Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-01-11
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

cemetery there.
6. F. Richardson, a prosperous
farmer near Wichita, was mysterious
~ missing.
Gov. Stanley appointed John T.
Sims judge of the South side city
court in Kansas City.
Grant Hornaday, of Fort Scott, will
be candidate for congressman-at-
large on the republican ticket.
In Sumner county in 1899 the
amount of real estate mortgages re-
leased exceeded those fled over $751;
900.
| Sedgwick county last year paid off
real estate mortgages aggregating ST.
206,244, which exceeded the new mort
cages fled $25O,oOO.
"Aunty" Howard, a colored woman
| of Ottawa, who was believed to be
over 100 years old, died recently. She
was great-great-grandm
a man at Chanute has just bought
ticket from Kansas to Australia and
back. It cost him $415. Several Kan
sans have recently purchased tickets
around the world at cost of about
5000.
A broken axle wrecked a Fort Scott
& Memphis freight train two miles
south of RosedaIe, causing 13 loaded
freight cars to be piled up in a pyr-
amid of broken timbers and twisted
| iron.
Hugh Strait. of Bourbon county,
went to Manila as a member of
| Colorado regiment. On his return he
found that Cripple Creek mine in
N1,11; oh, h
| ing about $4,000 week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sheppard, of Greeley
county, became the parents of their
thirteenth child on Christmas morn
ing, showing that superstition and the
Lords own festival may go hand in
hand.-Kansas City Journal.
Frank Martin, Twentieth Kansas
boy, died at Lawrence the other day.
He was very sick when the regiment
reached San Francisco, but was
brought home. He was suffering
from gastritis and his decline was
gradual.
People of Emporia and Lyon county
are greatly stirred up by the number
of cases of hydrophobia among the
dogs of city and country. Officers
have killed all the dogs even suspected
of being exposed, among them being a
$3.50 ST. Bernard.
Andrew Carnegie has promised the
College of Emporia $4,000 for libra
ry as soon as the present debt on the
college is raised. The Topeka presby-
terry gave So, 900, Emporia citizens
raised $1,000 and the synod of Kansas
promised $4,000, which will clear the
debt.
1t was reported that deal had been
consumnlated wherein the Santa Fe
sold to the Frisco railroad the right
Of-way chartered from Caney, Mont
gomery county, to Blackwell, Ok,
Caney. The consideration was said to
be $4,000.
In the district court at Fort Scott
one Harry Ogden pleaded guilty to
larceny. His attorney told Judge
Simons that the prisoner was a CO.
caine victim and requested that he be
given long sentence in Jail, believ-
ing that long period of confinement
would cure him permanently. He was
sentenced accordingly.
Many new buildings have been
projected at Galena recently, and the
city council the other night voted to
buy a site for a city courthouse for
So, 500. The courthouse will cost $780,
900 and will contain the Jail and fire
department headquarters. The NJ. Z.
church congregation has just begun
the erection of $1,000 church.
While Henry Houser and a young
woman were returning home from
Humboldt the other night a Santa
Fe train struck their buggy, COM
pletely demolishing it. killing the
horse and throwing the young people
so feet into the top of hedge fence.
Although badly scratched by the
thorns, neither was seriously hurt
a Hutchinson woman, Mrs. Abbey
Campbell, has just found long lost
father, w. A. Sheppard, at Hotchkiss,
Col. He served in the civil war and
mysteriously disappeared after hostil-
tiles were over. His daughter all
these years kept up her search for
him, and few days ago saw his name
in the paper among those who had
been granted pensions.
The probate judge of Shawnee coun-
ty made the discovery that a druggist
of Topeka has been renting his
liquor permit to an unlicensed phar-
macist. This probably is the only
case of the kind on record in Kansas.
Many subterfuges have been resorted
to by whisky men to sell liquor law
fully, but it remained for this Topeka
man to rent permit.
Atchison claims to treat tramps
better than any other city in the
United States, and also contends that
it has the hobo better regulated than
any other place 1t is violation of
the city ordinances there for anyone