Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-10-23

or Ll6lr COW HleQe. MI. d. i. Miller
was at work at Mr.. Evans place when
he saw the fire coming and started for
home TO try and protect his property
and do what he could to exdnguish the
/ fire, but got caught on the open prairie
and beside getting himself pretty badly
singed, had both Of his horses severely
/ burned 1t was thought for a while
/ that one OF the animals would die, but
they are now improving and are consid-
/ cred out Of danger. but Miller viii be
thrown ont Of the use Of his team for
several weeks.
Burlingame Independent: Old and
/ experienced miners substantiate the
theory OF biologists to the effect that a
/ heavy vein Of coal underlies the one now
worked at a depth Of from one to two
hundred feet. DR.. Hart, Chas. Linken-
auger, A W. Hoover, and other old set
/ tiers, are member Of United Statessgeo-
logical party passing through this sec
ton quarter Of century ago who at
that time told of our present discovered
vein at eighty feet, and also said that
| three hundred and twenty five feet down
lies a three foot vein, and two hundred
| feet below that another vein viii be found
/ between five and six feet thick. Visiting
miners from the Pennsylvania coal re-
/ giOns concur in this, and we have bust
ness men in our midst strong in this
faith sufficient TO give from fifty to one
hundred dollars each toward drilling for
it. Let us go down into the bowels OF
the earth and discover its hidden treas
ures-either coal, oil, or gas.
Parsons Sun: A Sun reporter
met an old farmer whose sands Of life
have nearly run out, and who has been q
/ close observer for over a half q century,
who says that the coming winter will be
an unusually severe one, with plenty OF
| ice and snow, and is likely to set IN
/ earlier than usual for some years past.
He says he has watched the corn husks
/ for many years and never knew il to fail
In a single instance, that when the
husks were unusually thick, the winter
/ would be g very severe one. This win
| ter the husks are thicker that he ever
saw them, and a very severe winter is
in prospect.
Walnut Valley Times: An old settler
in the county, near Chelsea, fell among
thieves the past week, at Wichita, and
lost $500 in hard cash and tremendously
escaped with his life. He was having a
good time, report says, with new-found
friends, and along in the night he was
slugged behind the ear with a sand-bag
or something and robbed. Then, be
isving him dead, the toughs dragged
him to the river and threw him in. For
tunatelg the water was shallow, and
atterlying in it all night he was rescued,
resuoitated and sent home Monday.
His name is witheld by request.
a man named Ben Linly opened a
tank of gasoleue IN AIarysville and stood
/ over it with a lighted match, the gas
/ ignited and burning gasoline was soon
running over everything Ia the neighBOr-
/ hood climbing clear to top Of the two
story buildings, and the warehouse
/ filed with gunpOWder and coal oil was
/ ablaze all up one end and over the roof,
| The timely arrival and hard work OF
about one hundred and fifty citizens
/ saved the.destructiOn of about one hun
/ bred thousand dollars worth Of prop
erty.
( Olatbe Mirror: Mr.. C. B. Thompson
/ formerly of DeSotO, was adiudged in
/ sane, and taken to Ossawatomie. His
| case is a sad one. A little over a year
ago he was regarded as a prosperous
/ farmer and stock raiser, enjoying the 70
/ spect and confidence Of all his neigh
| bOrs. His wife, last October, while
/ labOring under some mental excitement,
/ took an overdose Of chlOral, from which
she died. This was followed by the loss
OF all his property, and the strain was
| too much for him.
Atchison Patriot: Under the new
marriage law the probate judge will here
! after require Of every applicant for a
marriage certificate an affidavit that the
parties to be married are not, to each
other, parent and child, or grand-parent
| and grand child Of any degree, or broth
| er and sister Of either the whole or hall
blood, nor uncle and niece, nor aunt and
nephew, nor first cousins.
/ Smoky Valley NelUs: Professor Hog
| gait, OF LdndsbOrg, came near being an
initiated by the explosion Of his smoke
pipe. On the examination Of the debris
| a bullet was found which, it Is presumed
was discharged from a cartridge con-
| cealed in the tobacco loaded into his
! pipe. Under the skillful care Of Dr..
! George the professors injuries are not
likely TO prove fatal.
| Larned CHroHOsc0pes Mr.. A. Ditson,
/ proprietor Of the iron foundry, has or
ders for thirteen iron fronts for brick
/ buildings. Mr.. Ditson also has q number
Of orders Of different kinds for other
] towns In Kansas. His work is as good
/ and as reasonable as can be obtained at
/ eastern foundries and the freight is much
/ less from here TO Kansas towns.
Enterprise -Afon0polist: A prai-
ne fire started a few miles southeast Of
/ town, and burned twenty-five stacks o.
| hay, over three hundred tons in all, be
/ longing to A. Anderson, G.. Alstrom, J,
/ a. Hahner and others. Thirty tons be-
lOnged to Kirkpatrick Bros. Of this place
which they had bought only the day be
! fore it was burned
Caney Chronicle; A man by the name
OF King, living about four miles north Of
/ this place, went insane last week and
/ burned nearly all his household goods
/ The cause Of his insanity IS supposed "a
be from a fracture Of the skull, which be
received during the war, and recent g.
I nanciaI embarrassments.
Dodge City Times. Mr.. 8Iahon, fore
man at the rOadhouse, was experiment.
ing with a new Winchester rife, fling al
/ a meadow lark. the ball struck Mrs. Van.