Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-02-23
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

from the county treasury during TIL
year.
Topeka Capital; Private Seoretar,
Close received a painful fall from al
electric car and is walking with n cane
Two hundred bushels OF potatoes
were baked in disastrous fire in North
Lawrence. q. l.. Johnson's $4,000
residence burned to the ground and the
potatoes in the cellar were ruined. The
house was insured.
From Lyons; Otis Wade, a brake.
man on the Frisco railroad, while coup.
ling cars at Taxman lost his balance
and fell, the trucks passing over his
lower limbs crushing them very badly.
He died at 6 o'clock.
The Spring Avenue hotel at Conway
Springs has burned the second time
within six months, the building now de-
stroyed having been erected recently
on the site of the former fire. The
loss is about $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
Atchson Champion; The weather is
mighty cold when it freezes an Atchison
street car horses ears. A horse on u
Main street car had both ears frozen
stiff, and when he was being led int
the barn he struck one ear against a
post breaking it off-the, ear, We
mean.
Topeka Capital: There is an article
going the rounds of the eastern press
that family named Smith all froze to
death during the late zero weather.
The article says there we're four in the
family and they lived near Topeka.
There is no truth whatever in the re-
port.
Atchson Champion: The messenger
boys employed at the office of the
Western Union Telegraph company
went out on strike They wanted S15
a month; they were getting SO. Their
demands were not complied with and
other boys were hired to take their
places.
Joseph McCrum died in Atchson last
week Of acute pneumonia. The deceased
has resided in Atchison and Doniphan
counties since 1856, and was widely
known in this section of the state. He
was an extensive land owner in Doni-
phan, Atchison and Ness counties in
this state.
The Students Journal, a weekly
paper published by students of Kansas
university, prints what it claims to be
conclusive evidence that the Grafton of
Will Hall Riddle at the oratorical con-
test, in which Riddle secured first place,
is plagarized from pamphlet published
in 1889. Riddle is a Lawrence student
of X. S. U.
Jewell City Republican: John Elliot,
near Randall, kept 200 hens during the
past year, and from them sold $4,000
eggs and raised LOO chickens, without
an Incubator. His eggs and chickens
sold brought him $500. He will start
in this year with 700 hens on his new
farm near Burr Oak, which he will fit
up especially for the poultry business.
His chickens are principally brown
Leghorns. There is money in the
chicken business, but it does not fall
into mans lap. Lazy men better get
rich some other way.
Columbus letter: The people of this
place are greatly excited over the rapid
spread Of new religion, of which John
and David Deems, of this place are the
founders and the chief expounders.
The basis of the religion is the govern
ment of personal conduct according to
the teachings Of the new Testament,
literally interpreted. John Deems de-
votes himself to the material and David
to the spiritual phase of the new reli-
gion. John claims divine healing power,
manifested by simply laying on of his
hands, and if the testimony of his con-
verts is to be believed his power is in
deed wonderful, Ruth Moore, a girl of
16 years, living here, was cross-eyed.
She says John Deems placed his hands
on her and her eyes were Strengthened.
Mary Odds was thrown out of car
riage and received injuries to her spine
which resulted in the total paralysis of
her limbs. She says John Deems babe
her to arise and walk and she at once
recovered the use of her limbs. Kittie
Spaulding had been a sufferer from hip
disease and Mary Speyton was dying of
cancer; John Deems administered to
them and both are cured. David
Deems does the preaching for the new
religion. The burden Of his dscourses
has been, "Leave all and follow NO."
Many have accepted the new religion
and several have deserted their families
to follow the Deems. Homes were
broken up and families disrupted, until
now the civil authorities, backed by the
sentiment of orthodox people of the
town, have determined to break up the
sect. John and Charles Waits, two of
the most fervent of the new converts,
have been adjudged insane by the pro-
bate court and sent to the state asylum.
Efforts will be made in few days to
have the Deems brothers adjudged in
sane, in the hope that their removal
from the community will put an end to
the spread Of their teachings. The
Deems brothers say: "Thy will DO