Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-20
STATE NEWS pARAGRAPHED.

Usage City. Burlingame and Lyndon
will have telephone exchanges.
The First Methodist church at To-
peka will build a fine parsonage.
Gov. Stanley's family has gone to
Colorado to remain until autumn.
One Crawford county man put up
more than 400 tons of haJ this season.
The German Lutheran congregation
is building Sc, 600 church at Herington.
Parsons will vote on a proposition to
pay $1S5. 900 for the waterwor1s system
Sterling has a band of 80 members,
| composed entirely of pupils of the high
school.
Salina will have a saengerfest the lat
ter part of August, with 500 voices in
the chorus.
A big wholesale grocery house at
Kansas City will establish a branch
house at Wellington.
The young democrats of Kansas will
meet at Hutchinson September and
organize state league.
The latest report is that the Kansas
boys will not leave Manila until the
latter part of September.
Senator Baker has recommended
Asa Smith, of Parsons, for census super
visor Tor the IhlrQ district.
A 81, 900 pipe organ will be placed in
the Masonic temple at Salina soon.
The temple is a particularly fine one.
Cherryvale now has three big vitri-
fed brick plants, making it the largest
brick man ufacturing town in Kansas.
Twenty-six taxpayers of Topeka have
gone to court to prevent the mayor and
council building the proposed new audi
forum.
Thirty men of old company B, First
regiment, Kansas national guard, en-
listed in a body in the Thirty-second
volunteer regiment.
Gov. Stanley announced that he
would not interfere with the regents in
the selection of new teachers for the
state agricultural college.
The supreme court knocked out the
Douglas county court, created by the
late legislature, on the ground that the
intention of the legislature was not APP
parent.
Triplets, two girls and boy, were
born to Mrs. j. Hill, wife of a farmer
Is miles southeast of Paola. Mrs. Hill
is 80 and the mother of seven other
children.
Charles F. Scott predicts that when
Gen. Funston returns from Manila he
twill settle down on a little fruit farm
somewhere in Kansas or California and
go no more a-roving."
A great crop of potatoes has been
raised by the farmers of Wyandotte
county this year and the profits on the |
potato crop will more than make up
for the loss on apples.
Lacy Simpson, son of J. NJ. Simpson,
of Mcpherson, was appointed confiden- |
tial clerk to j. L. Bristow, fourth as
sistant postmaster general. The posi- |
ton pays $1,000 a year.
The textbook law passed by the last |
legislature does not carry an exchange |
privilege and there is no way to COM |
pei the firms having contracts to take |
old books on the price of new ones.
j. II. McClain went to the home of |
n. S. Fewqua, near Lebo, and at the |
muzzle of a revolver took possession of |
his fve-year-old daughter, who had |
been left at Fewqua's by McClain's di- |
vorced wife.
A careful summing up of the accounts |
of Fourth of July accidents as given in |
the Kansas press shows that more peo-
pie were dangerously hurt than the en-
tire mum Der of wounded in the Tween |
tieth Kansas.
At a recent wedding in Atchison the |
Congregational minister of that city
refused to perform the ceremony,
though the bride was a member of his |
church, for the reason that she was |
divorced woman.
o. w. ROH'S drug store at Newton |
was looted by burglars, who carried |
away all available cash, slot machines
and jewelry. Several gallons of good |
whisky were stolen, the cheap grades |
not being touched.
When the regents of the state apri-
cultural college opened their July ses-
sion at Manhattan, President VIII |
turned over the keys to his office, which |
was taken to mean that he had given |
up his fight to keep from being ousted. |
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal had |
returns from IS of the 367 Kansas banks |
in response to the call lately made |
These returns show an increase in de- |
posts of $313, 600 over the returns of |
the same banks in March. At this rate |
the complete returns will show an in
crease of ST, 500, 900.
Mrs. Eliza Chrisman, a wealthy and |
eccentric widow of Topeka, who, during
the last five years has been dissipatinp |
her fortune by extreme benevolence. |
has conveyed all her real estate HOLDINGS |
in Kansas in trust to Rev. A. S. Embree,
Methodist clergyman. Mrs. Chris
mans fortune is estimated at $3.50. 600.
All of it will go for the establishment |
and endowment of Methodist indus
trial college at Topeka.
Because four foreign fire insurance
companies-the Liverpool, London &
Globe, Manchester, Western Assurance
and British-American-r to paw
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ing of J. II. Richards home in Fort
Scott, Superintendent Church threat
ened to exclude them from the state.