Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-02-01
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.

company to bore for gas or oil.
Morris & Butts, of Kansas City, will
erect $4,000 ice plant at Empire
City.
The Northrup state bank at lola
has been incorporated into national
bank.
The Masonic hall at Abilene, just
completed, is one of the finest in the
west.
Burglars looted the Preston post
Office of $40 cash and over $500 in
stamps.
Fire at Olathe consumed five frame
buildings at the southeast corner
of the square.
Cove county, became insane through
religious excitement.
1t was rumored that four Santa
Fe train crews would be moved from
Hutchinson to Great Bend.
Mrs. Sarah Morley, aged 81, COM
mitted suicide at Wellington because
she was a burden to her relations.
Secretary Gage is opposed to Con-
gresham Bowersock's bill to estab-
lish mint at Kansas City, Kan.
Miss Helen Gould has become inter
ested in the Y. NJ. c. A. at Fort Scott,
and contributed $500 for library.
Sixty brakemen on the Santa Fe's
Emporia division have been laid off on
account of a falling off in business.
Hutchinson will cancel the $4,000
bonds voted to the Hutchinson &
Southern for terminals at that place.
The populist and free silver state
committees will meet at Topeka Feb
ruary to call their state conventions.
r. J. Petty, who died at Lawrence
recently, had lived there 35 years.
He served in the Sixth Kansas three
years.
Frank Hawks, of Detroit, has been
bound over for trial on a charge of
burning school houses in the east
part of the county.
Corporal David Horknnan and C. B.
HOlderman, Cloud county's boys in
the Twentieth Kansas, were each pre-
scented with a gold watch recently.
Geary Stevens, brother of the coun-
ty attorney of Cherokee county, was
killed at Scammon by James Hardi-
son, in a quarrel ovC- some trivial
matter.
Ethel Tucker, an Ottawa young
lady, who last October started to
Manila to join her lover, Irwin Todd,
of the Eleventh cavalry, arrived there
December and was married to Todd
that evening.
The executive council refused to
allow the Twentieth Kansas regiment
L e
sentatives during the coming reunion,
fearing it would establish a danger
Gus precedent.
Walter Sherburne, of Blue Rapids,
died in a Topeka hospital recently
after suffering two months from dis
ease contracted with the Twentieth
Kansas in the Philippines. He had
a good record as a fighter.
Bert Simmons, eX-president of the
NeoshO Valley Investment company
at Chetopa, was last May convicted by
a jury of II of embezzlement. Sim
mons consented at that time to the
jury, but he now appeals the case on
that ground.
Gov. Stanley announced that he
would offer no reward for the arrest
the Meells brothers at Fort Scott.
The governor said that, while lynch
ings should not be tolerated, he can
see excuses for them.
The Kansas State Teachers associa-
ton will use its influence to have the
Legislature pass law providing for a
textbook on agriculture for use in
the common schools and the associa-
tion will ask that the book be written
by Secretary F. d. Cohurn, of the
state board of agriculture.
The directors of the Kansas Masonic
home decided to print history of the
home, in which shall appear biogra-
ply of all inmates since the founding
of the institution. d. B. Fuller, of
Topeka, was elected president of the
home; J. c. Postlethwaite, of Jewell
City, secretary; George w. Bristow
and wife, superintendent and matron.
The wife of George Howell, of Wich-
tia, suddenly left home the other day
and was supposed to be on her way to
England, where Howell married her.
She left her baby boy asleep in the
house and pinned to the child's
clothes a note asking her husband
not to look for her. Mr.. Howell says
his wife has been dissatisfied for a
long time and often expressed a de-
sire TO return to her people in En-
gland.
Herbert Simpson, a Wichita law
yer, has been knighted by the king
of Italy. This is the third decoration
conferred upon Mr.. Simpson, al
though he is but 80 years of age. For
blowing up the walls of Dahomy and
services rendered the French repub-
lie in three African wars he has re-
ceived the military medal of France,
and for saving the lives OF II persons
during the disastrous charity bazaar