Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-06-09
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

children.
The Kansas building at Omaha will
be dedicated June 20 with appropriate
exercises,
Pittsburg voters defeated the propo
sition 10 issue bonds to build $50, OOC
city hall.
The Second congressional district
democratic. convention will be held al
lola, June 25,
j. L. Bristow, fourth assistant post.
master general, is in Kansas on a visit
TO old friends,
A company of So volunteers was or
ganized at Lawrence with David Me
Clure as captain.
Rain fell on 10 days in May in Kan
sas, and the rainfall was 6.2 inches, an
unprecedented record.
Ralph Ingalls,, a son of the ex-sen-
ator, is a major in the Fifth regiment
Missouri volunteers
All officers and directors of the Bank
of Moran, which recently failed, have
been placed under arrest.
Junction City and vicinity has two
companies of volunteers ready to be
mustered in under the second call.
H. A. Heath, of the Kansas Farmer,
will superintend the Kansas live stock
interests at the Omaha exposition.
The Kaw Valley Fair association
will reopen Bismarck grove at Law
renee and give this falls fair there.
One of the exhibits of the state of
Kansas at the Omaha exposition is to
be three car loads of cancelled farm
mortgages.
Shawnee county democrats will urge
the nomination of Eugene Wolfe, of
Topeka, for lieutenant governor on
the fusion ticket.
About half of the statehouse en-
ployes will work for nothing during
June, the legislatures appropriation
to pay salaries having run short.
The gas and electric light plants at
Pittsburg were sold under mortgage to
the National Bank of Pittsburg for
500, 800. The bank will operate the
plants
The Woman's Relief Corps and other
loyal ladies of Emporia have organized
n society to collect and ship clothes
and other necessary articles to the SOL
der boys.
Congressman Jerry Simpsons appli-
cation to Gov. Leedy for authority to
raise a regiment was refused, the gov
ernor urging that Simpsons place was
in congress.
Under the second call for troops
Kansas is given only one new battal-
ion. AS it takes three battalions to
make a regiment, Kansas will not
furnish any regimental officers.
John P'Johnson, Highland bank
er, is dead, aged so. He was made
government surveyor in 1854 and in
1857 came to Kansas and established
the fortieth parallel of latitude.
Samuel R. Peters, recently appointed
postmaster at Newton, began public |
life as a Judge, then went to congress,
then a candidate for governor and
more recently was a candidate for
federal Judge.
The Twenty-second Kansas regiment
arrived at Camp Alger, Va, without |
uniforms or arms. There were several
cases of measles in the regiment and
the men so afflicted were sent to hos
pital in Washington.
Chairman Riddle, of the populist
state committee, says Gov. Leedy will
be renominated with practical unani-
nifty. He says the opposition to the
governor has been gradually dwin-
ding for several weeks
Hutchinson is in the throes of a sem
sation over the arrest of f. c. Clark, a
lawyer, and Mrs. Postlethwaite and
her two sons for the alleged murder
of w. c. Boyd, who belonged to a
highly-respected family.
President Mckinley named the fol-
lowing Kansas postmasters: James NJ.
Atchison; Edwin Foster, In
dependence; Clarence +. Atchison, Co
lumbus; Henry L. Henderson, lola;
Samuel R. Peters, Newton.
j, X. Woodside, aged 60, who died
at Olathe, left his entire estate, $4O,-
900, to the Covenanter church at
Sparta, Ill. Woodside was unmarried
and lived a miser's life. To his
brothers and sisters, 10 in all, he be-
queathed 81 each.
George II. Evans, a Topeka contract
Dr., who accused ex-Attorney General
Dawes and ex-Secretary of State Ed
wards of attempted corruption in con-
lection with statehouse contracts UNI
Ter the Morrill, administration, has
been arrested for criminal libel
The quota of Kansas troops under
he second call will be 1000. After the
Twentieth, Twenty-frst and Twenty
econd regiments are filled to the max {
mum there will be only about 600 left, !
lot enough for a regiment. This will !
lisappoint a number of gentlemen who '
Ispired to the colonelcy of the regi- I
nent. '
During thunderstorm near ST. G
,lere, Jackson county. several boys
ook refuge in a barn. Lightning
truck the building and Clyde Sum
er, aged II, was killed. Oscar Gideon, .
7ho was standing next to Sumner, was =
nocked down unconscious, his shoes ,
orn from his feet and his clothing !,
emit. The other boys were stunned, :.
Mt ESCAPED unhurt