Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-03-09
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.

Ex-Postmaster Jack Morgan, of Weir
City, was killed In a railroad accident
at Upland, Ind.
Rinuey's big elevator at Scandal,
Republic county, including 5000 bush
els of corn, was burned.
An attempt will be made to extend
Westmoreland's railway to Myers Val
ley, Louisville and Wamego.
The story is again revived that ex'
Attorney General Boyle will open a
law Office in Kansas City, Mo.
Charles L. Kagey was appointed
county attorney Of Logan county to
succeed A. NJ, Gibbons, deceased.
Near Window, Mcpherson county,
Ed futile and wife were down with
smallpox and an epidemic was feared.
The Legislature refused to appropri.
ate money to carry on contest to de-
termine the Kansas. Missouri state line
controversy
Private Howard Odds, who was
wounded at Manila, enlisted in COM
pany + at Fort Scott, His father lives
at St. Joseph, Mo.
Chief Clerk Lobdell, of the house,
was the recipient of n handsome gold
watch, set with diamonds, given by
the members Of the house.
Judge William Margrove, for over
40 years justice of the peace, will
probably be appointed Judge of the
new city court at Fort Scott.
Eugene f. Ware, OF Topeka, has pur-
chased the Monitor" block at Fort
Scott, which was built by Gen. Rice
and his sons several years ago.
AS the result of redhot crusade at
Enterprise, all slot machines were
taken from stores and proprietors no.
tilted that they must. not be replaced.
DR.. Algood, who undertook to win
ter 400 head of Alabama cattle at
Luray, lost about so per cent. OF them
by the severe winter weather.
Julia Marlowe, the noted actress,
once lived in Kansas, her parents
coming to the state from England.
Her real name is Fanny Brough.
d. w. Van Horn, aged go, of Yelling
ton, attempted to board passenger
train at Caldwell, when he was thrown
under the cars and dragged rs feet,
both his legs being cut off near the
body.
The legislature passed two bills OF
educational interest - one providing
that the term of county superintend-
ents begin June /, and one giving dis
tricts the right to consolidate and sup
port q central school.
Mrs. Sarah j. Moore, mother Of the
Moore brothers. newspaper proprie'
tors at Pittsburg, is dead. Her hus-
band who died two years ago, had the
distinction Of being the oldest editor
in point of service and age in the west
Thew"Ice, young man of Mound
Valley, accidentally dislodged a tar
get rifle from where it hung upon the
wall As the rife fell it was dis
charged, the contents striking lees
brother, uged seven, in the abdomen,
killing him.
A Girard boy with the troops at Ma
Mia writes to his mother that the army
doctors all encourage the smoking of
cigars and cigarettes, saying that it
makes the smoker sleepy and that
sleep is the best preventive OF disease
in the tropics.
The John A. Martin monument, for
which money was subscribed by the
people OF Kansas year ago, has ar
rived in Atchison and is being erected
at Mount Vernon cemetery. In a few
DAYS the monument will be unveiled
with exercises.
Weeden Arnold, of Burlington, who
was arrested in Kansas City for at
tempting to abandon his 13-year-old
daughters baby, and afterward re-
leased, was arrested upon his return
to Burlington, charged with being the
father of the daughters baby.
The republican members of the
Kansas delegation in congress saw
the president and asked him to
appoint D. w. Eastman, of EN-.
poria, consul to Barcelona when dip.
lomatic relations between this gov.
eminent and Spain are renewed.
The weather report for February is.
sued by Chancellor Snow, of the state
university, says: The past month has
broken the records for low tempera-
ture 1t had the coolest day, the cold
est week and, with one exception, the
lowest temperature on our 80 years
record.
Congressman Peters bill providing
for an appropriation OF $3.50, 900 for the
erection OF federal building in Kan.
sas City, Kan, was signed by Presi
dent Mckinley. The new custom
house will probably be located on Min
nesota avenue between Eighth and
Ninth streets.
AT Newton, II. L. Wells, who pro-
cured SIS OO0 worth OF cattle from
Francis s. Rowland on representation
that he was a wealthy stockman OF
Mitchell, Neb., pleaded guilty to fraud
and was sentenced to the penitentiary.
The cattle were recovered at Denver,
Col, where Wells shipped them.
At Junction City two land sales were
consummated aggregating SCI, 1850 j.
r. Klegsr, a prominent stockman,
bought the j. p. Fall farm of 900 acres
of bottom land, 11X miles from the
city, for $4,000. Jacob Meyer, six
miles southwest of Chapman, bought