Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-12-07
STATE NEWS PARAcRAPHED.

company 4, twentieth Kansas, with
gold medals.
An explosion occurred at the Rand
Clafiin powder works at Turck, nine
miles south of Weir City. Buildings
at Joplin. Mo-. 80 miles from the exc
plosion, were shaken.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad COM
pany has established a division hospi-
tai at Fort Scott, which will care for
all employees on nearly 1000 miles of
the company's lines in southern Kansas
Probate Judge Irwin. of D dickinson
county, was married the other day. He
pondered long over issuing a license to
himself, but finally conclud ed to go to
a neighboring county for the docu-
ment.
Fred A. Williams married Gertr ude
Powell, of Topeka, in 1894. Last
March, without having obtained a
divorce from his first wife, t is alleged,
he married Myrtle Wolff, of Usage City.
He was under arrest att Lyndon for
bigamy.
The city council of Wellington has
voted to submit on December so a
proposition to the voters to issue $64,-
600 in bonds, $50, 600 of this amount to
be used in the purchase of the water
works system and the remaining $14.-
600 for the construction and equipment
of an electric lighting plant.
Arthur HAYES, a merchant of Null
vane, was shot and instantly killed by
accident. He was out hunting and
stopped to let his dog jump into the
buggy. When the dog jumped he fell
on the hammers of the gun and knocked
it over against HAYES. Both barrels
ed i,4o he So 1of+
Lottie Goodnight, 17-year old girl
of Cherokee county, committed suicide
because her schoolby lover had not
proved true. She left letter in which
she asked to be buried with her hair
hanging down her back and in her bare
feet-an idea the poor girl had taken
from pictures of the angels.
City Journal.
William Bauman, a Kansas City,
Kan, merchant, has broken the record
in the matter of liquidation. His credit
ors forced him into involun tary bank
ruptcy one month ago. Within three
weeks he had paid off every obligation
held against him, and Judge Hook, of
the federal court, dismissed the bank
ruptcy proceedings.
The government of New Zealand pro-
American game birds. The steamer
Alameda, which sailed from San Fran
cisco, took SO dozen of Kansas quail,
and following this shipment will be 70
pairs of ruffed grouse, ~ pairs of prai-
RE chickens and four dozen woodcoclzs,
or snipe, all to comefrom Kansas.
Chairman johnson, of the national
executive democratic committee, has
Mo1 DA nf
tawa, late of the Twentieth Kansas,
to assist in the literary bureau at head
quarters in Chicago. Maj. De Ford
will be in personal charge of that part
of the work which relates to Kansas,
Nebraska and other western states.
At Topeka the other night a gang of
professional safe blowers robbed the
Mid-Continent mills. the grocery stores
Of o. NJ. Brill and Granteer & Oberly.
At the latter place they secured 1854
cash and $42 in checks. At the other
places little was secured. Nitroglycer-
inc was used to open the grocery safes,
and the combination was pounded
from the mill safe.
Senator Lucien Baker rece ntly sold
his interest in zinc mine at Joplin,
Mo-, which netted him, it was said,
about $40, 600 profit. Senator Baker
has been lucky in mine investments,
and this is the second time he has sold
with big profit since his election as
senator. He had some Colorado mine
property that he took for a bad debt a
long time ago that he made $50, 900 on
two years ago.
That provision of the new game law
relating to the protection of quail will
soon be be tested in the courts. The
law fixes the open season for quail
during the months of October and
November, and provides that the birds
can be shot during the open season
only by the owners of the land on
which the quail are found Lawyers
claim that this is class legislation and
is. therefore unconstitutional.
Mrs. Mary Henderson, of Lawrence,
in a pathetic letter to Gov. Stanley,
pleaded pitiful1y for a pardon for her
husband, who is in the penitent iary.
She says she and her six little children
are in destitute circumstanc and that
they will starve this win ter if her hus-
band is not pardoned so that he can
provide for them. Such letters as this
have more influence with the governor
than petitions mile long. The gov
ernor was considering the visibility
of issuing Henderson a constitutional
pardon.
The NJ. E. foreign missionary fund of
the Coats circuit has just received $40
that was stolen from it in December
last year. A tramp begged 81 from
the pastor of the M. E, church there.
He watched the minister get the
money and that night, while the min
lister was filing an appointment, the
tramp broke into the house. went to
the place where he saw the minister
get the dollar a few hours before and
took $40. Rev. F. B. Lawrence, re-
ceived letter recently with $40 in
closed, telling the circumstances of the