap
man.
Election returns have been received
from the Second and Third battalions
of the Twentieth Kansas, which voted
at Honolulu November The eertifi-
cate of the election officers is not
sworn to and it is question whether
the state board of canvassers will
have lawful right to consider it. AL |
together. 470 soldiers voted. Stanley |