Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-20
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Inc Wlnnold stone company n ship
ping its product at the rate OF about 15C
carloads per montk.
Chanute, at spco.al election, by a
vote of 528 to 10, voted $4,000 bonds
for the erection Of water works plant
Twenty thousand dollars have been
paid in the towns of lola and Hum
boldt for poultry in the last ten
months.
From Fredonia; The Frisco depot
at this place was broken into, the safe
blown open, and change to the amount
Of $11 taken. There Is no clue to the
thieves.
In addition to the state display at
Chicago OF mines and mining interests,
the board Of trade Of Galena and the
Santa Fe railroad company will have
special exhibits.
Atchison Champion; A CARLOAD of
folders and other printed matter was
shipped from Smith Center q few days
since. It was in charge OF Elmer T..
Dugan and will advertise Smith county
in it's true light.
Goodland Dark Horse: Every arrival
Of the train brings additions to Sher-
man county, and what is especially sat
isfactory in these new arrivals is that
they are men OF sufficient means to buy
and improve their lands.
Topeka Journal; The coal hole is
deserted. Engineer Royce has gone
home aud taken the machinery with
him. One thousand six hundred feet
of coal hole is still there, spouting salt
water into the shunganunga.
Arkansas City Traveller. The watch
man of the coal cars at the Santa Fe
has his hands full. Sunday night he
caught six parties stealing coal and ar
rested them. One was driving off with
wagon-load. They were fined in po-
lice court
j. @. Wright, former real estate
man at Wichita, was arrested at Red
Cloud, Neb., by the sheriff of Sedgwick
county, charged with first mortgaging
property that never belonged to him
and afterwards fraudulently selling u
clear property.
Major Calvin Hood, Of Emporia, VINO
Is at Geuda for his health, made a mis-
take in taking medicine He thought
he was taking his tonic, but in reality
swallowed some burning liniment. He
had a narrow escape from death, and as
it was he was badly burned.
At Salina fire broke out near the bus
mess portion of the city. 1t originated
in barn and its progress was 80 rapid
that three horses persisted before they
could be released. Four barns in all
were burned and several other outbuild-
ings. The origin of the fire is not
known.
Kinsley Mercury: Our farmers have
their store bills paid up, their interest
that is, those who have interest to
pay-paid, most of them have all their
farm machinery bought and paid for,
and they are holding their surplus
wheat against possible crop failure
this year. If we have a good crop,
this surplus will go into building
farm houses, barns and sheds and into
stock.
Topeka Journal: Judge Hazen, of
the district court, cautioned the bar
against making such extravaganza
charges in cases of receivership and as
signee cases, ADD they needn't be sur
prised il such fees are cut down here
after. Such cases are not to be carried
on from month to month hereafter, said
the Judge. The property must be sold
and the case settled up, and useless
costs avoided.
From Ohetopa: A one-story build
ing, owned by James Cunningham and
occupied by him as shoe shop and by
George Mccormick as lunch room,
and two-story building owned by
Colonel Cook and occupied below by
Mrs. j. j. Rambo with a stock of mil
linery, are burned to the ground. The
fire brode out in the lunch room and
spread SO rapidly that nothing from it
or the shoe shop could be saved. Most
of the millinery stock was saved.
From Fort Scott: The session held
here Of the Southeastern Kansas Teach
ers' association was one of the most
interesting ever held. At the close of
the session the following officers were
elected: President, Frank P. Smith, of
Ottawa; vice president, William Sin
clair, Of Coffeyville; secretary, Laura
Gregg, of Ottawa; treasurer, d. VI.
Bowen, of Fort Scott; executive COM
mittee, John Dietrich of Emporia, A.
W. Leach of Linn county, and A. Nash
Of Montgomery county. Emporia gets
the next session.
From Seneca: The case of Lewis
Wetmore, the contractor of brick work,
who was adjudged insane and taken to
The asylum to-day is most pitiable
One Mr.. Wetmore is the man who lost
his own possessions and several thou
sand dollars for his bondsmen in the
Seneca high school building. Being a
man Of strict integrity, thus matter has
weighed heavily upon him, but it was
not known until recently that his mind
had actually given way under the