Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-04-19
miscellaneous Items.

In response to an inquiry regarding
the report of devastation by smallpox at
GaIena and Empire City, L. c. Weldy,
Postmaster at Galena, teIegraphed to the
agent of the Associated Press a few days
ago as follows: 'There are three ceases of
smallpox in Galena and seven in Empire
City. Six deaths have occurred in the past
ten days. Plenty funds on hand. We need
nothing. Business goes on about as usual.
The excitement is all with outsiders"
William Neal shot Frank Brown in
Chautauqua County recently and killed
him. 1t was said Brown was quarrelsOme,
and that Neal shot him in seIf-defense.
Governor Click has appointed w.
G. Jones, of Allen County, Warden of the
State Penitentiary, vice Major Hopkins,
recently appointed Railroad Commissioner.
The Secretary of the Interior has de-
cided to offer the Otoe Indian lands in Kan
sas and Nebraska for sale May 1. The APP
praisers have valued the land at from 81 to
$40 an acre.
Charles FOndree, a laborer employed
in moving barrels on the fourth STORY of the
sugar-wOrks, at LeavenwOrth, was instantly
killed few days ago. He was near the
elevator opening when a millwright named
Anderson, at work tightening some bolts
on the seventh story, let fall a wrench
which struck Fondree in the back of the
skull, crushing it and causing him to fall to
the ground floor, a distance of forty feet,
where he was picked up a shapeless mass.
The Railroad Commission met at To-
peka the other day and organized by elect
ing Henry Hopkins President, and E. J.
Turner, member of the Legislature from
Sheridan County, Secretary.
The sugar factory at Leavenworth
has lately purchased several hundred thou
sand bushels of corn at MiItonvilIe, at the
terminus of the Kansas Central Railroad,
which would be shipped at once, the Kan
sas Central having completed its track to
the sugar-works, a distance of a mile. The
corn was purchased at low prices, and
there was a very large amount held by
farmers, waiting an advance in the mar
ket.
Frank Merrill, harnessmaker, late
of Denver, Colo, died at Leavenworth the
other morning from the effects of morphine
taken. it was said, with suicidal intent. He
had been troubled with pleurisy for several
days and purchased box of morphine pills
to quiet his nerves.
The Topeka Commonwealth says:
''More brick will be made in Kansas this
year than ever before. Brick houses are
becoming fashionable"
The Stockmen's Association, in ses-
sion at Medicine Lodge recently, agreed
that the spring roundup should commence
on the Dist of May. One reason of
this was the poor condition in which horses
are at present.
George Baughman, W DO had been an
inmate of the County jail at Topeka for
three months, serving out a sentence i'm
posed by the United States Court, was re-
leased few days ago, his time having ex-
pired. As he was leaving the Jail he was
met by Sheriff Thrall, of Sumner County,
who served warrant on him and took him
to that county for trial on charge of
swindling. 1t was alleged that Baughman
| executed a chatteI mortgage to L. D. Hess,
of Sumner County, on property which he
did not own, and obtained 800 from him.
The list of property includes forty-five
head of hogs, twenty-five head of cattle,
two new wagons, four mich cows, thirty
| five acres of corn and two drills.
A local paper of late date said Dan
ford's Sumner County matters had been
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formers interests in that county in full
settlement of all claims. This, it was un-
/ derstood, was a complete settlement.
Some Topekans are studying Spanish.
Percy Harris, of Lawrence, a section
hand employed on the Kansas Pacific Rail
| road, had his leg terribly crushed while un-
/ loading railroad iron from a car. The COM
| pany's physician amputated the limb.
Fifty feet of brick wall on the west
/ side of Winn's millinery store at Leaven-
| worth fell the other morning, damaging
| the stock about $1,000. There were ten
| ladies in the store when the wall began to
/ totter, but all escaped. a number of men
| who were excavating ceIler,which caused
! the wall to fall, narrowly escaped being
caught by the mass.
Suffering hens to run at large at En-
| poria costs S and costs.