Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-07-09
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

county
The Stockton creamery is shipping
at this time over 1000 pounds of butter
a week to eastern markets.
Erie item.-Ths Neosho river has
been ont of its banks for almost a week.
Wheat in the low bottoms has suffered
considerably.
The jockey who rode the winner in
the great Derby at Chicago this sea-
son, George Coyington, learned to ride
and rode his first race at Gaylord, Kan.
Abilene.-The farmers of Dickinson
county have purchased 500 new self
binders this season, and most of them
are running in the wheat harvest now
in prospect.
A card has been received at the To-
pelka Y. NJ G. A. headquarters from
Sierre Leone saying that the Soudan
missionary party that went from there
are all we'll They have started for the
interior.
Wichita. lightning struck the barn
of John Werner, living SIX miles south
west of town, during the storm, and 10
the confagration which followed two
horses, three COWS and a lot of grain
and harness and machinery were burned
up.
The badge to be worn by the Kansas
teachers to the national educational
convention at Toronto will be a silk
ribbon with q sunfower and the word
kansas printed thereon. The de-
sign is pretty and will be very attract
i've.
Leavenworth item: Under the recent
law of congress, admitting Mexican war
veterans to the National Soldiers homes,
there are now a dozen ex-confeferate
soldiers in the LeaVenworth Soldiers
home, all of whom are drawing pensions
from Uncle Sam.
Arkansas City Traveller: The entire
Indian commission arrived from Wells
ton, having given up the attempt to
negotiate with the Kickapoos The In
dams were not disposed to accept any
proposition, and could not be got even
to discuss one.
Manhattan.-Fred Stewart, an officer
in company d, Fourth regiment, Ma
tional Guards, was accidentally drowned
while bathing IN the lake, by taking
cramps. Three hours were spent in re-
covering his body. He leaves an aged,
widowed mother, whose only support
he was.
LAWRENCE. S. Crew & Co., whole
sale and retail book and stationery, one
of the oldest firms in Lawrence, was
closed by the sheriff, under a chattel
mortgage held by the Lawrence Ma
tiOnal bank. Liabilities and assets IN
known, but it is thought that the firm
will probably resume business.
Arkansas City.-A terrific wind and
hail storm has visited this section. In
the city many windows and skylights
were broken and great damage done to
trees. East of the city a school house
was demolished and other buildings
damaged. North of here for miles farms
were completely stripped of orchards
and crops.
Brakeman Register: Celia township
is confronted with a surplus of several
hundred dollars that she don't know
what to do with. Logan has no debts
and bank account of one hundred and
sixty big dollars. This is the region
that was advertised as bankrupt and
unable to take care of it's poor only a
few weeks ago.
Independence Reporter: A delega-
ton of CherryVale citizens, headed by
the mayor, has gone to st. Louis TO try
to interest some of the capitalists of
that city in manufacturing enter
prises to be located in Cherryvale.
Cherryvale business men show a per-
sistence of endeavor to build up their
town that is commendable and is worthy
of success.
Mankato Monitor: Some three weeks
ago Miss Nettie HOskinson sent her
mother a pair of Langshan fowls from
Emporia. The first three days after
their arrival the hen laid one egg each
day and on the fourth day she laid two,
and kept on laying one egg one day
and two the next until Friday and Sat
urday last, when she laid two eggs each
day. AS remarkable as this may seem,
there Is not the slightest room for
doubt, and the hen actually laid seven
teen eggs in ten days.
Topeka Capital: There will be from
twenty five to thirty Topeka and Shaw
nee county teachers who will go to
Toronto to attend the National Educa-
tional association, which meets in July.
Several will make ''side trip" to east
ern points. CouRtyi Superintendent
Jordan is organizing a party for New
England points. The party will go
down the st. Lawrence to Montreal,
from thence through the White noun
tains, ETC., to Portland, Boston and
other New England cities. ANY person
can join this party by applying to Su-
perintendent Jordan.
Wichita Eagle: The storm Sunday
night was the wonder, admiration and
terror, one or the other, for everybody.
The heavens were in such a continual
and perfect blaze that the inside of
every home was lit up as if with an arc
burner The thunder was terrific and
the wind was not slow. The conductor
of the Missouri Pacific from the west
says that quite a little strip, probably
a mile or two wide, near Sterling, was
fearfully cut mp by a tremendous fall
of hail. He noticed two or three fields
in which the corh was cut completely
down, leaving but few inches OF the
lower ends of the stalks sticking up
like bare stakes.
Newton.-Newton is rejoicing over
the fact that the Newton National bank,
which closed its doors November 80,
1859, and has been in the hands Of a
receiver since December 3, will resume
business tomorrow. A new capital of
100000 has been paid in by the stock
holders, and Receiver J. E Howard has
turned over the assets to the new man
agement. The receiver has collected
$4,000, which, with the 100000 paid