Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-09-03
: KANSAS STATE NEWS.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

gas Ou6 howard banker CempOr-
arily stopped the bond issue by an
injunction suit.
What is claimed to be the largest
crowd ever assembled in Kansas att
tended the soldiers and sailors in
terstate reunion at Baxter on Thurs
day of last week.
NJ. G. Riddell, of Window, McPher-
son county, is tearing up his fall
blowing with rush. He uses a 20
horse traction engine, which pulls
four double gang p1ows.
DR.. Frederick Mcfarland, a physi4
clan of Topeka, claims to have dis
covered a cure for consumption. It
is gas and the scheme is to kill the
microbes that cause consumption.
Then the patient gets we'll.
Mrs. Manda Clark, an aged co1ored
woman at Salina, has been granted
a pension of So per month and $500
back pay. Asked if she would fit up
a home and get married she ex-
claimed: Claw, no; Uncle Sam is the
bestest husban' want
Chester Westbrook, a farmer near
Phillipsburg, killed his wife and then
committed suicide. The couple was
well-to-do, but had quarreled much.
Westbrook also had trouble with his
neighbors, with whom he was un.
friendly.
Prof. Hugo Kahl, who was mem
Der of the faculty of the University
Of Kansas until last fall, has been
appointed chief curator OF the en-
tomological department of the Car
negie museum at Pittsburg, Pa. Mr..
| KohI obOcay1 ont Of Ha1J Of
John Timm, of Emporia. who was
confined in the Topeka insane asylum
two years, has brought suit for $685.
600 damages against Sheriff O'Con-
nor, Attorney I. E. Lambert and
other Emporia officials, alleging they
conspired to place him in a mad
house.
j. W. (Dobson. deputy warden OF
the Kansas state prison, went to Ar
kansas City and rearrested Coleman
Grady, who had been on parole for
year. Grady violated his parole by
playing cards and doing other things
contrary to the governors pardon
rules.
A girl from Stockton was bitten
by a rattlesnake on Wednesday
morning and died from the effects of
the bite on Friday night. But what
are we to do with those medical
gentlemen who say that the bite of
a RATHER will be fatal on the first day
or fatal not at all?
Fred Roberts, city marshal of Mel
vern, was assaulted on an excursion
| train returning from Kansas City
by Clyde Ingles and Frank Trey,
young men of Melvern. AS conse-
quence, Roberts is in a precarious
condition, having had his skull frac-
tured by being hit with a piece of sig
nal rod.
| At Fort Scott, Mrs Lille NJ Cook
| has sued for divorce from her hus-
band, Homer L. Cook, long a promi-
nent business man of Fort Scott, who
was recently sent to the asylum.
| This is the first case in the history of
Bourbon county where insanity has
been adopted as grounds for di-
vorce.
J. H. Davis, a stockman of Jackson
county who usually feeds 300 to 400
cattle for the market every winter,
will not do so this year. He says
| thin cattle are selling at a too high
figure to bring any profit to the feed
| er when put on the market. Davis
| looks for feed to be comparatively
high all winter.
j. R. Weakley, charged with en-
bezzling about So, 500 of the funds of
| Cherry township, Montgomery &c
! ty, was put in Jail at Independe.--,
Friday night. Weakley was treasurer
of that township and escaped when
the shortage was discovered. For five,
years he has been a fugitive. He re-
turned recently to Kansas and To-
Gated in Sheridan county, where he
| secured a contract for carrying the
mail between Hoxie and Phelps.
Rev A. P. Hamilton, a Methodist
| preacher at WelIsviIle, is fighting for
possession of his little girl, now held
/ by her grandparents, ex-Sheriff Hind
man and wife, of Lawrence. HamiI-
ton placed his little daughter with
the Hindman family while he placed
| his wife in the state asylum for the
insane While he was away his
church, parsonage and household
goods were destroyed by fire The
Hindmans refuse to return the child.
stating that Hamilton is violent
and cruel man.
Warden McClaughry, of the fed
eral penitentiary, is arranging plan
whereby all the surrounding towns
| and many farmers will be notified
as soon as a convict escapes. All
the towns in Leavenworth, Atchison
| and Jefferson counties are connect
ed with Fort Leavenworfh by long.
| distance telephone and a switch
board is to be arranged at the prison
so that a description can be tele-
phoned to so places in a few mo.
ments. In addition to the towns, ali
the farmers on the three lines run,
ming into the townships win be no
tilted of the escape.
The grand lodge of negro Masons.
IN session at Kansas City, elected
Sol g. Watkins, of Topeka, grand
master; I. F. Bradley, of Kansas City,
grand treasurer and II. H. Curtis, Of
Baxter, grand secretary.
The site OF the concentration camp
/ for the fall maSeuvers of the Fort
Riley reservation a mile south Of
the most on the smoky Hill river.