Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-10-13

western railway
The new normal college at Nicker-
son was dedicated recently, ex.State
Superintendent Winans delivering the
principal address.
The arrest at Lawrence Of James
Henderson and raid of his house for
stolen goods explained a half dozen
burglaries in that city recently.
Newton has 1885 male citizens who
are eligible" for poll tax, but re-
cent court decision in the Fort Scott
case makes the poll tax law void.
The new paper mill at Coffeyville
covers an area of $4,000 feet, has a
capacity of 40 tons of straw daily and
employs 40 men and $50 women and
girls.
Citizens of Great Bend gave BAN
quet to company A, Twenty first Kan
sas, and raised enough money to pay
the railroad fare of the boys back to
Leavenworth.
The regents of the Kansas state agri-
cultural college recently bought ST.
500 of Oklahoma territory school
bonds. The bonds draw six and seven
per cent. interest.
The Maple Leaf railroad may buy
the Aeavenworth, Topeka e. South
western branch, in order to gain en-
trance to Topeka and an outlet to
southern territory.
j. e. Meeker, of the firm of Fleming
&, Meeker, jewellers at Chanute shot
himself accidentally and died almost
instantly. He was agent for the
American Express company and promi-
nent in local politics, society and bust
ness.
William Blalack, who in 1855 pleaded
guilty to second degree murder in the
Cherokee county district court and
was given life sentence, has secured
new trial on the plea that his con-
fession was made through fear of mob
violence.
James Collier, private in the
Twenty-second Kansas, who died in a
Philadelphia hospital, was buried at
Atchison with military honors. He
was the youngest member of company
l., not having reached his seventeenth
birthday.
The report of the state mine super
intendent shows that Leavenworth
county coal miners are the best paid
in the state. Last year the average
wage per day for them was 49, 10 as
against 81, OAK in Crawford county. the
next highest.
At Vermillion G. w. Crawford, a
well-digger, was overcome with air
damp. The workmen on top pulled
him up, but just as he reached the top
his feet slipped out of the rope and he
fell into the we'll, distance of So feet,
breaking his neck and back.
Lieut.. Guy Morgan, Twenty-second
Kansas, who was accused of participant
ing in the dissertation of the confed-
crate graves at Manassas, Va, was
tried by court-martial at Camp Alger
last week and acquitted. He then
joined his regiment at Fort Leaven-
worth.
At Somerset, Miami county, while
digging in well, William Ballard and
Burt Purvis, young men, were killed
by airdamp. John Gatlin, who went
to their rescue, was also rendered I'M
conscious and Bob Copper, who got
Gatlin out of the we'll, had narrow
escape.
Thousands of old soldiers in Kansas
who are drawing a pension will be in
terested in an order recently promul-
gated by the post Office department
authorizing postmasters to cash PEN
sion checks. 1t is estimated that $780,.
900 will be saved to the pensioners of |
the United States each year by this
order.
At the state meeting at Topeka of
Turner's, a German society, first hon
ors in the mems class were carried off |
by Topeka. Marysville was second,
Hanover third, Leavenworth fourth |
and Lawrence fifth. In the ladies' |
event first prize was won by Topeka. |
In the individual turning, the muscu- |
lar men from Marysville won first hon
ors
The twentieth annual session of the |
northwest Kansas conference of the
United Brethren church, just closed at |
Lebanon, was one of the largest and |
most profitable gatherings of the kind |
held in years. Bishop ]. S. Mills, of
Denver, oficiated, and was assisted by |
Elder G. U. Mckee, of Buell.; j. McMil-
Ian, of Concordia, and I. d. Critics, of
Russell.
Louis Medcalf, who was camping on
the Arkansas river near Hutchinson,
stole several sets of harness in the
city. Bloodhounds were put on the
trail and Medcalf was soon run down.
Col. A. G. Stacey, an old Kansas
man, now residing at New
ton, was indicted by the federal grand
jury for sending obscene matter
through the mails about his divorced
wife.
Anna Pate, 15-year-old white girl
at Topeka who was arrested for dis
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