Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-25
KANSAS NEWS NOTES.

fiddle.
Dickinson county has 1856 acres Of
irrigated farm lands.
The whistle of the threshing machine
is familiar sound in Kansas
Wind and hail destroyed an immense
amount of fruit in Cedar county.
The population of Atchison has in
creased 1895 during the past year.
Independence has population Of
1858; Coffeyville, 3,434; Cherryvale,
2,3S6,
The bonded indebtedness of Topeka
is $3370 900 and of Shawnee county
$500, 600.
John Waters of Axtell had load Of
hogs at Kansas City which brought the
top, $3.50.
Notwithstanding the frequent rains
Scott county has lOS irrigation plants
in operation.
Andrew Holcombrink, n farmer liv-
ing near Troy hung himself during an
attack of insanity.
The annual convention Of the Free
thinkers Of Kansas will be held at OF
taNa, August to II.
Robert Phillips, carpenter formerly
of Wichita, fell from u high building
at Washington, d, G., and was killed.
Charles Starbucll, one Of the earliest
settlers in Kansas, died OF old age ut
his home in Lawrence in his Tooth
year.
The new Santa Fe hospital at To-
peka will be finished about October l,
and will open for business thirty days
later.
The Democrats and Populists of
Wichita county, met in conventions
at Leoti and nominated fusion county
ticket.
A jointkeeper at Vermillion was
fined 800 and sent to jail for four
months for selling $50 worth Of beer re-
Gently
The annual school of officers of the
Kansas state militia will be held at
Fort Leavenworth, beginning Au-
gust 10.
The council Of Russell has passed an
ordinance imposing fine of $500 for
the sale of cigarettes or cigarette
paper.
The mills and creameries of DiclSin-
son county employed l73 hands and
paid out for wages last year about
$4,000
At Seneca, William Gherkins was
found guilty of violating the prohibit
tory law and fined $500 and ninety
days in Jail.
Rufus Caleb, young Indian, his
uncle and aunt and four cats were
poisoned by eating mushrooms ut Chip
peway Hills.
A Douglas county dealer estimates
the potato shipments from there ut
5000 cars and says they will bring Sl6O
a car-S4s,000.
The police commissioners of LeRv-
enworth have moved against the low
dives and joints in that place and or
dered them closed.
Fifteen old soldiers have been buried
at the expense of Shawnee county dur
ing the past three months, at an ag-
gregate cost of 1895.
The friends of John Waller in Law
renee are arranging for meeting
there to take steps TO assist in this
effort for his release,
The acreage planted to. corn In Kan
sas this year Is reported as 8,4l0,049
acres, which is greater than was ever
before planted in the state.
State Railroad Commissioner Samuel
I. Howe has returned from q trip
through the East and talks encourage
ingly of the trade outlook.
Attorney General Dawes has filed q
motion in the supreme court for % re-
hearing in the Breidenthal case and IL
will be taken up in September.
Susan b. Anthony was at Topeka
the other day and in an interview
maintained that the prohibitory law
would not be enforced in Kansas.
Mrs. Inez M. Stein Of Wyandotte
county has been appointed member
of the committee in charge Of the Kan
sas exhibit at the Atlanta exposition.
Clyde Mattox Is said to be model
prisoner Mattox has been in Jail for
the oklahoma murder for nearly six
years and has been confined in nearly
every big Jail in Kansas.
Many Kasans will be surprised and
gratitied to learn Of the wedding Of
Stuart o. Henry, brother of Il. G.
Henry, the once wheat king. He has
married an heiress in Paris,
s. X. Cross, a pioneer citizen Of To
peka, died very suddenly at Galveston,
Texas, lie had been i'll but day or
two. Mr.. Cross was brother Of the
late II. G. Cross of Emporia.
An unknown man about 35 years Of
age was struck by u north bound Kan
sas City, Fort Scott and Memphis
passenger train between Lenexa and
Merriam, and instantly killed.
Joseph G.. Lowe, who was a candi-
date for congressnan-at-large on the
Democratic ticket last fall, believes
that Kansas Democrats should hold q
state convention and declare for silver.
A little girl at Efingham, who is an
invalid, wrote to Mayor Davis of Kan
sas City, asking him to send her par
rot In her letter to the mayor she
says her "Mamma said you had every
thing"
j. II. Shire Of Valley Falls, had forty
Kansas steers in Kansas City which
averaged 1,470 pounds and brought
$3.50 They had been fed since March
rs and made an average gain of $50
pounds
The widow of the late Senator
Plumb has offered TO donate a half