Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-04


The Midland college at Atchison has
been closed on account Of the prevalence
of scarlet fever among the students.
At Emporia Norman Evans, fifteen
year.old boy, while in the company Of
several others who were jumping on and
of cars being moved by switch engine
on the Santa Fe road, fell under tho
cars and had both legs crushed to pulp
just below the knees and his right arm
broken.
From st. Francis: Northumberland
ing this season has been somewhat of
in the crop line yet Cheyenne county
has raised, and just marketed eighty
car loads Of broom corn at the very low
price Of $50 as the maximum and some
as low as $40 per ton. Seventeen fiat
boats heavily laden with broom corn
from Tuttle's ranch in Colorado have
just landed here coming down tho Re-
publican river and will be transported
from here to Chicago via. b. & M. r.
r. This is a great county for broom
corn.
Topeka Capital: Sergeant Jennings
has been to Coolidge, Hamilton county,
whore he established station OF his bu.
reau. There are now about ninety min
eralogical stations in Kansas and about
200 stations during the summer to send
in crop reports. The men in charge OF
these stations receive their pay in publ
cations of the national bureau and agri-
cultural reports Of the state. Mr.. Jen-
nings believes it is question of short
time before they become regular pay Of
fees Of the government.
When J. w. Ady was United States
attorney he began suit against the
Transmissouri Freight association in
the United States court under the anti
trust law. Judge Riner decided that
tho association was not trust This
position was sustained by the United
States court OF appeals. United States
District Attorney Perry, Mr., Ady's sue
cessor, has also Interested himself in the
case. He is not satisfied with the de-
cision and announces that he will carry
the case to the supreme court of the
United States
Cawler City special: A discovery OF
gold was made near this city some time
ago but was kept quiet until an assay
could be made The assayer reports
"1,685 90-100 ounces of gold per ton,
and 481 $40 ounces of silver per ton"
The find was made in digging a we'll on
a farm four miles southwest of this city.
At depth of fourteen feet rock was en-
Countered; underneath this was foot
of gravel and then another rock. The
color is in the gravel. The as
sayer Wilson, of Pueblo) says: IF
you have much gravel like this sample
you have certainly struck it rich"
Other portions of the farm are now be-
ing prospected.
From Chetopa: A man named James
Simmons was stopping with William
Sharp, who lives on the territory line,
nine or ten miles southwest of Chetopa.
He had been writing all day and in the
evening would eat no supper. Shortly
after dark he called for drink Of water
but death had struck him before he
could drink and he fell over on the floor
dead. He was man about thirty or
thirty-fve years old. No one knows
anything about his relatives He has
team and some money. 1t is supposed
that he had taken poison. He said the
day he died the officers were after him
and had him in tight place because of
some family trouble
From Pittsburg; A bitter feeling
still exists as the outcome of the strike,
and it frequently crops out A man
named Jacobs and his son, IA years old,
worked during the agitation last sum-
mer and were given the usual appella-
ton of "blacklegs." The father and son
are now working and the former being
taken sick, the latter went to his work
alone. En- route he was set upon by
two of the ex-strikers, both grown men,
who took their revenge upon the de-
fenseless boy, beating and kicking him
in terrible manner and then fled. The
matter was reported to the company Of
fcers, who are so indignant at the cow
ardly, unprovoked assault that they
have taken steps to have the assailanta
punished to the full extent of the law.