Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-06-21
STATE NEWS pARAGRApHED.

John Matt, aged 60, after quarrel
with his wife at Bronson, commit
ted suicide by shooting himself with
a shotgun.
Republicans of johnson county
nominated John Thorne, of the
Twentieth Kansas, for clerk of the
district court.
Ex-senator PETER is delivering lee
lures on spiritualism, although he in
sists that he is not a spiritualist.
However this may be, no one can
say that he doesn't look the part.
The medals for the Ottawa members
of company K, Twentieth Kansas,
Will be presented at the celebration
there July 4. Company < Will engage
in a sham battle with company E,
of the national guard, on the Fourth.
Joseph Hollinger, the wealthy farm
er-banker who was killed by a horses
kick near Chapman recently, came to
Kansas in 1872 poor man but sue
ceeded admirably and owned 5000
acres of fine land at the time of his
death.
William McDonough, who cut the
throat of a five-year-old boy in
cornfeId in Lincoln county, was cap
tured by a posse of citizens after a
two-days' pursuit. McDonough had
been without food two days. It was
said he is insane.
Fire at Thayer destroyed buildings
belonging to c. o. Lawrence and C.
F. Evans, causing n loss of $4,000.
A bucket brigade saved the business
section. Half an hour before the fire
originated the city council voted to
purchase fire engine.
A severe tornado and hailstorm
visited Mcpherson county the other
day. Sidewalks were almost impassa-
bic by fallen trees and other debris,
and there was a wholesale destruction
of windowlights. The front of brick
business house was also blown in.
J. A. Miller, supposed to be de-
mented, tied a stone to his neck and
jumped into the creek near EIsmore.
His action was observed by two small
boys who were fishing near. They
plunged into the creek, cut the rope
loose and dragged the suicide to the
shore.
Considerable interest is being man
ifested in mineral deposits along the
Smoky river in Mcpherson and Saline
counties. Examination of ore dis
covered in the hills shows unmistak-
able signs of silver. and an assay of
ore from rock on the farm of G. S.
Holmberg shows it rich in silver
r. S. Bell, justice of the peace
at Wichita, married Mrs. Sarah A.
Miller, performing the ceremony him
self. Bell claims that under the Kan
sas law authorizing justices of the
peace to perform marriage ceremo-
MES, he has as much authority to
Officiate at his own wedding as any
one else.
The Kansas delegation to the dem
ocratic national convention has re-
served rooms at the Hotel Baltimore,
in Kansas City. General headquarters
will occupy the store room in the
hotel annex. Chairman Love, of the
state committee, said the committee
had $4,000 to spend to maintain
headquarters.
Kansas is approximately 100000
ahead as the result of the supreme
courts decision in the Harper county
delinquent tax cases. The decision is,
in substance, that when a county re-
ceives land for delinquent taxes it is
responsible to the state for its full
amount of the levy, and not its pro-
portion of the amount collected.
Miss Lille Sto1z, a student of the
Kansas Wesleyan university at Sa-
lima, performed two important events
in her life within an hour. She de-
livered the graduating grafton of her
ried to Rev. L. A McKeever, of ST.
Francis, a rising young minister of
the Northwest Kansas NJ. E. con-
ference.
c. j. Devlin, the largest coal mine
operator in Kansas, has decided to
dedicate a 40-acre tract of land be-
tween Pittsburg and Frontenac to the
coal miners of southeastern Kansas
for hospital purposes. a new hos
pital to cost $4,000 will be erected on
the site this year, and most of the
money to build it will be given by
Mr.. Devlin.
The supreme court has reopened the
celebrated murder cases of George
Dobbs and Mrs. Amelia New, now
serving life sentences in the Lansing
penitentiary for the murder, near
Eureka, Of Joseph New, the woman's
husband. The court has granted an
order to the district court to hear the
application for new trial, which the
lower court had refused.
The friends of Capt. W. j. Watson,
of Pittsburg, Who recently lost a leg
in the Philippines, are working to
have him transferred to the depart
ment of law, under the judge advo-
cate general. Capt. Watson has been
twice severely wounded, the first
time through the lungs while with
the Twentieth Kansas. He then came
home and after getting out Of the