Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-31
KANSAS NEWS.

WOrkS company.
Tt costs $50 to fire off a pistol on the
streets of Dodge.
Ell Dorado has burned one million
bricks this season.
Oskaloosa reports the failure of a
leading business firm Of that city recent
ly.
The erection of a grain elevator at Ce-
darville, Smith county, has been COM
menced.
David Keen, laborer of Oswego, was
struck by lightning and instantly killed,
near that city, recently.
A twelve year old boy named Willie
Plat was drowned in the Missouri river
at Atchison while bathing.
A new town has been started midway
between Butler City and Olsburg, on the
narrow guage, called Fostoria.
A man by the name Of Smith, who
takes care of the railroad engines at
coupling cars in that city a short time
ago.
The management of the Southern
Kansas railroad have been discharging
some of the conductors, charging them,
II l6 uluOI6JOOUs Will A4AOOAAA4S AVN
too many fares.
Jetmore ReUei1e: Mr.. D. M. Jessup
had narrow escape recently. He drove
into the Sawlog while it was up and had
already sunk twice when he caught
hold Of the wagon and drew himself
out.
Mcpherson Freeman: The mulberry
trees are loaded down with fruit. By
spreading a cloth under one Of these, Civ
ing the limbs shake, you can secure
berries enough for small family.
Mcpherson Freeman: G. H. Berg
strands little daughter while playing
with loaded cartridge Tuesday explod-
ed it, tearing off the end of the thumb
and middle finger, which had to be am
putated.
X, One dealer in Winning, Washington
county, has shipped the past year nearly
100 cars of hogs, so of cattle, $4,000 bush
els of wheat, with daily clearance of
from 5000 to 1900 bushels of corn, for
about ten months.
Topeka Commonwealth: The Reform
School boys are to have a brass band and
library. At its last meeting the Board
of Trustees appropriated 500 to buy
books with, and sent off an order for the
BOs
the band.
Speaking of the Oklahoma boomers
the Belle Plaine Ne1US says: Those who
went down to see the soldiers bounce
the boomers have returned and say they
are satisfied they will make no resist
ance, as they are hard looking set, and
the most of them keep their horses har-
messed to leave at a moments warming
Recently, while some blasting was be-
ing done in the vicinity of lola, a shaft
of rock weighing 200 pounds was thrown
to height of sixty feet, and in coming
down it struck thereof of a two story
house and fell way through into the Gel
lar, passing through three stories and
demolishing everything in it's downward
course with which it came in contact.
Caldwell Standard: Mr.. w. II. Overy
met with a serious loss and misfortune
a short time ago. Lightning struck and
killed three OF his horses. He had just
returned home from Belle PLANE, and
turned his team, valued at $500, loose in
the pasture when they were struck and
instantly killed, together with colt that
was with him.
At Dodge City, Deputy Sheriff Mat
theirs, notorious as Mysterious Dave, y
shot and killed Thomas Nixon, Deputy
Marshal. The murder was the result OF
an old feud. Matthers fired Jour shots,
any one of which would have been fatal
A cowboy standing near was also shot in
the knee. Nixon had the reputation OF
being the best buffalo hunter on the
plains.
, A meeting of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen was held in Emporia q
short time ago at which delegates were
from 0OInEa QlOnO the
Santa Fe line. The annual election was
held with the following result: r. s.
Means, Master; j. B. Mcneil, Financier
R. E. Case, delegate to the Grand Lodge
to be held at Toronto, Canada.
It was supposed that a man named
Hammer had mysteriously disappeared
from the city of st. Marys and it was sup
posed he had been murdered
His team was found on the
prairies four miles north of that
place, unhitched from the wagon, aud act
ing under supposition that he had been
killed, number of men spent two days
hunting him, but a letter was received
from him about twenty-five miles north
of St Marys, to which place he must have
wondered in fit of temporary insanity
Columbus Star: Lightning struck the
barn of VIM. Sager, near Columbus, 6
few days ago. Mr.. Sager had just come
in from the field to avoid being out il
the storm, which gave signs of being 6
desperate one, and had placed his three
horses-in hsrness-in the barn, just be
fore the terrible flash of lightning, which
killed the three animals almost instantly
The barn was soon ablaze, but by exerteC
efforts the harness was removed from
the dead horses, and large amount o.
corn saved from the burning building
About 400 bushels of corn was consumed
together with seven or eight tons of hay
Troy Chief: Giles A. Briggs, living
west of White Cloud, met with a sun
stroke one of the hot days in the early