Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-08-14
KANSAS NEWS.

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Burlington is to have water works.
Clay Center is building a $4,000 no
tel
The population Of Lyon county, is
22819.
The gas works Of salina are now be
ing built.
salina is talking Of charging its fair
grounds.
Larned is to have a street railway
shortly.
Parsons is to have a $4,000, four
story hotel.
Abilene is to have over nine miles OF
water mains.
The Beloit school house is to be
heated by steam.
Arkansas City is to have a large
cracker factory.
A great deal OF sickness is reported
around Fort Scott.
The normal institutes throughout the
state are furnishing.
A new bank has been started at Cain
City, Ellsworth county.
Hopping cough is going the rounds at
Irving, Marshall county.
HiIIsboro is building a fine new school
house, to cost about $4,000.
A few cases Of scarlet fever are reported
at FL Dorado, Butler county.
The A, II. & S. F. company is to fur
nish water works for Peabody.
Howard, Elk county, is going to build
a Sc, 600 addition to her school house.
AEltonvale, Cloud county, is to have a
new brick school house.
A company has been organized at
Anthony to furnish the city with electric
light.
Nlckerson has 449 school children be-
tween the ages Of five and twenty-One
years.
A barn belonging to Ashbur johnson,
Of Bradford, was destroyed by lightning
last week.
Counterfeit half dollars are in circula-
ton in AtchisOn. They are said to be
very well executed
Wichita has steamboat. 1t has been
christened ''The Eagle" and viii ply on
the Arkansas river.
Forty-seven condemned horses were
sold at Fort LeavenwOrth at an average
price Of S56 per head.
P. C. Joseph, living near Black Jack
attempted to commit suicide recently by
cutting his throat with a razor.
During the past week there has been
number Of serious WashOuts along the
western line Of the Santa F'e road.
Hendrix RosebOom, of Greensburg
KiOwa county, was seriously injured
while trying to manage a brOnchO pony
The city council of Larned have passed
an ordinance prohibiting the throwing
/ of dice or any other form of gambling
Work has commenced on the new
Masonic temple in Ellsworth. When
completed, it viii be the finest building
in the city.
The hardware store of Mr.. John Nash
OF Ottawa, Franklin county, was bur
glarized recently and some very valuable
goods taken.
The patrons Of the water works al
Atchison are complaining Of the lack Of
pressure. In many places the water VII
not run at all
HiIlgborO, Marion county, is building
fine school house to cost about $4,000
1t is expected TO have 1t finished IN time
/ for the fall term.
A new educational institution, called
tue ''Western Normal and Business Col
/ lege'' viii be opened at Parsons Kansas
about the middle OF September next
The total number Of entries made a
the Oberlin land Office for the fiscal yea
/ ending June 80 was 11,733. The tOta
amount Of collection was $3.50, 558.
Ireland Bros, grocery store at En-
pOria, was burglarized to the extent o.
| $500, Last week. The robbers overlooked
the most valuable package IN the safe.
A young man named Murphy descend
ed into a well near Wellington to put IL
a blast Of powder and died from inhaling
choke damp before he could be rescued
Some children near Argonia wer.
poisoned by eating a melon which hac
/ been dOctOred upon the vines by q gen
I tleman who claimed to have wanted tC
get rid Of rabbits.
The body Of an unknown man wa.
found floating In the river at Lesven
worth. 1t was considerably blOated
and had the appearance Of being in the
river for several days.
Augusta Gazette: 1t cost Butler
county 81, 326.S8 to take care Of hel
poor during the three months ending
June 3Oth, s1,OO8.4A Of which went tC
the keeper Of the poor farm
About sixty car loads Of Manhattan
stone has been used already in the new
college building at Lindsborg, McPher
son county. The second story of the
building is now almost finished
Coolidge Border RH1fan a cowboy
/ by the name Of T. G. Crowder, who's,
home was at Albany, Texas, was killel
| by Lightning on Bear creek. His body
was brought to town and inferred.
Henry Reyes, a farmer living nea
Wichita, Ssdgwiek county, recently com
naitted suicide by hanging himself Wit
a neek-yoks strap. Financial embarras
ment is attributed as partly the cause.
Hods Democrat. Recently q mad dos
/ started on rampage and bit two men,
calf and another dog One Of the mel
bitten Gcaiey 3y name az once depaEta'