Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-06-14
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.


The M. E. Sunday school at Ottawa
June 81.
Oats in southern Kansas were badly
blown down and many fields will have
to be cut with a cradle.
The state board of education has de-
cided to include the science of agri-
culture in the public schools of Kan
sas.
John w Breidenthal wants Con-
gresham Ridgley for chairman of the
populist committee and r. II. SempIe
secretary.
j. Q. A. Norton, who has been pro-
bate judge of Douglas county 25
years, was recently turned down for
nomination.
Overcome by heat the other day,
Andrew Patten, a Topeka grocer, fell
from his bicycle in the street and ex-
pired instantly.
Justice Fellows, known as the
F'father of Fredonia," died there re-
Gently in his ninetieth year. He came
to Kansas in 1857.
A Paola dispatch said a deputy mar
shall was there looking for Senator
w. B. Crossan, who was charged with
embezzling insurance funds. Crossan
had gone to Texas.
A tramp sleeping in John Swanson's
barn east of Ottawa started a fire
which consumed the barn and con-
tents-also the tramp.
Coal miners and operators in the
southeast Kansas district have agreed
on a scale of wages and there will be
no strikes there, it is said.
II. Williams, chairman of the two
prohibition parties in Kansas, has
called state convention for Topeka,
June 20, to name state ticket.
Rev. William Bishop, who died at
Salina recently, founded the first
Presbyterian church in that city. He
came to Kansas in the early sos.
Victor Benson, a 13-year-old New
near Fontana, was killed by lightning
while standing in the barn door.
Fl. c. Rising, government post Of
flee agent, will establish 100 free ru-
raj mail routes in Kansas this year.
He has located at Topeka for con-
venience.
Mrs. Mary j. Kirkbride, an aged
woman of Kansas City, was found
dead in a shallow pond of water.
She committed suicide because of her
physical ailments.
EX-Gov. John w. Leedy recently APP
piled for admission to the bar of
Douglas county before Judge Riggs.
He has been devoting his spare time
to the study of law for two years.
Rev. William B. Poinsett, eX-chap-
lain of the Kansas. penitentiary and
former well-known Methodist
preacher of the South Kansas confer
ence, died in Kansas City from the eff
fects of an operation.
The completion of the first stone
arch bridge in Greenwood county was
celebrated at Eureka by a big picnic
and speeches by prominent men. The
bridge consists of four arches and is
beautiful and substantial.
Residents of Strong City and Cot
tonwood Falls want the new railroad,
projected by A. e. Stilweu and his
associates, to run through these two
cities in the heart of the great stone
quarries of central Kansas.
At Atchison last Sunday a labor
dispute and key of beer resulted in
the killing of Cal Oathout and James
Burtchett by William Rainier. All
were common 1aborers. Rainer fled
but was captured in Missouri about
ten miles northeast of Atchison.
Probably one of the largest wheat
growers in the United States is Will
liam German, of Russell county. He
hos Of WIZ
and it will yield at least 100000 BUSH
els. If present prospects continue it
may go as high as 10000 bushels.
While Mrs. j. E. Conner, wife of a
farmer - miles east of Paola, was
sitting at the dinner table holding
her young babe, a pot of boiling cof-
fee was accidentally upset on the in
FAINT, cooking the flesh from the hips
down and causing almost instant
death.
The railroads have granted a half
rate for the democratic and populist
state conventions at Fort Scott on
July "A. The Kansas City, Fort Scott
& Memphis road is not a member of
the Western Passenger association,
but it has joined the association roads
in granting the rate.
The board of regents of the Univer-
sity Of Kansas broke away from prec-
edent last week and elected Miss Eu-
genia Calico to the chair of French,
made vacant by the resignation of
Prof. A. G.. Garfield Miss Calico is
the first woman to occupy a full pro-
fessorship at the institution.
Gov. Stanley last week issued a citi-
pardon to S. E. Youmans,
who was serving a Jail sentence at
Topeka for killing his neighbor. 1t
has never been the custom to issue
a citizenship pardon to person serv-
ing a Jail sentence. But the question
had been raised if it is not necessary