Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-02-23


as state librarian.
An "old -fashioned" woman of jew
ell county has made 800 worth OF rag
carpet this winter.
The $4,000 residence OF Thomas Ma
han, of Wichita, burned to the ground
at midnight the other night
Rev. r. A. Hoffman, of Lincoln, who
has been in the ministry % years,
wants to be chaplain of the state peni-
tertiary.
The ]. X. Knowlin company is feed
ing 96, 900 sheep on a ranch near Nick-
erson. Thirty-fve men are regularly
employed,
1t was announced that Gov. Stanley
would appoint John II. Simmons, Of
Dighton, perintendent of the Hutch
inson reformatory.
w. Mckee, of Everest, took carbolic
acid with suicidal intent because, as
he thought, his wife was inclined to
flirt with other men.
Douglass county also has female
deputy sheriff, Miss Lizzie Moore.
She was appointed to the office by her
father, the present sheriff.
Ex-Congressman John G, Otis was
gored by bull on his farm near To-
peka, receiving dozen wounds that
made his condition critical.
The Santa Fe throughout Kansas
will equip its grade crossings with
electric bells which will ring warn
ing upon the approach of train.
At Medicine Lodge, Robert Noel was
convicted of first degree murder. Last
fall he shot and killed his father'in'
law at Kiowa in q trivial dispute
DR.. Charles Love, who secured money
from Newton citizens by representing
that he was Red Cross nurse in the
government service, is under arrest.
Mrs. Fred Holton, of Salina, left her
three-year-old child In the house alone
while she went TO visit a neighbor
The child played with fire and when
the mother returned the child was
dead.
Gov. Stanley offered reward OF
$500 for the conviction of the murder
err Of Charles A. Sewers, Wichita
young man, who was found dead on
the railroad tracks near Merriam last
October.
Miss Jennie Jones, a Girard young
lady, committed suicide at her home
at three o'clock in the morning No
cause was known for the awful TRACE
dy. She was to have been married
four days later
Near Ellis the other day Engineer
Jud Rippey opened the window in his
cab, when in flew n snowbird with
such terrific speed that Rippey is now
in the hospi tai nursing an eye which
may be entirely blinded.
State Auditor Cole refused to pay
the January salaries of State Grain
Inspector Culver and his 81 deputies
alleging that the legislature OF 1897
never regularly appropriated money
to pny the salaries of this department
D. A. Afford, OF Lawrence, father Of
Lieut. Afford, killed in battle at Ma
Mia, telegraphed Senators Baker and
Harris at Washington, urging their
aid in having the remains OF young
Afford brought back home.
This story comes from Burlington;
william Davis, farmer living south
of here, tasted six days under vow to
not eat until his daughter Belle was
converted. She was converted at
United Brethren revival meeting and
the fast was broken.
The municipal government OF the
city OF Garland was dissolved by Judge
Simons, of the district court, who
ousted from office every officer OF the
city from mayor to marshal, on the
ground that the town was illegally
Incorporated as city of the thtrc
class a number of years ago.
Vandals entered the Emporia Ave
nue. Baptist church at Wichita anc
frightfully mutilated all the furni
ture, including fine organ, with ar
Ak The seats and carpets were hacked
to pieces and every book in the exten
sive library was burned. Not satisfied
with their work OF demolition, Tho
vandals entered the baptistry ant
turned on the water, flooding the en-
tire basement
At Hutchinson two young men, Johr
Gallup and Charles Cook, were rival
for the hand OF Miss Susie Moore ant
she decided that she would bestow hei
affections on the best man. Conse
auently they met and fought ant
Gallup's skull was fractured. Three
DAYS later Miss Susie was arrested, l
being alleged that she was presen
during the fight, and she will be trie'
as an accessory to the assaulton Gallup
At Girard civil war veteran wa
examined for pension and the doc
tors found that his body containe'
eight musket balls, received in differ
emit battles
BY recent decision of the state 81
preme court ]. M. Jones, of Lawrence
is awarded seat in the city council
that has been held for 90 months b
j. M. G. Watt.
The Presbyterian church at Chetop
was destroyed by FIRE. 1t had recent
| w been enlarged and remodeled.
Salina wants sessions OF the Unite
States federal court held there. Tn