Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-09-20
STATE NEWS pARAGRAPHED.
Work has begun on a $4,000 hotel
at CoffeyyiIIe.

hufa1 tree uelIYery service VII De
established on October 1 at Belvue,
Frankfort and Randall.
DR.. b. A. Pickere1I, of Beverly, ar
rived in SaIina to be treated for the
hiccoughs. He had tried more than
30 remedies without avail
Tt is the talk at fusion headquar-
tiers that Tully Scott, the democratic
nominee for congress in the Sixth dis
trict, will withdraw, giving to DIR.
John B. Dykes, the populist nominee,
a clear field against w. A. Reeder, the
republican.
Hamilton Johnson, negro convict
in the state penitentiary at Lansing,
was instantly killed by the falling of
piece of slate in the coal mine. The
slate weighed more than 100 pounds
and struck johnson fairly on the
head, crushing his skull.
At Fredonia the other night when
Deputy Sheriff McCray went to feed
George ShulI and Ched Jackson, in jail
for highway robbery, they struck him
over the head with shovel handle.
After a lively fight for five minutes
they made their escape.
Webb McNa1l, fusion nominee for
superintendent of insurance, cancelled
an appointment at Arkansas City
rather than go up against an old sol
diers' reunion. He said in explanation
that he refused. to speak because he
was afraid he would not be given a
respectful hearing.
The eleventh annual conference of
the colored Methodist Episcopal
church of the Topeka district was in
session at Independence. There were
many prominent ministers and church
workers of the colored Methodists
present. The Topeka district com
prises Kansas and a part of Missouri
The population of the city of Tope-
l1a, as officially announced, is: 1900,
33, sos; 1890, 31,OO7. These figures
show, for the city as a whole, an in
crease in population of 2,6O1, or $50
per cent, from 1890 to 1900 The pop
ulation in 1880 was 1852, showing an
increase of 1856, or 1OO.67 per cent.
from 1880 to 1890.
Louis Mccoy, a Caldwell negro, is
under arrest charged with fraud in
pension case. He made application
for a pension, alleging to have served
in company K, Sixty-siXth colored in
fantry, during the civil war. The pen
sion department claims that Louis
Mccoy, OF Caldwell, is an impostor and
that the Louis Mccoy who served
in the army lives in Natchez, Miss.
State Auditor George E. Cole and
Attorney General A. A. GODDARD, sit
ting as a state contest board, decided
that the two republican senatorial
conventions in the Riley-Wabaunsee-
Geary district held recently were ir-
regular, and that no legal nominations
were made by either convention. Tt
was a contest between G. w. Nc
Knight, of Geary, and John E. Hessin,
of Riley.
Seven prisoners made their escape
from the United States military pris-
on at Fort Leavenworth the other
night. They sawed through one of
the bars of the cage in which they
were confined and getting into the
corridor found little trouble in break
ing away the brick wall. With rope
fastened to the bars Of the cage each
prisoner crawled through the hole
backward and let himself down with
the rope.
y.
Fort Scott, was killed by her grand
son, Ora G. Scott, who sank a Ratchet
five times into her brain. Scott is
but % years old and just returned
from California on account of being
deranged. He was formerly a clerk
for a Kansas City commission com
pany. Scott made no attempt to es-
cape and is now in Jail. He says he
was compelled to do this terrible deed
by a man who had him hypnotized.
A recent telegram from Lewiston,
Me, said: One hundred men are
securing the woods about Durham,
ten miles from here, for Miss Lizzie
Bell, daughter of a prominent citizen
frenzy has disappeared. She has
been attending Evangelist Sanford's
meeting at Shiloh, where the Holy
Ghost society has temple dedicated
to the Living God, and had been suf-
fering from insanity due to religious
excitement.
A terrific wind and hailstorm passed
over Florence and vicinity the other
evening. The wind came from the
northwest and was of a cyclonic ma
ture, trees being torn up, houses dam
aged, roofs blown off and sign boards
scattered. Large hailstones fell,
smashing skylights and windows.
During the storm several small cy-
clones developed and haystacks and
cornshocl1s were blown away. North
of Florence there was almost cloud
burst and at Oursler hail was piled
several feet high and two miles of
Santa Fe track was under water.
Lightning set fire to several stacks
of hay south of town belonging to T.
S. Padgett. Miss Lizzie Whitlock, a
school-teacher, and her brother were
caught in the twister. They were