Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-03-29
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

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First district will hold their con-
gressional convention at Atchison
May 3.
At Paola, April 80, populists and
democrats of the Second congression-
al district will meet in Paola and
name candidate for congress.
1t is announced at Wichita that
Senator Blackburn and Senator Dan
iel, as we'll as W. j. Bryan, have
agreed to attend the fusion banquet
on April "a.
Wilder S. MetcaIf, late colonel of
the famous Twentieth Kansas regi-
ment, Will be obliged to undergo an
operation as result of wound re-
ceived while in the Philippines.
E. w. Hoch, of the Marion Record,
declines to stand for congresslnan-at-
large on the republican ticket, saying:
''We are for Charley Scott, and when
we are for anyone we are for him
against everybody else on earth, our
self included. But, gentlemen,
bushel of thanks, all the same.'
Gov. Stanley offered a reward of
$3.50 for the arrest and conviction of
the man who attempted to assassinate
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ago. Doniphan county has offered
reward for the same amount and the
republican officials there made up
purse of $500 for the same purpose.
Daniel Follmer, a Wilson county
farmer, has written to Gov. Stanley,
urging him to request the legislature
in his message to pass a law prOhib-
iting farmers from burning dead grass
and other rubbish on their farms in
the spring. He claims the spring
clean-ups on the farms cause drouth.
The federal court at Wichita de-
cided that the $4,000 proceeds of the
sale of the Cross Sunny Slope farm,
involved in the failure of the First
national bank of Emporia, should be
prorated among local depositors.
William Martindale, vice president OF
the bank, had attempted to divert the
money to preferred creditors.
| The governor has issued condi-
| tional pardon to r. H. Randel, who
was sent to prison from Chautauqua
county in 1898 for 21A years for steal
ing COW from J. M. Simpson, of that
county. Simpson, beside the judge
and prosecuting attorney, asked that
he be released. Randel will be given
employment on Simpsons farm.
Six years ago Mayor Harsha, of
Hutchinson, invested $1,000 in black
Galloway cattle and placed them on
his farm. Since then he has bought
no feed, nor expended a cent in their
maintenance except the money paid
out for farm labor. Up to the present
time he has sold $21, 900 worth of
animals from the bunch and still has
| $4,000 worth an hand.
Charles A. Foster, who died at Wal
pole, Mass, recently, came to Kansas
in 1859 and located at Osawatomie. He
helped organize the free state party
and was elected attorney general I'M
der the constitution framed at Leav-
enworth, but as the state was adj
mitted under the Wyandotte constitu-
ton he never served in Office. In 1860
he returned to Boston.
The Topeka Temperance Commits
sioner club issued an address to the
temperance people of the state, ask
! ing them TO use their influence to Sc
cure a pledge from each of the politi-
cal parties at their coming conven-
lions to pass a law providing for the
appointment of a board of three tenn
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| prohibitory law in Kansas.
A feature of the session of the Kan
sas conference, in session in Kansas
| City, was the eXoneration of Rev.
Alaric S. Embree, of Topeka, from
charges of immortality. DR.. Embree
will retain his position as a Methodist
preacher, but will not engage ac-
lively in the ministry. This is the
elimination of a very sensational
trial for adultery and drunkenness,
which has pended before the Kansas
| conference for over two years.
Fred Martin was sent to the peni-
tertiary in 1899 from Phillips county
for stealing a calf. At the time of his
trial it was supposed he was a member
of gang of thieves that was stealing
everybody blind in that section. For
that reason the judge gave him an
unusually heavy sentence for the
crime. 1t has been discovered that
he was in no way connected with the
gang of thieves and the judge and
prosecuting attorney have signed an
application for his conditional pardon.
Gov. Stanley granted it.
The Kansas conference, in session
at Kansas City, elected these dele
gates to the general conference at
| Chicago: Clerical. H Murlin,
| president of Baker university; Rev.
j. w Alderman, presiding elder of
the Kansas City district; Rev. John r.
Madison, presiding elder of the To-
peka district, and Rev. William II.
Zimmerman, presiding elder of the
| Atchison district. Lazy. L. Barnes,
Kansas City; 7. B. Slaughter, Bur-
lingame; F. D. Fuller, Topeka; W. C.
Scott, Desoto. Provisional lay dele
gates-D. C. Newcomb, Atchison; Z.