Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-04-11
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Erie is talking up three churches.


George J. Hess, of Oxford, owns mad
stone.
Allen county had its first grand jury
since 1866.
Lawrence claims the largest Corliss
engine IN the State.
A new stone quarry has been opened
in the public sbuare Of Galesburg.
Strong City claims to be the only town
in Kansas that does not owe a cent.
Newton has voted $4,000 in bonds for
the purpose Of erecting a new school
house.
The freight receipts of the Santa Fe at
Wichita for the last thirty days have
been $4,000.
Capt. William Higgins, the veteran
Sergeant-at-Arms, is buying town lots at
Medicine Lodge.
Minneapolis is now city of the sec
ond class, with over 1000 inhabitants,
and three wards.
It is proposed to hold a reunion Of the
Sixth Kansas cavalry at Wichita some
time during the Spring.
The papers this season call persons
who burn prairie, "fire fiends," but the
destruction goes on all the same.
A two days session of the Southwestern
Kansas Teachers Association was held
at FL Dorado, beginning March Y.
W. O. Bone, of Nokomis, Illinois, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself at the
Laclede hotel, Kingman, on Saturday
last
The colored Republicans of Emporia
demand a Justice of the Peace, Con-
stable and a member Of the Board of
Education.
Oberlin Eye: Two hundred and nine
ty-five transients were fed at the hotels
and restaurants in this city on Thursday
of last week.
Geo. Hall, the grain dealer who re-
Gently skipped out from WaterVille with
SIS 900 belonging to Chicago commission
men, has safely turned up IN Canada.
Garden City Sentinel: In looking over
an Indiana paper last week, we counted
twenty seven notices Of persons who had
left or were preparing to leave that week
for Kansas.
Osborne Nelc8: Osborne has 900 pounds
of doctors. That is, the town has just
four doctors, and the aggregate of the four
is about 900 pounds, none Of them weigh
ing less than 2l5.
The Democrats of Coneordia nomina-
ted a full city ticket for the Spring cleo
ton and endorsed the administration of
President Cleveland. The prohibitions
also nominated full ticket.
There is considerable excitement in
Yates Centre over the discovery of lead
in the hills adjacent to that town. The
find will be carefully investigated before
It's location is made public.
Medicine Lodge Ladeu: The railroad
company evidently means business over
at Sharon. A short time ago they pur-
chased from Samuel II. HentOn fifteen
acres of land at 81 per acre, to be used
as stock yards.
Burlington Patriot: T. n. Bell has de-
veloped six pair of twins in Burlington
township, four pair of Republicans and
two of Democrats, and he thinks the re-
turns are not all in yet. The increase Of
population in that town has been very
hattering.
The county attorney, of Douglas cOun-
ty, has given notice to the railroad
agents at Lawrence fOrbidding them to
receive goods manufactured at the brew
cry located there. The object is by this
method to compel the brewery to sus-
pend business.
o. lie Roy Sedgwick, of ROssville,
Kansas, was, by the real estate cOnVen-
ton at New Orleans, appointed mem
Der of the executive committee, and
Misrepresentation Kansas, Of the National
Real Estate Dealer Association of the
United States.
Col. A. w. Mann, of Burr Oak, who was
wounded in the circus riot at that place
last Fall, was put in his invalids' chair
and wheeled out onto the porch of his
residence one day last week, the first
time he has been out of doors since he
was shot over six months ago.
Pleasanton Journal: Jess Chenia, a bar
tender at Carbon Center, shot a habitue
of his place last Monday, and the man
died the following day. The plea Will be
selfdefense. He claims that the man had
hurled two pool balls at him and had his
hand drawn back'tO shrOW a third when
he shot him.
George Cramer, q young man aged
nineteen years, was accidentally shot by
Peter FOggett, at Lawrence, the bullet
taking effect near the eye, passing
through the brain, and terminating in
his death. He leaves a widowed mother,
who is Frustrated with grief No blame
is attached to FOggett further than care
lessness.
Captain Couch held a meeting at Ar
kansas City, April /, which was largely
attended. A series of resolutions were
read and passed, deprecating the action
of Senators Plumb and Ingalls,, in oppos-
ing the settlement of Oklahoma. The
tone of the resolutions was very bitter,
and the Senators were denounced in
strong language as traitors to their con
stituents, and friends of the cattle inter
ests.
Blue Rapids Times: We hear that
charivari party visited Frank Paul about
midnight on Wednesday Of last week,
some two weeks after his marriage, and
were guilty of conduct that certainly