Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-11
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

tendance is twenty six.
The Kansas grand lodge OF Odd Eel
lows will hold its annual meeting Octo-
Der 0, in Wichita.
The new roller process mill a. Coffey
vile, is turning out 200 barrels of hou
per day, and has orders ahead for thirt.
car loads.
Henry Hall, q poor fisherman living
In Atchison, has fallen heir to an estate
left him by the death Of an uncle, who
died near DeKalb, Mo. Tho estate ia
valued at $4,000.
A boy named Guilty was probably
fatally injured in the running races at
the park at Ottawa. His horse bolted,
throwing him against tree inhicting
injuries that may result In his death.
The Topeka High school began the
year with about 800 pupils. This is ar
increase of about fifty over last year
The second week opened with 401 stu
dents present.
William Reynolds, an old gentlemen
who lives alone two miles northwest Of
lola, W IS called from his house by two
men wno dubbed him and robbed him
Of $12. Reynolds was found insensi-
BILE the next morning. After coming To
himself he could not tell who the rob.
bers we're.
Topeka Journal: County Treasurer
A. X. Rodgers has completed state
ment showing the tax sales OF delin-
quent property this year. These sales
are transcribed into separate record.
The sales this year were trihe less
than $4,000, which is decrease over
year ago Of about $4,000.
The attendance at Haskell institute,
Lawrence, is increasing every day.
The students come from almost every
Indian reservation in the United States.
The political scrap among the employees
has been satisfactorily arranged and the
school has resumed its usual prosperous
condition.
From Emporta: Several burglaries
have occurred in this vicinity Of late.
The house of j. A. Bivens, a farmer
near this city, was entered and $465
stolen without awakening the family.
The money was the savings of an entire
years work There is no clue to the
robbers.
Judge Monahan, of the Wyandottt
county probate court, said that
the number of cases of insanity in his
county is increasing at a rapid gait
Six years ago he did not have one case
of insanity month, but recently they
have been coming at the rate Of two OIL
three a week.
Visitors are still inspecting the new
Topeka high school building. Some
minor details remain to be finished, such
as putting in the light fixtures. The
laboratories will not be in shape vet for
some time, but when completed they
will be the most convenient Of any in
the west. The floors of halls and recitq
ton rooms throughout the building are
oiled.
! An Abilene attorney remarked tc
Judge Humphrey in court the Other
day. "If tho court had advised me OIL
its decision in advance of the introduc.
ton of the evidence it would have saved
me the cost Of making a record in this
case" thus implying that the court had
made up its mind in advance of the evi-
dence. 1t cost him just $50 for con.
tempt of court.
independence has coal: A four-foo
wen of coal has been discovered at I
depth of 775 feet. The gas company
struck this vein Of coal in other welll
west of this one but it was only about {
foot thick. With this coal was very
strong flow of gas, so strong that the Goa
vein cannot be worked until after thu
gas has been exhausted.
The new Spooner library building o
Kansas university has been opened t.
tho students. The building is of the
most modern pattern, complete in all it,
appointments, and the change to it,
light, airy apartments from the close
dark rooms of the main building is mucl
appreciated by all concerned. Librari
an Carrie Watson, Miss Sutliff, the cata
loguer, and their assistants, Misses Gil
ham and Rogers, are in charge.
Mary j. Osborne, an aged lady living
southwest Of Mound City, spilled par
of grease upon hot stove. The grease
at once ignited and set fire to her cloth
ing. In her struggle to subdue the
flames she ran into the yard, but the
wind kindled them into keener rage
1t is thought that her injuries will prove
fatal. Mrs. Osborne is one of the old
est settlers in Linn county, having re-
sided there for more than forty years.
From Independence: News comes il
from Bolton that little four year-olC
son of Lon Prather was scalded t.
death. Mrg Prather was engaged il
putting up plums, and placed KEITH
of hot plum syrup on the table. TIL
little fellow wanted to taste it, but wa
told that it was too hot. The mothe
turned away for few moments, and h
climbed onto wash boiler, reached 70
the tempting kettle, and upset it upol
himself. He died in three hours.
A Larned boy: Ray Vaughan, age,
fourteen years, pleaded guilty to tn
charge of petty larceny in Judge Vandi
ver's court and received the most uniqu
sentence ever imposed on culprit i