Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-04
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

tannery. A flax tow factory Is prom
ised.
Girard has three ladies' on its board OF
education, and one of them, Mrs. s. AL
ice Haldeman, 10 president.
Wichita Beacon: There seems to be
no limit to the supply Of apples. Daily
Shipments continue to DO large.
The Leavenworth county poor house
has thirty -three inmates at the present
time, the largest number reached at one
time.
There are three apple evaporators in
Lawrence and they are all doing big
business. One OF them employs eighty
hands and runs night and day.
John N. Reynolds, OF "Twin Hells'
fame, who was sent to the Osawatomie
insane asylum last spring, is raving
maniac. He tears of clothing as fast as
it is put on him.
Charles Il. Harbaugh, editor OF the
Erie, Kan, Republican Record, died at
the All Saints Hospital, in Kansas City,
Mo-, September 10, after enduring a
surgical operation.
During the first fifteen days run of
the sugar mill at Medicine Lodge
10000 pounds of sugar and 1900 gal
Ions Of molasses we're made from 2,l52
gallons of molasses tons Of cane.
The Midcontinent mill In Topeka is
nearly 100 cars behind its orders for
-four The capacity of the mill is over
taxed and the management will put in
large amount Of new machinery at
once.
Nickerson Argosy: There were 161
men in Nickerson who averaged $40
a month, or an aggregate of $11,270,
that went out on Debs' order during
the A. r. U. strike and have now neither
jobs nor pay.
Topeka Capital: The colored people
Of this city and county, under the
auspices of Fort Pillow Post and the old
soldiers celebrated Lincoln's emancipa-
ton proclamation, Saturday, September
%, at City park hall and Hamilton's
hall.
From Cherokee: Tho miners at No.
A, j, II. Durkee Coal company have
struck for 60 cents per ton for coal and
pay every two weeks. The men are get
ting fifty-four cents and claim that the
company agreed to pay them 60 cents
from September l, but has failed to do so.
From Woodbine: While riding on an
errand the young son of John Annis,
was thrown from his horse by the animal
running into gate in the dark. The
boys neck was broken by the fall and
when his parents alarmed at his alb
sence, searched for him they found the
dead body by the gate.
Wichita Eagle: Mr.. Woodbury., the
newly elected governor Of Vermont, is a
Wichita man. He was here a good deal
Of the time during the palmy days OF
Wichita and comes here once or twice
year since. He owns good deal of
property in Wichita and has $4,000
farm in Kech township.
From Peabody: A man was found
lying unconscious along the railroad
track between this place and Florence
by bridge gang, who brought him to
consciousness. He proved to be a man
from Ohio and had walked off Santa Fe
train No. z while asleep. He had re-
ceived no serious injury and left on the
next train.
The Fort Scott paper mill, which uses
for raw material bagasse from the sugar
works, runs twenty-four hours per day
and turns out $4,000 pounds OF paper
1t has bagasse enough on hand now to
keep it running for six years even
though the sugar works should suspend
operations, as the new tariff bill may
compel them to do.
From Manhattan: The new science
hall is occupied this term for the first
time. 1t is fine building in every way,
except in exterior appearance, and adds
materially to the facilities for study and
instruction. The library has been in
stalled in it's new quarters in this build
ing, and is now, for the first time in
years, wholly available for use. Military
drill is compulsory now for the first two
years, and optional during the latter
two. Heretofore it has been entirely
optional. 1t is doubtful if there is an
other school in the country where in
struction in vocal and instrumental mu-
sic is free. There are absolutely no fees
of any kind at the agricultural college,
not even for "breakage" in the lab
oratory.
A correspondent at the State Normal
at Emporia. writes: We are extremely
happy in our new quarters. Albert lay
lor hall is thing Of beauty and of COM
fort 1t is said that no school save one
in the United States has its equal, and
every morning as it is filed with earnest
students, the inspiration is great, the
view grand. We have over one hundred
more students than at this time last
year, and with our new equipment in
several departments very fruitful year
is assured. The natural history depart
ment has another room added to its mu-
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