Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-02-07
KANSAS NEWS.

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The Blue Rapids militia company has
been organized.
Prairie fires are making much trouble
In Barber county.
The Peabody library contains sixteen
hundred volumes.
TheLeavenworth street railway is to be
constructed at once.
A site has been selected for the Pawnee
county court house.
The burnt district in Peabody is to be
built on Immediately.
Kansas dealers are shipping large
quantities of eggs this year.
Three children in one family died of
membraneous Group at Douglass.
Kansas 23d birthday was celebrated
in Minneapolis by the scholars.
]. NJ. Jameson died suddenly of heart
disease, at WyandOtte, recently.
Halstead capitalists are about to erect
another Touring mill at that place.
The Knights of Pythias, of lola, are
talking Of recognizing the town band.
A telephone line. is to be constructed
between Leroy and Burlington, Coffey
county.
Council Grove Cosmos: Chicken-pox
exists in mild form in East Council
Grove.
The Emporia Republican, wants vigi-
lance committee formed to rid the town
of footpads
There were ten cases of scarlet fever
in oh No
county, last week.
Osborne county farmers have come to
the conclusion that it is better to sell
wheat and buy corn.
The boys of Mcpherson are complain
ing that the girls are slow in exercising
leap year privileges.
Lincoln county, the Register asserts,
will have great influx of immigration
the coming season.
Council Grove Cosmos: A few cases of
scarlet fever are reported among the
children Of this city.
The Gazette says: An average oftwen-
ty cars of corn is shipped from Augusta
every day in the week.
In Leavenworth out of the 1856 jurors
drawn for the month of January, there
was not one colored man.
William Dixon, of Rose Hill, Butler
county, has become violently insane from
injuries received by a fall.
DR.. Philip Krohn and Noble L. Prem
tbs, of AtchisOn, deliver lectures in Kan
sas towns, once In while.
Belle Plaine NeaVs! Nineteen whisky
kegs, empty of course, were shipped away
from Belle PLANE this " eek.
In Ness county, at Scoharie, an odd
named firm is doing a mercantile bust
ness. M. Childres and daughter.
John Gale, Russian, has been adj
judged insane, in Mcpherson county.
Another gal" caused his attliction.
The Greenleaf Illdependent-J oor,naI says
that the burning OF the Washington
opera house was the work of an incendi-
airy.
Douglass Tribune: The demand fo1
farms TO rent is greater than the supply
This is a good illustration of the prosper
ity of the county.
Ellis Headlights We hear rumors that
w. IL PilkentOn and j. +. Hanna are
likely to become candidates for Congress
siona1 honors next fall.
Milton Mccullough who lives neal
Hartford, has invented a machine tt
prove that the earth does not revolve but
that the sun do move"
Circulars sent out to the unorganizeC
counties of Kansas elected the universe
opinion that the timber-culture &C
ought not to be repealed.
While Charlie Jones of Norton county
was Gaping his gun. it discharged, anC
Wesley Long received the shot in hi
face. Both eyes were ruined.
The bed of party of campers in Bar
Der county caught fire while they were
asleep, and Jacob Wright was fatally ant
Charles Eastman slightly burned.
1t is reported that 200 head of fami
lies from Pennsylvania have arranget
to colonize in Dickinson county. Prob
ably a result of the visit of the Dunkard
last fall.
Carbondale Independent: The Lick ski
let school house is much troubled witt
thieves. Last week they broke into tn
coal house and carried away all the Goa
it contained.
Mcpherson FreemGn: There are 10
pensioners in Mcpherson county, whic
makes one-ffth of the soldiers in tn
county. The aggregate amount they rE
ceive per month is 1910.
The case of State VS.. Jennison, &
Leavenworth, in which the defendar
was charged with selling whisky, we1
over to the next term of court becaus
jurors could not be obtained.
FL Dorado Times: Gen. Ellet has quit
park along the river south of town /
which he has three antelope and tW
deer, tame, of course, as kittens TIL
General is great admirer of animal n.
ture.
From the Courier it is learned tn.
Hugh Donnely and w. L. Walker of No
ton county were in a wagon when tn