Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-06-11
KANsAs sTATE News.
Seven iron bridges span the Blue
river in Marshall county.

southwestern Kansas. The session
lasted three days.
Fredonia Citizel: FredoAia is the
strawberry market of southern Kansas
The cannery is receiving thousands of
quarts daily by rail and express from
various points in this part OF the state.
Wellington Mail: The reception at
the Arlington house parlors given by
the Alumni association of the Yelling
ton high school in honor of the class of
1891, was a brilliant success in every
particular.
WASHINGTON, d. C.-The assistant
secretary, Spaulding, has decided that
the paintings belonging to Miss Mary
Sherman, of Wichita, Kan, and now in
the hands of the surveyor of customs
at Kansas City, Mo-, are entitled to free
entry.
An irrigation convention of the peo-
| pie of Graham county will be held at
| Bogue, Wednesday, June "a A gener-
al convention on thiE question will be
held at Ersll City, July 1, at which it is
expected delegates from thirty-tour
counties will be present
Wichita Eagle: The sidewalks in the
east part of town, such as had been
moored to trees, have settled down in
their accustomed places. Some, how
ever, tioated away in good Venetian
style and are as undiscoverable as gates
on the morning after Halloween.
Arkansas City.-During a heavy
storm, lightning struck the residences
of George A. HOverLon, o. o. Ingersoll
and Postmaster Nelson, badly damage
ing each building. The families were
all shocked, but none of them seriously
hurt. Hail and rain also did eonsidera-
BILE damage to fruit and gram.
L. E. Rigsby, who was travelling in a
chair car on the Rock Island, lost his
pocket book which contained 500, while
on his way to Topeka. The porter
found the pocket book and Immediately
turned it over to the passenger depart
ment and Rigsby was made happy at
the receipt of his pocket book with all
the money 1nmOlested.
Leavenworth Standard: The can
ming factory on Oak street will begin
the canning season this week with a force
of fifty hands. As the season progresses
the working force will be increased to
200. The factory in the next six months
will can Strawberries, peas. beans, corn,
tomatoes and pumpkins. Last year the
concern put up and sold one million
cans of fruit and vegetables.
a Norton dispatch: Edward Hage-
man, a constable. went to the farm of
J Cyrus Aldrich. in Norton county, to
take possession of some mortgaged
horses. Tho farmer refused to give u p
the animals, firing upon the constable
when he tried to take them. The con-
stable thereupon pulled his revolver,
shooting the farmer fatally. Hageman
was shot in several places and died soon
after.
Hiawatha letter: Our high school
is one of the two in Kansas whose pu-
pills, on graduating, are admitted to all
| courses of the State university at Law
renee without examination. There are
| 1,2O0 pupils in the district; $40 pupils
were enrolled in the school the past
year; seventeen teachers are employed
at a cost of $1,000 per month. Each of
the four buildings fioLt an American
flag bought by the buPils; they also
have library of 400 volumes
|
commandant of the military prison, is
considering the advisability of con-
structing a brick walk from the fort to
the city. The cost of the brick, he says,
will not exceed $500. He will use
stone curbing, cut by prisoners and do
all the work of setting them and lay
ing the brick with the same kind of-la-
Dor. It will require about one year to
cut the stone curbing. To do tins work
he will have to secure the funds from
the war department. With assistance
it is believed the amount necessary can
be had of the authorities.
Wichita General B. B. Eggleston
died at his home in this city from the
effects of the grippe, aged 73. The dead
soldier had a brilliant war record. He
enlisted in the First Ohio cavalry and
was promoted rapidly until he attained
the rank OF brigadier general. He was
chief of cavalry of the south, and it was
he who received the surrender of Colonel
Glenn at Atlanta, and afterward became
military governor there. After the war
he went to Mississippi, when he was
elected president of the constitutional
convention and afterward governor of
the state. The deceased was a grandson
and granddaughter OF John and Ethan
Allen of the revolutionary war fame.
Industrialist: The reference to a new
building at the State Agricultural col
lege in connection with the new board
of public works is scarcely appropriate
in view of the terms of the law in the
case. Section eighty nine of the Mis-
ceIlaneOus Appropriation act reads:
1.-THE sum of $4,000, or so much
thereof as may be necessary, is hereby
appropriated for the erection OF build
ing for a mechanics hall at the agricul-
tural college, the money to be expended
under the management of the board
of regents of that institution" In &C
cord with this provision, the board OF
regents have already entered into con-
tract for the stone-Work, and have pur-
chased a large part of other material
to complete the building for next years
use.
Topeka Journal: A destructive hail
storm struck this county and did great
damage to growing crops in its course.
1t set in three and half miles east
of Topeka and ranged southeast.
Among the sufferers are: Allen Sells,
who lost seventy acres of fine wheat
and a field of rye; John Campbell, who
lost ninety acres of wheat and consid
cradle fruit; J. l. Campbell, wheat,
oats, fruit and Strawberries, and had all
of the window Panes knocked out of the
side of the house exposed. The hail
stones were very large and covered the
ground. The ice lay on the ground
until dark. From the particulars at