Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-05-15
KANSAS NEWS.

Leavenworth has Herbert Spencer
club.
oberIin is to have a creamery right
away.
The Avon Club, of Topeka, is thirteen
years old.
Water has been reached in the public
well at Onaga.
G. B. Lake, Chief Engineer of the A.
T. & S. F. is dead.
The Congregationalists propose to es-
tablish college at Salina.
Business houses in Harper, except no
tells, must close at II o'clock.
Superior inducements are offered to
start creamery at Belleville.
The Chicago Comedy Company played
for whole week in Anthony.
Burglars have been paying their re-
spects to LeaVenWorth people.
Manhattan stone is to be used in the
construction of the Salina college.
Senator Ingalls, arrived in Atchison
April 10Th and remained few days.
More shade trees have been set out in
Fredonia this Spring than ever before.
Clay Center Times Elias Wyant caught
a snow-white ferret few mornings ago.
The artesian well at Kinsley has been
dug 100 feet and bed of gravel has been
reached.
The Leavenworth Fair Association
has added twenty-five lots to its
grounds.
The total receipts of a recent Catholic
fol + oil q of
profits, $548.
The residence of Mrs. E. Storrs, of
EmpOria, was robbed of $400 worth of
jewelry recently.
The st. George Society, of Topeka,
composed exclusively of Englishmen,
will celebrate May oath.
The corner stone of the new Court
House at Westmoreland was laid with
appropriate ceremonies.
1T Leslie, farmer near Atchison,
Kan, lost seventy hogs in one night by
some mysterious disease.
A little boy in Harvey county was bit
ten by a rattlesnake, recently. He is
considered out Of danger.
The new depot at Cheney was fired by
spontaneous combustion recently, but
WAS uOI SCIIOu5ly 1uJuISu'
Mrs. Coventry and her son were
drowned while trying to ford the Marias
Des Cygnes river, near QuenemO.
A young man named Gathers, of White
Cloud, was run over by the cars and
killed, near Iowa Point, recently.
Samuel Smith, of Wisconsin, had fit
while in the Grand opera house at To-
peka and fell, dislocating his shoulder.
Salina Journal: We learn that Rev.
VIM. Smith, late of Salina, is to be elected
to professorship in Wisconsin college.
Garnett Republican: Jim Tefft, of Lin
coin township, says that his corn is
all up, and was not injured by the
snow.
E. w. Paine, President ofthe Medicine
Valley Bank at Medicine Lodge, who
was shot by the men who attempted to
rob the bank, is dead.
Ellsworth Reporter: On the first day OF
April, 1884, the U. P. railroad had $4,000
acres of land for sale in this county. Az
erage price per acre 81.
Mr.. Edward Uhl, a well-known citizen
of Barton county, is son, by her first
husband, of the late Mrs. OttendOrfer, Of
the New York Stats Zeitung.
Augusta Gazette: John Brown wound
ed black eagle and then captured it
1t is a magnificent specimen, measusine
over seven feet from tip to tip.
J. P. Clerf, living three miles west o.
Axtell, was kicked in the face by horse
and received a shocking wound. A par
of the face was torn off entirely.
The residence of H. A. B. Cook, o
Blue Mound, Linn county, was STRUCK
by lightning and burned, together with
most of its contents. Loss $1,000.
L. M. Crawford has rendered the free
use of his opera house to the Topeka
Press Club for an entertainment which
they propose to give in the near future
A dispatch from Ottawa says that Vim
Stoddard, of that city, was run over By
the cars and killed. His body was fright
fully mangled, not whole bone bein|
left.
The bridge on the Santa Fe railroad
over the PaWnee at Larned caught fir
from passing train, delaying the cas-
and west bound passenger trains si1
hours.
Russell Record: Lightning struck tn
barn of H. Akelon, about four mile
northeast of Russell, destroying tn
same and all its contents, except tn
stock
The Spring meeting of the Parson
Jockey Club will be held on the 18th
10th and 18th of May. About $4,000 il
purses is offered for trotting, pacing an
running horses.
Sheriff Swan, of Republic county, too
a prisoner to the penitentiary recent
who had twice escaped from officers. A
a precaution the sheriff had his ma
chained to his own arm.
T. S. Slower, of lola, has gone to tn
Indian Territory, where he temperate
takes charge of the Otoe Indian Agency