Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-05-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

ning his factory four years, employ
rom 30 to ll5 persons, and makes
pay.
From Seneca; During a storm tina
visited this county the barn of Johl
Van'or was struck by lightning an,
burned, together with ten head o
horses six head of cattle, q dog, 60l
bushes OF grain, twelve tons OF ha,
ard wagons, buggies and implements
There was considerable hail, but IL die
40 great damage.
The Pittsburg Adams and Well
Fargo express Office was entered b,
robbers and the money drawer and sai,
robbed of about 5000. An entranc,
was gained by pushing against the rea
door and breaking the lock. The com
bination Of the safe was out OF repair 60
that 1t was impossible to use it, an.
getting to the inside was not very hare
work.
The Plumb memorial volume is al
last printed and is now ready for dis
trbution. There are many thousands
Of copies asked for by the Kansas peo-
pie and a remarkably large number
asked for by the people Of other states.
There were only 10000 copies printed,
and it is quite certain that the entire
number will be sent out as soon as they
can lie mailed.
Wichita, May /: Dispatches received
here to-day from different parts of
southwest Kansas all agree that the
heavy frost last night destroyed great
part OF the fruit crop and put the fin
ishing touch to early wheat. Late
planted hard wheat will, however, yet
mako crop, IL rain comes soon. In
this immediate section frost did consid-
cradle damage.
From Olathe: The state deaf and
dumb school here shipped fine exhibit
to the worlds fair, showing progress in
class exercises and what the pupils can
do in the cabinet, shoe and harness
chops printing Office and sewing rooms.
Also samples from the art class, with
photographs of number of pupils.
Superintendent Walker went to put the
exhibit in proper shape.
Topeka Capital: In letter from
President Taylor, Of the state normal
school to superintendent Davidson, the
following OCCURS "Miss Martie Wha-
10y ranks frat in the class Of 1913, COM
posed of about 100 members. wish
you would send us more such Topeka
girls" Miss Whaley is daughter OF
OK Councilman Whaley, and gradu-
ated from the Topeka high school in
1891. She will be valedictorian for the
class when it graduates in June.
There are at present 125 children at
the soldiers orphans home in Atchison
more than at any other time in the
history Of the institution. The institu-
ton is so crowded that no more can be
accommodated. The $1,000 appro-
priation made by the last legislature
will give them additional room this win.
ter and better accommodate those
already there, but no more children
can be taken. OF the $1,000 appro-
priated, $1,000 viii be expended on an
addition to be built on the west of the
present building.
From Emporia: Several months ago
E. W. O. Walton disappeared from his
home at Hartford, this county, leaving
a wife and family. Several theories
were advanced as to what had become
of him, and the newspapers far and
wide quoted the affair, and recently it
was supposed that his body was found
in the Missouri river and several Hart
ford people went down to identity the
body. 1t is now asosrtained that the
missing man is in England and is we'll
ard hecrtY j. P. Chumlee, q member
of the hartford Odd Fellows lodge, re-
ceived word through an Odd Fellows
lodge at London, England, that the
man is there.
Topeka Capital: Two Kansas young
women are coming rapidly to the front
in their calling and at different institu-
tions. They are Miss Clara Belle Bry-
ant of Lincoln, daughter Of Hon. R.
F. Bryant, an ex-member of the Kansas
and the other is Miss Hat
tie Smith, daughter of W. Fl. Smith, one
of the stockholders in the Home Print
ing company of Atchison. Miss Bryant
is perfecting her education at Chicago
school of oratory, and Miss Smith is at
the Boston school of oratory. Both
young women are making splendid rep-
utations at their schools aud recent
Boston and Chicago papers contained
lengthy and fattering notices of the
work both are doing.
From Pittsburg: Arnott & Lanyon,
Of one of the large coal
mines here, refuse to pay their employ
es weekly, on the grounds that the new
law does not apply to them. The law
is enacted to compel corporations, and
NOS companies to pay their men week
ly, SO say the operators Of individual
mines. This opinion io entertained by
the operators of the Lee coal mine, sit
uated about one mile west of Litchfeld.
This being the first pay for the miners,
weekly, the miners at the Lee mines
walked up and demanded their money,
but were refused on the grounds above
stated. The men quit work and sought
elsewhere. where they
could get their earnings weekly. They