Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-27
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

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was named Funston.
Newton will spend $40, 900 in water
works improvements.
Caney voted S1O,O in bonds to in
vest in prospecting for gas.
Coffeyville placed a prohibitive tax
OF $500 per month on its joints.
Work on Reno county's new 500, 900
courthouse at Hutchinson will begin
before long.
David Munday, of Linwood, has been
appointed deputy revenue collector for
the First Kansas district.
The Hutchinson & Southern is build
ing bridge over the Arkansas river at
Hutchinson which is 500 feet long.
William Dymond was dying at Sa-
lima from blood poisoning caused by
accidentally priclzing his hand on the
spur of a rooster.
John P. Grinstead, formerly captain
of company L, Twenty-frst Kansas,
has been appointed captain in the new
volunteer service.
The latest rumor had Prof. Lock-
wood, of Mount Union college, in Ohio.
slated for the presidency of the Kansas
state agricultural college.
David Coop and George Branin,
Lawrence youths arrested for incen-
diarism, confessed to setting eight
barns and one house on fire.
Ed Harrison, of Augusta, Butler
county, claims to be the long-lost
Charley Ross, who was stolen from
Philadelphia many years ago.
Mrs. c. B. Hoffman, wife of the pop
ulist politician at Enterprise, sent
~ D.,
of which Prof. Will is president.
Thieves entered the home of Henry
Tricl1ler, a carpenter in Ottawa, and
stole 5000 in cash. TricEler had just
received pay for building a house.
Prof. E. L. Hills, of Sedgwiclz City,
was appointed superintendent of the
soldiers orphans home in Atchison, in
place of W. H. II. Young, resigned.
The Wyandotte County Medical so
ciety has decided to stop the practice
of medicine in that county by people
who have not the proper authority.
A. j. McCabe, judge of the new city
court at Topeka, refuses to marry
couples, claiming the ministers should
receive the fees for such ceremonies.
The Hiawatha World says there are
200 manageable young women in
Hiawatha, with 200 more coming on,
and only IL manageable young men.
Adjt. Gen. Fox has received report
from the Twentieth Kansas which
states that there were but two deaths
from disease in the regiment in four
months.
Arthur B. Schaffer, of Valley Falls,
has been appointed first lieutenant in
the new volunteer army. He was for
merly first lieutenant of the Twenty
second Kansas.
Five minutes after she had finished
reading a letter from her soldier boy
in the Philippines, Mrs. M. Blair, of
Pittsburg, fell asleep forever with the
letter in her hand.
B. G. Graham, farmer in Marshall
county, went out into his field to plow
corn the other day and found mon
ster balloon. No one had an idea
where it came from.
At the Finpey county fair there will
be fve-mile cowboy race, each rider
to be allowed the use of five horses.
Nothing can be more exciting than
these change horse races.
The recent construction of the large
stone dam across the Neosho river at
the waterworls has rendered the river
navigable for several miles.
After waiting IA years Westmoreland
will have a new railroad, the Kansas &
Southern, bonds having been voted for
its construction. The northern termi-
nus of the line will be Blaine.
State Insurance superintendent
Church has distributed the firemen's
fund tax among the various fire de-
partments of the state. The total
amount distributed was SIS, 511.
Wamego's new waterworlzs will be
opened in September and the town
will entertain many invited guests on
that day, including IL members of the
Kansas City (Mo.) fire department.
Gov. Stanley and wife, Secretary of
State Clark and wife, State Auditor
Cole and wife and State Treasurer
Grimes went to the Big Horn noun
tains, in Wyoming, on fishing trip of
ten days.
Democrats and populists in Sedgwick
county effected fusion on county Off
GERS. Both conventions adopted reso-
lutions condemning the war in the
Philippines as wanton outrage
against humanity.
Topeka's hope of securing a new city
hall and auditorium was shattered when
Judge Hazen, of the district court, rem
dered an opinion holding that the law
under which the auditorium was to be
built is unconstitutional.
Pratt county, which has $500, 900 six
per cent. bonds outstanding, offers to
compromise with its creditors. The
county offers to pay one-third of the
defaulted interest if the creditors will
accept four per cent. refunding bonds.
DR.. B. B. Briclzbill, of Dwight, was
arrested on the charge of adultery.
1t is charged that while his wife was
sick and unable to care for herself
Brickbin left Dwight with another
woman and the two Travelled together