Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-06
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

Frank Gormont, of Douglas county,
who brutally murdered his wife with
a neckyoke, was sentenced to only
Is years in the penitentiary.
C. W. Douglas, formerly of Topeka.
is now publishing the Missionary
News at SHANGHAI, China. His paper
is the official organ of the Presby-
terrain Missionary society in China.
h. C. Stafford, a representative
elect from Topeka, is dead, and Gov.
Stanley viii call a special election to
fill the vacancy. Stafford was prose-
cutting attorney of Shawnee county
two terms.
W. F. Langdon, assistant city mar
shall of WeIlsville, last week married
a former wife from whom he had
been divorced a little over a year.
Both the husband and wife had been
married and divorced since then.
A former Abilene girl, Mrs. OrdIe-
ana Fisher Mcclellan, daughter of
former banker there, has been for a
year the teacher of English in the
native schools of Hawaii, in the city
of Honolulu. She had had training
in a normal school in this country.
Fire in the Merchants hotel at Nc
Pherson caused the three-story build
ing to collapse. Six firemen who were
at work on the third floor of the
building were buried in the ruins.
All of them were rescued, and only
one of them sustained dangerous in
juries.
Convicts at the Kansas state prison
fnd tn III
Thanksgiving day. About 1900 pounds
of dressed turkey was used and in adj
dition there was mashed potatoes,
sweet potatoes, stewed tomatoes,
mince pie, coffee and sugar, oranges
and bananas.
A Lincoln county man, who re-
Gently returned from Iowa, says he is
sure Kansas farm lands will advance
in price in the near future. Land
where he has been which produces
less than Kansas land is selling for
two or three times as much as land
here brings.
A Sedgwick county farm hand has
sued his employer for $4,000
damages. He alleges that while
working two years ago he fell through
a hay rack, fracturing his hip, caus-
ing him to be a cripple for life. He
alleges the timbers of the hay rack
were rotten and unsafe.
AS four sportsmen from Emporia
went into the depot at Woodward,
Ok, loaded with game, Game Warden
Funkhauser seized their boxes,
trunks and baggage, relieving them
of a few hundred quail and prairie
chickens and then took them before
a magistrate, who fined them SIS
EACH
State superintendent of Schools
Frank Nelson believes that the in
terests of education in Kansas would
be advanced by the wholesale con-
solidation of schools in sparsely set.
tied districts Of the state, and that
provisions should be made for the
transportation of pupils in the rural
districts to school.
Robert Stone, chairman of the legis-
lative committee of the Good Roads
association Of Kansas, says the legis-
lature will be asked to amend the
taxation law so as to exempt from
taxation all vehicles with broad tires.
This, Mr.. Stone believes, would en-
courage the use of broad-tired wagons
all over the state.
John A. Hennigh, of Pennington,
Atchison county, was recently arrest.
ed by Sheriff Hartman's deputies on
q charge of insanity, without a war
rant. He was declared perfectly sane
by the probate court and released.
He then sued Sheriff Hartman for SO,
600 damages and jury in the district
court awarded him $40.
A Topeka dispatch said that in for1n4
ulating the new railroad bill the plan
of giving the minority party one MEM
Der of the railroad commission would
probably not be followed as repub-
icans had both branches of the legis-
lature and the executive and they
would not create fat Office for DEM
ocrat or populist.
Henry Dorman, the oldest man in
Kansas-102 years-wallled from his
home, nine miles northwest of Tope-
ka, and called on Pension Agent Lee
land. Mr.. Dorman entered the union
army with his four sons in 1868. He
was then SIS years old. At Richmond
he was wounded in his right hand and
receives a pension of SIT month.
f. Dumont Smith, senatOr-elect from
Edwards county, will introduce bill
in the legislature to establish state
rabbit commission. He says that 49,
100000 pounds of jack rabbit meat go
10 waste in Kansas annually because
it is not good to eat, but his expert
ments show that the meat Of the an
imal that is part Belgian and part
Jack rabbit is delicious
Dutch Weber and Frank Holmes,
who were jailed at Emporia, prove to
be members of an organized band