Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-01-24
STATE NEWS pARAGRApHED.

spection office for December aggre-
gated $500.
Mrs. Detwiler, who died at Fort
Scott aged 90, had for many years
read the Bible through once year.
Louis Bubb, Jr., of Shannon, stu
| dent of the bingham high school,
was hazed by fellow students, one-half
of his head being shaved and painted
with red ink.
c. d. Montgomery, Kansas student
at Leland Stanford university, was re-
Gently given ducking by his fellow
students for criticising President Jor-
dan and the management of the uni
versity.
At the golden wedding of Mr. and
Mrs. A. c. Jackson, of Olathe. there
were present six couples who had
passed their fiftieth wedding annivar-
sary, and of those five couples live
within block of Mr.. and Mrs. jack
son.
G. B. Meredith, Wichita manager
of the Missouri & Kansas Telephone
company, is held on a charge of en-
bezzlement. The amount of his al
legged populations is $780, Meredith
has been a trusted employee of the
company for the last three years.
1t is rumored that the Missouri Pa
cific viii extend its main line from
Lenora, Kan, to Denver, Col. The dis
! lance from Lenora to Denver in a
straight line is 300 miles. It costs
], IS, 900 a mile to build it. This would
make a total of Sc, 400, 900 for the eX-
| tension.
George KarlslIint, a well-to-do farm
er near Fort Scott, has been sued
| for $4,000 damages for breach of
promise by Alma Moore, his house
keeper, who alleges that in April,
1899, he contracted to marry her and
then refused to enter into marriage
relations.
Andrew Clark, stockman of
| Wheaton, POttawatomie county, took
a load of cattle to Kansas City last
November, receiving $3.50 for them.
All but $50 of this he sent back to
the Wheaton bank, but Clark dis
| appeared and has not been seen or
heard from since.
A recent story from Wichita read:
It is understood that the two votes
cast for David Leahy for United States
senator in Topeka is a nucleus of an
organization that has for its scheme
the nomination of John R. Mclean, of
Ohio, as a dark horse for the nominal
ton for president in 1904.
S. Hunter, mayor of Hiawatha, ten
| dered his resignation on account of
his inability to get a quorum of the
council present at its meetings. a
big revival meeting was in progress at
Hiawatha and the councilmen, as well
as everybody else, attended the meet
ings instead of going to council meet
ings.
Petitions have been received by the
members of the Kansas delegation in
congress from negroes in this state
who want to be considered in the Or
| ganization of the army. They ask
that in the new army four regiments
of negroes be organized, and that in
these regiments the officers from col
onel down shall be colored men.
The equal suffragists of this ST tie
are marshaling their forces to prevent
the repeal of the laws relating to
woman suffrage. Such measure will
be introduced by Representative But
| Ter, of Wyandotte county. The women
suffragists will bring all kinds of
pressure to bear to prevent any
abridgment of their rights to vote.
While Cashier Shoemaker, of the
| Greenwood county bank at Severy,
was working at his books the other
night, q. masked robber entered and
| demanded that the safe be opened.
| However, Shoemaker could not release
| the time lock. The robber then went
| about to blow the vault open, but
in this he failed, and relieving the
cashier of SIS took his departure.
In a Kansas county a candidate at
| the recent election took his wife with
him in his country campaign. To an
! acquaintance he said that he took
his wife along so that he would not
| have to sleep with some old hayseed
! who hadn't taken a bath for month.
| The acquaintance thought it a good
| joke and repeated the statement, with
the result that the farmers went to
the polls in a solid phalanx and de-
feated that man.
w. R. Lewis, living 2H miles east
of Stockton, was crushed to death
while packing ice in a large icehouse
by the caving of a bank. The ice
house was built in the bank and was
20 feet deep. The mass of earth,
loosening from the side, fell with
such force that it buried him to a
depth of IS inches and crushed nearly
every bone in his body.
Henry Heitfelt, the populist United
States senator from Idaho, was for
merly a Kansas man. At the age of
II years he moved from ST. Louis to
Seneca, Nemaha county, where he re-
sided till he was grown. He was .du-
Gated in the Seneca public schools.
He located in Idaho in 1888. Senator