Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-09-13
STATE NEWS PARAGRApHED.

AS a If6lgnJ tram loaded Win coal
cars was crossing Short creek on the
Memphis line, near Galena, the bridge
gave way. Five cars went through.
The Rock Island hotel at Herington
was totally destroyed by fire, flames
starting in the basement and soon be-
ing beyond control. Loss. about $4,000.
Gus F. Neubert, of Kansas City,
grand secretary of the Knights OF
Pythias, fell a victim of pickpockets
on street car in Cleveland, o., who
robbed him of $500.
DR.. j. c. Pitts, three miles southeast
of Osborne, was killed by bull in
one of the pastures on his farm. His
body was rescued, only after pitch
forks had been used to drive the bull
away.
Lyon county yoang man bit on
the old joke the other day. He an
swered an advertisement which prom
ised to tell how to make his pants
last, and got an answer to make his
coat and vest first.
James Kearney, of Topeka, recently
performed a feat of daring. The rope
to the fagpole on the state house
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ground. The pole is of oak and ex-
tends 40 feet above the dome. He
climbed the pole and put new rope
in the pulley. Fifteen dollars was
paid him for the work.
Bank Commissioner Briedenthal
sent stock subscription books for the
Kansas semi-centennial exposition
company to each state and private
bank in Kansas. The promoters of
the exposition want to raise $4,000
from the sale of stock and they de-
cided to push the sale through the
state and private banks.
Charles H. Miller was found dead
in a bath tub at Fort Leavenworth.
He was at the home of his daughter,
whose husband, Capt. Lindsay, of the
Thirteenth United States infantry, is
in Manila. Miller was noted charac-
ter in the early days of Kansas. He
was city marshal of Leavenworth
and was United States marshal under
President Grant.
The state contest board decided the
contest for the democratic nominal
ton for district judge in the Chase
Coffey-Lyon district in favor of Dennis
Madden, of Emporia. This is a serious
judge, who was candidate for re-
nomination by the fusion forces. Ran
dolph and Madden each claimed to be
the regular nominee.
Fl. II. Foreman and wife celebrated
their siXty-fifth wedding anniversary
at independence recently. Both are
SO years old. They were born in Ken
lucky, but soon after their marriage
moved to Illinois, where two of their
sons were born in a house built by
Abraham Lincoln. The couple has
ten children living, also 80 grand
children and Is great grandchildren.
E. A. Runyan was arrested at Yates
Center charged with the embezzlement
of 1000. The arrest was made on
warrant sworn to by County Treas
urer ]. S. Culver, in behalf of the Off
GERS of the Citizens state bank, of
which Runyan was cashier. At the
time of the banks failure Runyan
turned over to the creditors every
cent of property owned by himself
and wife.
Gov. Stanley has appointed F. D.
COburn and w. Fl. Barnes, of Topeka;
Ewing Herbert, of Hiawatha: L. F.
Randolph, of Nortonville; H. F. Shell
don, of Ottawa; C. A. Mitchell, of
Cherryvale; John Madden, of Emporia;
E. c. Little, of Abilene; W. H. Mitchell,
of Beloit, and J. E. Sterling, as Kan
sas commissioners to the Pan-Amer-
lean exposition, to be held at Buffalo.
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propriate $4,000 for a Kansas exhibit
and Kansas expects to Guido all other
states.
Henry Ross, of Gueda Springs, met
with an accident which restored his
voice. Two weeks ago Ross was sud-
denly and without warning stricken
dumb. He was preparing to go to a
specialist in ST. Louis when he re-
covered the use of his vocal organ.
He was carrying an empty water
pitcher in his hand when he stumbled
and struck his forehead with it, in
fiicting serious wound. An instant
after the accident he said: ''My God, I
have killed myself" He has been able
to talk as well as ever since the acct
dent.
The suit of the state of Kansas
against the state of Colorado to en-
join the latter from diverting the wa
tiers of the Arkansas river may not
be fled in the United States supreme
court this fall by Attorney General
GODDARD. Rains have been falling in
great profusion in western Kansas and
eastern Colorado and as a result the
Arkansas river has more water in
it than has ever been known AS the
suit was to be based upon the propo-
sition that Colorado, through its vast
system of irrigation bitches, had
robbed Kansas of its water and the
lands in the Arkansas valley had been