Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-15
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The Twentieth regular infantry will
soon leave Fort Leavenworth for Ma
nila.
Wamego sold her S25, 900 waterworks
bonds to eastern men at a premium OF
Sl,lOO
The republican state committee
spent 50, 099 3S during the recent cam
paign.
A colony of so Germans from the
fatherland located near Florence re-
Gently.
Salina is now connected by long dis
lance telephone with New York, via
Kansas City.
The Whittier school building at
Coffeyville was entirely destroyed by
FIRE. Loss, $4,000.
D. w. Little, OF Wallace county, will
be assistant state school superintend-
emit under Mr.. Nelson.
An early morning fire at Lawrence
destroyed the New York store, owned
by p II. Pierce. Loss, $4,000
Capt. j. C. Watson, of Emporia, sue
ceeds E, M. Wilson as superintendent
of the w. R. c. home at Ellsworth.
The Allen county grand jury has adj
journed and the lola Register invites
the boys who hid out to come back.
President Taylor suspended IA pu-
pills, mostly girls, from the Emporia
state normal school for disorderly con-
duct.
Fred Bancil, of the Twentieth Kan
sas, died on the transport Indiana just
before reaching Manila. He was
buried ashore.
j. II. Prichard, of Fort Scott, has
been appointed captain to assist Adjt'
Gen. Allen in recognizing the Kansas
national guard.
Farmers of Marshall and Brown
counties organized mutual fire and
tornado insurance company, with a
capital of 100000.
Eugene f. Ware has given the Fort
Scott library $3.50 to buy story books
for children. Mr.. Ware donated the
library to the city originally.
Congressman Ridgely, of the Third
district, spent more money than any
other candidate in Kansas, the total
of his expenses footing up $2,5l3.
A Washington dispatch said that as
the Twentieth Kansas regiment was
one of the last to sail for Manila, it
would be one of the last to return.
The courthouse at Lincoln Center, a
stone structure erected before the war,
was burned down the other night, the
work of an incendiary. Loss, $40, 900.
A letter received at Leavenworth
from a member of the Kansas negro
regiment at Santiago said there is a
great deal of sickness among the men
there.
George Rhinehart, school.teacher
near Atchison, was taken to Topeka
to answer to the charge of statutory
assault, preferred by young woman
residing there.
Ex-Judge Theodore Botkin, who
has been acting as assistant United
States adjutant general, with rank of
captain, was honorably discharged
from the service on the 18th.
The annual reunion of the survivors
of the Eleventh Kansas cavalry, Sem
ator Plumb's regiment, was held at
Emporia recently, on the thirtyifth
anniversary of the battle of Prairie
Grove.
Two months ago Mrs. P. b. Plumb
and other Emporia ladies organized
children's manual training school there
for little tots of both sexes and all
colors and conditions. The school now
has II teachers.
The total railway milage in Kansas
is given at 8, 1854 miles less than last
year--and the assessed valuation is
$5s, 42S,O 9l. There are II telephone
companies in the state, with property
valued at 800, 12l.
The Fort Scott city council passed
an ordinance levying tax of $3.50
against all druggists taking out per-
NIT to sell liquor, but the mayor vetoed
it on the ground that the tax would
be virtually prohibitive.
Gov.-elect Stanley certified that it
cost him S645 to conduct campaign.
OF this sum, 5000 went to the state
committee; $3.50 for railroad and hotel
bills; $50 for newspapers; $50 for tele-
grams and $25 for postage.
The Kansas g. Southern railroad,
with $1OO,O capital, has been char
tered. 1t will build line from West
moreland north to Blaine or some
point on the Leavenworth, Kansas &
Western. distance of nine miles.
The first involuntary bankruptcy
case case brought in the federal court
at Fort Scott was brought by Burn
ham, Hanna, Munger 6 Co., of Fort
Scott, to force Jones g. Knight, big
firm at Yates Center, into liquidation.
Ed Jack, of Wyandotte county, has
invented contrivance to prevent snor-
ing. 1t is based on the theory that no
one can snore with his mouth shut,
and Mr.. Jack has arranged a bride of
rubber webbing to accomplish this
purpose.
While o. E. Emerson, proprietor of
the Rock Island mine at North EN-.
pire, was trying to fix wheel on the
derrick at the top of the mine he lost
his footing and fell head first to the
bottom, a distance of l4O feet, meeting
instant death.
Cow .a1aot Stan1au announce, kbo4