Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-06-08
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.

In five hours on the I'd.
Galena added 1000 to its population
by extending the city limits.
The total rainfall for May in Kansas
was 4.70 inches, slightly above the May
average,
1t cost naughty Fort Scott girl $40
to dress up in male attire and parade
the streets.
Coffeyville's issue of $4,000 electric
light bonds was sold at premium of
one per cent.
Fort Scott and vicinity were visited
by hailstorm recently, the worst ever
known there.
EX-Sheriff Ora Morse, OF Wellington,
declined the deputy wardenship of the
state penitentiary.
EX-Gov. Morrill, presented the Con-
gregational church at Hiawatha with
a new $1,000 pipe organ.
Surviving soldiers of the Sixth Kan
sas will hold their annual reunion in
Kansas City in September.
Vandals have looted tho Pleasant
Valley church, four miles north of
Wichita, for the fourth time.
The Topeka city council passed an
ordinance making it II misdemeanor,
punishable by finey to- spit on the side
walks,
The G, A. r. post at Fort Scott passed
resolutions censuring the local racing
association for giving races on Decora-
ton day.
Topeka will institute proceedings to
condemn the waterworks plant and
convert it from private intoa munich
pal corporation.
The United States supreme court de-
cided that Scott county must pay STAG
900 worth of defaulted bonds now held
by the state school fund.
A terribly destructive hailstorm Wis
tied Highland and adjacent sections of
Doniphan county. In a number of
places shingles were torn from roofs.
j. r. Crawford, ex-hnancier of
Wyandotte lodge No 314, A. o. U. W.,
in Kansas City, was arrested for the
alleged embezzlement of 1920 of lodge
funds.
Insurance companies, announced a
big reduction of rates in the five Kan-
sas cities having paid fire departments
Topeka, Kansas City, Wichita,
Leavenworth and Atchison.
Hunnewell is now without city Off
GERS because the people held the city
election on the first Tuesday after the
first Monday IN April instead of the
first Monday as the law provides.
George Irving, who was sent up from
Burlingame in 1890 for Is years for
killing his uncle, George Williams, be-
cause of the latter's alleged relations
with Irving's wife, has applied for \
pardon.
At Galena the other day Mrs. Jane
Williams, aged 1902, was married to
James Morgan, 80 years younger. This
was Mrs. Williams third matrimonial
venture her second husband having
died in 1860
While travelling with her husband at
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Cherryvale, tried to pull her pug dog
from in front of an approaching engine
and was herself ground to pieces. The
dog escaped.
Prof. f, p. Smith, superintendent of
the Lawrence schools and member
of the textbook commission, was ac-
cused of taking $500 for his influence
in securing the adoption of the Pea
body chart. Prof Smith said it was
case of blackmail.
Capt. John Sherrin, who died at
Salina recently, came to the United
States in 1910 and served in the MeXi-
can war. In the early sos he was in
the command of Gen. Fremont, the
pathfinder. He located in Nemaha
county in 1855, and in 1851 answered
Lincoln's first call for troops.
Thomas Reagan, the American who
was reported in press dispatches to
have been arrested in Johannesburg,
South Africa, for assaulting a wealthy
financier, in the Standard bank there,
is from Bourbon county. He and a
brother went to Africa from Fort Scott
three years ago and are reported to
have become wealthy.
The sale of $3.50, 900 of five per cent.
bonds of the Kansas City, Bonner
Springs g. Topeka railway, the electric
line projected to run from Kansas City
up the Kaw valley to Topeka, has
begun. The American Equipment
company has, according to the adver-
tisement, contracted to build the road
for 1914, 900 mile and have it finished
by November l, 1890
81 am wearing the same hat wore
when at home last" writes Private
Rainey to his Paola folks from the
trenches near Malolos. sit is full of
holes and minus crown. The boys
all look like tramps-ragged, dirty and
full of feas. You would not recognize
us as we line up for dress parade, but
we are not kicking and are satisfied to
be well and alive"
A picnic party attempted to cross the
Union Pacific track near Beloit closely
in front of an advancing passenger
train when the horses baked and ter
rible accident was averted by the al
most superhuman action of Engineer
Joe gladden., who stopped his train so
suddenly that his engine suffered con-
siderable damage from the shock; and
in throwing the reversing lever gladden.