Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-04-05
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

fatally shot In the head at KingSville the
other night while handling a carbine. The
family resided in Clay County and were on
their way to Missouri and had camped for
the night near Kingsville. The young man
was buried at that place.
Changes were made in Kansas post
offices recently as follows: Post-offices
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., Mcpherson Coun-
ty, John Johnson, Postmaster. POST
masters appointed-W. T. Roth, Buckner,
Hodgman County; Samuel Pheasant, Cam
den, Morris County; Miss Eta Phillips,
Diamond Springs, Morris County; o. Bates,
Granada,i Nemeha County; Mrs. Rose D.
Crest, Preston, Pawnee County.
At TOnganoxie, Leavenworth County.
Laura Colwell, daughter of Charlie Colwell,
had been ailing, and a number of her
colored friends declared that she was under
! a ''voodoo" spell by the Vaccinations of
Alexander Langford, who gave her a glass
of lemonade last September, from which
she had been gradually sickening since.
| Charlie Colwell, brother of the wooded"
girl, stated that he thought Langford had
poisoned his sister; Langford heard of it,
and armed with pistol and club, started
out recently to hunt young Colwel, but was
arrested and fined for carrying concealed
weapons.
VIM. Hardin, colored, was fatally in
| jured the other morning while assisting to
raise a safe into the United States Mar
| shals office at Topeka. The brace broke,
letting the safe, weighing two tons, on him,
MASKING the lower part of both legs, and
otherwise injuring him.
The other morning, while Joseph
Roth, of Leavenworth, was riding along
near the northwestern boundary of the city,
in a cart used for breaking horses, his horse
became unmanageable and overturned the
cart, throwing him out. In falling his head
| struck the tire of a passing wagon and he
fell to the ground insensible. When picked
up it was found that his right ear was al
most severed from his head, it only being
| held by small strip of skin. His chin,
which struck the wheel in the fall, was bad
ly hurt, his jaw-bone being crushed in.
@. n. Croker, holding sheep fifteen
miles west of Arkansas City, Cowley Coun-
ty, had prairie fire run into them during
heavy gale recently, destroying / 400 head.
Many were ewes with lamb. The fire came
from the north with fearful speed, so that
he had only time enough to get them into
ravine, where they piled one on top of the
other until they were four deep, and the
smoke soon suoffcated them. His loss was
not less than $1,000.
The charter of the Council Grove
Building and Loan Association, of Morris
County, has been filed with the Secretary
of State; capital stock, $250OO0.
Two colored women of Topeka were
arrested the other day and placed in the
lookup, charged with shooting James Nash
while drunk.
A fatal shooting affray was reported
from Caldwell few days ago. Dr. Noble,
prominent physician of that place, shot
and killed a saloOn-keeper named Eberhart,
formerly of Newton. 1t was said Noble
was under the influence of liquor, and meet
ing Eberhart, took offense at a remark
made by him, and pulling out his six shooter
fired twice at him, the balls lodging in his
abdomen. Eberhart died shortly after re-
ceiving the wounds.
A colored man named jenkins was
fined, including costs, forty-two dollars at
Lawrence the other day, for assaulting a
Santa Fe brakeman.
It is said Emporia will build another
schooI-house this spring. Six thousand dol
lars in bonds are to be voted.
A mad dog created considerable ex-
element at Topeka recently, one man being
bitten on the hand.
The following charters were filed
with the Secretary of State lately: The
West Atchison Union Sunday-school Asso-
citation; the Southern Hotel Association of
Caldwell, Sumner County, capital stock,
$4,000.
The elopement case reported from
| Mansfield, Mass, in which Frank Foster
figured conspicuously, created no little in
terest in police circles at Topeka. A young
man bearing the name of Frank Foster was
held in Jail in that city on the charge of
forging draft amounting to 1884 Since
his capture many instances of similar acts
had come to light, and from the evidence
the officers had of Fosters doings in vari-
Gus parts of the country, it was believed
that he was the Mansfield Foster that eloped
with Miss Lizzie Parmina, the f1fteen-year-
old daughter of prominent merchant of
that village. Foster was arrested recently
in Clinton, To-, and the officer making the
arrest was of the opinion that the girl was
with him at the time, and was there yet
An order was issued by the authori-
ties of the First Ward at Topeka recently,
requiring that all dogs in that ward be
| either muzzled or confined at once. This
was deemed expedient on account of the
existence of several cases of hydrophobia in
that locality.
Thomas Cow, molder, of Leaven7
worth, took morphine in cup of coffee a
few days ago, and was not expected to re-
cover. As he took the fatal draught he said:
''Goodby, boys, am tired of earning
money for whisky He had worked there
three years, coming originally from Gin
cinnati, and was a steady workman until
recently. His wife died two years ago,
leaving two children, boys.
The following have been appointed
Notaries Public lately: George w. Nc
Common, Jefferson County; John A. SAT-
ford, Wyandotte County.
The fourth annual exhibition of the