Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-05-22
KANSAS NEWS.

The marriage boom has struck the Hi
awatha school teachers.
Business houses in Harper, except no
tells, must close at II o'clock.
The City Council of Garnett has closed
the billiard halls in that town.
The Sickle says the old log jail at Os-
kaloosa, an old landmark, has been re-
moved.
Governor Click is grandfather of a son
born May 9th to Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Orr,
Of Atchison.
Harry Frost, of the Topeka Lance, has
been appointed Adjutant of the Third
Regiment, K. S. M.
The stars and stripes have just been
unfurled from the top Of the new five
story Touring mill at Saratoga.
John Daniels, alias Jim Weston, no
touous horse thief and desperate charac-
ter, has been arrested at Winfield.
A little daughter of Micajah Thomp-
son, of Medicine Lodge, was badly
bitten by pet wolf which got loose.
An emery wheel in the Central Branch
shops at Atchison. burst the other day
and flew into thousand pieces. No
one was hurt.
The body of Alonzo Rimbo, aged II
years, who was drowned at Lawrence,
was found several days after, two miles
down the river.
Geo. Ball, a nurseryman of Atchison
county, was thrown from a lumber wagon
and received injuries from which he died
ten minutes after,
Daniel Jacobs, (colored), aged Is, was
knocked from the platform of car in
construction train, on the L. I. & S. w.
road, by cattle-guard, and run over and
killed.
Newton Banner: Last Sunday evening
Mr.. Evans, of Richland township, had
nine head of mich COWS killed by light
ming, and the same night T. J. Grant had
three killed.
Council Grove Republican: The city
fathers have ordered the removal of the
uusightly sheds or porches that disfgure
the fronts of some of the finest blocks
on Main street.
At an oratorical contest at st. Mary's
College, where there were seven contest
ants, T. Francis COnroy, Of Milwaukee,
Wis, was the victor, his address being
"The Effect of the Crusades."
Minneapolis Messenger: The Saline
river has been higher this year, than for
sixteen or eighteen years. More water,
in the shape ofrain has fallen this season
than for any previous sixteen years.
Augusta Gazette: Al. Vale exhibited
to us last Thursday, young chick with
out eyes, or even place for them. 1t
was lively and pert, and should it live
it will have hard time to pick up a
living.
Mr.. Gathers, father of the young man
who was killed by the cars at Iowa Point
recently, while intoxicated, will prose
cute Ben Tracey, who, it is alleged, sold
young Gathers the liquor, after having
been ordered not to do so.
FL Dorado Republican: William Gill,
while peeling a lemon, cut a small artery
in his hand, which bled profusely. Be
coming faint from loss of blood, he laid
in an unconscious state for quite while.
He has entirely recovered.
Atwood Citizen: Thenortheastern part
of this county is fast settling up with i'm
migrants, large number having moved
in this month. They are generally Hun
garians, BOhemianS and Germans, and
are hard-working, industrious class.
Lincoln Banner: A little son of Chas.
Steinhause, of Pleasant township, acct
dentally fell into a boiler of scalding
water on Saturday last, from the effects
of which he died on Sunday morning.
The unfortunate child was three years
old.
Dodge City Times Sam Burgan, who
lives in the southeast part of the county,
was arrested and brought here on the
charge of killing cattle. A young man
by the name of Schneider was also ar
rested on a similar charge and was adj
mitted to bail.
Complaint was made in Topeka by the
wife of colored man named Edwards,
living in the country near town, that her
husband had twice hung up and then let
down, her son, a boy eight or nine years
old, because he had mislaid a curry
comb. The boys neck showed hard US
age.
Kinsley Mercury: We are informed by
Mr.. G. w. Fulton that the Kinsley Irri-
eating company intend to begin active
operations at once. New gates and bulk
heads have been put in at the river, and
the water will be turned in in a short
time. Three new bitches will be con-
structed at once.
The Sickle mentions another incendia-
ry fire in Oskaloosa, the building being
an old one in the southwest corner Of
the square. A quantity of charcoal had
been saturated with coal oil and then
emptied in the house and fired. The
flames were extinguished before serious
damage was done.
Abilene Gazette: Tom Peacock, the
young man who was in jail for violation
of the prOhibitory law, at Solomon, took
his departure Friday night by way of
window, and has not since been heard
of. He was serving out sentence of $50
fine and costs, and had only completed
about one week of the term.
Few insurance companies have risen
so rapidly in popular favor, wherever