Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-07-26
STATE NEWS PARAGRApHED.

A new -four mill has been begun al
Kinsley, which will have capacity Oh
rs barrels day.
The thrashing-machine of William
Holman burned near Lincoln Center
while the crew was at dinner.
Louis Trcutman aged ten, was
drowned in the Neosho river west OF
lola. He was fishing off a raft of logs
and fell off
Republicans of the judicial district
composed of Lyon, Coffey and Chase
counties nominated J. j. Buck, of EN-
poria, for judge.
Mrs. j. Halley's barn near Salina
burned recently and with it four
horses, 1900 bushels of wheat and
much other property.
w. II. Washburn, a farmer near
Miles, northeast of Salina, has lost 81
head of cattle, which he allowed to
have too much kaffir corn.
A Kansas City company, backed by
100000 capital, has bought the lin
seed oil mills at Fredonia and will
increase the output of the mill.
Mrs. Lillian Hall, of Winfield, has
been appointed by Gov. Stanley as
coroner of Cowley county. She is the
first woman in America to hold that
office.
Another strong flow of gas was
struck by the Lanyon Zinc company
while drilling near lola. The flow
exceeds 100000 cubic feet every "a
hours.
Fire at Phillipsburg destroyed the
IN71i1 n p o.
Shimeall Clothing company and New
York racket. The stocks were also
a total loss.
Lima Higgins, young woman hv-
ing in Chanute, obtained Judgment
for $4,358, awarded her for personal
injuries received by falling into
cellarway in Erie.
EX-Gov. John P. ST. John, of Olathe,
was named as the Kansas member of
the committee from the national mon
etary convention to notify Mr.. Bryan
of his nomination for president.
Secretary Barnes, of the Kansas
Horticultural society, thinks the state
will raise 80 per cent. more apples
this year than last. The number of
bearing apple trees is placed at T.
$40, 149.
The government will construct four
additional school buildings at Has
kell institute, the Indian school at
Lawrence. They include a $3.50 adj
dition to the shops, $1,000 laundry and
$4,000 steam heating plant.
Socialists of the Third congress
sional district, in convention at Pitts
burg, nominated John C. McLaugh-
lin for congress by reclamation. 1t
was the first congressional convention
ever held in Kansas by the socialists.
At the last meeting of the city
council of Cherryvale petition
signed by nearly 700 citizens was pre-
scented to the mayor and council. The
signers pledged themselves to aid in
suppressing the liquor traffic in that
city.
Claude Davis, an Emporia boy who
enlisted in the Twenty-second Kan
sas at the outbreak of the Spanish
American war and when mustered out
enlisted in the regular army and
went to the Philippines, died recently
of fever at Baliuag.
The state board of equalization has
reduced the total taxable value of
property in the state from $34O, 611,-
O96 to 1928, 1886, 1854, in order to elimi-
nate from the revenue of the state
about $4,000 which the legislative
sum would produce.
w. S. Taylor, of Toledo, O., has
bought rs acres of land in CowIey and
Sumner counties upon which is To-
Gated the Geuda springs. Many visit
ors go there every summer to get the
benefit of the waters. Mr.. Taylor
will put up new buildings and remodel
Did ones, to make the place modern
health resort.
Several members of the Sixteenth
Illinois infantry regiment of the civil
war, who live in Kansas, are arrang-
ng a reunion at Hutchinson in Sep
-ember, during the week of the an
lual state encampment of the G.. A. |
z. in that town. It is proposed to set |
aside one day to be known as the
Prentis memorial day, in honor of |
he late Noble Prentis.
When the Union Pacific passenger
rain was rounding a curve five miles |
vest of Manhattan the other night it |
vas stopped by red light. The en- |
gineer threw on the brakes and |
brought the train to a standstill just |
1t the entrance to an open switch, |
head of which were several box cars.
several men were seen to scatter, and |
t is evident they intended to rob the |
wrecked train. Under some ties close |
" were found 90 sticks of dynamite |
nd some train-robbing tools.
Miss Jessie Morrison, the EIdorado |
-oung woman charged with the muir
Ter of Mrs. Olin Castle, was held for
murder in the first degree and COM
nitted to Jail without bond. She was
aiken to the Wichita Jail as there are
10 apartments for women in the Ell |
orado jail. This is one of the most
cases ever tried in Kansas.