Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-05-17
STATE NEWS PARAeRAPHED.


at Marysvilie and the son af a we'll
known merchant there, has been sued
for $4,000 for breach of promise by
Miss Louise knight, of Hebron, Neb.
Joseph W. Ralston, aged So years,
is dead at his home four miles south
of Leayenworth. He came to Kansas
and pre-empted a homestead in 1856
and had lived continuously on the
same place As years.
A peculiar society, with headquar-
tiers at Ellsworth, has applied for 4
charter. Its object is to abolish COM
pulsory vaccination and to work for
''the adjustment and abandonment
of the practice of vaccination"
The Exchange national bank, of
Atchison, has considerable over ST.
100000 on deposit. There probably
is not bank in the United States
doing business in a town the size of
Atchison which has more money on
deposit.
Chairman Albaugh, of the republic
an state committee, has designated an
eagle as the emblem of his party on
the official ballot. The populists have
selected a home for their emblem. The
democrats have not yet made a Sc
lection.
Joseph Pabst and James Sterner,
two convicts, escaped from the Kan
sas penitentiary, scaling the walls
surrounding the boiler house. They
were TRUSTEES who had easy jobs as
night 1remen, and no watch was kept
on them.
While Mrs. William Tinchner, a mo-
torman's wife, was sitting on her
porch at Topeka in an invaiid's chair,
she was stricken stone blind. Long
continued sickness has undermined
her strength and physicians regard
her case as hopeless.
Director T. B. Gerow, of the state
free employment agencies, estimates
that 5000 harvest hands will be need
ed to take care of the Kansas wheat
crop this year. He figures that fully
half the number will have to be
brought from surrounding states.
A company has been organized at
Coffeyville to put in another big vitri-
fed brick plant, the capital stock to
be $50, 900, and the plant will have
capacity of 100000 brick per day. The
company is composed of local capital
lists. Work will begin on the plant in
a few days.
w. L. Martin, agent for southern
Kansas of the Champion Mower &
Binder company, was killed at his
home in Winfield by the accidental
discharge of a shotgun. His grandson
found him lying in a pool of blood
under buggy in his barn. The gun
had caught on a wheel.
Gov. Stanley has appointed James
Smith to be quartermaster general
of the Kansas militia, succeeding F.
Charlesworth, who recently died. Tho
duties of the Office are to be respon-
sible for the military stores of the
state. The new appointee was for
merly secretary of state.
A series of scientific experiments
and culture of sugar beets has been
undertaken at Fort Scott. A block
of sugar beets will be planted in each
of the different kinds of soil. The
managers of the enterprise believe the
soils and climate of Kansas are well
adapted to sugar beet raising.
The supreme court will hand down
decision in the Hughes-Parker
mayoralty contest on the morning
President Mckinley reaches Topeka.
It now looks as though it would be
race between Parker and Hughes
on the morning of the presidents
arrival to see who will ride with him.
In order to completely square him
self with the people of Kansas, King
Edward VII, of England. has caused
his foreign minister, Lansdowne, to
b Of
his thanks for their sympathy over
the death of Queen Victoria. The let
ter came to Gov. Stanley through the
American embassy at London.
Superintendent of Insurance Church
is sending out the checks to the vari-
Gus towns of the amount coming to
them for the firemen's relief associa-
tions. The two per cent. tax assessed
upon insurance companies doing bust
ness in the towns that have fire de-
partments with paraphernalia valued
at over 81, 900 has increased $500 in the
last year. The total sum distributed
is $40, 649.75.
In April dry" mayor was elected
at Arkansas City and joints have been
closed. Considerable revenue was cut
off and the mayor wanted to levy
an occupation tax, but the council is
''wet'' and the proposition was vetoed.
The council then proceeded to cut
down city expenses, electric lights
being first shut off. The police force
was reduced and salaries of city Off
GERS reduced.
Patrick Lynch, formerly a joint
keeper at Solomon, has become insane.
He was wandering along the river
when his friends found him. The 9th
er jointkeeper there, John Hart, also
went insane three weeks ago. He is
in a hospital in Kansas City. While
Mrs. Nation never visited Solomon,
it is supposed that the worry caused
the men by the crusade resulted IN
their losing their minds.
Decoration day at Peabody will be
of special interest from the fact that
a new $3.50 G. A. r. monument will be
dedicated there on that day.
The Kansas State Federation of
Women's clubs, which met in state
convention at Leavenworth last week,