Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-10-09
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Inc harper county Lar was man
cial success.
Freeport, Harper county, is to have a
new Masonic society.
Topeka has a machine shop that manu-
features locomotives.
The Incandescent system will llumi-
nate LeavenwOrth.
Winfield has let the contract for a
| $4,000 opera house.
Adam Kuntz, an old soldier and Odd
Fellow, died at Newton.
Columbus is trying to organize a fruit
an6 vegetable canning factory.
H. G. Ashbaugh, Of the Newton Kan
san, has started a daily paper.
John Kropt a prominent farmer resid-
ing near Marion died last week.
/ Atchison boasts Of a woman 100 years
old who is as clipper as a cricket.
Many Kansas towns and cities are
organizing Improvement companies.
The Anderson county fair did not pay,
the receipts being less than $1,000.
Emigration is pouring into Kansas at
the rate Of several hundred every day.
Mrs. Della Mcdaniel one OF the Oldest
settlers, Of Barton county died recently.
An Atchison man recently cleared
$30,0OOin a Kansas City real estate
deal.
Topeka viii probably procure branch
Of the barbed wire works from De Kalb,
Illinois.
Eight jointists were put in jail at
Wichita, for violating the PpohibitOry
amendment.
The old settlers Of Lynn county, will
hold their first annual reunion at En-
POria, October ..
DR.. Thomas, OF Arkansas City, an old
and highly esteemed physician has been
adjudged insane.
John Box, who lives near Jewell City,
shot himself in the groin with a revolver
while playing with it.
The Bismarck fair was not a success
financially. The fair increased its in
debtedness about 50, 800.
An Atchison firm have lately estab
hshed over twenty banks In the north
western portion OF the state.
Greeley Tribune: John Gragg had a
mule bitten by a rattlesnaks last week.
The mule died In a few hours.
twenty-five dollars and cost is what
they assess the disturbers Of the peace
Of the opera house at LeavenwOrth.
The Garfield university at Wichita
viii cost 100000 and the Roman Catho-
lie See there viii ezpend 100000
The Leavenworth street railway has
been sold at auction. A man from New
Hampshire bid the road in at $4,000.
The agents Herald, published at
Philadelphia, by l.. Lum Smith, has been
denouncing KanOpols, Ellis county as
fraud
George Shepard, aged sixteen, was
drowned in the Walnut river, near Win
field. He was swimming and took
cramp.
Mrs. Elizabeth NJ Irwin, died in JET
fersOn county at the age Of 80. She
was an old settler, having come to Kan
sas in 1868, from Ohio.
W. II. Smith, OF Chetopa, has been ar
rested and bound over to court on a
charge Of hiring a man to fire buildings
in that city on the 22nd Of August.
The house Of John Rumold, who lives
near Abilene, was totally destroyed by
fire. Defective hue the cause. Loss
about $4,000.
John Wan, OF Abilene, a young man
Of eighteen, died from the effect OF a
cancer that was removed from his
shoulder some months ago.
The largest number Of prisoners con
fined IN the penetenhary since it was
established was reached the other day,
when there were 900 cOnvicts there.
Miss Minnie Strait OF Cottonwood
Falls, elOPed with young man named
MinrOd Daub. They went to IDdepsn-
dence, Missouri, and were married.
A little son of Henry Orme, Of salina,
was playing on the jOists OF the third
story of an unfinished building and fell
through to the first floor. He died Of
the injury.
The militia encampment at Junction
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decided success that it VIII attempted
next year on q much more extensive
scale.
At a colored ball in Leavenworth two
colOred men got to guarrelling andusing
knives. A woman attempted to help her
husband and was badly cut on the arm.
One man was dangerously stabbed.
The Indians who were to do the war
dance act at the Caldwell soldiers re-
union, TUNED themselves into a toraging
party and cleaned the tables OF goodies
so says the Askansas City Traveller.
Logan Freeman: George Pearson cap
tured three wild cats on Bow creek.
One Of them gave George a bad thumb
by biting him while he was try .ng to
break them into a life Of civilization.
Daniel Fenstermacher while fooling
around the shooting gallery at the jew
ell county fair was struck on the. fore
head by a bullet from 800 short" An
inch Of skin was pulled on, was the only
damage.
The Council Grove Republican, edited
by o. S. MenseI, and the Cosmos, edited
by Frank AIoriarty have been consOh-
dated. Mr.. MOriarty VIII be the editor
and proprietor OF the consolidated enter
prise.
Ports Patriot: Frank Cooper Is erect
ing on his farm, five miles east OF PORTS,
on the county line In Osborne county,
one OF the largest farm barns IN this
county. 1t Is sixty-four feet square,