Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-08-11
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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Pittsburg is to have an electric street
railway. The work of construction has
already commenced
The Jewell City Republican says that
one dealer there sold $4,000 pounds of
Irvine for this harvest.
The Emporia State Normal Quarterly
estimates that 125 persons will graduate
from the state normal in 1893.
Prof. h. B. Scott, of the Kansas Wes-
leyan university at Salina, has been
elected to I'LL the chair of mathematics
at Garfield university, of Wichita.
Dodge City Globe-Republican: I'm
provements are still progressing at the
Soldiers Home. Soon seven more cot
tages will be ready for occupancy.
Simon Stadler. of .Rosedale, grocer,
died from heat in Chicago during the
week. He had been there on business
several days, and while walking along
the street was overcome by the heat and
fell to the pavement, expiring in a few
moments
The great number of small depreda-
tons of late and the numerous arrests
made, in the great wheat section of Kan
sas, would indicate that among the hun
dreds who were sent out to aid in wheat
harvest, there were many bad men dis
tributed over the state
John Ryan, fireman of Missouri Pa
cific freight engine, was overcome by
the heat, few miles south Of Atchison.
| When the train reached Atchison Ryan
was unconscious, and he died in a few
hours. It was his first trip over the
road. Ryan has relatives at MRrengo,
Ill, where his remains were sent for
burial.
Thomas Nickerson, aged 81 years,
died at his home at Newton Center,
Mass, July %. He was once president
of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
road and also of the Mexican Central
road. He was one of the controlling
spirits in the early struggles and later
successes of the Atchison system In
Kansas.
Manhattan Mercury: Manhattan has
three musical organizations which rep
resent ability snch as but few towns of
$500 can boast of. The Manhattan and
Sextet bands and Prof. Haulenbeck's
orchestra are composed of members
who handle their respective instruments
in manner denoting professional skill
of high grade.
Delphos Republican: Matt Donielson,
who is working for George Stratton, had
his right arm ierked clear off Just below
the elbow by a belt in the mill, Friday.
He got his arm caught in the belt and
was twisted up terribly. Medical aid
was summoned and his arm was taken
off above the elbow and il is thought
he will get along all right.
Argentine item: R. R Dunbar
shipped a carload of fine walnut logs to
st. Louis from here. The timber was
the product of Wyandotte county, and
some of the logs were twenty -four to
thirty-six inches in diameter. Mr.. Dun
bar has shipped several carloads of
walnut logs. and they were all cut from
groves in Shawnee township.
It is now known that Richard Meade.
the missing insurance agent of Atchi-
son, has gone to England, and detect
i've agency has offered to bring him
back for $500. That amount was raised
on the streets in about two hours. 1t
is believed that his liabilities will
reach $4,000. A great many women
lost money who have said nothing
about it.
From Smith Center and from all that
qnarter of the state come cheering re-
ports of soaking rains, just at the time
most needed by the corn crop. The
same kind of reports come in from Wich-
tia and from south and west of there.
At Topeka and in central eastern Kan
sas good rains have been general. It is
probable that the rains have covered the
| entire state.
Miss Mary Simpson, of Lawrence,
was thrown from a buggy by runaway
: team and killed. When the horses
; started to run she jumped from the
, carriage, striking on her head. She
lived only a few minutes. Miss Stimp-
son was a teacher, a graduate of the
state university of the class of 1885,
and was well known in college and edu-
cational circles throughout the state.
She and other members of the family a
t few days ago received bequest of $751;
5 600 from the estate of a deceased rela-
tive in the east.
c A Dodge city dispatch signed by w
= T. Petition, says: ''The hot winds have
done no harm up to the present time, or
. account of the grass still being green
l Corn would be the entire sufferer but
q it still looks fine" This is in direct
contradiction of the statement tele
{ graphed from Wichita to The Kansas
City Times, that the corn crop of the
western part of the state would be prac
: tically total failure and that the hot
winds from the Panhandle have withereC
y all the fields over space of 125 miles
It east and west.
i The Salina papers tell OF an attack by
y tramps upon Peter Leidkold, an old gen
s tleman of Salina. He was watkins
n along the railroad track near the city
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