Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-03-17

Touring mill TO that place
The Dodge City Globe-Republican
says that 900 families of Danes will
move into Ford county this year.
General Blair and Colonel Jones have
secured headquarters at the Palmer
house for the Kansas delegation to the
national democratic convention
Parsons claims to be the best show
town in Kansas. The railroad connec-
tious of the town are such that people
from three adjoining counties come and
go in one night. -
IT. Phelps, Fort Scott man, was
awarded the gold medal for the highest
and best examination in the United
States mail service His average was
1897 per cent. In throwing 32,195
postal cards ne only made twelve errors.
Abilene letter: Judge Humphrey has
decided that the Gibson bill cutting
down the salaries of Dickinson county
officials, was unconstitutional and that
the salaries shall stand The bill was
passed in 1889 and was defective in
title.
LaCygne Journal: Register of Deeds
Roy reports for the past week nineteen
chattel mortgages fled and ten renewed;
real estate mortgages fled, 1912; re-
leased, S10,960. This is remarkable
showing for the week ending Febru-
airy %.
From Huron: While A. S. George,
% years old, was changing belt in a
feed mill, the sleeve of his left arm
aartobt IN hO1 ~, boF
was instantly hurled around and his
arm torn from his body. George re-
ceived other injuries and died next day.
He lived at Hiawatha, Brown county,
where was highly respected.
Topeka Capital: Columbian day will
be observed in the different county
schools on March 25. The object of
this observance is to raise funds for the
Kansas exhibit at the worlds fair. A
number Of the schools have in prepare
ton entertainments for the occasion at
which an admittance will be charged
Other schools will simply take up col
lection.
According to the figures of the federal
census Of 1890, this state leads the
country in percentage of public school
pupils. Some of the leading states are:
Iowa, 20 per cent; Missouri, a per cent;
Nebraska, % per cent; Ohio, % per
cent; Illinois, 20 per cent; South Dako-
TIA, 20 per cent. But Kansas tops them
all, her public school pupils being %
per cent of the entire population.
From Fort Scott: According to the
record kept by I. n. Ury, register of
deeds of Bourbon county, the mort
gage indebtedness of the county was
reduced during the month of February
| 100000. The value of farm land sold
during the month amounted to S47, 760;
the value of city property sold, near
| $50, 600; mortgages received for pur-
chase money in farm and city property,
$4,000.
Lawrence letter: Walter Dickus, the
| mulatto who assaulted Mrs. Anna Neu-
sitter, near Eudora, was arraigned in
the district court and entered a plea OF
| guilty to the charge of assault with at
tempt to commit rape. Judge Benson
| gave him ten years in the penitentiary,
the limit of the law, and Sheriff Hind
man left with him on the first train for
Lansing. Within seventy hours from
| the time the crime was committed,
| Dickus was behind the walls, serving
his ten years sentence.
Abilene special: The case of an Eng
fish woman claiming the estate of Hon.
J. A. Gillett, founder of Woodbine, and
| one of the richest residents of the coun-
| ty, came up in the district court to-day.
| She claims to have been married to him
in England thirty-five years ago, after
which he came to this country, became
rich and raised a family. The case has
created much interest. Judge Humph-
rey denied the defendants motion to
strike plaintiffs petition from the files,
! postponing the case to next term. About
$4,000 is involved.
Salina Republican: The paper mill
yard is stacked full of straw, and Mr.
Barney has been obliged to call halt
until he can rent more ground on which
to stack. He has now received about
800 tons of wheat straw, and has paid
50 per ton for all of it. This makes
1000 which the farmers have received
from an otherwise useless product. Mr..
Barney says that several men with
teams have made as high as $3.50 per
day hauling straw. The mill will be
running in a month and will consume
twenty-five tons of straw daily. Mr..
Barney will begin to receive straw
again as soon as he can secure a place
to put it.
Chanute Vidette-Times: The Gre
monia school house was struck by light
ming Just after the close ot..school, and
none but the teacher and one little girl
were III the house. The lightning struck
the fue, throwing bricks across the road
and knocking out both gable ends Of the
building, and running down the stove
| pipe it burnt of the rubbers from Mr..
Filson's feet, as he was standing near
the stove at the time the current ran
down his leg and into his rubbers. The
little child was badly shocked, but as
soon as she could collect herself ran out
for help, and upon returning found
Mr. Filson uninjured except by the
shock. The school house looked like a
ruin, but the wonderful escape of Mr..
Filson and the child is providential.
Faith Phillips was born at Atehison
nineteen months ag, few days before
the death of her mother, and while her
father was in Washington territory look
ing for work. His post, No. 236, and
the corps, buried the mother and took
charge of the children. In a shore time
he found work and sent for the older
children, but it being impossible for
him to care for the wee thing out there,
allowed the post to keep her. The
corps fixed up and sent the others and
little Faith found a home in the family
of Post Commander Sanborn. She grow