Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-02-22
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.

Rural free delivery routes have been
established at Carbonate and Ton
ganoxie.
Judge Stillwen called grand jury
for Woodson county to inquire into
liquor sales.
There were 2O,O1O births in Kansas
last year to offset the deaths of 1895
worthy citizens.
The body of Jay Sheldon, company
[, Twentieth Kansas regiment,
reached Paola last week.
A Troy woman horsewhipped man
for getting her husband drunk and
gleefully paid the $11 fine.
John Taylor, Dickinson county's
wealthiest citizen, is dead. He and
his sons owned 1000 acres of fine
farms.
Howard Odds, a member of the
Twentieth Kansas, killed in the Phil
ippines a year ago, was given mill
itary and public funeral at Fort
Scott.
Rev. ]. B. Hops and wife, of Caney,
who celebrated their fftieth wedding
anniversary recently, have lived in
Kansas % years. They have IL chill
dren living.
Thomas Ramsey, who was arrested
at Sabetha charged with killing his
mother, was cleared at the preIimi-
nary hearing. The charges were
made by two OF his brothers-in-law.
G. w. Wheatley, of Cherokee coun-
ty, is candidate for congress on the
republican ticket from the Third dis
4,,;a ~
Iden, of Parsons; A. L. Wilson, of
Cherryvale; John Randolph, P. P.
Campbell and D. H. Wooley, of Craw-
ford
Coffeyville claims the honor of be-
ing the home of the oldest practicing
physician in the United States, if not
in the world, in the person of DR..
John p. Wood, who is in his ninety
ninth year and has been in the prac-
tice of medicine continuously for rs
years.
Frank D. Allen, of Williamsburg,
died of an overdose of morphine. He
was formerly connected with the OF
tawa Republican-Times, and before
coming to Kansas lived at Audubon,
Ia. He was delegate from Iowa to
the convention that nominated Bryan
at Chicago.
District Clerk Hardy, of Edwards
county, says he has not made enough
money out of the office to pay his way
out of the county. He wants the leg
islature to pass a law placing district
clerks in western Kansas counties on
a salary, or unite the Office with that
of probate judge.
Miss Susan Swartz has filed a
breach-of-promise suit against Lewis
White, Cloud county farmer, asking
$4,000 damages. Miss Swartz for
several years lived with Whites par
ents at Concordia. She alleges that
Lewis courted her seven years and
promised to marry her, but after re-
peated postponements he declared the
wedding entirely off.
The state superintendent of public
instruction made the semi-annual dis
tribution of the interest on the state
school fund last week. He had $780,
$3.50 to distribute among school
population of 5O4, 100, or As cents per
capita. Wyandotte county gets the
Shawnee, $7,994.25; Cherokee, &c.
4O6.2O; Crawford, Sc, 1895, and Sedg-
wick, $6,O47.1O.
Some time ago the Bank of Ness
City failed and at the time it was
thought creditors would not receive
25 cents on the dollar. The cashier,
G. A. Borthwick, owns a mill at Ness
City which is doing a profitable bust
ness and he has applied every dollar of
his earnings on the banks debts.
The court has permitted him to pro-
ceed in his own manner and he is
paying off the entire Indebtedness.
Mrs. Keethen, wife of a hotelkeeper
at Olathe, showed her heroism the
other day. James Merricl, shoe
maker, became suddenly insane and
entering the hotel drew a revolver
and said he was going to kill the pro-
prietor. Tom Keethen. Before he
could fire Mrs. Keethen grabbed the
revolver and a desperate struggle en-
sued. Merrick fired three times, two
shots passing through the woman's
hands. Merrick was finally disarmed
and handed over to the sheriff.
Mrs. NJ. A. Haggard, who died at
White Cloud recently, had lived in
Kansas 40 years and had attained no.
toriety because of the amount of
needlework she had done. Here is
list of work done by her in the last
80 years: Scrap quilts, pieced, con-
tanning from 500 to almost $4,000
separate pieces, 112; quilted quilts, 80;
embroidered bedspreads, 10; en-
broidered pillow shams, 5; embroid-
cred head rests, 6; embroidered and
tufted sofa cushions, 81; embroidered
doilies, 81; embroidered nightgown
sets, s; embroidered splashes, 2;
knitted bedspreads, L; knitted doilies,
IS; knitted toilet sets, 6; knitted lamp