Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-05-11
A SUMMARY OF KANSAS EVENTS.
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Kansas Degree OF Honor Ofilcers.
The Kansas Degree of Honor, A. O..
VI. w., in session at Salina, elected the
following officers: Grand chief of hon
sor, Mrs. Grace w. Gulicl, Abilene; lady
sof honor, Mrs. Pauline C. Brandt, Gar
nett; grand recorder, Mrs Georgia Not
stein, Hiawatha; representatives to SUI
perior lodge, Mrs. Mary j. Forde and
L, M. Forde, Emporia, and Pauline En-
mis-, Girard, A new constitution was
adopted providing for biennial sessions
in future, Chanute was selected as the
incxt place of meeting.
Social Science Federation.
The annual meeting of the Kansas
Social Science federation at Junction
City last week was largely attended by
delegates from the various women's
clubs. Winfield was chosen for the
1900 place of meeting. The following
officers were elected:
Mrs. james Humphrey Junction City, presl-
dent Mrs, Eugene Ware, Topeka, vice PRESIDENT
Mrs. j. s, Benton Fort Scott, recording secre-
tary; Miss Fannie Rockwell, Junction City, cor
responding secretary; Mrs. Hill p. Wilson,
Lawrence treasurer; Mrs. Spindler, Winfield,
auditor
For RObbing Post ONCE.
Fred Rowley, formerly of olathe, was
sentenced to two years in the fed
eral penitentiary by Judge Hook at
Fort Scott for robbing the Devon
post Office. Clarence White, his COM
panion, who lives at Chanute, received
the same sentence. White was mem
Der of the Twenty-frst Kansas regi-
ment, recently mustered out. Rowley
is the son of a well-known newspaper
man.
The States Binding Irvine Plant.
The contract for all machinery of the
new Irvine plant for the Kansas peni-
Tertiary was awarded to a firm at
Miamisburg, O. The contract was let
for $4,000. The machinery has to be
made and the plant will not be in rum
ming order before November Motive
power is not included, and further
expenditure of $40, 900 will be made in
the purchasing of two engines and
two dynamos.
Take the Places of Their Brothers.
The following from Wichita recently
appeared in the press dispatches:
The wives and sisters OF soldiers OF the Twen-
NaAI
turned heroines and many OF them started to
work In the fields. Our crops are badly In
need of attention" said Miss Mamie Dix, whose
brother was slain In battle, land we feel 1t our
duty to take our brothers places In the field,
Nearly all the members Of the Twentieth Kan
sas are farmers, hence there are hundreds Of
girls at work on farms now"
School Superintendent In Trouble.
The Marysville board of education
the other night reelected Prof. r. Nc
Kelvey as superintendent of the city
schools. The next morning he was
placed under arrest for bigamy by his
frst wife, who arrived from Ohio. The
school board will await the result of
the trial, but McKelvey will not do any
of his school work until the affair is
settled.
Regents for Negro Industrial School.
Gov. Stanley appointed the following
colored men as regents of the negro
industrial school at Quindaro, estab-
lished by the state at the last session
of the legislature: Green Keith, Law
renee; j. X. Ransom, Topeka; Prof.
Wilson, Fort Scott; Samuel Jones,
Wichita. DIR. w. Il. Vernon, chan
cellor of the Quindaro university, will
be the president of the board.
Agricultural Regents Removed.
Gov. Stanley removed C., b. Hoffman
and j. N. Limboeker from the board of
regents of the state agricultural college
and appointed Capt. j. S. Mcdowell, of
Smith Center, and Thomas zoe, of In
dependence, to succeed them. 1t was re-
ported that Hoffman and Limbocker
would resist the governors order in
THE courts.
Doctors Have Love Feast.
Over 400 leading physicians from all
~over Kansas, including every orthodox
school of medicine, attended the an
fnual meeting of the state medical So
9 ciety at Topeka. Gov. Stanley well
coined the physicians. DR.. Menninger,
E. of Topeka, advocated the adoption of
civil service rules in the various charita-
BILE institutions.
Secured Goods on Bogus Credit.
R. T. Webb, ex-presdent of the
'Cherryvale national bank and at one
time wealthy merchant of that town,
confessed on the witness stand that
just before his failure, having exhaust
led his credit in st. Louis, he went to
Chicago and bought $4,000 bill of
goods on bogus credit, never expecting
To be able to pay for them.
Protest Against Dalton Pardon.
David Redfeld, department COM
mander of the G. A. R. of Indian terri
tory, wrote a letter to Gov. Stanley
protesting against the application for
pardon for Emmett Dalton, who is in
the penitentiary for life for the part he
took in the Coffeyville raid in 1891.
Redield served during the civil war in
tthe Fourteenth Kansas cavalry.
The Baby Was Not Injured.
Kingman and Pratt counties were