Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-26
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.
A stock company was organized at
williamsburg to bore for gas.

Udal1, was killed by dehorned bull
he was trying to halter.
Arkansas City has formally come in
to possession of the waterworks plant
there at a cost OF $1O8,O0G.
Congress passed a special pension
bill granting $50 a month to Rev.
Allen Buckner, of Baldwin.
It was discovered that $4,000 in
fraudulent bonds of the Leavenworth
Light & Heating company were be-
ing offered for sale in Chicago
The Topeka Capital, edited by Maj.
Hudson, bolted the nomination of
GaIen Nichols. candidate for county
attorney, who at the primary secured
159 plurality over his opponent.
Judge Theo Botl1in was discharged
from Kansas City hospital last
week, cured of a malignant cancer.
He announced that he would seek the
republican nomination for senator
from Reno county.
Kansas last year paid So, O33,246 in
salaries to teachers of the common
schools. Wyandotte paid the most
for teachers hire of any county in the
state $12O,81O.S6. Shawnee came
second with $113, 485.12.
The death of George Helwig, an old
resident of Labette county, caused
comment among the neighbors and
an, inquest was held and a verdict re-
turned that he came to his death
from arsenic poisoning.
Negotiations are in progress for
the establishment at Rosedale of a
malleable iron works by a ST. Louis
firm. The plant, exclusive of the site,
will cost $4,000 and will give employ
ment to 100 men. chiefly skilled labor.
The Presbyterians at Manchester,
Dickinson county, are having lively
time with their pastor, Rev. G. D.
Hyden, growing out of a disagree
ment over salary. The trustees keep
the church locked and he is unable to
gain admission.
The Seventh district republican con-
gressional convention at Hutchinson
renominated Chester l. Long and
elected Judge T. B. Wall and Frank
Milliken delegates to the national con-
vention. J. Q. Thompson was chosen
presidential elector.
The report of the city treasurer of
Coffeyville shows that the municipal
system of waterworlzs owned by the
city has cleared $1,07559 from Jam
uary 1 to April 1. The receipts of the
system were about So, 100, and the eX-
penses about 81, OG0.
At Galena, w. H. Holman has sued
his doctor for $4,000 damages. He
alleges that the doctor accidentally
cut a hole in one of his lungs while
operating for an abscess and that the
hole has never healed up. He says he
can and does breathe through the hole.
The state board of agriculture last
week issued a statement of the acre
age and condition of winter wheat in
Kansas. The acreage is estimated at
2.3 per cent. less than in 1899. The
condition is regarded as irst-class and
made still more favorable by rains of
the past week.
Within the next week over 5000
bushels of corn will be shipped from
Newton to the famine sufferers of
India. Two carloads will be sent
from Newton, four from Halstead and
one from Lehigh, Marion county. This
has been contributed by the Men
nonities of that section.
Students in the Kansas university
in the year 1878 will remember a roly-
poly little fellow with a wealth of
sorrel hair who bore the name of
James Harris. Well, James Harris is
now one of the literary lions of Lon
don and chief editor of a heavy re-
view.-Kansas City Journal.
Mrs. Nettie E. Randall, wife of q
forcibly elected from Rock Island
train near Topeka last summer be-
cause she had brokers' ticket, was
recently given a Judgment of $1,000
against the company because of the
injuries received and humiliation
caused by the ejectment.
Matters in connection with shut
ting down of the Citizens state bank
of Yates Center have mystified the de-
positOrs. Cashier Runyan says he
knows nothing whatever of the miss
ing $4,000. Investigation shows no
record of earnings of the bank, nor
of the liabilities. The stockholders
will make the deposits good.
Eighteen years ago Mrs. jeremiah
left her husband and
little son, Albert, in Chicago, and
eloped with another man. For the
past ten years she has been repent
ant woman and has searched unceas-
ingly for her son. Last week she
found the missing boy, but he was an
inmate of the state reformatory at
Hutchinson-sen up from Wichita for
larceny.
During the recent tornado near
Newton, the home of Ten Travis, a
farmer, was completely de-
stroyed, he and his family narrowly
death. They rushed to the
Cyclone hole when the funnel
shaped cloud was discovered, but were