Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-04-24
KANSAS NEWS.
VALLEY Fallg Las a Iiterary gociety.

A party of Belgians have settled near
st. Marys.
Several settlers have made final proofs
in Lane county.
The State University at Lawrence
wants $3.50 well.
G. Lewis of st. Marys shipped $500
dozen eggs in ten days.
Goods are frequently stolen from the
depot at Enterprise.
Lawrence is said to be building two
hundred new houses.
John E. Bens has been nominated for
Postmaster at Ottawa.
The boxes at the Augusta Post Office
are numbered with soap.
The old Parsons mill at Parsons was
recently destroyed by fire.
Arbor days have been announced in
several towns of the State.
The emigrant train on the Santa Fe
road has been taken off.
The Knights of Pythias of Salina are
talking of uniformed rank"
Two comets were used at a praise
meeting in Smith Centre, recently.
2 Hon. c. M. Kellogg has left Clay Cen
ter and gone to Ashtabula, Ohio, to live.
John Platt and Frank Horton of Pleas
anton shipped 1900 dozen eggs in five
days.
A bank crook named T. Martin, has
been bound over and sent to Jail in La
bette county.
Field & Pickens' store at Atwood was
burned and the whole town had mar
row escape.
A fight on the skating rink leads the
OskalOosa Sickle to call for the building
of Coliseum.
The tax list in Elk county consists OF
only fourteen quarter sections besides
some town lots.
Upon petition the city government OF
the principal streets.
The receipts from the Topeka Police
Court for the year ending March 31st
1884, were $22yO67.30.'
Eight prisoners in the city jail at To-
peka for minor crimes, escaped recently,
by losening several stones.
Hi Robertson, who was city marshal
of Leavenworth in 1866 and 1870, died
recently in San Francisco.
A German nobleman who was visiting
Lawrence, got drunk and was locked up
in the Calaboose over night.
Clark Lawrence of Chetopa, had his
hip bruised in a wreck on the Texas Pa
cific road near Elmdale, Texas.
The Kansas town without some kind
of a library is the exception, and several
of them have free public libraries.
A brakeman named w. D. Lee had
his collar bone broken on both sides
while coupling train at Neodesha.
Columbus defeated a proposition to
vote $4,000 bonds to build water works
Other propositions will be submitted.
The name of Salem, Santa Fe rail
road station in Reno county, has been
changed by the railroad company tc
Bath.
The council of Usage City by vote o.
five to three ordered the withdrawal o.
complaints before the Railroad Commits
sioners.
Salina Independent: The college di
rectors are arranging for the planting Of
four hundred shade trees on the grounds
this Spring.
A two foot vein of coal was struck a.
Oswego, in a well which had been drilled
225 feet Not enough water was founC
though.
James Van Fossen, of Humboldt, was
thrown from his horse, and his heaC
struck on stone, inficting injuries from
which he died.
Work has commenced on the new cour
house at Westmoreland. The building
is to be 60x70 feet, two full stories, anC
be built of cut stone.
Burton Monitor: Our Mennonite
friends buy more lumber and building
material, on an average, than our people
so says one who knows.
u. S. Alexander, a Justice of the Peace
of Pawnee county, was dangerously sho
by Q. w. Dunaway, in Larned, in quar-
rel about some growing rye.
Two young men named Noise, mar
rowly escaped drowning at Maxon'i
ford, near Emporia, recently. The
horses they drove were drowned.
Sedan Journal: Harry Mccormick
while carrying a pail of milk to neigh
boris, was instantly killed by a stroke
of lightning. Harry was eight years
old.
FRANK Lyon, q liquor dealar at LIN
coin, slipped up behind one of the prin
cipal witnesses against him, while leav.
ing the court room, and knocked hin
senseless.
Salina Independent: Four or five
school houses will be built in country
school districts this Summer averaging
a cost of ST. 900. One of them is to be al
Bridgeport.
On the first inst. there was a binding
snow storm in Rawlins county, so fur
ious that the Atwood Citizen says thai
neither man'nOr beast was safe outside
of an enclosure.
A man named August Lehman quar-
relied with his father-in-law, Franz
Schaffer, at Lawrence, and then had the