Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-12-07
STATE NEWS.
The bank Of Logan has closed.


/ December 1.
John L. Waller, Of Kansas. repubI-
can elector, is the only colored man IN
the electoral college.
Lakin Advocate: Farmer Ed Keu
/ has sold fifty tons Of alfalfa, to be bailed
on the place, at $3.50 per ton
The Cottonwood creamery has a ca
/ paoity Of 10, 600 pounds Of milk Dolly.
/ 1t makes both butter aud cheese.
A druggist at Glen Elder, named,
! Rinhard, committed suicide by shooting
himself In the head with a shot gun.
Cassidy Mirage: There has been
several car loads Of baled hay shipped
to Colorado from this city this week.
The government has commenced work
on the river at AtchisOn, for which S75,-
600 was recently appropriated by con
gress.
Gypsum City Echo: The grounds
for the stucco building and the right OF
way for the spur leading thereto have
J been surveyed.
An exchange says that ga deadly cpl
demic has struck Kansas newspaperdOm
/ and the trooth dispensers are perishing
at the rate Of three a day"
Leoti Farmer: And still the process
sion moves In, even the school land
/ claims are being Equatted on by the peo-
pie, rushing here from all parts Of the
| land.
Axteu Anchor: Several thousand
/ bushels of new corn IS brought In
weekly and farmers all say the crop was
never better, averaging from forty TO
| sixty bushels per acre.
Cash M. Taylor Of the sedgwiok
! Paragraph denies the report Of the
prevalence Of dephtheria in his town.
He says the doctors there, all agree that
there has not been a case.
The Gypsum City Echo tells Of the
| loss or NEARLY the loss" of a thumb
by Richard Spencer. It was nearly torn
off by having halter straps around it
while his team was fractions.
The Junction City Canning Factory
has put up ia, 381 csDs Of produce most
Of which has been sold for satisfactory
cash prices. About $4,000 cans Of pump
kins will beput up yet.
An old man named Henry David has
been missing some days from OskalOoss.
/ He is now so years Of age, has lost his
reesOn and memory and speaks only a
| few words and those in German.
Fort Scott shipped last year /, 400 car
loads of hsgstones 100000 barrels of &C.
ment, $4,000 worth Of windOW-glass,
| 100000 pounds Of sugar, besides a great
! quantity OF lumber and machinery.
Atchison Champion: Colonel L. Y.
B. Taylor, of Frankfort, is in possession
of half dozen letters written him dur
| ing the campaign by his old cOmrade
and friend, President-elect Harrison.
HoIton Signal: Sheriff Francis cum
nlOned twenty-five witnesses to appear
In district court In the trial of State ".
B. HAST, charged with selling intozi-
eating liquors In violation Of the pro-
hibitOry law.
Wilson Eagle: It Just took the court
fifteen minutes at Ellsworth to hear all
the evidence and grant divorce to a
Hollywood man who married last May
and was deserted by his better half In
less than fifteen days.
Wellington Standard: Lon Webster
has lost two horses in q mysterious man
ner. They we're both seemingly in good
health on Saturday night. One dropped
dead, In the morning and the other,
! after suffering all day, died at night.
MarysvilIe News: Ed Chapman of
Center township, had the misfortune to
have his barn burned. Five head Of
! horses, and all his hay, harness, ETC.,
were destroyed. The fire started about
3 o'clock a. m, and its origin Is nys-
terry.
Sol Brubaker, the young man who
murdered his mother at Washington,
died In jail while the funeral services Of
his nOther were being performed. He
expressed the wish the night OF the muir
der that he might die and be buried
with Ter.
Washington Republican: Joseph
RalstOn, Of Coleman township, may well
claim TO be the oldest voter In Kansas.
He is q native of Ireland, but has been
years a resident Of America, and on Tues
day, he being in his 102nd year, went to
the polls and voted.
Atchison Globe: A mortgage for
100000 OF the right OF way and
other property Of the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe road WIS fled fc= record
in this county yesterday. It viii be
recorded In every county traVersed by
that line and its branches.
Jewell City Review: Mr.. s. W.
Puntsnny, ofHighlsnd township, owns
mule which be bought at a government
sale In st. Louis IN 1865. The mule
has the .. S. brand on him yet az plain
as the day it was put there; did its share
towards putting in the crop this spring
and bids fair to do 30 for many years to