Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-11-09
STATE NEWS pARAGRApHED.


the completion of its new opera house.
School children of Topeka contrib
uted $50 to buy bouquets for the Tween
tieth Kansas boys.
Louis Gill killed a large American
eagle, feet 10 inches from tip to tip,
south of Muscotah
w. F. Waller, formerly of the Coun-
ell Grove Republican, is business man
ager of new republican daily at Sc
dalia, Mo, which is backed by S25, 600
capital
Hon. A. P. Heminger, who died of
cancer recently at his temporary home
in Garden City. was four years repre-
sentative of Haskell county in the
legislature. He also served two terms
as probate judge, and at the date of
his death held the Office of county at
torney.
Prof. and Mrs Hagerty, of the Salina
college, have been doing Europe. At
Lucerne. Switzerland, the other day
boy was born to them It strikes US
that it is mighty mean pair of parents
who would cheat their son out of
chance for the presidency in that way.
Kansas City Journal.
The Missouri Pacific special train,
bearing company F and the reception
committee from Fort Scott, was
wrecked at Selma, Anderson county,
by colliding with an NJ, K. & T. freight
at the crossing. No one was seriously
hurt, but the reception at Fort Scott
was delayed several hours
Unpublished interview with Gen.
Fred Funston: Il will say to you
frankly that I would not accept the
Office of governor, senator, congress
man-at-large or any other if it were
brought to nae on a silver platter. I
have no taste for politics, nor any
am bition for office-holding."
The old Spanish cannon captured by
the members of company NJ, Twentieth
Kansas. in the battle of Caloocan, ar
rived In SaGna the other day. The
relic bears evidence of having seen
service. 1t was captured from the
Spanlards by the insurgents before it
was captured by company NJ
Every newspaper worker in Topeka
feels under obligations to George A.
Clark, secretary of state; II. A. Whit
more, his chief clerk, and the other Of
fee employees They have fitted up for
the reporters exclusive use a cheerful
and coy room, supplied with desks,
stationery and other cOnveniences.
Charles Foster, a state house en-
ploye of Topeka, received a check for
$63 recently from a man at McKees-
port, Pa, in full payment for a bill of
groceries purchased of Foster 81 years
ago. The bill amounted to $21.S but
the debtor included interest from Au-
gust 5. 1865, the time the goods were
purchased.
r M Baker, the well-known Atchi-
n T6a1yr n a6
during a battle of the civil war and he
was nursed back to life by a young
woman in one of the hospitals. Every
year since he has sent a fine Christmas
present to this woman, who is now an
old mother living in 1owa.-Kansas
City Journal.
A New York newspaper wired Gen.
Funston. at Topeka on the I'd, an offer
of $3.50 for a 5O0-word statement about
the war in the Transvaal. He declined
the offer, with the explanation that it
would not become him as an officer in
the army to comment about a war in
regard to which the United States oc-
cupies neutral position
Suits were fled at independence
against the Woodmen of the World and
the United Benefit Insurance company
by Mrs. { ora Fl. Thei baud, of Cherry
vale. to force payment of policies held
by her husband when he died last April
amounting to s., 100 and 81, 900 respect
lively. Payment was refused because
Thiebaud committed suicide.
James Baker, who had been living in
a house owned by DR.. Gill at Pittsburg
for some time without paying rent, at
tempted to resist eviction and made D
murderous assault on DR.. McAllister, a
son-ln-law Of DR.. Gill, who went to the
house with a constable to remove the
tenants household goods. Baker is
now in Jail charged with assault with
intent to kill.
The Topeka high school conferred
gold medals upon Privates Vance, Ram
sew, Montgomery, Johnston, Corlhill
and BOrdman, of company Is, Tween
tieth Kansas. and set a bronze tablet
in memory OF Private Resell Manahan,
who was killed in battle. These boys
were students in the high school when
troops were called for and were among
the first to enlist.
DR.. William a. Jones, a negro phys1-
clan. who was stricken with smallpox
during the recent epidemic IN Kansas
City and afterward discharged from
the peSthouse as cured, is now ravIng
maniac. The mans mental collapse
was brought about by worry and mel
enchoha over his predicament. The
negro is a graduate of the Nashville
medical college and was leading man
among his people.
That Moorish cannon which Col. Met
calf brought home is certainly sight
to behold. It is about seven feet long,
as big at the muzzle as at the breech,
and not over eight inches in diameter
anywhere. In fact. it looks like one
of those old Kentucky squirrel rifles,
exaggerated in size. and covered with
ornamental rings and bands. A chunk
has been knocked out of one side OF
the muzzle, and the piece is rusty and