Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-01-25
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.

Club women of Kansas City Will try
to secure gift from Andrew Carnegie
for public library in that city.
District Judge Clark, at Lyons, de-
clared unconstitutional the law of
1898 reducing telegraph messages.
The Santa Fe railroad shops in To-
peka are at work on ten new chair
cars and 200 new furniture cars for
that road.
The Lanyon zinc shelters at Weir
City and Pittsburg, also at Nevada,
Mo-, will close because of the high
price of ore.
The Atchison Champion has been
resurrected by W. a. Robinson and
will be published daily and weekly as
a republican paper.
An Eldorado dispatch said that But
Ter county fusionists would work for
Judge Arthur w. Dennison's nomi-
nation for governor.
The relatives of S. Honeywell, who
was killed in a freight train collision
east of Abilene, received $4,000 from
the Union Pacific railroad.
Several Emporia railroad men are
making arrangements to go to Japan
to work on railroads. American rail
road men are in demand there.
The Kansas Democratic Editorial
association will meet in EmpOria Feb
ruary Z. Arrangements are being
made to give them warm welcome.
Col. Fayette Temple, now living at
Eureka, heard Abraham Lincoln de-
liver his famous Cooper institute
speech. He says that before Lincoln
had finished he looked to be ten feet
tall.
C. c. Martin, a stockman of Hope,
brought suit for $4,000 damages
against the Union Pacific Railroad
company He alleges that he was
wrongfully elected from a train near
Topeka.
Josephine Emery, normal student
at Emporia, died under unusual cir
cumstances. In closing a door she
bruised felon on her hand. The
pain caused the fainting and she did
not revive.
William S. Gress, a young demo
cratic politician of Kansas City and
former police commissioner was
struck by a Missouri Pacific switch
engine and had both legs cut off. He
died few hours later.
The Lanyon zinc company has at
last made the proper showing and has
been admitted to do business by the
state charter board. It proposes to
spend $1,OOO,00O in the erection of
additional smelters and refining works
at lola this year.
Ed and George Silbee, alias Meek,
charged with the murder of Leopold
Edlinger, a mover, near Fort Scott,
were convicted of first degree murder.
The men refused to plead or accept
any counsel and all the way through
the trial ignored the court and jury
DR.. j. C. Miller, president of the Col
lege of Emporia, has received a letter
from Andrew Carnegie accepting the
design forwarded by the college for
the new library. He directs DR.. Mil
Ter to proceed with the building and
he will honor the drafts containing
DR.. N1iller's signature.
W. G. Powell, who died near Elk
City, was one of the largest men in
the state, and casket was secured
in Kansas City for the body. It was
so large it could not be taken into the
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in the yard where it remained until
after the funeral ceremonies.
The state board of health issued a
proclamation declaring Sumner, Cow
ley and Harper counties under quaran-
tine against Kay county, Ok, lying i'm
mediately south of the two first
named. The smallpox epidemic has
assumed dangerous proportions in
Kay county, with Blackwell as its
center.
An effort is being made to secure
pardon for DIR. G. II. Graham, who
was sent to the penitentiary for as
sault on a young girl at Pittsburg.
The trial of DIR. Graham will be re-
membered on account of the des-
perate attempt made by the father of
the girl to kill her assailant in the
court room.
Great interest is being taken in the
coming grand lodge of the A. o. U.
w at Topeka, February 27. There
will be 400 delegates and one of the
features will be a competitive drill by
various teams on the statehouse lawn.
The \. o. Z. W. membership in Kan
sas now exceeds $4,000, a gain of over
5000 the past year.
Mrs. Ida Watts, whose husband was
found dead in an alley in Armourdale
(Kansas City, Kan.) in February, 1899,
has sued to recover $4,000 damages
from John J. Rickart, a saloonkeeper.
Mrs. Watts alleges that her husband
became drunk at Rickart's saloon and
was so helpless from inebriation as
to fall in the alley, where he lay until
frozen to death.
At Larned in the breach of promise
suit of r. Kirk against Mrs. Mary Egg
| nIoc+nn the in,r1r returned a verdict