Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-07-19
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

schools of any state in the union
Mrs. E. W. Merganthaler, wife of q
travelling salesman, committed suicide
at her home in Paola by shooting her
self through the heart. Illness had
affected her mind.
Seven of the children of George
Steiner, milk dealer at Burlington,
were poisoned by ptomaines in butter
milk. Three Of them were dangerously
i'll, but it is probable all will recover.
Republicans of Allen county
Charles F. Scott's home instructed
the nominee for representative and
senator for Burton for United States
senator. In Greenwood and Washing
ton counties Burton also got instruc-
tions.
A Kansas boy soldering in the Phil
ippines advances the novel theory
that the American Indians came orig
inally from the Filipinos. He notes
many common traits in physiognomy,
including the sharp cheek bones and
straight black hair found in both
tribes.
Senator L. D. Lewelling, of Wichita,
ex-governor of Kansas and ex-member
of the state board of railroad COM
missioners, has deserted the popu-
lists and identified himself with the
socialist movement now being pushed
by G. G. Clemens, candidate for
governor.
AT Lorraine Ellsworth county, two
masked burglars attempted to enter
the Frisco depot. They fired through
the window at the night agent, who
hid. Then they attacked the door
but the agent got his gun and fired
at the desperadoes. He wounded one
and they retreated.
The eight-year-old son of Berry
Myser, at Riceville, Cherokee county,
was dragged to death by pony. He
was holding his pony with a rope
when it became frightened. The rope
was tangled around his legs and be-
fore the pony could be stopped the
boy was dragged to death.
The Norton county school superfn-
tendent says that teachers are so
scarce that the county will esteem it
a favor if about 80 will come and take
the schools. He says the schools pay
$50 a month and the terms are six
months long, but the demand for
teachers is far in excess of the supply.
Mrs. Margaret Kincaid, of Topeka,
was not feeling well and told her
little daughter to go into the kitchen
and bring her some soda. The girl
brought in something that looked like
soda, and Mrs. Kincaid mixed it up
with water and drank it. 1t, proved
to be concentrated I've. She died
firm its effects.
Statistics gathered from ten OF the
representative counties of the state
show that the farm mortgage in
debtedness of those counties has been
decreased about $1,5OO,00O during the
past year On this basis the mort
gagged indebtedness of the entire state
has been decreased in the neighbor-
hood of $1o,OO0,OOO
A group of Kansas towns centering
around Wichita have been added to
the list of those to be reached from
Kansas City by long distance tele-
phone. Wichita, Newton, Hutchin-
son, Lyons, Harper, Arkansas City,
Winfield, Eldorado, Wellington, Hun
newell and Caldwell, the large towns
of the wheat belt, are the new towns
the telephone now reaches.
Nelson F. Acres, of lola, was as
saulted by Frank Former in Formers
joint at Paola and is in a dangerous
condition, three ribs being broken
and his face and head badly cut and
confused and swollen beyond recog-
milton. No one knows, or knowing,
will not tell, what started the trouble.
Acres was in Paola attending the fu-
sion congressional convention, AMI
was himself a candidate for congress
before the convention.
James Allison, the Wichita man who
is serving as Kansas commissioner at
the Paris exposition, complains Bit
terly in a letter to a Wichita friend
about the demands made upon him
by the rules of official fashion. He
says he has to wear plug hat,
Prince Albert coat, patent leather
shoes and white gloves, and that he is
pining for the one-gallus style of dear
old western Kansas.-Kansas City
Journal.
An important decision was handed
down by the supreme court which
affects many counties of the state.
The NJ, II. d l. railway refused to
accept the action of the board Of
commissioners of Geary county, which
raised the valuation put on the roads
property by the state board of assess
ors. The county commissioners re-
fused to accept the valuation fixed
by the state in computing local taxes
and when the road rendered smaller
amount than levied, refused to accept
it, but sued for the balance. Judge
Moore, of the district court, sustained
the county, but was reversed by the
court of appeals. The supreme court
has sustained Judge Moore, fixing q
rrecedent On which the SANE c.11astiorn