Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-07-03
sTATENEws

Wichita has organized a press club.
Harper has a population OF four
thousand four hundred, an increase OF
one thousand during the year.
1t is said that the Missouri Pacific has
commenced track laying at Ottawa, Fank-
lin county, for Usage City.
A new hotel is shortly to be erected at
Wichita, Sedgwick county, which VIII
be known as the Gladstone Hotel"
Coal has been struck thirty miles west
Of Garden City, on the Fiunev and
Wichita county line, at a depth of $50
feet
The Usage branch of the Chicago.
Kansas & Western from Usage CITY to
Lyndon, has been opened up for bust
ness. This Is a branch of the Santa Fe.
Smith Taylor, a well known merchant
of PaOla, Miami county. committed
suicide the other day by taking NOR
phine. Dissipation was the cause of his
committing the rash act.
Pleasant Burton, who killed Frank
SnOdgrass at EmPoria, April %, after
wandering away as far st. Louis, return
/ ed to the scene Of the murder and was
I captured last week
The common council Of Usage CITY
/ Usage county, have contracted with a
New York firm to put In a system of
water works at that place. The cost VIII
be between $4,000 and $4,000.
At OttaV Franklin county, the gun
shop of @. Beiderman was burglarized
and goods to the amount Of $500 were
taken therefrom. No clue Of the bur
/ glars has as yet been discovered
Nelvern, Usage county, has voted five
hundred dollars more in bonds, to invest
IN their enterprise Of prospecting fol
coal. They have bored down BOG feet
and propose going $500 worth deeper
MIR. j. H. Cross, proprietor of the Yin,
works at Weir city, Cherokee county
while In a somnambuistic state walked
out Of the third story window of a hotel
at Joplin, No, and received injuries from
which he died.
During the month of June, only on
couple were united in marriage within
the bounds Of Kingman county. /
giddy youth Of go years took unto him
self blooming bride, who had pass he
/ Sind summer.
Two Emporia hotels, the Coolidge an,
Fifth Avenue refused TO entertain tire
cOlOred members Of the Shawne
county delegation to the congressiona
convention, there the other day and
row is imminent.
August Schnaibel committed guicid
at Topeka, the other day, by shootini
himself through the head. He died IN
stantly. Business reverses were princi
|pally the cause. The deceased had bee
a resident Of Kansas for thirty yeau
Osborne Farmer: According to til
assessO OTIS returns Osborne county has
population of 1923. Sixteen years az
by actual count less than thirty inhabit
ants could be found within her borders
and there was not a house between thi
point and Cawker City.
j. H. Brown, mayor Of the city Of 81
Scott, Bourbon county, has resigned
He refused to sign bonds to amount @
$4,000, issued by that city to aid tn
construction of the Kansas, Nebrask
and Dakota railroad, and the citizens al
most as body requested his resigna
ton, and he complied with the request
Hon. Jacob Stotler, Of the State Boar,
of Charities, in this paper, the Wellington
Press, remarks as follows: The schoo
I for the imbecile and feeble-minded chill
dren is in the old university building a
Lawrence. 1t is under the management
of DR.. H. NJ. Green. A new building L
being erected for this Institution at Win
field at a cost Of $4,000 and is nearly
completed. The school viii be removed
to that point next spring. There ar,
only thirty inmates at present, but her,
are applications enough on file to Eli the
new building as soon as it is opened
anG Il is altogether probable that the
legislature viii have to appropriate mon
ey for a new wing Of the building at it
next session.