Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-09-20
Miscellaneous Items.


and gave it to a companion named Dick
Hodgen. The result was a badly burned
face.
The Lincoln Post (Topeka) Flambeau
Club has been invited to participate in the
grand Oriole paradeIat Baltimore, and it
was thought would accept.
The District Clerk of Ellis County has
been tried and convicted of being drunk,
and his Office declared vacant. An old law
of Kansas disqualifies a man who gets
drunk from holding Office.
Centralia, Nemaha County, a -four
ishing town of eight hundred inhabitants,
complains of the want of bakery.
John Eckles, aged siXty-one, suicided
in the rooms over the Rock Island ticket
Office at Leavenworth a few days ago by
taking rat poison. Domestic troubles the
cause.
A thirt9en-year-old son of George
Istertag was drowned in the Missouri Riv-
er north of Atchison recently while in
bathing with students from the Catholic
Church. The body was recovered.
There was a man at the Topeka camp
meeting seventy-two years of age who
preached three times in one day, shouted
all the intervening time, and then rode out
in the country seven miles to preach a fu-
neral sermon the next morning and go
back to camp-meeting where he left off.
The wild grapes were never more
abundant than this year around Salina,
Saline County. They were sold at seventy
five cents per bushel.
A sad and horrible accident occurred
near Cleardale, Sumner County, few days
fo1 Cd nod 1Y-iIv
a mowing-machine and holding on his lap
his little son. aged five years. The horses
became frightened and a sudden start threw
the boy from his fathers arms in front of
the sickle bar The father in attempting to
rescue the child, slipped and fell, and the
mowing-machine passed over them. The
boy was horribly mangled and died in a
few hours, and the father received a num-
Der of very severe wounds, but it was
thought that he would recover.
Mr.. Jonathan Tinker, of Salina,
Saline County, has proved that deer
raising can be made a success. He has
eight deer in his park of seventeen acres,
which is inclosed by a wire fence six feet
high, the creek running through the park.
The deer feed principally on the wild sumac
which grows in the park, and fat as
can be. Mr.. Tinker thinks he can raise
deer as successfully as sheep. He will in
close more acres this fall and hunt up some
more deer.
The Coroner's inquest into the causing
of the death of Leroy Mills, who was kilIe
by the explosion of the boilers at the
Shawnee mills, Topeka, recently, found
that the explosion was caused by low water
in the boiler, and that he came to his
death by accident, with no one to blame.
The Secretary of the State Fair Asso-
citation has announced the following coun-
ties as entered for competition for the 81 900
prize for agricultural products, in addition
to the counties along the line of the A. T.
& S. F. Railway: Shawnee, Douglas, JEFF
ferson, Washington, Ottawa, johnson and
Jackson.
The month of August was the coolest
known for sixteen years.
A series of rObberies was committed
a few nights sinee at Atchison by a daring
gang of burglars. They were first discov-
cred by D. P. Waggoner, the attorney for
the Missouri Pacific system, who arose at
two o'clock in the morning to take the early
train east, and found his clothing missing,
containing $40, papers and keys. Further
search revealed that the premises had been
elry were gone. An alarm was sent to the
police station and police were detailed to
guard the entrance of Everest & Waggoner,
as the thieves had keys to the same. A few
moments after, ex-City Treasurer E. K.
Blair telephoned police headquarters that
his residence had been robbed. The thieves
took $50, but overlooked a bond for $170
Blair saw man in the hall, but supposed
it was one of the family. The residence of
Mrs. Prentiss was also entered. The lady
awoke and called to her son, whereupon
the robber said: "Say nothing; it is best
for you" A colored woman employed at
Waggoner's, Lizzie Johnson, was arrested
as an accOmplice, and her paramour, Fleet
wood, barber, is now in Jail awaiting fur
Their developments as to his whereabouts at
the time.
Two men calling themselves T. A.
Rodgers and F. Common were arrested a
few days ago, charged with having been
engaged in defrauding banks by the dupi-
cate draft system, which they appear to
have carried on quite extensively.
The communion service of the Chris
tian Church of Topeka, stolen few weeks
ago, was recently recovered.
j. Frost had not arrived.
Notaries' commissions were recently
issued by the Secretary of State to the
following persons: VIM. Rich, of Pleasan-
ton, Linn County; John Ritter, of Column
bus, Cherokee County; John A Braniff. of
SaIina, Saline County; A. II. Harris, of
ElIinwood, Barton County; E. w. Sargent,
of Atchison, Atchison County, and Geo.
W. Nays of Columbus, Cherokee County.
The Fair of the Western National
Association, recently closed at Bismarck,
Wabaunsee County, was most pronounced
success. both In point of exhibits and at
tendance.
The September term of the Supreme
Court had closed.