Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-09-14
STATE NEWS pARAeRApHED.

The Kansas delegates to the anti
trust convention at Chicago are all in
favor of the regulation of trusts by the
federal government, it is said
Cary Snyder, wealthy stockman of
Dover, was found dead in the rear of a
Topeka shoe store. He had been drink
ing heavily and liquor caused his death.
Fred McKercher, of Peabody, while
bicycle riding the other night colIded
with team and wagon, the tongue
striking him in the abdomen. He died
instantly.
It is claimed that Hutchinson re-
ceives and sends out more freight than
any other city in Kansas. About so
carloads of salt are sent from there
every day.
An engine pulling a Rock Island
freight exploded while making full
speed near Fairview. The engineer
and brakeman were seriously injured
and the locomotive thrown from the
track
Miss Ingraham, a woman doctor at
Marquette, was arrested at the instance
of the county health officer, who al
legged that her diploma came from
college that made business of grind
ing out diplomas.
The cornerstone of the new state in
dustrial school for colored people at
Quindaro, to be known as STANLEY In
dustrial Hall" was laid with apprO-
pirate ceremonies on the 9th. Gov.
Stanley made speech.
Mrs. Ed Walsh, wife of Ed G. Walsh,
a timer, was killed by Missouri Pa
cific passenger train at the foot of La
fayette avenue in Kansas City, Kan,
while rescuing a little child from death.
The child was saved.
Private E. K. Thompson, of the Fort
Scott company, in the Twentieth Kan
sas, has been sentenced by court
martial to one years Imprisonment and
dishonorable discharge for the double
crime Of larceny and forgery.
The comptroller of the currency closed
the doors of the Atchison national
bank, of Atchison. The bank had a
capital of $50, 600; total resources and
liabilities, 1895, 54S. The suspension of
the bank is due to bad investments.
Mary Phillips, three-year-old Kan
sas City child, lost the sight of her
right eye by a singular accident. The
child, while asleep, fell out of bed and
struck her head on a lamp, cutting a
]. L. Walker, farmer near Piper,
Wyandotte county, sold a part of his
crop for $500. He went to Kansas City,
paid few bills and then visited sew
eral joints. A few hours later he re-
ported that he had been robbed of $3.50.
Maurice Bartleson, one of Beloit's
prominent young men who has been in
! Klondike for the last 10 months, re-
| II =, 70,
and social conditions about Beloit are
good enough for him. The other fell
low may seek fortune and fame in the
frozen soil.
Ed NJ. Brown, of Westmoreland, who
was one of Roosevelt's rough riders,
has taken a bride in the person of Miss
Jessie Clark. The preacher grew
facetious at the ceremony and said
that in capturing a rough rider Miss
Jessie had done something the Span
iards were unable to do.
j. II. Brewster the courthouse con-
tractor at Yates Center. is having much
trouble with his laborers. He imported
gang of negroes to take the place of
white workmen recently and every ho-
tel and clearinghouse refused lodge
them and they slept outdoors. Yates
Center has no negro citizens.
Mrs Adam Hewitson, of Argentine,
wife of Santa Fe railroad conductor,
was alone in her home the other night
when she was awakened by burglar
in the house. She was so frightened
that she jumped from the second story
window to the ground. breaking her
arm and otherwise injuring herself.
Marcus Darnell. the younger of the
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at Sedan, was put in the Montgomery
county Jail. Glenn Darnen was taken
to Winfield. Marcus was turned over
to the officers by his father. There
was a reward of 5000 on each of the
boys The father will get the reward
for Marcus.
Hull Reed, for many years grain
buyer of Wichita, committed suicide
in the county jail there by hanging
himself. He was in jail waiting to be
taken to the insane asylum. He
hanged himself with piece of wire
and a towel. During the boom days
! he was considered one OF the richest
men in the state.
Near Rose, seven miles south of Yates
| Center. freight train running at the
rate OF 20 miles an hoSr crashed into a
spring wagon containing four of Fred
Upson's children, killing Bessie, aged
ten, and probably fatally injuring two
others, Clarence, aged seven, and Ethel,
aged II. Dan, the Oldest boy, saved his
life by jumping. One of the horses was
killed outright and the wagon wrecked.
Gov. Stanley announced that he
would pardon Fuller Rhodes. who was
sent to the penitentiary from Sedgwick
county in 1897 for three years for horse
stealing. In 1894 Rhodes stole horse,
sold it to an innocent purchaser and
then left the country. The officers
could not locate him. Three years
later he wrote from North Dakota that
he had become converted to Christian
| itv and wanted to surrender. The