Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-02-07
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

Pittsburg last week.
A stock Company mas been organized
to build a $4,000 hotel at lola. c. ".
Goodlander, of Fort Scott, Will lease
it.
Farmer A. W. Smith, of McPher-
son, wants to succeed Cyrus Leland
as pension agent at Topeka. Smith has
been in Washington several days.
Rev. George Caldwell, pastor of the
United Brethren church at Salina,
was badly burned from the exp1o-
sion of a gasoline lamp in a barber
shop.
Mark Powers, a deaf mute, was
hurled 80 feet in the air by a Santa
Fe train four miles from Wichita
but physicians said he was injured in
ternally and could not live.
George White, aged IS, one of the
old settlers of Saline county, died
from the effects of taking laudanum
by mistake. Mr.. White was the old
est member of the uniform rank,
Knights of Pythias, in the world.
The secretary of war acted adj
versely on the petition of citizens of
Baxter Springs for the government to
contruct macadam road from town
to the cemetery, on the ground that
it was not a national cemetery.
Tom Golfer, former Atchison po-
lice officer, has just been successful
in a suit at Plattsburg, Mo-, to re-
cover $1,000 reward offered for the
capture of Rob Cushenberry, the
negro who shot Marshal Leonard, of
Cameron, Mo-, several years ago.
A franchise has been granted for an
electric street line from lola through
Gas City and Lanyonville to LaHarpe.
The lola Register predicts that with
! in five years it will be impossible for
a stranger to tell where one of these
| towns leaves off and the other begins.
Those Kansans who desire to place
orders for any quantity of Russian
| seed wheat must do so at once by
communicating with B. Warkentin at
Newton. The choicest seed wheat
sacked and delivered at one of the
seaports in the Crimea will cost $1.25
per bushel.
In a saloon fight at Bruce, two
miles west of Cherokee, a man named
Kelley was killed by a bartender,
John Switzer. Kelley demanded
drinks for himself and his crowd.
When they were refused Kelley threw
a chair at Switzer, who promptly shot
Kelley dead.
| Kansas has taken first prize again.
It is announced in Manila paper
that Kansas soldier boy, who had
his girl follow him over to marry, is
father of a bouncing boy-''the first
! instance of the Sort says the Manila
! Ill 4 111
! nd."-Kanass City Journal.
Capt. Thomas Bickerton, who is
dead in Florida, was an active partici-
pant in the early Kansas wars. He
was artilleryman in Jim" Lanes
regiment and was a member of the
first free state battery in the John
Brown war. He served in a Kansas
| regiment during the civil war, rising
| to the rank of captain.
The twenty-third annual session of
the Kansas grand lodge of the An
! cient Order of United Workmen will
meet in Leavenworth February 25, &c,
| 81 and %. There will be receptions
and balls and to the latter none but
members of the A. o. U. w. and their
| friends will be admitted. Tickets ara
not being sold to anyone and admis-
sion is free.
This dispatch came recently from
| Washington city: In connection with
| the presentation of another gavel to
Speaker Henderson, it was announced
that Mrs. Carrie Nation and the ladies
of the w. C. T. U. of Kansas are pre-
pairing to present the speaker with a
| gavel made of the wood from the
| first bar in Kansas which was demol-
ished by Mrs. Nation in her famous
crusade on the saloons.
AT independence John c. Slavin Yves
brought up from the county jail tt
| the probate judges Office where he
was married to Miss Rosa1tha Horn
And, while the ceremony was in prog
ress, the father and brother of the
bride stood around with that as
sured appearance which goes sc
naturally with brace of sixshooteri
snugly ensconced beneath the coat
tail.-Kansas City Journal.
A minister who was going to Wichi.
ia last Sunday to preach was robbed
of $50 at the union depot in Kansas
City. The police suppressed the mans
name and the attendants at the depot
were instructed not to talk about the
TODbSTy. Lie CA0I Sy A4IdI . POSfNCt was
picked while he was buying ticket
and his purse, containing $50, wa:
taken. He discovered his loss before
he went out on the platform.
News comes from the Southwestern
part of Saline county of the summary
treatment of two lightning roc
agents by the farmers of that locality
The agents went into the neighbor
hood several days ago and began tt
work among the farmers. They final