Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-05-05
kansas sTATE news.


ot Kansas have organized Women's Co
lumbar clubs in thirty counties
The citizens OF Pittsburg are making
extensive preparations to entertain the
Grand Lodge knights of Pythias next
month
Postmaster General Wanamaker has
given orders for the establishment or
/ tree delivery service at Parsons, COM
mencing June 1.
Prof Snow says that out Of 1,15O
experiments in Kansas, Colorado and
Missouri with his method of destroying
chinch bugs, 800 have been successful
The regents of the state university
have appropriated money enough to en-
able Professor Dyche to exhibit his nat
ural history collection at the worlds
fair.
Captain George A. Smith died at Gar
commander, during the war, of the war
ship Dictator, the largest vessel then
carrying the stars and stripes.
Wichita Alexander Walker, an old
man who recently moved here from
Columbia. Mo-, and who has been living
alone, fell on a stove, while in a fit, and
before he was rescued suffered fatal in
iuries.
Osborne News: To illustrate the
rapid influx of immigrants, it might be
mentioned that sixteen land-hunters
stopped at the residence of a Bloom
township man in Osborne county one
night last week.
Since last November twelve new Odd
Fellows lodges have been organized in
Kansas. The women's auxiliaries have
increased nearly twice as fast, twenty
one lodges of Daughters of Rebecca
having been organized.
Salina Republican: Two hundred
dollars have been spent for the fireworks
of the democratic state convention. The
Topeka Flambeau club contains about
sixty members, and with 5000 worth of
material will make striking display.
Upon recommendation of Senator
Perkins the postoffice at Seabrook,
Shawnee county, has been discontinued.
Senator Perkins said that he had done
this because no one seemed to want
the pOstoffice continued, and no one
would accept the position of postmaster
Ottawa letter: Every congregation
2 in Ottawa has unanimously adopted res
/, olutions memorializing the board of
l managers of the worlds fair to close the
> exhibit on Sunday, to prohibit the sale
l of Intoxicating liquors on the grounds
and to close the Kansas exhibit on Sun
day.
Topeka Journal: Ed G.. Moore has
been appointed by Topeka post to pre-
: pare a set of resolutions congratulating
, Miss Emma Connor, of Ladoga. Indi-
/ ana, the young school teacher who hung
a flag on her school house, and when
the ex-rebels of the town pulled it
down, put it back and defended it with
a rifle.
! Wichita Eagle: The Towanda relief
committee have decided to buy lumber
and give it to those only who are unable
to buy it themselves. Parties who are
able to rebuild and repair will not be
given anything. The lumber merchants
j will furnish lumber at wholesale price,
4 and the Missouri Pacific will transport
, it free of cost.
a Dighton letter: We are enjoying a
: nice little boom this spring. Not such
: a boom as we have had, but a more sub
stantial class of farmers are coming
here. This fact is noted accurately
from the fact that four times as many
homestead entries have been made the
past month at the land office as were
: made in the same month last year.
North Topeka item: The Brewer
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q winter on Topeka avenue, have started
out on the road again. Mr.. Brewer is
said to be worth considerable money,
but he keeps on the road with his fami-
f ly in true gypsy style, on account of his
# stages for Chicago, reaching the worlds
e fair in 1898.
!. Wichita Eagle: A movement is OF
s foot to enter negotiations with the Santa
q Fe and Rock Island railway companies
in the matter of getting a rate to TOpe-
ka for from 600 to 800 men from this
IS vicinity on the occasion of the state
n convention. 1t is thought that it would
> be an easy matter to get up a club o.
st 600 persons, at least, to go to the state
y convention if the rates are reasonable.
e Salina.-The democrat state conven
'' ton held here was presided over b,
Frank Lynch, of LeavenwOrth, with +
s. NJ. Cooper as secretary. Delegates wer
d elected to the national convention ant
II were instructed to vote for Cleveland a
n long as his name remained before tn
= convention. The place for the mex
t convention point was changed iron
Pittsburg to Topeka, the date remaining
July 6.
Atchison.-The Missouri river con
: tinues to cut away the island abOv
y Atchison. Albert II. Horton, chief jus
> tice of the Kansas supreme court, wh'
q owns nearly thousand acres at the up
Il yer end, has lost about sixty acres thi
s, spring, and Glen Rohr, who owns con
siderable body lower down, has lost fv
or ten acres. There are seven or eigh
ID tenants on the Horton end of the island
IN and they are greatly alarmed.
:. Wichita Eagle: Sunday morning Re-
st G. s. Nusbaum presented the circum
ey stances of Rev. E. B. Abbott, near Lo
u rena, Kan, who was with his wife badl
hurt in the cyclone over a week age
and the congregation responded with
es collection which amounted to over $50
j. Rev. Mr.. Abbott and wife are elderl
y, people, and the cruel cyclone left ther
a without home, clothing, food or money
~ They are being cared for at a neighbor'
st home.
Weir journal: Arong the things t
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