Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-04-17

In Abilene, with ninety Pennsylvania,
looking for farms and ranches. Mr..
Bender was here, and said he would be
here in Brookville with some 20 families
sometime next week.
Randolph Echo: There were sold by
Randolph merchants last week, $4,000
pounds barbed wire, q cultivators, 4
wagons, 81 plows, 10 harrows, 8 stalk
cutters, 6 corn planters, 4 check roWers,
lister drills, 8 corn drills, IA sets Of
| harness and smaller implements too
numerous to mention. One store sold
in one day, grass seed to the amount of
| SOB, while on Saturday, another one
bought APO doz. eggs.
The tornado season is nigh at hand
and all property owners should insure
against these terrible destructive storms.
The Burlington Insurance Company, of
Burlington, Iowa, is the pioneer company
of the west in this branch of insurance,
and one of the most reliable companies
in the country.
Abilene Gazette: The oil well of Mr..
Hickey, south of Chapman, is attracting
considerable attention and hundreds are
hocking to his farm every week to see
this wonderful well. Experts say that
all that is needed to obtain oil in paying
quantities is depth. Our reporter visited
! the well last week and found the oil
there in sufficient quantity to warrant
development.
A man who was said by some to be
John Gray, and others to be j. Herring
! ton, was found dead and horribly man
gled on the Union Pacific about a mile
south of Leavenworth, by a section fore
man. From the evidence before the
coroner's jury, it seems the deceased
was under the influence of liquor and
that he was killed on the night of March
28th.
The Abilene Gazette says that young
man named BILLY" Courtney, an APP
prentice in a meat market in Abilene,
recently eloped with two girls Of that
place named Matte Hew, aged sixteen,
and Ada Carabello, aged eighteen. He
bought tickets for Denver, but the moth
er Of one of them heard of the affair and
returned. He said he loved both of
them.
Burlingame Chronicle: Mr.. w. w.
Montgomery informs us that during the
storm of last Monday night he had two
COWS killed by the lightning. The light
ming was attracted by wire fence and
poor animals in the head, killing it in
stantly. It then jumped to another part
of the fence, and ran about the same dis
lance in an opposite direction, striking
and instantly killing the other animal
Chetopa AdUQuce: Last Saturday Mr.
John Reedy purchased a preparation of
nitric acid and mercury and placed it in
his breast pocket, and while standing in
front of the drugstore few minutes af-
terward, the thing exploded, blowing uL
into,his face, burning it badly, and near.
ly putting his eyes out. The effect o.
that prescription was a little more sud
den than good many made at some
drug stores, but not any more dangerous
in the long run.
Gaylord is sure to have wooden mill
The Herald says that city has the larges
Touring mill in the west, shipping
-four to every point of the com pass, ever
unto Texas a creamery with capacity
of 1900 pounds of butter per day, selling
= its products in Boston, IN New York CITY
and in Denver; a canning factory which
supplies our home market and next yea
will ship goods to the four quarters o
the globe; a wooden mill under way ant
sugar works in the perspective.
: Fort Scott Monitor: A man by tn
name of Jackson Williams, from Albion
Iowa, accompanied by his ten year OLE
: son, boarded the 5 o'clock Gulf train at
I Kansas City yesterday evening enrout
f for this place. Soon after leaving Kan
f SOS City, the father fell asleep, and wa
f much surprised on arriving here at 1914
to find his son missing. The boy ha
been subject to having fits or spasms, an,
. it is supposed that in one of these spell
y | IOc,v Cd IF ho
: while it was in motion. Mr.. Williams i
e very much exercised over the disappear
+ ance of his son, not knowing what ha
befallen him.
Wichita Times: During the terrif
= gale that was blowing in this county,
g fire was by some means started in
q piece of grass in Sherman township.
e party of neighbors who were shellin
corn at the home of VIM. A. Madden
y first discovered the fire, that was traV
e cling at almost race horse speed towar
!. the home of Hugh Eddy. AS soon a
8 possible they reached the place of dan
o ger, and while Mr.. Eddy was rescuin
his family who had not yet discovere
the fire, Mr.. Madden ran into the bar
/ and united the horses and attempted t
u lead them from the building, which wa
T. by this time a sheet of flames. Tn
horses frantic with terror became ur
l. manageable, threw Mr.. Madden to tn
floor of the building and they perishe
q in the flames. Mr.. Madden was wit
It difficulty rescued, but is so badly burr
e that no hope is entertained of his recoN
i cry. Mr.. Eddy lost all his building
/ and grain. Mr.. Smith lost four horse
and all his buildings. Mr.. Maher lo
800 bushels of corn.