Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-08-02
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
At Great Bend tho market for new
wheat opened at 3S cents,

a capitalization Of $4,000 has been or
gained for the purpose
A man engaged in changing tho COM
bination on bank vault lock at Witch
tia was looked inside and nearly asphyx-
lated before the door could be opened.
The North Solomon river from Harlan
to Lenora distance of about eighty
mioR, supports ten Touring mills and
tho South Solomon for tho Same distance
supports five.
Saline county has established a branch
Of Professor Shows chlnch bug extermi-
nation station, in charge of w. II. Saw
telle, n university graduate 1t will be
maintained two months at an expense of
500.
Topeka Mail; The Topeka banks
complain that business is duller than for
years. The only bank that has yet de-
clared a dividend is the Central Nation
al, which is now paying u semi-annual
Of q per cent.
Tho Sanders Coxoyites, who have
been confined in various Kansas jails for
stealing Missouri Pacific train, are con.
grogatng in Kansas City, Kan, as fast
as they are released. 1t is expected that
there will be reorganization there.
Topeka Mail; John Macdonald, edi-
tor of the Western School journal, an d
his son Rodric, arc on their way to
Scotland. They will be absent for
about three months, 1t has been thir-
ty-throo years since John was in Scot
land.
There arc G,533 volumes in the Loav-
cnworth Soldiers Home library, 5,488
of which arc in the English language,
COG in German and 439 in scandinavian.
The English books embrace fiction,
travel, history, and scientific, religious
and political works.
Topeka journal; A good many coun-
tarfeit dollars are in circulation in To-
peka, and as they have made their APP
pearence simultaneously with the cir
Gus, it is surmised that they may have
been brought to town by some circus
CRATER. They are clover counterfeits
and look new, but they arc lighter than
the genuine.
The creamery at Richmond, Franklin
County, has been burned to the ground.
No one knew anything about it until a
farmer drove there the next morning to
deliver cream and found it gone. A tenn
perance meeting haG been held there
lasting till II o'clock, so the fire of course
occurred later. The building and con-
tents were worth about $4,000. No in
! surance.
A stranger, tall and Of light com.
pleXion, engaged j. W. Ogle, an Emno.
ria drayman, to haul his boat down tc
the Cottonwood. The gentleman seeped
to have money, and said he was from
Pennsylvania and would camp and fish
until corn-cutting time. Two days
later some boys found the boat drifting
down the river with one oar gone and
most of the provisions and fishing tackle
in it. Although search has been made
for tho owner no trace Of him has been
found.
Grand Secretary Frederick Weber
passed through Topeka accompanyin g
tho remains Of Philip Tucker, Grand
Commander of tho Supreme Council,
Scottish Rite Masons of the United
States, from Washington, D. G., to Gal
weston, Tex. Evan Davis accompanied
the burial party to Emporia as a repre-
sentative OF the Topeka Masons. By
tho death of Mr., Tucker, Thomas H.
Caswell, Of San Francisco, will become
Grand Commander, and Kansas man
e. r. Carr, Of Leavenworth, will be
made Deputy Grand Commander.
The greenhouses at the Loavenworth
home are eight in number, covered with
5000 feet of glass and contains 150 vari-
cites of blooming and twenty-five vari-
etles Of foliage plants. Among the
former are 5000 geraniums, while among
the latter are 10000 coleus and 10000
Ilthernantheras. The ornamental work
in front of the barracks, dining hall,
hospital and residences, were designed
by Henry Wallace, the landscape gar
dener, and consists of scroll work, stars,
flags, harps, circles, squares, octagons,
etc, in which are bedded both folia &c
and Towering plants.
Emporia Republican,: I. E. Perley,
Of this city, was drowned in the Cotton
wood river at Thompson's ford. He left
Emporia to drive to his farm and was
not again seen alive. His team was
found in the woods near Thompson's
ford. The cushions we're wet and there
was other evidence that the team had
been struggling in the water. Search
ing parties went to work with graphing
hooks, and the drowned mans body was
recovered. 1t appeared that the buggy
tongue had broken driving down to the
ford and that Mr. Perley had been
thrown over the dashboard into the wa
ter. Mr.. Perley was at one time bus
mess man in Topeka and is well-known
to all old settlers.
STOCK AND FARM.
Girard Press: L. Colean has been
,norkotipo nav y-baot that iS enpOura o.