Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-05-26
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

a movement is on toot NJ Topeka TO
revive the state fair.
Salina has curfew law, the age
being 10 for both sexes.
The Sons OF Herman have added a
woman's auxiliary to the Kansas grand
lodge,
Lewis Spenlove, 15year-old To-
peka lad went with the Twentieth
Kansas MS bugler.
Sumner county has 30O,0O5 acres of
growing wheat, an increase of 30 per
cent over last year.
Wichita masons were expecting a
big time at the dedication of their
handsome new building on the 9Sd
Peabody was visited by disastrous
hail and windstorm recently, nearly
every window pane in town being
broken.
The estimated yield of Kansas wheat
this year is about 100, 900 bushels. The
acreage is 2s per cent. greater than
last year.
The state bank commissioner charges
serious Irregularities in the affairs of
the First state bank of Marion, which
failed recently.
Sanford Topping, secretary of the
Ottawa Chautauqua assembly, in the
success of which he had been potent
factor, died at Ottawa.
A tornado recently destroyed nearly
every house in Cunningham, Kingman
county. Fortunately, nobody was
killed, but much stock was killed.
A tornado devastated a small section
of country near Severy, and injured
several people, j. b. MitchelPs baby,
two miles northeast of Severy, being
fatally hurt.
Attorney Gen. Boyle decided that
the state agricultural college fund
cannot be invested in farm mortgages.
The money must be invested in APP
proved bonds.
Texas fever is said to exist among
cattle in Lowell, Spring Valley and
Gordon townships, Cherokee county,
and they have been placed in the in
fictitious district.
Several towns in Saline and McPher'
son counties were visited by diminu'
tive cyclones and serious transforms,
valuable personal property and grow
ing crops being damaged.
The Twenty-second Kansas regiment,
II. c. Lindsay colonel, was ordered to
Falls Church, Va, about % miles from
Washington. The regiment hopes to
fight under Gen. Fitzhugh Lee.
The Fourth district populist conven-
tion at Emporia Endorsed the demo
cratic nominee, II. S. Martin. John
Madden could have had the nominal
ton but he declined in favor of Mar
tin.
No less than three distinctively diff
ferent tornadoes passed over Harvey
county the other day, demolishing
houses and in many cases totally ruin
ing the wheat fields. No lives were
lost.
Gov. Leedy named Rev. V. H. Biddi,
son, of st. Marys, chaplain of the
Twenty-second regiment Rev. Biddi'
son was chaplain of the state senate
during the stormy legislative session
of 1898.
The authority of Kansas district
Judge to require defendants in liquor
cases to give bond that they will not
again violate the law was upheld by
the Kansas appellate court, sitting al
Fort Scott.
Holton masons will entertain the
Northeastern Kansas Masonic union
on st. Johns day, June "a. Rev. S. E.
Busser, of Emporia, will crate and
Marshalps band, of Topeka, will fur
nish music.
There is double distinction for the
Twentieth Kansas, commanded by Ed
c. Little. Adjt Gen. Allen says it was
not only the first regiment mustered
into the service, but it was also the
first volunteer regiment mustered in.
Several mem bers of the Kansas con.
gressional delegation were urging the
president to commission Theo. Botkin,
ex-department commander of the G..
A. R., as colonel, with permission to
organize an independent Kansas regi-
ment.
The annual meeting of the Kansas
Live Stock association at Emporia re-
Gently took important steps toward
looking after the interests of cattle
shippers. j. w. Robinson Eldorado,
is president, and George Plumb, EN-
poria, secretary of the association.
Officers from the Hutchinson state
reformatory rushed eight convicts
from the Lansing penitentiary and
took them to Hutchinson, to forestall
habeas corpus proceedings. One of the
men taken was Louis Murphy, who
had been released by District Judge
Myers and ordered let alone. Judge
Myers said he would have the reform
atory and penitentiary officials ar
rested for contempt.
Baker university, at Baldwin, is
making great preparations to celebrate
it's fortieth anniversary the week be-
ginning May 30. Among the speakers
will be ex-Gov. Morrill,, J. r. Burton,
Charles M. Sheldon, Silas Porter,
Charles E. Lobdell, A. w. Smith. T. A.
McNeal, w. E. Stanley, j. L. Bristow,
Rev. w. A. Quayle, Rev. Jesse Bow
man Young and others. Baker uni