Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-04-03

in Centralia has work enough ahead to
last several months, on buildings already
contracted for, and such is the prosper
ity of the city that if one half of the con-
templated buildings are erected, there
will be work enough for as many more.
Lawrence Journal: Several of the Uni
versity Alumni have made known their
intention to be present next June at the
meeting of the association. From pres
ent indications there will be not less
than one hundred members here, from a
total, with present senior class, of two
hundred.
Randolph Echo: On Wednesday as
the train on the K. @. r. r. was coming
into Garrison, it ran off at the switch,
which had been left open, completely
Wrecking the engine and throwing two
box cars off the track, slightly iniuring
Engineer Mclaughlin, and more severely
one brakeman, and perhaps fatally the
fireman.
Oswego Democrat: Steve Hughes, the
colOred boy who urged his ten-year-Old
| brother to shoot Willis Williams, has
been sentenced to the Reform School of
the State, and if he cannot be received
there, then he is to be confined in the
county Jail one year and pay costs of suit.
Atchison Champion We learn from
Elkhart county, Indiana, papers that
hundreds Of people from that county
alone have bought their tickets, and are
moving to Kansas. Fifty-seven were
ticketed through from Goshen in one
day. On Monday, March Sd, thirty-eight
more started from Goshen and the Elk
hart ReVieaO states that thirty families are
preparing to make the same trip.
Usage City Free Press: On Monday
night of this week while Union services
were being held in the M. E. church,
the fastening of the stovepipe in the
fue broke loose, and sev6nty-five or
| eighty feet Of it fell, bringing the SER
vices to a sudden termination. Miss
ROssie BOthel was struck on the head,
but was not seriously hurt. Two or three
! others were struck, but were more scared
than hurt.
Florenc Herald: 4 valuable mare be-
longing to Mahlon Riggs had to be shot
! last Friday on account of madness. It
was just ffty-one days from the day the
animal was bitten by a mad dog to the
day on which it was shot. There were
no perceptible signs of madness until
nine days before it was killed. The last
two or three days, however, the mare
was raving mad, so that no one could en-
ter the stable or extend the hand within
the door.
Council Grove Republican: A farmer
told good one on a neighbor of his the
other day; it is this: The neighbor had
pretty calf, which he wished to ''pan"
off as a POlled-Angus, so undertook to
bore the calf's horn with an auger. The
blood flowed so freely he became alarmed
lest he should lose his favOrite bovine,
and cried out, "One hundred dollars to
| any man who will stop that blOod" The
farmer wouldn't give the name of the
neighbor; but the story, if true, is hard
to beat.
Norton Courier There is a lively ex-
element on Long Branch in the north
western part of this country, over the
supposed discovery of gold on the claim
Of Mr.. Nelson. An old miner has care
fully examined the dust and thinks il
will "pan OUT all right. The miner is
so confident that he can "strike it rich, ,
as to want to lease the land for a term oil
years, but so far, Nelson cannot be pre-
vailed upon to agree to a lease. The
Courier will patiently await further de-
velOpments.
La Crosse ChtettGl7l: A proposition Il
on foot to build railroad from Parsons
, Labette county, to Wallace. The road
as proposed, will commence at Parsons
and run in northwest direction through
Thayer, F'redonia, Toronto to Quincy
5 thence west to Newton; thence north
west through Mcpherson to Ellsworth
thence southwest to Lacrosse; Themes
l west.to Ness City, and from there north
west to Wallace. At meeting held il
the school house Saturday, the 1st, inst
!, Mr.. P. G. Dixon was elected as Secretar
to correspond in reference to this prop
OsitiOn.