Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-11-03
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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agricultural college.
The shelters at lola and La Harpe
will be enlarged at once, giving em-
ployment TO more men.
Miners OF southeastern Kansas were
giving financial aid to striking miners
at Virden and Pana, Ill.
Private Edwin Erwin, of company
II, Twenty-second Kansas, was dis
charged from the service.
Editor II. e. Leftwich, of the Larned
Eagle-optic, was seriously injured ON
defective sidewalk in that city.
The heavy rain and sleet have done
much to kill small bugs that recently
infested southern Kansas wheat fields.
Col. Fred Funston, of the Twentieth
Kansas was married TO Miss Edna
Blankart, of Oakland, Cal, on the @5th.
Robert Hoar, l2.year.old Wichita
boy, was run over and badly mangled
while jumping on and off freight
trains.
1t is said that a man at Hanover has
paid So, 900 in fines within Is years, his
last contribution being S25 for whip
ping his wife
The ST. Louis. Kansas g. Southwest
ern railroad, line 60 miles long be-
tween Arkansas City and Anthony,
was sold for $l5O,0OO
John L. Kennedy, of Washington
city, who was made member OF the
al fntpnarlxT 1iUad
at Oswego, this state.
Gov. Leedy named W. S. Glass, coun-
ty attorney of Marshall county, to be
judge of the Twenty-frst district vice
Z. b. Spillman, deceased,
After years stay in the Klondike
Miss Emma Kelly, daughter of eX-Sen-
ator II. b. Kelly, of Topeka, has re-
turned home with $4,000.
An explosion of gas at the home Of
Thomas Oyster, in Paola, almost caused
the death of Miss Nellie Edwards. AS
it is, she may lose her eyesight.
The Santa Fe will run a special train
from Emporia to st. Joseph, Mo, to
accommodate stockmen. The train
leaves Emporia at 1890 p. m. daily.
While prospecting within a mile Of
Fort Scott, drillers struck flow of
gas that shot out with such force that
the drillers dared not remove the cap
from the we'll.
Mrs. Nancy Floyd, of Newton, who
has been an inmate of an insane asy-
lum several months, was recently
granted pension of IS month with
back pay aggregating S772
c. +. Brown, one-armed stockman
of Conway, was held up in Kansas
City, Mo-, recently by two negroes,
and after being choked and beaten i'm
to insensibility was robbed of $50.
While on wheat stack c. W. Sig
man, of Sherman county, lost his bal
ance, falling upon pitchfork he had
placed against the stack with prongs
upward. One prong entered his heart
killing him instantly.
Texas fever has infected several
droves of cattle in southwestern Craw-
ford county. Strange cattle from the
Indian territory introduced it. In
Montgomery county, also, there are
several cases of the disease.
C. e. Parkhurst, Wichita grocery
man who sued Otto Weiss for dam
ages, alleging that Weiss was in a
-four trust because he had refused to
sell Parkhurst flour at contract price,
secured Judgment after hard-fought
trial.
District Judge Bland, of Atchison,
holds that where mortgage was given
prior to the recently-enacted 1S-months
redemption law, and an extension was
granted after the passage of the law,
the mortgage is foreclosable under the
old law.
Gov Leedy commissioned 0. j. Bur-
ton as second lieutenant of company
d, Twentieth Kansas, vice Thomas
Richey, resigned. In this appoint
ment the governor ignored the recon-
mendations of both Col Funston and
Lieut.. Col Little
Lewis Rowe, "a Fort Scott merchant
who died recently, left a will which
disinherits his wife. His entire estate
goes to his daughter and to Ada Moore,
a nurse who attended him in his last
sickness. Family troubles were the
cause of the disinheritance.
The following members of the Twen.
tieth Kansas were discharged previous
to the starting of part of the regi-
ment to Manila: Privates Henry Nc
Kenney, Frank Mccoy, Edward Lew
rance, William E. Sexton and E. ].
Miller and Corporal R. E, Elder.
S. R. Nelson, an old and prominent
citizen of Lawrence, was arrested for
sending an obscene and threatening
letter through the mails to Rev. C. NJ
Sharpe, pastor of the Christian church
at Lawrence. The arrest grows out
of church fight of long standing.
Bank Commissioner Breiden thai ex-
poets to get his bank guarantee fund
law passed by the legislature this win
ter, regardless of the political com.
plexion of the house. He says that it |
is a non-political measure. and is one
that the general public as we'll as a
majority of the banks will favor.
The enlisted men of the Twenty-first |
and Twenty -secondlKansas regiments,
in camp at Fort Leavenworth, were
recently given banquet in Chickering
hall at Lea uan worth Mueio uuas f,r-