Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-02-26

/ SlnulSu VI hduSdS, anu designating
Kansas as the "Sunfower state"
Charles Parmenter, a saloon keeper
of Fort Scott, was convicted of man
laughter in the second degree for
killing Frank Drummer, base ball
umpire.
Very recently Lindsborg-the Kan
sas town whose people sing the Mes
siah" so often and so well-shipped q
cargo of -four direct to Barcelona,
Spain.
Old timers are recalling that before
the war Cole Younger served as a
member of the Kansas territorial leg.
islature, although he was a citizen of
Missouri.
Clifford Davenport of Kansas City,
Kas., committed suicide at the home
of his brother-in-law, James Stewart,
near Lenape, Kan, to avoid arrest on
charge Of felinious assault.
The five counties in the southwest
corner of Kansas which have neither
railroad nor telegraph communica-
tion-Stanton, Grant, Haskell Morton
and Stevens-want telephone sys.
TEN.
W. W. MARBLE has arranged for a
meeting of creamery men in Salina
March 2 and 8. The meeting will be
attended by 200 delegates from all
Western and Middle states, also repre-
sentatives from New York
The young bride of a widower in
Arcadia who was married last week
will never be able to show that she
was deceived. His 9-year-old son led
her to the altar and he was accom-
panied by his 11-year-old daughter.
A man was killed in Western Kan
sas the other day by falling of tree.
The time may yet come for the vindi-
cation of that Illinois man, hearing
about the timber claims" of Western
Kansas, brought out with him a stump
puller
Frederick Seibert, 81 years old, liv-
ing north Of Lebanon, met death
while telling a tree across a draw
They were saving the tree in two with
a cross-cut saw. When cut in two the
log swung around and pinioned Sci
bert to the earth, killing him.
The jury in the case of Miss Olive
Sells against Peter Allen Of Atchison
for $4,000 damages for breach of
promise, gave Miss Sells a verdict for
$4,000. The defendant, who is a So
cie;y young man, is the son Of j. w.
Allen, a wholesale and retail druggist.
He has been missing since the suit
was brought.
Writing from Washington, Congress
man Scott says that General Fred
Funston is about to receive from the
Cuban government his pay for serving
in the Cuban army, first as captain
and then as lieutenant colonel. The
Cuban government is negotiating a
loan which is to be used in paying her
insurrectionary army, and Mr.. Scott
thinks that Funston will be in on the
deal.
Sarah Burr Daniels was buried at
oskaloosa on January 30. She was
born in Green county, Pa, in 1906, and
at her death she was 81 years of age.
Her father was first cousin to Aaron
Burr, the American statesman of UNI
pleasant memory. She remembered
the war of 1912 and often talked of
seeing the soldiers. She was married
in 1920 at the age of IA and she be-
came the mother of fourteen children.
"Old Man" Moxham was found dead |
near Sabetha the other day. For
years he had been a peddler. going |
the rounds of the farms of Nemaha |
county and coming to be regarded as |
ore of the local institutions. Once |
he was a trumpeter in the British |
army In his life there was one Incl |
dent which, to his simple mind, had |
all the glamor Of glorious achieve
ment At a certain point in the cor
onation ceremonies Of Queen Victoria
in 1887 he was required to step from
the ranks and blow fanfare.
Robert Larmer was found guilty in
the district court at Emporia last
week Of robbing a man named Nord'
Eren Of $3.50. Larmer's defense was
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