Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-02-09
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.
Glrard will soon have o public

Miami county farmers are going In
heavy on Katlir corn this season.
Sam Il. Johnson, of Troy, was APP
pointed townsite appraiser in the
Chickasaw nation.
The Madison bank, which was forced
to suspend through the Cross failure at
Emporia, will resume.
An inspector found Postmaster Beat
tie, of Grinnell, short 500 and removed
the postmaster instanter.
Butler is the largest Kansas county,
with an area of LAPS square miles.
Wyandotte is at the foot with 1853.
Hanover Washington county, with
S75 population, has 10 saloons, each OF
which pays yearly to the town $780,
Mr. John Krebs, convicted at juno
ton City of numbering Mrs. Lizzie
Craig, was given ten years In state
prison.
Over 200 official township and coun-
ty bonds in Miami county are worth
less because no revenue stamps were
put on them.
Joseph V. Quarles, the new United
States senator from Wisconsin, mar
ried Miss Caroline Saunders, at Law
renee, In 1865.
The Clay Center Dispatch argues
that all doctors ought to be in the pay
of the county and their services given
free to the individual.
Miss Anna Finn secured Judgment
of $1,000 against the city of Leaven-
worth for injuries received by falling
ON slippery sidewalks.
There are 3g4 people on the payroll
of the present Legislature and the daily
expenses of both houses, including sal
aries and supplies, aggregate vi, 800
A Topeka telegram said the present
members of the state board of railroad
commissioners will be permitted to re-
main until the court of visitation law
takes effect April Is.
A bill has been introduced in the
house which makes it penal offense,
punishable by Imprisonment in the
penitentiary, for IL person to traduce
| the character of woman.
Near Pittsburg the other day the
roadbed began to sink under Frisco
passenger train, and investigation
showed that 60 feet of track was over
a coal mine, where the ground had
begun to give way.
Fifty-nine stalls in the fair grounds
at Wichita burned the other morning.
The grounds are three miles from the
fire department headquarters, so the
fire secured good start before the
fremen reached the scene
Gen. Otis cabled on the 3lst that the
following boys of the Twentieth Kan
sas had died at Manila: Edward Roth
myer, p. r. Hackett, Lewis r. Badger,
E. p. Blair Ben w. Squires, John d.
Young, Norman E. Hand and David L..
Campbell.
The war department issued an order
on the Slst for mastering out the
Tweuty-third Kansas (uegro) regiment
now at Santiago. The boys will arrive
at Newport News about February 81.
They will be mustered out at Fort
Leavenworth.
The Kansas Editorial association
will meet at Topeka February 81. On
the afternoon of the 22d the editors
will be taken to Kansas City, Mo-,
where they will be given banquet
and free tickets to the opening of the
big Convention hall.
Insurance companies are paving the
two per cent. tax placed on gross pre-
miums by the extra session OF the
legislature. None of the companies
show any inclination to take advan'
tage of Attorney General Godard's
decision that the session was illegal.
At Washington Dick Meyers, who
lust returned from Manila, shot his
father in the shoulder and beat hin
up badly. Both men had been drink
ing and the father ran his wife anC
daughter out of the house with 9
Ratchet before the shooting occurred
Wellington recently built new
Jail and the authorities decided tC
name it after the first prisoner con
fined therein. The prisoner proved t.
be a woman, Mrs. Horton, and the
Jail was named Horton JAIL Itlatel
developed that the woman was limo
cent
A telephone deal has been consum
mated whereby the towns and cities
Of Bourbon, Montgomery, Labette
Crawford, Cherokee and Neosho coun
ties will soon be connected bv an in
dependent toll line company. The
circuit Of the different lines will EN-
brace over 100 southwestern towns.
Col. Fred Funston cabled Gov. Stan
. lev from Manila that he had made tn
following promotions in the Tween
tieth Kansas: First Lieutenant Glas
COW, of Republic county, to fill the va
cancy caused by the removal of Capt
j. L. Towers, company A; j. G. Houser
, man, of company c, to be first lieuten
ant, company c; Samuel Hopkins to b
second lieutenant, company c.
q Probably the most remarkable sui
| ever filed in Kansas court was on
that was fled at Fort Scott by Mrs
Mary Epps, Paola clairvoyant VIII
makes business OF dispellng ghost
Z from the homes of the superstitious
a In good faith she. by her attorneys
. sues to recover from Ben Bruce,
: negro, the sum of 500 for services ren
dered in the line of her profession.
w. v. Church, who will succee
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