Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-06-12
KANSAS NEWS.
Garnett is to have a library.

Larned has troupe of colOred singers
Wellington is to have City Directory
Yates Center is to have hominy tao.
tory.
Rice county has five weekly news
papers.
Fort Scott is busy building school,
houses.
A map of Jewell county is soon to be
published.
Blue Rapids schools have an enroll
ment of PAT.
The town of st. John, Stafford county,
has had it first circus.
The Sterling High School graduated
ten scholars.
The railroad valuation for Coffey
county is $355,932.
The measles are epidemic at Cheney,
Sedgwick county.
Newton and Eldorado want daily
mail between them.
Lincoln county will celebrate the
Fourth of July at Lincoln.
The Hiawatha High School turned out
nine graduates recently.
Nescatunga is the name of a new town
started in Comanche county.
Population of McCune, 1924; an increase
during the year ofone-third.
Parkerville has a social organization
called the "Tit for Tat Club"
The new railroad in southwestern
Kansas has reached Kingman.
The old settlers of Barton county held
a reunion at Great Bend recently.
The acreage of sorghum in Rush
county will be double that of last year.
A company has been organized at
Fort Scott to bore 900 feet for oil.
Several bones of mastadOn have been
found by digging a well at Wakeeney.
Track laying is now in progress on the
Junction City and Fort Kearney Rail
road.
Henry Cochran committed suicide
near lola, by shooting himself through
the head.
During the year 1883 one firm shipped
4,330 carloads of stone from Florence,
Marion county.
Recently at the commencement exer-
cises of the Girard High School four
scholars graduated.
A Dickinson county horse named
"Wild Kansas" is winning some remark
able races in the South.
Marysville is reported by the Assessor
to have population of 2,334-a gain of
800 during the past year.
The Hutchinson High School recently
graduated a class of seven members-five
young ladies and two young gentlemen.
The bank at Baxter Springs failed re-
Gently because of a run which it had
been experiencing since the New York
panic.
The employees of the Kansas Pacific
Railroad shops at Ellis only work nine
hours day now, instead ten, as here
tofore.
Emporians think Cottonwood river
water unfit to drink, and propose to re-
move the water works to the banks Of
the NeoshO..
Recently the safe of Knight & Jones,
merchants of Hutchinson, was robbed
of 5000. No clue has been obtained as
to the perpetrators.
The HelEingtonian Thieves broke into
and robbed the safe of our hardware
merchant, VIM. Gelino, of something
over $500 in money.
Coffey county has gained in population
during the past year 1,407. Burlington
show gain of 3OO the population being
2,027, while this year it is 1889.
Sixteen horses have been stolen near
North Topeka during the past year. Re-
Gently two thieves were caught, and their
confession is anxiouslY awaited.
The population of Sedgewick is 1854
more than it was in 1883, while the pop
ulation of Wichita is $4,000, gain of
5000, making a total gain of nearlp 5000.
J.P. Brooks, prominent citizen of
Humboldt, Kan, died from the effects of
poison, probably belladOnna, given him
by his physician, by mistake, for capsi-
cum.
Work on the sugar-works at that place,
says the Ottawa Journal, is being pushed
rapidly, several car loads of machinery
having arrived and being placed in posi-
ton.
= The Burlington Insurance Company
possesses an average of 100000 assets
Wherewith to meet every 500 of its liza
bilities Policy holders in that company
are well secured against loss.
The Sunday law is being enforced in
Minneapolis. The restaurants, confec-
tionery stores, livery stables, drug stores,
cigar stores and shops were closed or di-
rected to be closed, under penalty of en-
forcement of the State Sunday law.
Abilene Chronicle: Donnell, Lawson &
Simpson, one of the suspended banking
firms in New York, have considerable
money belonging to Dickinson county,
but it is all covered with a good bond.
Recently in Leavenworth a heavy
robbery was committed and the booty
obtained large. Mr.. Giles Henderson,
living a few miles from that city on
farm, was the victim. The amount taken
was s., 800 in currency.