Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-06-29
THE HERALD.
KANSAS NEWs.

lady was at work. Hearing the child
scream, the young lady's attention was
attracted to the baby carriage, some
thirty feet away. She was hOrTified to
see a huge snake clinging to the little
ones ear. The child lived only fifteen
minutes after being bitten.
Lawrence Telegram: Several Kansas
papers have claimed that Mr. c. F.
Jennings, of KanOpolis, Kansas, hay
ing come to the state IN 1854, was the
Oldest settler In It. It now appears
that a white man whose name we are
unable to learn settled in this state De-
cember d, 1913, and that another old
settler, J. H BeddOw, LeavenwOrth,
came to Kansas In January, 1926, and
and has resided here ever since.
The annual catalogue Of the state
normal school show the enrolment of
S75 for the year closing June 14th. Of
this number, 500 are In the normal de-
partment 1t is an increase of 1913
over the attendance of last year.
Eighty-tWO Kansas counties and fifteen
states are represented. One hundred
and twenty-five of the pupils were born
In Illinois; 134 IN Kansas. Nearly 800
the attendance on memorial day.
The date of holding the annual school
meetings in Kansas was changed by the
last Legislature from August to the last
Thursday IN June.
The Gould party were taken from the
special car at Winfield, and driven over
the city in carriages, and were all
cheerful and apparently sound. Mr..
Jay Gould took an extensive view of
Winfield, the largest town on his Den
yer, Memphis & Atlantic line, and
where the Missouri Pacific has begun
the erection Of a large machine shop
and round house plant. He appeared to
be in good spirits and fair health, and
during the drive over the city laughed
at the newspaper stories making him
out dangerously i'll. DR.. Mum, his
family physician, was along, and said
Mr. GOuld's only ailment is a slight
nervous depression and need of rest. To
an Evening Courier reporter Mr.. Gould
said: Il am feeling first rate and have
been taking three meals a day right
along. I am better than when I left
New York.
Mrs. Forsyth, wife of General James
W. Forsyth, the commanding officer at
Fort Riley, died at junction City at z
o'clock Monday evening, after weeks
Illness.
Samuel Saylar, an old resident of
Davis county, suicided Monday by
hanging himself.
Scott City has been selected as the
place to build the female college of the
Episcopal church for western Kansas.
A building viii be erected this sum-
mer, and arrangements made for open
ing the school in the fall.
Joseph Beckman, Bohemian tailor,
aged AZ, suicided by hanging at HOr-
ton. He left a note saying he loved a
widow and wanted her or death.
Dulaney Kemble of Long Island says
that he kept a record of the rainfall du-
ring the month of May, and it measured
fourteen inches.
Hon. T. c. Corey, county attorney
of Labette county, died at his residence
in Oswego early Thursday morning.
While his health has not been good for
a number of years, owing to severe
wounds received in the army, his sud
den death was unexpected, as he had
only been confined to his bed a few
days. Mr.. Corey was one of our Oldest
citizens, having located in Parsons in
1871. He had held several offices of
trust, and was prominently spoken of
as a candidate for attorney general on
the republican ticket. Out of respect
of his memory the district court, in
session, adjourned and the entire bar
attended his funeral on Saturday in
Parsons conducted by the G.. A. r.
A full corps of engineers started
Thursday morning from Dodge City
northeast on the line of the Omaha,
Dodge City & Southwest ern railway,
who viii survey the newhne on through
to Omaha.
Nj. A. Durbin, an emplOYe In a round
house at Kansas City was run over and
killed by a Missouri Pacific freight
train Thursday afternoon at Riverview.
His relatives live at Topeka.
A sufficient number of farmers have
taken stock to secure the building of
the great Amazon irrigating canal
through Scott county. The canal leaves
the Arkansas river west of Hartland,
and builds in a northeasterly direction
TO Scott county. 1t is forty feet wide
at the top, twenty-six feet at the bot
tom, and flows five feet of water, and
viii irrigate half of Scott county.
The commencement exercises of the
State Normal school at Emporia closed
Thursday night, the occasion being
one of the most interesting and bril-
liant in the history of the institution
Nearly nine hundred students have
been in the attendance during the past
winter
Frank LOveland, who worked fol
Thomas Shirley at Granville, Wa