Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-08-09
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon, of Topeka,
who has been in London several weeks,
sailed for New York August 1. =
A new total abstinence movement
known as the Twentieth Century To-
tai Abstinence crusade has been be-
gun in Topeka.
established at Usage City on August
IS; length of route, % miles; popula-
ton served, 653.
Lieut.. ]. j. Haisch, of the Twentieth
Kansas, who was the general manager
of the Manila & Dagupan railroad
while the regiment was in the Phil
ippines, has presented an old Filipino
cannon, made in 1853 and captured by
the Americans last summer, to To-
peka.
The WYandotte county commission
ers let the contract for macadamizing
four of the six principal roads which
enter Kansas City, Kan, Argentine
and Rosedale. The improvements are
to be paid for out of a special fund
created by two-mill tax levy annual
ly for such purpose.
Hundreds of men, women and chill
dren are digging potatoes along the
Kaw river between Kansas City and
Lawrence, and many of the patches
are yielding 200 bushels to the acre.
Most of the potatoes are placed in
sacks and will be held until the au-
tumn' for higher prices.
Lodges of the Modern Woodmen of
America of northeast Kansas held
their annual log rolling at Kansas
City recently. The parade of uni
formed teams comprised about 20
teams, together with the women of
the several camps of Royal Neighbors,
in snow-white costumes.
The Kansas state agricultural col
lege has just received the pure bred
Guernsey bull Shylock, of Darlington
1879. This is one of the greatest dairy
animals ever brought into Kansas.
The dam of Shylock gave $50 pounds
of butter in six months; the average
Kansas COW gives 90 pounds in year.
Samuel Hazlett, an old Scotchman,
"A years of age, fell dead on his
wife's grave at Hartford. Hazlett
spent much time over the grave,
trimming flowers and shrubbery. The
other morning, while cutting the
grass and watering it, he was strick-
en-, and before his friends reached him
he was dead.
At Mcpherson, Mrs. Hawthorne
left her home to visit neighbor, leav-
ing her two little boys in the yard.
In some manner the elder boy, four
years old, secured some matches, and,
while his baby brother was in the
baby carriage, set fire to the child's
clothes, and before help could arrive
it was fatally burned.
Gun carriages to mount the three
Spanish cannon at Fort Leavenworth
were received recently. These cannon
were captured at Santiago and were
shipped into Fort Leavenworth in the
fall of 1898. They were manufactured
in France during the reign of the first
Emperor Napoleon and were captured
from his armies when they invaded
Spain.
Mrs. n. L. Heddens was fatally
burned at Galena while preparing dim
ner. She was about to use a gaso-
line stove and opened the valve too
far, so that the fluid overran and
filed the room with infammable
fumes. The moment, then, that she
applied match the flames burst forth
and ignited her clothing, and before
were burned from her body.
Fourth congressional district fu-
sionists met at Emporia recently
and nominated Thomas H Grisham,
a Cottonwood Falls lawyer, for con-
gress. Other candidates were: Hen
derson Martin, Peter Yearout, w w.
Brown, H. G. Jumper, E. V. Wharton,
T. B. Lawrence and Thomas w. Nor
gan. Grisham was named on the
ninth ballot, his principal opponent
being Brown. Grisham is 81 years
old and a native of TENNESSEE He
came to Kansas 21 years ago.
Two carloads of wild horses from
Idaho and Montana We're brought to
Chanute about two weeks ago and
have been sold over southern Kansas.
These horses have run wild all their
lives and anyone that could capture
them could have them. When once
conquered they make good drivers,
as they are of good disposition. The
principal objection to them is that
they have to be taught to eat grain,
which often requires year or more.
They have lived on grass and know
nothing of any other kind of food.
Department Commander Martin, of
the Kansas department of the Grand
Army of the Republic, announces that
the dates of the reunions in Kansas
this year are as follows: Cedarvale,
August 1916; Frankfort, August
l4-17; Cherryvale, August 2O-25; lola,
August 21-23; Baxter Springs, inter-
state, August p to September 1; Phil
ipsburg, August 29-31: Garnett, Sep
5ember 81; Oakley, September 1915;
Eureka, September lila; Smith Cen
.er. September 17-21: Sedan. Senten,.