Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-03-27
KANSAS NEWS.
Iuka has its first brass band.

ANANS AAe~o Also nAob OIdS6
Waterville has a mystic Circle"
There are 725 convicts in thestate PEN
Ftentiary.
Thomas county has a town called OF
eerbourne.
A vocal society has been organized in
Arkansas City.
Wichita is clamoring for better post
Office facilities.
A new opera house has been opened at
Independence.
The Kansas Central has thirteen loco
motives on duty.
A colony of fifty German families is
expected in Decatur county.
During recent wolf hunt in Sumner
county, not wolf was seen.
The Southern Kansas Teachers Asso-
citation will meet at Wichita, March 25th.
A Mcpherson colored woman publicly
horse-Whipped Negro who had insulted
her.
At Wichita some one threw a stone
through window in the Baptist church
during services.
The tramps appear to have struck
Kansas in numbers and are operating ex-
sensiyely in the country.
Lincoln Banner: The attendance at
tendance at the Union Sunday School
last Sunday was eighty-two.
There have been over twenty-five
houses built in Clinton in the last year,
all good substantial buildings.
Daniel Kastner, of Salina, aged fifty
six years, committed suicide by hanging
IN his barn. This was the second attempt.
independence Tribune Mr.. Swan has
drilled about $50 feet in search of coal,
and will be down about 500 feet this
week.
Girard Press: That provoking swelling
of the jaw, popularity called the ''mumps,"
is prevalent among the children IN
Girard.
Lieut.. Todd, now on duty at the State
Agricultural College, has been ordered by
the War Department to report at Fortress
Monroe.
Jetmore ReUeiLls: Mr.. Harvey Cox re-
Gently killed large boot owl, which he
says measured four feet eight inches from
tip to tip.
Pensions have recently been granted
10 Mrs. Sarah J.. Brown, Osawatomie
Lieut. H. M. Robb, Galva; w. B. Small,
Wellington
The depot at Dunlap, Morris county
was robbed of between $50 and 500, by
Z man whom the agent had left in charge
temporarily.
Chase county Leader: Dave Cartier
Charley lockwood and Steve PerrigC
killed an extraordinary large wild cat in
the breaks south of Shipmans mill.
George Sissler, a confidence man, con.
fined in the Atchison Jail, made an at
sempt to dig out, recently, but was dis
covered when the work was half done
DIR. Wright. of Oswego, has been fnec
500 for prescribing whisky contrary tt
the prohibitOry law. This is the tirst
prosecution of a physician under the
act.
Clay Center Times: Vining and vicini
ty has beenbothered during the last weel
by company of horse jockeys whose only
occupation Is to swindle unsuspectinl
farmers.
Peabody Gazette: Covenant Lodge No
113, at their meeting ON Saturday even
ing, ordered their secretary to forward
S25 Immediately, to aid sufferers by thu
Ohio floods.
independence Tribune Since the STATE
Reform School was established, but ONT
inmate has died and but two have beer
sick in bed. There is nothingso healthy
As bad boy.
Dan and Pat Monroe have been arrest
ed near Bigelow, Marshall county
charged with being implicated in the
Pennington murders. They were jaileC
at Marysville.
Will Harvey, formerly of Battlefield
Linn county, Is now an inmate of the Ar
kansas penitentiary-sen for twelv
years. He has stolen seventeen horse
since last May.
Ellis Headlight: Last week ThOma
DAILY shipped back to Kansas City abOu
twenty plows for the reason that thi
part of Ellis county has too much of tina
kind of property.
A brother ofZura Burns passed througl
Topeka few days ago, in charge c
Dowd Cubbage; the other lover of Zurs
who was wanted to testify against o. A
Carpenter charged with numbering hel
Chase County Leader: Mrs Carpente
of Diamond creek, was adjudged insan
on the 9th in the probate court. Tn
Jury also found that her insanity was tn
result of neglect and ill-treatment by be
husband.
One day last week a party of youu
folks chariUdried a newly married coupl
near Osawatomie. Soon after they lie
the barn was discovered to be on fire an
together with span of mules and a spa
of horses was q total loss.
WeLiaglOnian: 1t is an actual fact ths
over four hundred houses are either 1;
present in course of construction or III
der contract, and the prospect for futul
building can only be measured by til
number of buildings that labor can eret
Kansas land, says the Atchison Cha,
ppOn, has never advanced so rapidly