Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-09-27
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

ing from an epidemic of typhoid fe-
yer. There are only four houses in the
town in which no is down with it.
Kansas -four is gaining a great rep
utation in England and other Euro
pean countries. A London grain
paper recently paid it a handsome
compliment.
a feature of the wheat carnival at
Wellington was the awarding of prizes
for the best load of wheat. Expert
Prizes aggregating about $500 were
offered.
A thrashing crew in Russell coun-
ty struck two fields of wheat the
other day, one of which went SO bush
els to the acre and the other so BUSH
els. The crew thrashed 5000 BUSH
els in one day.
The food that desolated Galveston
left George Brendes and wife, Ger
mans near Liberty, the only living
members of their ranily. A dispatch
from Galveston said 60 relatives of the
Brendes' were drowned in the food.
Fort Scott will purchase $4,000
worth of high school bonds, recently
voted. The bonds are to be bought
with money from the city's sinking
fund which now is only drawing one
per cent. interest while the bonds
are at four per cent.
The skeleton of a man was found
in the woods near Fort Leavenworth.
1t had been there many months. The
skull, which was Is feet distant from
a leather belt strap tied to a limb of
o oh Oh -
ing. No clew to the identity of the
man was found
The prohibitionists have filed in the
Office of the secretary of state their
ticket, headed by Frank Holsinger
for governor. It is accompanied by a
petition of 1896 names. At the last
election the prohibition ticket failed
to poll the statutory five per cent.
of the total vote of the state.
At Fort Scott the other day W. J.
Bryan was the guest at state
dinner given at the Interstate
hotel by Mayor Goodlander. After
wards Mr.. Bryan delivered two
speeches to great crowds who had
come by special train to hear him and
to attend the Modern Woodmen log
rolling.
Praise is due to the students of the
Kansas state normal at Emporia for
their contribution of 500 to the Gal
weston sufferers. The young men and
young women who attend the normal
are not rich. What they give out of
the school allowance means enough
to them to make their gift $1,000 in
stead of $500.
-IJrOIx,Y1 xyO7,r,cs
farmer of Kanwaka township, Doug
las county, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head
with revolver. A few days ago Mr..
Barber, through mistake, drank a
mixture of wood alcohol and corrosive
sublimate and this seemed to have
made him insane.
The southbound Missouri Pacific
''cannon-balI'' passenger train was
wrecked two miles north of Paola,
near midnight, caused by the rails
spreading. The entire train, except
the engine and sleeper, left the track,
and one coach almost got off the
right of way. 1t is remarkable that
no one was hurt.
Herbert S. HadIey, nominated by
the republicans of Jackson county
(Kansas City, Mo-, for prosecuting
attorney, is a graduate of the Univer-
sity of Kansas. James A. McLane,
one of the nominees for the legisla-
ture from Kansas City, is a native
of Crawford county, this state, his
parents having resided many years
at McCune.
The senatorial convention in the
Twenty-third district recently split,
one wing nominating J. j. Mcknight,
of Junction City, and the other, John
r. Hessin, of Manhattan. The state
contest board threw out both nom
nations as irregular and ordered
new convention. It is now thought
that Cary E. Carroll, county attorney
of Waubunsee county, will be nomi-
mated.
At Emporia, Frank Newcomb at
tempted to visit his former wife at
the home of her father, Hugh Knox.
When he arrived at the house his
former wife told him he could not
enter, as Knox was present and would
shoot him if he entered. Newcomb
entered. He claims Knox opened fire.
Knox fired eight shots and Newcomb
four. Knox is in jail and Newcomb
perhaps fatally wounded, one bullet
having entered his breast.
The negroes on the east side of Fort
Scott compelled the school authorities
to close Ivy school and dismiss sew
eral hundred white pupils. The board
closed a negro school because of lack
of patronage and refused to reopen it.
Then the board provided wagon to
haul the negro pupils to another
school. The negroes refused to use
the wagon, but went with their chill
dren to the white school and insisted
on entering. The principal finally