Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
The Times says there arc 200 open
saloons in Leavenworth.

suffrage question at Wichita on tho 2Oth
OF Juno.
Near Burr Oak fine deposit Of en-
cry sand has been discovered. r.. w.
Allen, Of tho Smith Confer Marble COM
pany, has acquired the rightto mine and
ship the sand.
II. M. Jordan, editor OF the Seneca
Tribune, has connected himself with
the Illinois Press association, which IN.
tends to mako q three months tour
through Europe. Mr., Jordan has many
relatives in London.
From Salina: The State Pharmacou-
tical asso citation will meet in this city
on May Goth for three days session.
Extensive preparations are being made
for the ente rtainment of visitors, OF
whom large mum Der are expected.
lightning struck tho Armstrong
school house and several children were
stunned and all became panic stricken. A
number jumped from come Of the lower
windows and were slightly bruised. The
building was not seriously damaged
Prof. Vernon Kellogg, formerly of
Kansas university, has just returned to
this country after years study and
travel in Europe He will occupy the
chair of assistant professor in natural
science in the Leland Stanford, Jr,, uni
versity, California.
At Weir City quite little excitement
was created by tho posting Of notices,
bearing skull and croRsbones, warning
the negro miners to leave the state
within forty eight hours. This caused
considerable excitement for short time
but matters soon cooled down.
Mrs. Agnes Townsend, daughter OF
Fire Marshal Burnes, aged % years, fell
over dead at her parents home in Leav-
enworth. She had just returned from
shopping with her mother and seemed
in excellent health and spirits when she
Tell from a chair and expired without ut
tering a word.
The general interest in the now oil
and gas field in southern Kansas is
shown in the daily inquiries received
at Topeka from persons in Ohio,
Pennsylvania and New York con-
corning the nature and extent Of tho
oil land and asking for samples of the
crude product. New companies are con-
stantly being formed for prospecting
and leasing lands where gas and oil are
thought to exist, and the interest is be-
coming one Of the most important in
the state.
Grand Army day at the Uhatauqua
Assembly meeting at Forest Park, Otta-
wa, June 81, will be honored by great
many distinguished visitors. Governor
Mckinley will be the orator Of the day,
Prof. @. G. Case, of Cleveland, o., will
be the musical director and Commander
lu-Chief Adams, Of Massachusetts, Gen.
W. 2. Campbell, of Wichita, Hon. Geo.
R. Peck, Hon. Bernard Kelley, Hon.
VIM. Warner and many other Grand
Army men will be present. Hon. Geo.
L. Anthony will be chairman of the day.
At Emporia, while practicing hypno-
tism, Miss Matte Bracken, teacher in
the public schools, succeeded in throw
ing ho- sister, who was suffering from an
attack of Mysteries, into a trance re-
sembling death, and from which all ef-
forts to awaken her were futile. Medic
al aid was summoned, but it was not |
until professor of hypnotism arrived |
that she was revived. The professor had |
been giving entertainments for week |
and had caused fad for "mesmerism"
that had caused several awkward predica-
ments among his disciples.
The weather report Of Chancellor f.
Fl. Snow, of Kansas university, for the
month Of April, says that it was the
warmest April in twenty soven years, ex-
cept April, 1878. The highest temper
allure was 80 deg, on the 2Sth and the
lowest was 1926 deg, on the LIST and
9th. The rainfall was nearly normal
and we'll distributed throughout the
month. The entire precipitation was
300 inches, and the total for 1894, now
completed, is SOC inches, which is only
.27 inch below the average for the same
months in the twenty-six years pre-
ceding. The sky was clearer than usual.
The barometer was higher than the av-
erage and the wind lower. The last light
frost of spring occurro(hon April %.
The work of the chinch bug expert
mental station has already been COM
menced for this year. The idea Of sub
such an aid in the past two sea-
sons, will be developed more fully than
ever this year and the work done
through them as much as possible. Chan
celler Snow recommends that the
commissioners take hold of the
matter and select some competent per-
son in the county to have charge Of the
and the distribution Of in
fected bugs through this to the farmers
Of the country wanting them. Some
counties have already done this. The
men who have been selected in Ellis and
Allen counties have come to Kansas uni
versity to learn how the work is con-
Quoted, and after stay of three or four
days will go back home with infected
bugs and be ready for business by the
time the bugs are. This plan is thought
to be the best as the facilities for teach
ing are best at Kansas university and
1t will be saving of time and money
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