Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-11-16
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

WeaIth1eSt negro IL Kansas, has been
sued for divorce, his wife alleging inf
deity.
In LyoE county the proposition to
vote bonds to build a new courthouse
carried. Emporia city voted to build
new schoolhouse-
Miss Frances Wilson, candidate for
treasurer in Allen county, led the re-
publican ticket. She had been assist
ant in the Office u years
CoffeyviIle citizens will strenuously
oppose any attempt to secure pardon
for Emmett Dalton, who was captured
in the famous raid on Coffeyville few
years ago.
The examining board at San Fran
cisco rated Capt. Clarke. of Lawrence,
Sat half disability on account of the
wound in his shoulder. This entities
Capt. Clarke to a pension of $50 a month
without further evidence or exaRina-
ton.
O. J. Burton, first lieutenant in com
pany T. of the Twentieths Kansas, ar
rived at his home in Fort Scott last
week. After just seven days rest he
went into the machine shops and re-
sumed the job that he had left when he
enlisted.
The Melvern bank was robbed the
other night. The safe and furniture
We're demolished and the building bad
ly wrecked. The robbers secured about
5000. All the notes and checks were
taken. They amount to several thou
sand dollars.
Four big hogs were carried into Judge
Stuart's court room at Hiawatha, one
at a time in big box by a half dozen
men. The judge ordered them brought
into court at the request of the lawyers
and prosecuting witnesses, who wished
to prove property.
F. w. Elliott, of the Troy Times,
and Pool Gripstead, of the Wathena
Star, were arrested for criminal libel,
on warrants sworn out by A. R. Graves,
county treasurer-e1ect. This is the
fifth time these editors have been ar
rested for libel the past year.
Chief interest in the election in Sum-
ner county conferred in the fate of the
proposition to maintain the county
high school in Wellington. The can
vass of the votes showed the opposition
lacked Is votes of the majority re-
quired to defeat it and the school will
continue in operation.
F. L. Williams, lawyer of Clay Cen
announcement
that he will be a candidate for con-
gress before the republican convention
of the Fifth district next year in oppo-
sition to Congressman Calderhead.
Another candidate is said to be T. A.
Stocks of Blue Rapids.
1t is reported from Fort Riley that
ten members of the late Twentieth
| Kansas have re-en1isted for the Philip
| -. - l. fo
cination about army life which does
not make itself felt until the soldier
leaves the service and attempts to live
a life of peace and quiet.
There is rumor that the election of
| Marshall Gephart as judge of the dis
trict formed by Jackson and jefferson
counties, will be contested on techni-
cality by Judge Charles f. Johnson, of
Osl1aloosa, present judge appointed by
Gov. Stanley, who was candidate for
reelection and was third in the race.
The pupils of the Dickinson county
high school at Chapman will put a
| handsome memorial window in the
| high school building. They will be
assisted by the people of the city, and
| on it will be engraved the names of the
| high school students who volun teered
for service in the Spanish-American
| war.
John w. Breidenthal, state bank
| commissioner, is preparing a circular
| letter to building and loan associa-
tions, informing them that hereafter
they must pay their solicitors out of
their earnings. BY the present plan of
| sending agents out with authority to
retain as their pay the preliminary
| subscriptions they collect, the commits
sioner says that the people are swim
| died.
Monroe Abel, ten-year-old son of
| George Abel, wealthy cattleman of
Perth, while leading COW, was thrown
down and his foot cut off by the rope
Tightening. around the ankle. The
| flesh was taken entirely off his leg al
most to his knee. The boy got up and
before the pain commenced started to
walk home, sticking the stub bone in
the ground as he went. His condition
is serious and he may die.
Oswego has quarantined against Jop-
lin and Springfield, Mo-, on account of
smallpox, and has instructed the rail-
road agents of those towns not to sell
| tickets to passengers from these points
to Oswego. A colored man came into
Oswego from Joplin and broke out
with smallpox. tie was at the home
of family of eight persons. The local
board at once quarantined the house,
built high board fence around it and
placed a squad of men with shotguns
to guard it.
Out of about 20 soldiers of the Twen-
tieth Kansas nominated for county of
| ficers this fall only two were elected.
The fortunate ones are Corporal Charles
Rossman, of company I. clerk of Miami
county. and DIR. Volnev T. Boaz, of
company D, coroner of Crawford coun-
tv. both democrats. Even David Hork-
| man, of Cloud county, the corporal
who was shot through the head and