Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-11-05
KANsAs sTATE NEWS.

furniture alone costing over $500.
Leroy has a couple who recently
celebrated the sixty-frst anniversary Of
their wedding. The husband is 81 years
old.
Hon. W. P. Hackney has departed
with his family from Winfield for
Guthrie. He settled in Sumner county
in 1872.
The government has paid for the
Atchison postofice site. Tie amount
was 81, 500. Work on the structure
will probably be commenced yet this
fall
Kansas University note: Mr.. Tucker,
Of the class in entomology has discov-
sred several specimens of fly never
before seen west of the Allegheny
mountains.
CherryvaIs Champion: The dwelling
houses in the city are fast filing up as
winter quarters for those who desire
town with abundant travelling facilities,
sheaP fuel and living.
Efforts are being made to cultivate
the wattle-tree in the Kansas and Colo
RADIO plains It is a shrub of Australian
origin. containing more fannie acid in
its bark than hiR oak.
Topeka has about 1872 miles of side
walk, of which seventeen miles have
been built this year. twelve of the sew
enteen being of brick. There are 106
miles of streets within the city limits.
Atchison Champion: Robert Barlan
was seriously injured at the depot in
Wetmore. The east bound train struck
truck loaded with trunks, throwing
them upon Barlan. He is a member Of
theatrical company.
Sterling item: The government ex-
perimental station finished its expert
nents in sorghum last Saturday. Over
| 10000 samples of cane were tested dur
ng the season Experiments with beets
are still going on.
Kansas City Gazette: An intimate
friend OF Governor Humphrey returned
from Topeka, Monday, with the pleas
ing intelligence that his excellency will
become a resident of Kansas City, Kan,
at the expiration of his official term in
1898.
Atchison Champion: The state con-
Fention of Odd Fellows at Hutchinson
awarded S. h. Kelsey. E. K. Blair, Il.
L. Stein, W. II. Crookham, J. ". Trues-
! 1ell, John NJ. Price and II. Frieden-
burg medals for being members in good
standing of the order for over twenty
i've years.
Hoxie Sentinel: A number OF our
sitizens, who were stirring about sum
Up, state that mirage of great mag
litude was on, the atmosphere being so
slear that the Rocky mountains in Col
1rado were plainly visible. The distance
rom Hoxie to the mountains is over
200 miles.
Parsons.-The little 4-year-old son of
William Sullivans. prominent drug
gist of this city, while endeavoring to
srOss the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
racks on johnson avenue, was caught
1y a moving train and his left leg so
BADLY mashed that amPutatlon was
iOund necessary.
Lawrence.-R- T. Stubs, aged 81,
scholar at the high school. committed
suicide by shooting himself in the fore
1ead with a revolver. He left note
Itating that everything seemed to be
going wrong, and lie therefore deter
mined to die. His father lives at Bar
,lay, Usage county, and is reputed to
oe wealthy.
Kansas University note: Chancellor
Snow is busy making out his chinch
bug reports. He has six large letter
Eases full of applications for diseased
Bugs. Very gratifying reports are be-
ng received from all over the United
States. One Kansas farmer reports go
many bugs killed that he could not
approach his fields on account of the
iOul odor.
Ottawa letter: At the meeting of the
Kansas Academy of Science z. G. Muir
oily proved by an examination of the
records of rainfall at LeaYenworth,
Fort Scott and Lawrence, that if the
period of record be divided into cycles
If seven years each, there are alternate
vet and dry periods and that in each
cycle there is an increase in the amount
If rainfall.
Girard- George Keevsr was gored to
Heath by an Infatuated bull which ne had
taken ont to water. The bull knocked
him down, goring and tramping over
him, and 1t was half an hour before
the terror-stricken witnesses could get
the Infatuated animal away from him.
Twenty. Two shots were fired with rifles
and shotguns before the bull was finally
killed. Tha unfortunate victim lived
only about an hour.
Kansas City Gazette: It is stated
that the Anglo American Cotton Mill
ing and Coal company will begin next
week sinking a coal shaft on the tract
of land north of the city donated by
property owners for a milling plant.
There appears to be no doubt that coal
in large quantities underlies the city
and the Missouri river bluffs, and it is
about time some corporation or capital
list is digging it out.
Wichita most destructive fire
ragged nearly all night over the eastern
part of the county. Upwards of 5000
tons of hay. large number of stacks
OF wheat and oats and several small
buildings were destroyed, aggregating
a loss Of probably $4,000. The entire
countryside was ont fighting the
flames. and it was only the heavy rain
that came on which finally quenched
the fire and prevented more serious
loss.
Argentine item: Hon. John Francis,
OF New York City, was in the city, the
guest of Fred Payne, manager of the
water and electric light works. Mr..
Francis owns the controlling interest in
the above plant. He went to Topeka,
where Mr.. Payne will meet him. From
there they will go to Paola, Kan, with
a view of benefiting that city with
water works and electric lights Mr..