Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-13
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

affidavit of election expenses which
reads: ''To substituting the papers,
$40
The annual reunion of the Eleventh
Kansas calvary, the late Senator
Plumb's old regiment. was held last
week at Emporia.
At GoodIand stepmother was on
trial for whipping her stepdaughter
with a strap, the buckle OF which
brought blood at every blow.
Another of those fine old mothers
in Israel who conformed strictly to
the fashion of her day has gone to
her long reward. Her name was Mrs.
Margaret Halliday, she lived in Pitts
burg, and, of course, her children
numbered just IS.
Prof. VIII, who under the last pop
ulist administration in Kansas was
president of the state agricultural
college at Manhattan, is soon to be-
come a resident of Trenton, Mo,
where, as general secretary of the
American Oxford movement, he will
be prominently connected with the
management of Rusllin college.
Mrs. Mary Mulholland Stewart died
at Wichita last week, aged 100 years,
9 months and 20 days Had she lived
80 days longer she would have lived
in three centuries. She was born in
Ireland and came to this country 90
years ago. Shortly after Queen Vic
toria was crowned she presented Mrs.
Stewards husband, who was a sailor,
with a medal for saving lives.
Gov. Stanley has addressed a letter
to members of the legislature, calling
attention to the constantly increasing
appropriations made each .cssiOn by
the Legislature and urging them to
consult their constituents before COM
ing to Topeka in January in order
tice the utmost economy in their legis-
lative actions.
At Salina the other day some young
men pupils of st. Johns military
school were caught setting fire to
straw stacks in the neighborhood on
the plea that they were celebrating
football victory. Five stacks were
burned and they were valued at from
SIS to $50 each. A local paper speaks
feelingly of these young pirates as
''whelps who ought to be whipped
blood raw
Two years ago Miss Mckinney
was "churched" and dismissed from
the Bethel Baptist congregation in
Miami county on account of conduct
that was not considered good. At
once she brought suit for $25, 900
damages against Rev W. c. Harvey,
the pastor of the church, alleging
that he had circulated SANDER. The
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time until it's final dismissal by the
plaintiff last week.
The constitution governing the cleo
ton of United States senators says
that the two houses shall ballot sep
arately at noon on the second Tuesday
after the organization of the legisla-
ture and meet in joint convention at
noon the next day and every day
thereafter until senator shall be
chosen. Therefore, if the legisla-
ture organizes promptly on the first
day of melting this winter the first
ballot for senator will be taken
Tuesday, January %. The state
printer will be elected January Is.
A bill will be introduced in the legis-
lature this winter 10 add an amend
ment to the mortgage redemption
law, in the form of a provision re-
curing the judgment debtor to keep
the taxes and interest paid. With
this provision incorpol ated in the act
the equity of redemption would work
little or no hardship to lenders, for
all they want is their interest and the
taxes paid. So long as these two in
cumbrances are met promptly the
land upon which the judgment rests is
usually security for debt.
Near Kirwin Mrs. Robert William
son fell down a deep well with one of
her children. Some men came and
lowered a rope, to which Mrs. William
son tied her child. Then the rope
was lowered again and Mrs. William
son tied it around her own waist and
was hOisted to the surface. There it
was found that she Lad broken her
right leg below the knee, her right
thigh above the knee, her left thigh
close to the neck of the femur and be-
sides had three ribs broken, the
breast bone crushed and serious cuts
and bruises about the head. 1t is
simply wonderful that the woman re-
tanned consciousness and was able to
manipulate the rope as She d1d'-
Kansas City Journal.
For several years Miss Lotina Webb
was housekeeper of the Goodlander
hotel at Fort Scott. Two months ago
she married a Mr.. Harvey, connected
with a packing house at Kansas City,
and the couple moved to the Missouri
city. While Miss Webb held the posi-
ton at Fort Scott a considerable
quantity of the hotel linen, silver
ware and like articles disappeared.
Several days ago the authorities in