Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-11
KANSAS NEWS.

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The Bulletin boasts of a car manufac-
tory in Sterling.
The Leavenworth city pay roll for Au-
gust was $2,63l.
Scarlet fever is reported to be preva-
lent at Jewell city.
Numerous burglaries are reported near
the vicinity of Oswego.
$4,000 worth of new buildings are be-
ing erected in Stockton.
A county seat contest is now progress
ing in Graham county.
Downs now has twelve trains day,
arriving and departing.
There is considerable moving from
Greenwood to Meade county.
In 1871 Jewell county had two post
Offices, now it has twenty-five.
The total receipts for the Atchison Pc
lice courts for August were $40.
An Atchison cannery put up 100000
cans Of tomatoes during this season.
The Normal school at Emporia opened
a few days ago for the coming school
year.
It has cost $2,775 to conduct the public
schools of Sedgwick City during the past
year.
During a recent storm the Dodge City
CoaOboy says that sheep "drifted' for fifty
miles,
Over fifty new buildings are going up
at Burlington, many Of them fine resi-
dences.
The ACCESSIBILITY of incorporating the
town of Gaylord, Smith county, Is being
discussed.
Avilla is the name of a new town
which has been established in COmanche
county.
Telephone communication between
Usage City, Americas and EmpOria is to
be established.
A supposed mastodon skeleton has
been discovered on Jewell county farm
near Burr Oak.
The feasibility of establishing a high
school a SedgWick City is being discussed
by the school direstors of that city.
Three confidence men named Kearns,
johnson and Cunningham fleeced a far
mer out of $155 at AtchisOn a few days
ago.
Ellsworth Nslus: We learn from John
B. MOgg that Thomas Scion had be-
come respondent and disheartened
and hung himself in his own stable re-
Gently.
Columbus Courier: A few days ago a
man by the name of Funk was brought
to the city by the constable of Mineral
township, charged with the murder of a
man by the name of Collier, at shaft No.
2, Keithly coal mines, ScammOnville.
Belle PLANE Nelc8: The plat of the site
of Nevada, a new town just laid out on
the line of the D., M. q a. railroad, in
London township, northwest Of this city,
has been drawn and placed on record at
the county seat.
Larned Optic: Two orphan boys, aged
about six and eight years, arrived by eX-
press at this station Wednesday noon,
with a shipping tag attached to the left
shoulder of their coats. They were from
the North Indiana Orphans Home, To-
Gated at Mishawaka.
Topeka Mail: A lad of thirteen named
Tom Holiday, who resided on Madison
street, First ward, while trying to climb
on freight train, recently, fell, and was
run over. His right leg was cut off at
the thigh, and his left one was crushed
He died in a few hours.
Atchison Globe: During the month of
August the Missouri Pacific did more
business in Atchison than during the
busiest Fall and Winter month of last
year. The road did phenomenal bus
mess in 1888, but in 1884 the dullest
month Is greater than the best in 1888.
Sedan Journal: The prohibitory law
has been the means of placing 5000 to
the credit of the common school fund
of the county, to which will shortly be
added 5000 more from a forfeited recOg-
nizance bond. The total will amount to
nearly sixteen cents for every child of
school age in the county at the present
time.
Chautauqua Journal: 1t is reported
that six hundred thousand tons of rail
road iron has been purchased by the
Denver, Memphis & Atlantic railroad
We presume that grading will be COM
menced in a very few days, as the oath
Of the present month was the time spec
fled in the contract for the work to
S commence.
Mound Valley Herald: a young child
of Mr. P. w. Wilson, living South of the
Valley, got hold of a mushroom, one day
last week, and ate quite a large piece Of
it before he was discovered, and was so
badly poisoned that his life was de-
SPARED Of An antidOte was admins
tered, and at last accounts the child was
doing well.
Howard Grip A few evenings ago two
engines on the st. Joseph & Western yard
collided, MASKING the pilots, and shaking
things up generally. 1t seems that
switch was turned for another engine,
but a storm coming up 1T was not replaced.
A freight train Just then coming into
town, was side tracked on account of this
and run into an engine standing on the
side track, with the results above stated.
Several railroad meetings have been
held and arrangements are said to be
about perfected by the Union Pacific to
extend their Lawrence branch from
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