Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-12-06

/ several thousand dollars which he had
I irauduiently drawn on firms in Chicago
! and 81. Louis by means of forged bills OF
] lading for grain shipments from Water
] vile. lie was city and township Treasur-
/ er. but those books were balanced and
all straight
Eurekais to have a college. Citizens
are raising a fund for its erection and
! have $4,000 raised as g starter. They
/ have also given fifteen acres Of land for
| it, in a suitable location, close to town.
| The Congregational Church, or the ap-
! prOpriate board thereof, agrees to endow
the institution an amount equal to what
shall be gathered by the citizens of
Eureka.
A Missouri Pacific passenger train
struck and instantly killed an old man
named Carpenter on a bridge near Wyan-
dOtte. Carpenter essayed to get across
the bridge ahead of the train and when
nearly over was caught by the engine
and hurled twenty feet in the air, the
body falling In a ravine. The body was
taken care of by section men and the
train, which had slowed up" did not
stop.
An alarming disease which mystifes
all the physicians who have seen it has
broken out among the convicts confined
IN one OF the prison wards at the peni-
tertiary. The malady resembles ship
fever, and has the appearance of being a
very low and malignant form of typhoid
In It's last stages sores break out all over
the body Of the patient and when the
fever leaves, death ensues in a few hours.
Up to this time about sixty Of the con-
victs have had the fever and ten have
died of it in the last two weeks.
A y n
pOria. Dali has been running a sort Of
street photograph business in Emporia,
and succeeded in euticing several respect
able young girls connected with the HO-
tel Coolidge to have their pictures AIKEN
in group. After accom- plishing thls he
cut the heads Of the pictures off and past
ed them on the photographs Of the nude
bodies Of lot of demi monde that he
had taken, thus representing these young
ladies dressed only in the garments Of
nature. One of them fell into the hands
Of a thoroughly worthless fellow by the
name Of Ed. Schmiding, who showed it
to his friends and was thus exposed, ar
rested, and is now IN Jail. He then gave
away" Dali. The penalty for this offence
Is $1,000 line or 100 days In jail.
A jonifcation meeting at Belle Plaine,
on the night of the 18th, wound up with
stocks department, while hunting in the
woods near Free Hollow, found two
striped snakes, which he captured alive
and transplanted to a cage in the uni
Versity laboratory. One of the snakes
soon died from confinement. The other
one, however, pursued the even tenor of
its way, quietly basking in the sunlight,
at peace with all its surroundings. A
few days ago, however, Mr.. Steadman
entered the laboratory and discovered
! that there had been an increase in the
snake family, and that the floor was
/ covered with a mass of wriggling, seeth-
! ing, infantile serpents, which did not
display the least modesty in crawling up
his pants leg or down his back. Forty
nine of these reptiles were collected, and
! there is no telling how many escaped to
! furnish material for future chrOniclers of
| serpentile events.