Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-06-04
) KANSAS STATE NEWS.
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The L o. o. F. lodge at Glaseo
bought a house and decided it to the
widow of deceased former member
of the lodge.
II. C. Loomis, department cons
mander of the Kansas G. A. r., has
appointed W. w. Dennison to sue
coed f. NJ. Riddle as adjutant gem
eral. o. III. Coulter has been made
quartermaster.
While preparing to fire Decora-
ton day salute at Wichita a gun be-
longing to battery a, Kansas state
artillery, exploded prematurely,
wounding three members of the bat
terry. Geoge Halter, of Peck; Burt
Davis, of Wichita, and G. w. Thomas,
of Wichita, were dangerously in
jured.
David j. Hanna, candidate for lieu
tenant governor on the republican
| ticket, came to Clay Center in 1870
from Illinois. He removed to Ora
ham county in 1883, where he has
| been engaged in the banking and
real estate business since that time.
He was a member of the legislature
| in 1894 and 1895
Charles II. Luling, republican nom
inee for state insurance superintend-
cut, came to Kansas from New York
| in 1879. He is a printer by trade,
but many years ago became travel
| ing man and later real estate
agent. He has served as county cir
cult clerk and was member of the
last legislature.
Thomas T. Kelly, nominated for
state treasurer by the republicans,
was reared in Miami county, his pres
ent home. In his younger days he
was a school-teacher. He served four
years as county clerk, was receiver
of the National bank at PaOla and
for. two years has been assistant
state treasurer.
Charles F. Scott, whom the repub-
lican convention at Wichita honored
with the denomination as congress-
man-at-Iarge, is a Kansas newspaA
per man. He is a graduate of the
Kansas university and a native of
Allen county. He is the only native
Kansan on the ticket. He served
in the state senate from 1898 to 1897.
An unknown negro assaulted Mrs.
j. T. Hammond, wife of a wealthy
farmer near Osawatomie. The ne
gro approached the house while Ham
mond was away, and before assault
| ing Mrs. Hammond first knocked her
sister down with a revolver, serious
| ly injuring her. The negro then es-
capped, but a large posse was search
| ing for him.
S. S. Benedict, a delegate to the re
publican state convention from Will
son county, refused to obey the in
structions of the county convention.
The convention voted to elect the
delegates by commissioner districts.
The First and Third districts selected
eight Bailey men and the Second
four Troutman men, but afterward
the convention tied the entire ~
up with Instructions to support
Bailey for governor and the Bailey
candidate for temporary chairman.
The trial of Parson PolIett on the
charge of murder at Emporia was
unusual enough in all its details to
excite considerable interest. And it
ended in an exceptional manner,
years in the penitentiary, Pollett
arose and said: 81 am entirely salts
| fed with the verdict and the SEN
tence, and L am confident that not
one jury in ten would have been so
Ienient with me. I desire to thank
the court for it's just and courteous
manner of conducting this trial,
and L hope that the blessing of God
will remain with you all"
Gov. Stanley has been asked to
offer a reward of $500 for the arrest
and conviction of the person who
murdered James S. Clark of Downs,
a week ago. Osborne county has Of
fered a reward of $500, making $500
| in all. Clark was shot twice with
a double barreled shotgun and died
instantly. He was just stepping
! from his kitchen door to his back
| porch about 1890 o'clock at night,
Nobody saw the man who fired the
shots. The corOner's jury held John
Krage, a farmer living near Downs,
but he proved by several witnesses
| that he was at home at the time the
murder was committed.
Willis j. Bailey, republican nominee
for governor, was born in Carroll
county, H., in 1854. He graduated
from the University of Illinois in 1874.
With a span of horses he came to
Kansas and settled at the present
site of BaiIeyville, Nemaha county,
July IA, 1876. He shipped stock from
Illinois and the farm in Nemaha
county grew to be one of the largest
in that section of the state. He Sc
| cured station from the st. Joseph
& Grand Island on his farm and af-
forwards built up the town which
bears his name. He was elected to
the legislature in 1888. In 1898 he
was elected congressman-at-larg
serving two terms. He is unmar-
ried.
The Atkinson, Topeka & Santa
Fe Railroad company is negotiating
for Lyon county's old court house
grounds, which border on the rail-
road with a Commercial street front
in Emporia.