Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-07
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Arkansas City has a young lady
who has opened an insurance Office.


Three Wholesale grocery houses have
been located at Winfield, and there is
naturally great rejoicing IN that little
city.
The twenty-sixth convention Of the
Kansas State Sunday School association
will be held in the First Congregational
church of Emporia May u, ID and Il,
1891.
Lawrence--Captain W. S. Latham,
of this city, has received the appoint
ment of special agent of the United
States department OF agriculture for
the districts of Kansas and Oklahoma,
and will at once enter upon his duties
under his new position.
Leavenworth Times: By virtue of
the recent order from the war depart
ment concerning men confined IN tho
military prison at the Fort for desertion
alone, the sentences of nineteen men
have been entirely RENTED, and those
| of twenty-eight others reduced.
Pleasanton Observer: Miss Amanda
Way was elected ore OF two state dele
gates from Kansas to the Right worthy
Grand Lodge, /. o. G. T. of Edinburg.
Scotland. She will not be able to go,
however, on account OF i'll health She
is visiting with friends in Pleasanton at
present
Emporia Republican: Winfert Nc
| Grade, young man living near Verdi
| girls, was engaged in cleaning a shot
| gun when it was discharged, the contents
entering his mead and killing him in
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years old, the son of L d. McGrade, an
old settler in the county and prosper
GUS farmer.
Atchison.-At local contest held at
! the Presbyterian church between the
students of Midland college, for the
honor Of representing Atehison at the
state Oratorieal contest, to be held at
Atchison May -, Ray Kelsey, son of
ex- Mayor Kelsey, was the first choice of
the judges, and H. Zimnerman, OF
| Wellington. the second choice.
Ottawa.-Cyrus Smith. while driving,
was seriously injured. His horse had
become frightened by pas ,ing train,
and the harness breaking. Mr. Smith
| Jumped from the cart. AS he did so
the horse kicked, striking him in the
side and breaking four of his ribs and
detaching others from the breast bone.
There is grave doubt as to his recovery.
Pleasanton Observer: R. W. Blue
/ has been confined for a week with his
old army wound, but is getting up and
around again. The bullet struck him
just below the ankle of his right foot,
SCATTERING the bone and leaving it so
weak that il often becomes irritated and
/ gathers, making it very painful iOr sew
eral days. Mr.. Blue still has the mus
ket bali that caused him all of this
trouble. 1t is badly-mutilated and con-
tains a small piece of the bone of his
foot.
NortOn.-A sad tragedy occurred
heIe. The 11-year-old son of F. NJ
| DuYall, editor OF the Courier, during
the absence of his parents. secured a
revolver, and having. as he thought,
extracted all the cartridges. proceeded
| to fnghten all the other children by
swapping it at them. Then, to assure
them there was no danger, he placed
the muzzle against his forehead and
pulled the trigger, when a bullet went
crashing through his brain, he having
failed to extract all the charges.
LeavenWorth.-The will of Leonard
/ T. Smith, the prominent railroad man,
who died IN the City of Mexico recently,
has been admitted to probate. It leaves
| requests of $40 900 to each of Mr.
| Smiths sisters, $4,000 apiece to several
nieces and nepheWs. a 940-acre farm
and one-third interest in the LeaYer-
worth water-Works to his adopted
| daughter. Miss Helen Hewitt. The re-
mainder of the estate is left TO his wife,
to do with as she deems proper. Will
| lam Martin, w. G. Rolgman and VIM.
| 7. Hewitt are appointed to settle the
estate, which is valued at over one mill
/ ion dollars.
North Topeka item: Fred George,
the expressman, had his wagon blown
over in a certain wind storm several
months ago, and ever since that time,
when the weather looked squally at
night, he has been in the habit Of ty-
/ ing his wagon top to his barn to anchor
it securely. The other night he antic-
| ipated a Windstorm, and tied up his
wagon as usual There was no wind
/ that night, but people IN the neighbor-
hood do say that there was considerable
of breeze the next morning, when Fred
I LA-~A14 ~ LIB nG5OA anu AAOh6 away
without the top, tearing that useful
aPPendage OFF quicker than any Cyclone
could have done the Job.
Argentine item: The city possesses
a system of public schools of which it
has great reason to be Justly proud.
There are three large school buildings
and four smaller rented ones in use by
/ the board The course of study in
cludes high school, and great pains
have been taken to bring the schools to
q systematic grading. Many pupils at
/ tend from outside the city, paying tut
ton for SO doing. To Prof. HOLSTER,
the efficient city superintendent, is due
the praise for the high grade of excel
lence which the schools have attained.
The city counts among the greatest of
its advantages its excellent public libra
~, of which Miss Minnie Way has
charge.
Argentine item: Missouri side grain
men have decided to test the eonstitu-
tionality of the recently enacted grain
| inspection laws of Kansas. Edward
Halligan was arrested yesterday under
| the provisions of the act. he being a
Missouri inspector without license to
| inspect grain on Kansas soil. He was
released on his own recognizance, as
/ his action was purely for the purpose
/ of testing the law. State Grain In
spector w. W. Haskell, OF this city. it
is understood, is quite well satisfied Of
| the air-tight condition of the new law,
| and does not fear in the least that it
can be broken by the courts. The law
/ is similar to the one in Missouri. which