Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-12-13


MIR. BeaubIossom lives in Jewell
county.
Hen parties are now in vogue in Wa /
Keeney.
The salina Glee Club gave a concert
st solomon.
The population of Osborne is now
fully i,oOQ-
Campbell University, HoltOn,. enrolls
$50 pupils this term.
A 5000 school house has just been
completed at Goddard.
The commissioners Of Saline county
have called a Grand Jury.
Several parties in Girard have been
arrested fer selling liquor.
Topeka, with a population Of $4,000, is
the largest city in Kansas.
The local musical talent Of Halstead
produced Queen Esther recently.
A French colony Of eighty-seven per
sons recently. settled in Allen county.
NIankato is already getting ready for
a balloon ascension next Fourth OF july.
Leonardville hasa skating rink, which
1t lis proposed to convert into q theatre
also.
The latest objection to far Western
Kansas is that sit Is too far between
trees"
Westphalia has made wonderful pro
gress in population dnring the past few
years.
Johnnie Morrison, a Fort Scott youth.
died from the effects of smoking cigar
cites.
An Atchison undertaken claims to
have buried 800 persons in the last six
teen years.
Sumner county has thirteen newspa-
pers. Shawnee is the only county that
can beat it.
The Burlington Opera House and
skating rink were formally opened on
Thanksgiving.
An entertainment was given at Law
renee recently for the benefit of the
public library.
One physician has treated within a
short time fifteen cases of diphtheria in
and around Stockton.
The Atchison Hospital Association
will give their annual charity ball the
third week in December.
DR.. Campbell, of Holton, has been ap-
pointed assistant physician at the Insane.
Asylum, Osawattomie.
Burglars blew open a safe in M. R.
CulbersOn's grocery store at Ottawa and
robbed it Of nearly 5000 In money.
A colored blacksmith of Fort Scott has
forged out two knives, which ne will
send to the New Orleans Exposition.
A quarrel over a game of cards at
Galena, Kas., resulted in the death of A.
Briggs at the hands of George Packet.
There are some prospects of Ottawa
securing the Hebrew Summer School
that is to be located somewhere in the
West.
The county jail at Emporia was con-
demned in unmeasureu terms by the
grand jury in session there at the pres
ent time.
Wellington Press: The water tank on
the hundred-foot high water works tow
er is being completed. 1t viii hold 3d.
600 gallons.
At Cawker City on Thanksgiving day
the corner stone of the Library building
and Methodist church were laid. A
grand ball was given at night.
Willis Thompson, q Shawnee county
student in the State Normal School,
while out hunting, Thanksgiving Day,
accidentally shot and killed himself
Louisville Republican: Wood as fuel
in this section is fast becoming one of
the things of the past. Coal is taking
the place Of this once very useful article.
A young man, nineteen years of age,
in Wichita, named Clarence S. Wood |
man, has invented a patent car coupler, /
which he calls the "Magic Life-Saving
Coupler"
J. w. GOOdbury, of Pittsburg, commit /
ted suicide at Fort Scott a few days ago
bytaking morphine. From papers found
IN his possession 1t was discovered he /
had done considerable gambling.
Usage City Free Press: The following /
shipments took place last month from /
this station:-COal S96 cars; corn So cars; |
hay, one car; hogs, three cars; and sheep, /
one car, making total Of 964 cars.
DR.. Floyd, of Paola, bored a vel 176 /
feet deep before he struck water which 1
is now believed to contain medical prop /
critics beneficial to diseases Of the kid /
ney. Several persons are already using 4
it for that purpose.
Caldwell Journal: The masons are /
daubing on the mortar right and left on \
the new Opera house and it VIII only be 4
short time now before we can have the 1
pleasure of attending theaters in one of /
the finest opera houses in the West.
The poll books of one township In Ford 4
county were stolen from the. pocket Of I
one Of the judges of the election in
Dodge City saloon recently. This mixes
things up out there, as two men claim an
election by the returns from that town
ship.
A Tuxhora, a farmer near Mcpherson,
who separated from his wife a year ago,
returned a few days since, drove her
from the house, set it and the barn on