Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-08-16
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

a1Gor 1t mad been outlaW6d SIX years.
Two boys under ten years of age
have been convicted of horse stealing
in Ford county.
A post office has been established at
Four Mile, in Lyon county, with Eliz-
Rbeth Holden as postmaster.
C. B. Hoffman has taken charge of
the Enterprise Journal, and will
change it from republican paper to
a fusion.
A movement has been started at
Atchison to rid letters of ''Dear Sir"
and ''Yours truly" as they mean moth
ing and take up time and space.
L. B. Graves, a lumberman of Par
sons, committed suicide by cutting his
throat. He was adjudged insane re-
Gently. His estate is valued at $780,
900.
Cards are out announcing the mar
rage of j. Frank Smith, editor of
the Pleasanton Observer, and Miss
Garrah Marsh, of Mound City, on Au-
gust 16.
A cOlored porter in hotel at Great
Bend, jumped out of the third story
window of the hotel while he was
asleep and fell to the sidewalk with
out being very much injured.
Steven York and Mrs. J. B. Hamil-
ton, after having been divorced for
30 years, were remarked at Cleveland,
o. The bride has lived in Salina for
years. Each is nearly 70 years old.
Additional rural free delivery service
will be established at Belleville, Re-
hi
carrier; length of route % miles; pop
ulation served, 765; Isaac F. Wag-
goner, carrier
Mrs. Lizzie Ullery, wife of Ben Ill
lery, living six miles south of Scranton
on farm, gave birth to triplets, two
girls and a boy. The boy weighs
seven pounds and the girls ~ pounds
each. All are doing well.
DR.. Henry Bowers has returned to
Winfield after three years in the
K1ondike, and to show for it he had
$4,000 in gold dust. Besides he left
some mining interests behind which
he thinks will prove valuable.
William Rigsley, a Rock Island
freight brakeman, had both legs cut
off below the knee as the result of an
accident at Topeka. He was taken to
hospital and his feet amputated,
but there was doubts of his recovery.
A Kansas man who went to South
Africa with 1000 Kansas mules for
the British government writes back
that - of the mules died during the
passage over. Interesting as explod-
ing the hoary theory that nothing can
kill mule.
Miss Katherine M. West, a young
woman educator widely known in tho
east, where she had taught for
number of years, committed suicide
in an asylum at Osawatomie by hang
ing herself to an iron bar in the tran
som with a sheet.
The police at Topeka raided the
largest wholesale liquor house in that
city and confscated 200 cases of beer
and several barrels of whisky. The
house was managed by Frank Rayner,
in North Topeka. He and three ship
ping clerks were arrested.
At a meeting of the directors of the
Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis
railway, held in Boston, 100000 of
earnings was set aside for the bet
terment of the line Part of the
money is to be used for double-track-
ing the road between Merriam and
O1athe.
Within eight weeks, says the Atch-
ison Globe, in describing person who
might be tolerably busy, an Atchison
woman nursed one of her children
through measels, took care of one
with broken arm, had sewing |
woman in the house, lost her hired |
girl, had baby and moved into an |
other house.
The Kansas State Agricultural col
lege has just received the pure-bred
Guernsey bun, Shylock of Darlington
1879. This is one of the greatest dairy
ever brought into Kansas. He
was purchased of the celebrated |
breeder, Charles Solveson, Nashotah,
Wis. The dam of Shylock gave $50
pounds of butter in six months; the
average Kansas cow gives 90 pounds
n year.
After six trials in the United States
circuit court and delay of 21 years
md four months, the Mutual Life
insurance company, of New York,
settled its case with Mrs. SaIlie E.
at Leavenworth, by
paying her S22, 900 in cash. The set
dement,, like many other develop
nents in connection with the famous
iillmon suit, was a surprise to many
Who had followed the case.
William McLe1land, who escaped
rom the penitentiary at Leaven-
worth, June z, 1889, has returned and
'iven himself up. He was convicted
# grand larceny in Neosho county in
$50, and brought to the penitentiary
o serve five years. He said he was
ired of dodoino about and 1uantad