Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-03
STATE NEWS.
The Friends academy in Washington
has an enrolment of 160

poor farm has been destroyed by fire.
Several horses and considerable
amount of other property was burned.
There was no insurance.
lola Register; IF all the new bust
ness sidewalks in town are made Of mar.
ble-and that seems to be the intention
it will not be many years until lola
will have the handsomost streets Of any
town in Kansas
The Occidental hotel, at Sedan, is
burned to the ground. Most of the furni-
ture and fixtures we're saved The fire orig
mated from a Auo which was probably
cracked or displaced in some way by the
tornado the day before. The building
was frame structure and burned very
rapidly. 1t being almost a dead calm
no other buildings caught. Building
and fixtures we're insured.
lola Register; Ono Of the boys flip
ped bean into Roy Stover's ear at
Sunday school, and he has been suffer
ing tortures with it ever since On
Tuesday Drs. Fulton and Chastain put
him under the influence of chloroform
and worked for more than an hour and
succeeded in removing only half Of the
bean. 1t was most unfortunate acct
dent and it is hard to tell yet what may
result from it.
Captain Thomas l.. Higgins and a
large number of other old soldiers of
Kansas City, Kansas are arranging for
the organization OF veteran company
of the state militia, similar to the popu-
lar veteran company A of Kansas City,
Mo. The proposition has been so favor
ably received by the veterans that the
prospects are that in very short time
large and Aourishing company will be
organized and taken into the state
militia.
From Neodesha: twenty-five new
drills and engines complete, were un
loaded here TO be used by Guffey & Ga
ley in sinking oil wells in this vicinity.
A force Of 100 skilled drillmen came al
SO, and the machinery is being set up
and placed in position for work. A 49,
600 barrel steel tank was received by
Gulfey & Galley, and this, with the large
number of smaller wooden tanks gives
ample tankage for testing the capacity
Of the wells.
From Solomon City: The Masonic
lodge Of this city, which was burned
out two months ago, has commenced to
rebuild, the corner stone of the new
building having been laid with impress
i've ceremonies. Deputy Grand Master
w. d, Thompson, Of Minneapolis, con-
Quoted the ceremonies, and the address
was by Prof. w. NJ, Jay, of Salina. A
large number Of Masons from surround
ing lodges were present, and parade
was part of the programme.
A committee Of one of the G. A. R.
posts of Atchison waited upon the
board of education with request that
the American flag be hoated from the
top of each school building during
school hours. They said this plan would
have tendency to instll into the minds
of the children and others patriotism,
and was being adopted IN various places.
After some discussion as TO the cost of
flags, etc, resolution was adopted, in
STRUGGLING the superintendent TO have the
janitors of the various buildings raise a
flag each morning. The committee stated
that the different G. A. r. posts would
replace the flags with new ones when oc-
casion required it.
Ottawa letter: Walter Donahoe, a
half-blood Indian, while returning home
in an intoxicated condition, stopped at
the home of d. Hockinsmith, school
teacher, and demanded horse. Hook
insmith had no horses to loan to a
stranger, at which the Indian became
violent In the encounter which followed
Hockinsmth lost ono thumb and then
retreated The Indian followed and bat
tered down the door. Hoclinsmith re-
treated through a second door and
seized rifle and shot Donahoe through
the head. 1t is hardly probable that
Donahoe will recover. Hockinsmith is
a peaceable citizen and is commended
for defending his home.
One OF the important products of the
Argentine smelter is copper ingots or
pig copper An ingot Of copper weighs
in the neighborhood of forty pounds,
but it is often desirable to break it into
sections before working it over into man
ufactured copper For this purpose each
ingot is cut from the top half way
through in two places so that it can be
easily broken into three sections. This
leaves the top OF theingot in three parts,
and the company has placed its brand,
a sort Of trademark, K. A. S., one letter
on each section. The letters we're Sc
lected because they represent the recog-
nized abbreviation of Kansas. Carloads
of this copper are daily shipped for east
ern and European points Ships boundfor
Liverpool have carried ashalf their cargo
the Kansas copper, and Amsterdam,
Antwerp, London and manufacturing
cities in England, France, Germany and
Holland are frequently supplied with
this product. Most of the world knows
of Kansas as an agricultural state, and
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