Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-04-06
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.

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baseball club this season.
Burglars looted the Greensburg post
Office OF $500 In money and stamps
II. y. Thomas of Sedalia, Mo-, win
erect an iron foundry at Cherryvale.
The First Presbyterian church al
Topeka is rounding out 40 years OF ee-
istence.
j. d. Bowersock, Of the Second diD-
trict, is the richest of the Kansas con-
gressmen.
Gov Eskridge, Of the Emporia Re-
publican, will erect newspaper build
ing 5Ox13O feet
The new mail cars between Newton
and Oklahoma are 90 feet long, lighted
with electricity.
DR. A. j. Arnold, who was Topeka's
postmaster during oleveland's last add
ministration, is dead.
r, G. Ross, Of Olathe, has been APP
pointed cattle inspector by the Kan-
sas live stock sanitary board.
A gang OF horse thieves made several
successful raids about Horton and
managed to elude the officers.
Frank Schermerhorn, OF Wilson, at
the age Of 81 is said to be the youngest
Scottish Rite mason In the world.
Railroads have granted one-fare
rate TO the G. A. r. and w. r. c. state
encampment at Hutchinson April 30.
Col. Fred Funston's friends at
Wichita will urge at once that tho
hero Of Malolos be made a brigadier
general.
Hereafter all insurance companies
in Kansas doing both u life and acci-
dent business must pay two licenses,
State Superintendent Church having
so ruled.
1t recorded that Parsons preacher
refused to accept for his church the
proceeds OF an amateur theatrical per-
formance, alleging that the exhibition
was immoral.
George p WilSe, OF Atchison, picked
out his own coffin six months ago and
said he would some time take his own
life. The other day he dropped dead
of heart disease.
w. " Church, state insurance super
intendent, refused to license the In
diana State Life Insurance company
on the ground that it issued policies
at reduced rates.
II Ia claimed that Mrs John H.
Jones and three children, residing
near Reading, Lyon county, are direct
heirs to an estate valued at millions
of dollars in New York city.
A charter has been granted to the
Kansas City & Leavenworth Railway
company, capital S1,oOO,OoO, which pro-
poses to build an electric line between
Leaven worth and Kansas City.
John seaton, the Atchison repub-
lican politician, denied that he gave
800 toward the support Of Falcon,
the populist judicial candidate in the
Nemaha- Brown Doniphan district
Lon Richards viii and Joe Long, Of
williamsburg, Franklin county, who
went TO Oklahoma several months ago,
are under sentence to hang at Still
water, Ok, for murder. All three are
young men.
The Kansas, oklahoma Central n
Texas is new railroad company that
proposes to build line from SalinR
through the counties of Ellsworth
Barton, Stafford, Pratt and Barber,
thence through Oklahoma to Denison,
Tex.
Col. Fred Funston, in letter dated
at Manila February 10, and addressed
to Gov. Stanley, recommended that
Clad Hamilton, OF Topeka, second
lieutenant of company G, be appointed
to succeed First Lieut.. Seeker, re-
signed
The Lanyon Zinc company, capital
SO, 900, 900, applied for q charter to do
business in Kansas 1t owns two
smelters at lola, one at Pittsburg and
one at La Harpe 1t also has leaseS
on many thousands Of acres Of zincy
lead and natural gas lands In Kansas.
H. G. Perry, local agent Of the Fort
Scott & Memphis railroad at Paola,
who died very suddenly Of BriRhts
disease, was one of the most popular
station agents In Kansas. For ten
years he had not missed day from
his duties and holiday was unknown
TO him.
The Kansas Democratic Editorial
association, in session at Topeka,
elected these officers: President, w.
b. Buck, Winfield; secretary, w. p.
Morgan, Lyons; treasurer, John Wat
rous, Burlington; delegate to National
Editorial convention, L. w. Morgan,
Eureka.
John Morton, tramp, who was
stopping for the night in the Lake
View schoolhouse, west Of Lawrence,
built a fire which got the better
of him. Instead of giving the alarm
he walked away and let the building
burn down. Farmers followed and
him.
At six o'clock the other morning pas
sengers on northbound Fort Scott
& Memphis train found tiny girl
baby in basket on the platform at
Pleasant View, three miles north Of
Olathe. The baby was given to Sheriff
Jones' Of Olathe, who is caring for 1t
and looking for its owner.
The Southwest Kansas M. q. confer
ence at EldOrado last week tried Rev.
of Augusta, for alleged
adultery. The principal witness was
Miss Meredith. who had made a CON