Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-05-01


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Some boys in Leavenworth got into a |
dispute, and George Holloway, aged ten,
shot Silas Edmunds, aged fourteen, in
the head with a small pistol. Holloway |
ran and escaped.
A train over the Missouri Pacific from |
Parsons to Ft. Scott recently ran fifty |
miles in ffty-6ve minutes, including |
three stops. It was the special train of
the Railway Assessors.
A party of reckless boys placed a
heavy wagon across the railroad at Cher
okee, and when a freight train came
along at midnight, the wagon was
smashed to kindling wood.
il. Blake voted illegally at Great |
Bend and was duly fined for it. His !
vote made tie between two candidates, |
and the man for whom it was cast won
the toss for the office.
Usage City Free Press The wind storm
of last Thursday lifted Leroy st. Amand's
barn carefully from over his horse and |
buggy, without damaging either and
completely demOlishing the barn.
Lawrence Journal: Some of the boys
were out hunting yesterday, and shot a |
| large white bird said to be a sWaWn. It |
was on exhibition in front of Jaedicke's
store and attracted considerable atten-
ton.
At Fulton, Bourbon county, Robert
Archer and Frank Knowles quarreled in
a livery stable and Archer fatally stab
bed Knowles with a pitchfork. Both
had been drinking.
James Billingsly, a township trustee of
Marshall county, sends to the Board of
Railroad Commissioners a complaint
of extortionate discrimination by the
St. Joe & Western road, of the date of
April 6.
Gov. Click has pardoned Thos. Smith,
a saloon keeper of Washington, who was
sentenced to served ninety days in Jail,
on account of il-health. The petition
was signed by the Judge and other prom
inent persons.
Wellington WeLJiylgtOniG11: Some sneak
thief went through the house of Jasper
Bowers, while the family were absent,
and stole set of table spoons, a set Of
silver tea spoons, pair Of gold earrings
and finger ring.
The Peabody bank building was
thrown down by excavating an adjoining
lot. The probable loss to the owners is
$4,000. The bank was paying checks
and receiving deposits in new quarters
in about an hour after the building fell.
A Wellington dispatch says: This sec
ton has been favored with the most
cOpious Spring showers. The wheat
prospect in Sumner county was never
better, with larger acreage than last
year. The farmers have mostly finished
corn planting.
Sidney Cowboy: r. B. Linville, while
sinking a well on his ranch, found at a
depth of about seventeen feet several
J buffalo bones and piece of an elkhOrn.
Among the buffalo bones were those of a
foot, with the hoof in a good state of
preservation. The original owners must
have been old settlers.
The thirteenth annual meeting of the
Kansas State Dental Association will be
held at HiaWatha, Kansas, commencing
on Tuesday, May 6. This meeting is
held at the same time and place as the
annual meeting of the Nebraska State
ASSOCIATION, in accordance with the I'M
: animous desire of the two associations
for joint meeting.
/ Geo. II. Mays, of the State Normal
school, won the first prize at the orator
ical contest at the State University, Law
renee. L. H. Leach, of the University.
! of Kansas, came out second, and w. A.
Quayle, of the Baker University, third.
Mr.. Mays will represent Kansas in the
Interstate contest at Iowa City, Iowa,
r May 10th.
The pretty child who played little Eva
in Piper's Uncle Toms Cabin company,
) died in Strong City recently. The eve
ming before she played her part as usual,
in seeming good health. The next day
: her child spirit had flown to those an.
1 chn %ho
play, had seemed to hear chanting to
e her.
Phe Oberlin Herald makes the follow
ing note: The business of the United
2 States Land Office for the month of
t proofs, SO; cash proofs, II; homestead
entries, 80; timber entries, %: pre-
emptions, 40; soldier d. S., l. This shows
, that the public domain is being rapidly
l occupied; but there is room for many
more.
James w. Hardy, living in the south
ern portion of Kingman county, who
: lived alone, was found dead in his rock
Z ing chair, paper in one hand, revolver
in the other, his hat on and bullet hole
8 in the back of his head. 1t was supposed
: to be suicide, but subsequently it was de-
/ cided that the man had been murdered
and then fixed up" to indicate selfde-
4 structiOn.
/ At Valley Falls hotel-runner named
o Censor, and blacksmith named John
McDermott, quarreled as to who should
pay cigar bill and McDermOtt knocked
I Censor down. Later, Censor stepped up
: behind McDermOtt and struck him 8
I blow on the head, crushing his skull
McDermott says he was as much to
It blame as Censor, and declined to appear
G against him.
u A committee of the State Oratorical
Society which conducted contest at the
d State University, decided that George S
s Mays, who won the first prize had pla.
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