Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Der ID.
At Hiawatha the room OF Dr. J. c
Taylor, Of Topeka, at the Bradley Hous
was burglarized and 1913 in money
gold watch and a satchel of clothes wal
stolen.
Washburn college, Topeka, Kansas.
For both Sexes Fine grounds, six
buildings. Preparatory, Normal and Col
legiate courses. One of the best col
leges in the west. Fall term opens Sept.
IS. Peter McVicar, President.
From Lincoln: John Donley OF Lin.
coin county, traded 1917 big fine 2-year.
old steers to @. B, Jones fora quarter sec
ton Of Franklin township land The fig
ures fixed in the deal were SO, 900 for the
cattle and the same for the land
At Emporia j. w. Hawkins barn was
burned. 1t contained four OF probably
the smallest, most valuable and beautiful
Shetland ponies In the state, three of
which were burned to n crisp and the
other 80 badly burned that it is not ex-
pected to live.
Emporia Republican: There has never
been in the history of Empona such
scarcity Of houses for rent. The fact
that there are so many improvements
being made, and, that there are no va
cant houses, is good evidence that EN-
poria is progressing.
From wellington: A seven year-old
boy was killed near Argonia, while in
the field blowing. He was in the field
alone and was using riding pillow, and
when found he was lying on the ground
with the rolling cutter on his neck, dead,
with the team standing still.
Sedan Lance: P. D. Wright met
with serious accident in Elgin. The
train remainded standing on the cross
ing for sometime, blocking the way and
Mr.. Wright having to get through
stepped on the drawhead Just as the
train started, his foot was caught and
smashed to pulp. He was brought
home Sunday, and it is feared amputa-
ton will be necessary.
From Wichita: Conspiracy, fraud
and forgery are the charges contained
in an action commenced here by Thorn
son and Blond Of Charlottesville, Ind,
against John j. Hatfield, T. r. Hazard,
Dan Wren, William Grow and j. L. An
derson, for the recovery of $1,000, the
value of some imported horses the plain
tiffs allege they were swindled out Of by
the defendants, for whom Wren, they
allege, acted as agent.
From Fort Scott: Hon. W. G. Perry,
United States district attorney for Kan
sas, is at home here. He states that he
will take charge of the duties Of his
office at once He has not vet decided
upon an assistant, but has a number of
good applications to consider, Some
good young Kansas democrat will be
given the place. The next term of the
United States district court will be held
at Wichita September IL. Mr.. Perry
will still retain his home in this city.
Robert Kincaid has returned to
Mound City. He came from Pleas
anton. He said that the many stories
which have been aaoat since his depar-
ture to Iowa were entirely false. He had
not taken any large amount of money
with him; he had no intention of not re-
turning, and the failure OF his many
enterprises was not due to Indifferent or
bad banking or business methods. The
failure was due to runs on his banks, to
his inability to borrow the necessary
money to tide him over the difficulty or
to collect the debts due him. In fact he
was the victim Of circumstances, Just as
hundreds of other men are at the pres
ent time.
William Higgins, aged 16 years, who
recently removed from Kansas City to
the country near Charlottesville, sixteen
miles west Of the city, accidentally shot
himself with an old musket which he
had been using hunting birds, and died
in an hour. Young Higgins had been in
the woods near his house and on his re-
turn stopped at the house of a neighbor.
While there he looked down the barrel Of
the gun and the load of bird shot in it
was discharged. His nose was blown
off and the scalp torn from his head.
The fatal shot penetrated the brain
through the nostril. He ran out in the
country road and fell. He was taken
to his home where he died.
Salina Republican: Five steers be-
longing to Robt. Bowling were killed on
his ranch near Brookville. Mr.. Dow
ling says that when he found the dead
animals they were all lying close togeth-
er near the wire fence. He thinks that
the lightning struck the fence and ran
along the wires striking the steers. A
colt belonging to John Craig, living four
miles northwest was also killed by light
ming during the same storm, and stack
of wheat belonging to o. Peterson was
burned, A heavy bolt struck the south
ern chimney on the Wesleyan university.
The chimney was considerably shat
tered, but no damage was done to the
building on the inside. Z. O. Allen, the
teacher of stenognPhy, was closing the
windows on the south side Mt the time