Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-04-02
KANSAS NEWS.

Brown comfy, is dead He was a
bachelor and 81 years old.
Oskaloosa Times: s. F. Prouty &
Co. shipped from Oskaloosa last week
II cars of walnut logs. The estimated
cost of each car of logs was from $50 to
S125.
Hiawatha.-George Moore, printer,
has been telegraphed that his uncle had
been found dead after several weeks
search. He was very wealthy, and
Moore's share of the estate Will be $50,
600.
Ottawa letter: Prof Frank Dietrich.
OF Ottawa university, has been awarded
prize of $50 by the National Christian
Temperance union for the best essay on
the relation of temperance to political
economy.
Arkansas City.-A disastrous prairie
fire has occurred twenty miles east of
here. Farms were swept clean of fences,
houses, and barns, and large number
OF cattle and horses persisted. 1t is
feared that human lives were lost.
Moline Republican: Herman Nitsche,
living six miles north of Howard, asked
his wife to sign a mortgage with him
and she shot him three times with a re-
volver. The man is still alive, but the
chances are that he and his wife will
dissolve partnership.
Parsons Eclipse: B. W. Perkins has
been employed by the Allen county
land leaguers to fight their case against
the railroad company in the supreme
court of the United States. He has al
ready succeeded In having the case ad-
vanced upon the docket.
Medicine Lodge Index: There has
been a meeting of the directors of our
sugar mill. Colonel @. II. Eldred was
elected president, G. W. Waddell vice
president, and @. l. Human secretary
and business manager. 1t was decided
to contract for 1900 acres of cane.
PAwnee Rock Leader: They are
having quite a time in this section over
the new census, all who have mort
cages on their land icing requested to
send statement to Washington city.
A great many of them don't under
stand it well enough to make out the
papers.
The mills of Abilene and Enterprise
have shipped during this year nearly
200 cars of flour. Several carloads have
gone to England, Belgium and Scotland.
Returns from shipments recently made
show that Kansas -four is sold from
three to six pence higher than the best
Minnesota -four.
Lyndon Journal: VIM. Carter has
had a close call for his life. He was
cutting tree down and as the tree fell
he was hit with the butt, knocking him
down and being pinned to the ground
/ by the tree. His left arm was broken
between the elbow and shoulder, and he
was seriously bruised otherwise.
Emporia. Women's Christian
| Temperance union district convention
held a two days session here. The dis
trict embraces Butler, Chase, Coffey,
Marion, Morris, Usage, Wabaunsee,
| WoodsOn, Shawnee, Greenwood, and
Lyon counties, and every county was
represented by large delegations. Mrs.
j. @. Haynes of Augusta presided.
Leavenworth Times: A reminder of
the turbulent days of 81 sdorns the
wall of a Fourth street barber shop. 1t
is a large poster announcing that a
"war meeting" is to be held and calls
upon all citizenlSto rally to the support
| of the 'stars and stripes" Despite its
age the paper is in a well-preseryed
state.
Girard Press: ]. F. Price, one of the
editors of the Cherokee Sentinel, has
mining interests in Galena, Kansas, and
while in that city last week he was
knocked into an abandoned shaft, sixty
feet deep. There was about thirty feet
of water at the bottom, and strange to
say Mr.. Price was not seriously injured
by the fall. He thinks his escape was
almost a miracle.
Hiawatha.-For nearly three years
Hiawatha has had water-works, with
barely enough water. A new well was
dug one mile and half from town and
connected by pipes with steam pumps,
when the stand-pipe and reservoir well
was filled. The pumps were stopped,
but the water continues to run of its
own accord, flooding the engine room
and immersing the pumps in foot of
water.
By the corrected census footings,
there are only six counties in Kansas
which fell of IN population between
1850 and 1890. These six counties are
Doniphan, with loss of 1872; Osborne,
1874; Pawnee, 1872; Rocks, "a; Rush.
286, and Russell, Is. There was fall
ing off in 10 Missouri counties, in 81
Iowa counties, in Is Michigan counties,
in 80 Illinois counties. and nearly an
equal number of counties in Ohio and
Indiana
The Mankato Monitors editor has a
daughter, Miss Mable Vaughan, who
was made happy by the receipt of a
Moorish coin, the gift of r. w Turner,
United States consul to Cadiz, Spain.
The coin came from TangIers, Morocco,
and bears the date of 1909, but dates
from Mahomet's time. 1t was mailed
at Cadiz on February "a. on which date
Mr.. Turner received the Monitor con-
tanning mention of Miss Mable's 18th
birthday.
Leavenworth Standard: Sister Fe.
licitas, who has for a long time been
known and loved as the Superior at st.
Johns hospital, has gone to Leadville
to take charge of st. Vlncent's hospital.
She will be missed by many warm
friends She is undetermined woman
and her heart works with her mind
She was a resident of Kansas for thirty
two years and Sister Superior at St
Johns five years. She is loved by the
poor in whom she takes a great inter
est, and revered by all who have beer
sick under her care in the hospital
Sister Fidelis will take her place at St
Johns.
Sugar Experiments.