Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-12
STATE news PARAGRApHED.


yer, Pratt county, ended his life be-
cause of financial reverses.
Since the Missouri Pacific acquired
the Hutchinson & Southern terminals
and buildings at Hutchinson, it has
the finest depot in Kansas.
Anna Yeager, seven years old, was
burned to death Ii miles southeast of
Emporia while in the field watching
her brother burn cornstaIks.
John C. Cannon, popular young
democrat of Mound City, would accept
the fusion nomination for associate
justice of the supreme court
r. D. Mason, for 20 years shoe mer-
chant at Lawrence, made an unsuc-
cessful attempt at suicide because his
creditors had closed his store
Cyrus D. French, who was for many
years judge of the Sixth judicial dis
trict and a resident of Fort Scott, is
practicing law in Kansas City, Mo.
Mrs. Will Young, of GaIsna,, heart
sick because her husband was In Jail
for drunkenness, committed suicide
with cocaine, leaving three small chill
dren.
F. o. Dickensheets, of Burlingtony
this state, recently committed sui
eide at hotel in Atlanta, Ga. He was
a travelling solicitor for the Kansas
City Journal.
The sum of $15, 432, 3O7.8O was, levied
in taxes by various counties of the,
state for the year 1899. Of this SUM
about 20 per cent. has already been
collected. The remainder will be- coll
lected by June 80 next.
In 20 minutes from the time it con-
vened, the Fourth judicial district
republican convention at Ottawa to,
nominate candidate for district
judge had nominated Judge c.. AZ.
Smart, of Ottawa, and adjourned.
T. c. Kirby was found guilty of MUIR
der in the second degree for killing
G. A. Foley, Union Pacific agent at
Perry. Foley boarded at Kirby's
hotel, and he was accused of having
caused the downfall of Kirby's daugh+-
ter.
To accommodate its increasing BUSH
ness and keep pace with the growth of
the city, the Kansas City, Fort Scott
&c Memphis railroad will erect at
Paola a handsome new depot. The
present structure was built 80 years
ago.
Republicans of the Second district
met at Garrett on the 5th and re-
nominated Congressman Bowersock.
Judge w. G. Holt, of Wyandotte coun-
ty, and Grant Hornady, of Bourbon
county, were elected delegates to the
national convention.
A petition was filed in Judge Ha-
zen's court at Topeka to restrain
rants for $4,000 in payment for the
land at Parsons, condemned by John
Seaton and Michael Henry, to be used
as the location for the new asylum.
An analysis of the recent municipal
elections in Kansas shows that tenn
perance sentiment is being revived.
The chief issue in nearly every town
was the liquor question. In over two
thirds of the towns where liquor was
the issue prohibition scored victory.
Chancellor F. II. Snow, of the Uni
versity of Kansas, in his weather re-
port for March, says: ''The month was
unusually calm, clear and dry. Only
one March in the past 33 years has
been more calm. Only three have been
clearer and only six have had less
rain
Beattie, the Marshall county town.
that made itself famous year ago by
placing it's government in the hands
of women, suffered relapse on the
Sd. OF the city ticket placed i'm the
field by the women, only three cam
didates were elected, two women, and
one man.
The Kansas Woman's Press associa-
ton, in session at Topeka, elected
Mrs. Cora G. Lewis, of Kinsley; presi-
deat; Mrs. Minnie D. Morgan, of Cot
tonwood Falls, vice president; Mrs.
Ida G. Frowe, of Ottawa, secretary,
and Mrs. Mary L. Rupp, of Clyde,
treasurer.
Old-time Kansans remember Dwight
Reyes, who died in Chicago recently.
Mr.. Reyes resided in Kansas City in
the late '6Os, and was the man who
paid for throwing the first shovelftrl
of dirt on the Kansas City, Fort Scott
&c Gulf railroad, as the Memphis was
known in its primitive, history.
The second step in. the plan to hold
a semi-centennial exposition i'm To-
peka in 1904 in celebration of the
fiftieth anniversary of the organiza-
ton of the territory of Kansas was
taken at Topeka last week when the
state executive council issued an adj
dress calling a meeting to be held at
Topeka on June to discuss the prop
osition.
1t has been discovered that Kan
sas sorghum cane, out of which the
government, at great expense, tried
to manufacture sugar, can be made
into a sirup element OF glucose that
pays well. and the first factory to
utilize the cane on an extensive scale
is being fitted up at + ort Scott. Sew
eral thousand acres Of cane have been
contracted for with the farmers and