Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-05-29
KANSAS NEWS.
Yates Center, has a brick yard.

Mound valley has new brick yard
and an elevator.
Peabody has cat that has adopted
four young rabbits.
An eminence near Cedarvale is called
Lookout Mountain"
Marysville is to have fire alarm bell
and water-works are talked Of
G. T. Cavanaugh, dealer in dry goods
and groceries at Parsons, has failed.
A boy named Kimbaling, of Lawrence,
choked to death, while eating, recently.
Five prisoners escaped from the Leav-
enworth city Jail, recently, by digging
under fence.
G. II. Cromwell and family, of Parsons,
were poisoned by eating pressed cOrned
beef recently.
Residents of Anderson county have
constructed "cyclone apartments" since
the recent visitation.
Col. J. H. Fitzpatrick, of Leavenworth,
will deliver the memorial address at OF
tawa on Decoration Day.
Lincoln has 4,48O mich COWS, from
which were made PSI ,45S pounds of but
ter during the year 1888.
Waits cheese factory at Centralia, the
first erected in Northern Kansas, has
been taken down and sold.
Billiard playing having been stopped
in Garnett, movement against ''mar-
bles for keeps" is to be started.
Mrs Coventry and her son were
drowned while trying to ford the Marias
Des Cygnes river, near Quenemo.
Leavenworth and Topeka are proud OF
bled for money during the recent panic.
Fall River Echo: Mr.. G. W. Reiter,
the great we'll driller, has struck a good
vein of water at forty-one feet for A. Tay-
Tor.
The Council Grove Cosmos says that
a horse fair will be one of the attractions
of the Fourth of July celebration in that
city.
Loring, in Leavenworth county, de-
sires the erection of an elevator at an
early date, and vouches for its financial
success.
The first quarter patented in Ottawa
county was lately sold for $4,000. The
patent was signed by Abraham Lincoln
in 1861.
Isaiah McClary, who killed Robert
Bledsoe for visiting his wife after having
been warned not to do so, was acquitted
at Topeka.
Paola Republican: David Matheny,
who was SO severely injured by the An
derson county cyclone, died from inter
nal injuries.
Florence Herald: A three year old
child of John Nichodemus, living near
Peabody, was recently poisoned by eat
ing castor beans.
The Newton Kan8ap recorded eight
horses stolen in that city and neighbor-
hood lately. And now people are lock-
ing their stables.
Harry L. Powers of lola, stood highest
in the list of applicants for appointment
to the West Point Cadetship, and received
the appointment.
-Jetmore Reve5IIe: Mr.. Samuel Bowman
made final proof recently on the first
timber claim ever proved up on in
Hodgeman county.
Council Grove Republican: d. D. ia
cobs and Mrs. Mckinley, of Highland
township, were killed by a stroke OF
lightning on the prairie recently.
Mr.. J. G. Aud of Atchison, fell and
struck his shoulder on a railroad tie,
fracturing the bone and driving it into
his lung. The worst results were ex-
pected.
The pledge "I will try to be kind to all
harmless living creatures and try to pro
tect them from cruel usage" is being pre-
scented to school children in various parts
of the State. So
Oswego Independent: Lightning struck
the barn of VIM. Wimp of Lola town
ship, Cherokee county, last week, and
killed fine mare valued at $3.50. The
barn was damaged considerably.
Gaylord Herald: Albert Trowbridge
brought some bones into this Office which
he obtained from boring a well on VIM.
Bunn's place in Gaylord. They were
drawn up from about 80 feet beneath the
surface. 5fE 4E. r. D.
Abilene Gazette: Rufus kirkpatrick,
livery man at Enterprise, had his right
knee-cap shattered by a kick from a
vicious horse the other day, and it is
feared it may be necessary to amputate
the leg.
Junction City Union: Mr.. Peter Eagan,
living on Clark's Creek, had q pig born
last Thursday, which was somewhat of a
curiosity, having six legs, three tongues,
and double row of teeth. 1t lived but
three days.
Morris Russell, an old resident of Wy
andotte, who has been in i'll health for
some time, left his home on Kansas ave-
nue., barefooted, and with only his under
clothes on, and at last accounts no trace
of his whereabouts could be obtained.
Lyons Republican: J. w. McAnulty
has been making it rather warm for the
wolves in his neighborhood lately. He
has captured nine of them in all, and
has the mother and seven young cubs
alive at his farm at the present writing.
Border Star: A brakeman on the Gulf
road was killed at Galena recently. He