Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-10-22
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Abilene letter: The bank of Enter
prise has increased its capital to $780,
600. 1t is said to be the only bank in
the state to do so under the new law.
Manhattan letter: The fight In Ri
ley county Is bitter between the school
book companies. while the people do
not dare to purchase books, not know
ing what changes may be made before
the matter is settled.
The Delphos correspondent of the
Minneapolis Messenger has been EXAM
lining invoices of merchants of that
town and finds that they have sold in
one year ffty-two tons three hundred
and forty-seven pounds of sugar.
GARRETT journal: With the ground
all torn up on the west side and the
canning factory in full blast, brick work
commenced on the Lutheran church on
Fourth avenue. and corn cutting going
on, there are few idle men on our
streets who have any inclination to
work.
Kansas City Gazette: The maehin-
cry in the new wooden mill at Rosedale
has been set in motion, and the frat lot
of wool-a purely Kansas article-was
started through the first operation pre-
paratory to being manufactured into
blankets. This new enterprise is located
on Kansas soil near the state line at
Rosedale.
Atchison.-A company has been or
ganized to manufacture cash registers
on an extensive scale in Atchison. The
register is the patent of ]. G. Hume,
Of Atchison, who has been manufac-
turing them in Cleveland for the past
Two or three years. A citizens commit
lee has also gone to work to secure a
bicycle factory.
Atchison Champion: Captain John
K Fisher has received notice from
Washington that the pension of William
Rinehart had been Increased from $50
TO S72 per month, and that he had been
allowed $3.50 back pay. Rinehart died
IN AtchisOn in August. He left several
children and the money will go to them
when the proper papers are made out.
Cottonwood Falls Courant: S. o.
Mann has great curiosity in the shape
If an infantile COW. The animal is
about four years old, perfectly formed
and twenty eight inches high. This is
one of the cunosities of the age and
will be on exhibition at the Chase coun-
" fair. Its horns are about four inches
long and he hauls it around in buggy.
Topeka Capital: H. X. Devendors
has forwarded to Washington the namef
Of twenty-three deceased soldiers buried
In Shawnee county and whose graves
are unmarked. This is the third requi-
sition he has sent in for headstones
and when they are received it will
make a total of eighty-one that he has
been Instrumental in procuring for his
lead comrades.
Junction City Republican: An old
sergeant with over twenty-five years in
.he service offered to bet the republi-
san reporter Stetson hat that he could
not pick five men out of the thirty who
arrived at Fort Riley last week who
were 81 years old. This is rather tough
On the BARRIERS and it goes to show
that the ''men" who enlist are sent to
other states than Kansas.
Allen Tidiugs: Jacob Yost, the in
,ubator man, of Topeka, was in town
iast Saturday. He is talking some of
erecting a factory here for the manu-
facture of his incubators and other of
his inventions. We understand that he
is the inventor of an article of consider
able Importance, and. proper induce
ments will no doubt be extended to him
to locate here in the manufacturing
business.
Fort Scott: As Mrs. Howard Hay
worth was coming down stairs, carrying
i glass pitcher, she fell, dashing the
pitcher to pieces. One of the pieces
struck her in the neck, severing the
ugular and four collateral veins on the
eft side. Physicians were hastily sum-
moned and arrived in time to prevent
The lady from bleeding to DEATH The
doctors pronounce the wound very
serious one and almost fatal.
Coffeyville.- To-day has been q gala
day for Coffeyville. The streets and
the Grand Army of the Republic
grounds were literally jammed with
people from all points in the district.
Regular and special trains we're contin-
ually arriving with crowds of people.
Speeches interpreted with music and
songs by glee clubs have contributed to
the enjoyment of the great crowd of
soldiers from all parts Of the state.
Olathe.-News reached this place last
night of the death at Larned of Geo.
B. Lord. of this city. For fifteen years
he had owned the johnson County bank
and had accumulated a fortune. OF
recent years he has been prominently
interested in irrigation in western
Kansas and Colorado. He went TO that
section about two months ago. Within
a week he took the mountain fever and
vas removed to Larned, where he died.
Topeka Capital: On the Washburn
college grounds over 1000 evergreens,
mainly pines and cedars, and nearly
1000 white elms are ready for trans
planting. The executive committee will
Sleet next Tuesday to decide where
they shall be set out. Some parts of the
campus are now becoming so shaded
that the cottonwood trees will have to
be cut down, leaving the elms. ever
greens and other forest trees to occupy
the space.
Atohison.-Joseph Tracy. student
Of Midland college, from st. Joseph,
was accidentally shot in the head by
Richard Willis. a student from Doni-
phan county. The bullet struck Tracy
in the forehead and glanced to a posi-
ton above the right eye, where it
lodged. The wound is rather serious
but not considered dangerous. Willis
'did not know it was loaded" He
pointed the weapon at Tracy and COM
handing him to get his lessons pulled
the trigger.